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    Lucy
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    Hello everyone!

    It’s been a while since I posted on here but here’s my story:

    I was with my ex-boyfriend for 1 year and a half when he suddenly broke up with me via text – as if that wasn’t enough – a month afterwards, he had some things of mine which I needed back. When he saw me, he began shouting at me in the middle of a busy station and verbally attacked me leaving me in tears afterwards. I truly hadn’t done anything wrong.
    Well, the next 4-5 months after that, I had the best time of my life, I was meeting new people, my confidence and self-esteem was only growing and I felt fantastic – during this period, we had no contact and I barely thought about him. Even when I would, it was a feeling of ‘I am so happy we are no longer together’.
    Back in June – six months after the break-up text – he sent me an email expressing his regret over losing me – I never responded to this. A couple of days afterwards, he called me on no caller ID and I picked up. We ended up having a very long conversation which ended in a FaceTime and left me feeling confused. He was saying things that I was wishing he would have said six months prior and promised me he never wanted to lose me again. I fell for it and for this I am so disappointed in myself.
    Fast forward to this past Sunday, we were meant to meet up and suddenly he lashed out at me saying I should make other plans and let him sleep as he was exhausted. I rightly told him that he can’t lash out at me like that, especially when I hadn’t done anything wrong. I then received an apology text, which reminded me of the past and how I used to let him walk all over me, so this time I took a stand and said he cannot ever treat me like that.
    He has since replied saying I am very lucky to have a job and that he needs to fix his own life (we are both graduates and he is not working yet) and I should be understanding – I have been nothing but understanding to his situation. I replied back to him – a message that never got delivered, later finding out he has blocked my number and has been playing up on social media. I sent him a WhatsApp to say we need to talk (I want to have one final conversation as I want him out of my life). He has read this and has not replied.

    I know I have been reckless in letting him back in, trust me I have never felt so disappointed in myself up until this moment. I am asking for no judgement here, but pure advice from you kind people who have helped me in the past.
    I don’t want to make a mistake in letting him back in, but how do I break up with somebody when they won’t even talk to me? Shall I just give up?

    #84453
    jock
    Participant

    No judgement then

    #84464
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Lucy:

    I suggest you have nothing to do with him. Nothing at all. Ever. Yes, do give up on him, see him as part of a closed chapter that is in the past and which will not be opened again.

    anita

    #84494
    Lucy
    Participant

    Thank you Anita,

    He is definitely a closed chapter in my life and I want absolutely nothing to do with him.

    He responded to my WhatsApp yesterday stating that this would be his last message to me, how my actions never proved that I loved him and that he is looking for something different in his life – I haven’t replied nor will I ever.
    Another break-up via ‘texting’ – some things will never change.

    #84495
    Lucy
    Participant

    Correction: *how my actions proved that I never loved him.

    #84510
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Lucy:

    Isn’t he the guy throwing the anger tantrums like a child, the guy I commented before on another of your threads? I am not sure. In any case, it is almost, and maybe, his way of screaming in a sense: PROVE to me that you love me! Trying to rattle you into further proving. If this is so, this is not a healing man but a man stuck in throwing anger tantrums. His breaking up with you, again, is probably not sincere. To do the right thing in any case, whether my guessing here is correct or not, is to have no contact with him. Do not fuel his tantrums, if those are tantrums, or otherwise teach him that he is taken seriously and his wishes are granted: relationship/ interactions are over as he expressed his wish for it to be over.

    anita

    #84606
    Lucy
    Participant

    Dear Anita,

    Yes, that is the one!

    Thank you for your advice, this post-breakup feeling is definitely not the same as last time as this time, I am definitely not feeling any sort of loss – only freedom from somebody who is no good for me.
    Needless to say, he won’t be hearing from me, I’m ready to close this chapter once and for all.

    #84610
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Lucy:

    Congratulations on your resolution. Please don’t be hard on yourself for not having kept previous resolutions of the kind. It takes more than once, at times. We regress, we get stuck, we figure it out, we move on.

    anita

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