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December 2, 2016 at 1:56 am #121727janetParticipant
My bf and I of 4 years recently broke up. He has always had this need to have “plutonic” relationships with women. I don’t know what to call it or if you’ll understand what I’m saying. But we had been talking the past two weeks. as usual he is giving mixed signals. right now we are 750 miles apart. I was working for him at his business. So when I left they ended up hiring the girl who was our accountant because her firm fired her ironically like a few days before him and I split. Ok so Today I text him and oddly he replied right away and he was more talkative than usual I even got an emoji. I’m lucky to even get a reply at all (IKR Why do I bother) so he says well “Jill” (we will call her) is sick and I’m gonna be swamped today. But then he proceeds to text me about the dating site and how he’s fine being plutonic with women yada yada.. it led me to my last straw. I blocked all his calls and texts now. But of course my brain won’t shut up and all of a sudden I thought ok usually he’s always “busy” and can’t give me the time of day. But on a day when his secretary’s sick and he’s “swamped” he now has all kinds of time to talk? Weird right? He’s cheated on me once, and numerous times I found emails to women from the plutonic section of cl. And sorry after you cheated it’s a huge red flag seeing that stuff. So why do I care now? Well, because I still care. So my question is, am I just reading too much into it all or is there some kind of disorder where he NEEDS to talk with a woman. Because my money is on the fact that since “Jill” was sick, that was the ONLY reason he bothered to talk to me. Thanks guys for listening. I’m seriously a nut about this guy and I want to move on but for me I need to clarify it’s him and not me. Because he is by my research a total narcissist.
December 2, 2016 at 6:49 am #121731PeterParticipantFor what my opinion is worth
Trust your initial instinct of blocking all calls and creating a clean break.
Noting is worse than the drama of a on again off again relationship based on inferred intentions.
We can never know with certainty what another person is thinking or why they are doing what they want to do. However one would hope that a authentic relationship those involved would not have to to infer intention but could be honest with each other.That you are playing the inferring intention game could be a sign that the relationship is not authentic and that it is time to move on and seek out better. You deserve better.
Through personal experience and observation I know how strong the pull is leave the door open just a little after a break up. There are psychological reasons behind this need and overly simplified perhaps I might call it the ‘Just in case’ affect.
Keep the door open: Just in case something better doesn’t come along, Just in case I start feeling lonely
Just in case my ego needs the boost of knowing someone is waiting for me – control, just in case….Just in case isn’t good enough. Don’t accept Just in case from yourself or from others.
December 2, 2016 at 7:24 am #121734Nina SakuraParticipantOh yes it’s him.
Please trust your instincts rather than old residual feelings.
Cheating multiple times, all this random talking nonsense after 4 years – sure you like him still but he ain’t worth this much trouble.
You deserve a better guy who is honest and sincere about things, especially so in long distance.
I do not buy this whole plutonic nonsense.
This is pretty man talk for I can’t commit to one girl alone and need my non committal female companion harem.
I am sorry if I came across as offensive in any way but seriously I have seen too many awesome girls take shit from guys because they happen to “care” still and forget what he has done cummalatively.
December 2, 2016 at 9:17 pm #121785janetParticipantThank you all for the replies. I haven’t talk to him two days now. I feel better by now. It’s been 6 weeks but we were fighting the first two then talking ok the next two after that. He knows how to reel me in by subtly making me believe we are making progress. And I know his MO. Right now what I need to do is build strength for when he comes back saying so hey how u been doing? And then he turns that into reeling me back in. And I’ve always been so damn gullible. He never even has to ask me to come back. It’s so twisted. He finds ways to win me over and coerce me into making the decision that he can’t balls up and ask. If I don’t stay busy literally every second I think of him and fight having a breakdown. Although it’s a bit easier everyday.
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