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  • #183335
    peace
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    I am driving myself insane with this already and really need some advice. Hopefully someone will read this (might get looong) and have some insight. Thank you in advance.

    I started a new job about 3 months ago. There I met a really cute guy and started to like him and he seemed interested too. We  went out a few times and then hooked up once at a party and started dating after that. He seemed even more into in than I was in the beginning.

    Then after a couple of weeks he told me he is not falling in love with me. He said he really likes me and loves spending time with me, but he’s not falling for me and he is not sure he can ever fall in love and doesn’t want to give me false hope.  And he said if we weren’t coworkers he would definitely want to be with me and it would be awesome, but would end in a few months and it would be even more painful because we would still have to work together so he would rather not be together.

    I then told him a couple days later that I am not ok with just some casual meaningless relationship basically just for sex and I that I like him and don’t want things to end and I suggested we try being together but chill and with no expectations and just see what happens. He said ok and we agreed on not sleeping with other people. So we are kind of in a relationship and exclusive.

    The problem is that I am starting to doubt what his ‘see what happens means’, because for me it means ‘anything can happen’ – I realize we might break up in a couple of months, but I can also see this going somewhere, because we really get along well, kissing him is absolute heaven (he’s the best kisser I ever had) and sex is great and we have tons in common and so on…

    I know he had a lot of relationship trauma before. He was married and totally head over heals with this girl who left him and broke his heart and he suffered a major depression afterwards and was taking medication and just recently stopped it. Then he had another girlfriend who fell in love with him, but he didn’t and he left her after a few months and broke her heart. So his relationship history is messy and painful and I think he might be scared and he’s being very protective.  But then I also think maybe he just wants to have casual sex and is not interested in anything more. Though when we are together it’s amazing. We spend entire weekends at his place watching movies, playing video games, going on walks and talking and getting high and he really seems like he likes me and says and does things that suggest that too.  But then sometimes we would not even text each other the whole weekend… Or I am almost always the one who suggests we meet up. He used to show more initiative in the beginning, but now either I suggest meeting up or we just end up together after a work party…

    I know I just probably need to talk to him and ask what he thinks of all this but I don’t want to scare him away or push him or anything…But I am completely loosing my inner peace overtinking about this.

     

    #183343
    Anonymous
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    Dear peace:

    I am guessing you chose the username peace because you are “completely losing (your) inner peace overthinking about this”-

    You told him “no expectations and just see what happens”- you meant it, right? But reads to me that it is difficult for you to follow through with that intent after some time. That intent was good for a short time.

    Time to re-evaluate that statement, figure out for yourself what you want and what you can endure. It may be too much for you to endure, having no expectations and no direction as to what happens. After re-evaluating, you can communicate further to him…?

    anita

    #183347
    peace
    Participant

    Thank you very much for you answer. I really apreaciate it:)

    I guess you are right – it is becoming too much for me to continue this ‘no expectations’ thing. Maybe I am just lying to myself and I do have expectations afterall…I am probably starting to develop some feelings towards him and care a little to much to continue this. But at the same time I don’t want a serious relationship right now. I need to focus on work and personal growth at the moment. So I really wouldn’t want this to become this complicated serious thing and I also don’t want it to end, cuz it is nice to have somebody to hug and I guess I am just afraid of losing that…

    In theory I should be fine with what’s going on but mostly I am not. And also he seems like the person I can see myself travelling with and living in a van (kind of my dream) and he has the same dream and said the same thing about me. I wouldn’t want to lose such person, even though I don’t think he is the guy I will spend my whole life with.

    But maybe it’s better to be honest and just tell him how I feel rather than playing some games or trying to manipulate him into something, I am not sure I even want…. and if he doesn’t feel the same way and doesn’t really see this ever going anywhere we should end it and just stay friends before it’s too late – we do have to work together after all ….

    #183371
    Anonymous
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    Dear peace:

    You are welcome.

    When you suggested to him to “chill and with no expectations and just see what happens”, you stayed true to your word: you tried having no expectations and you did see what happened: it is not working for you, driving you insane and reaching out for help, here.

    You wrote that “in theory I should be fine with what’s going on”- taking into consideration only logic, you should be fine with it, but you are not a strictly logical being. As humans, we are very much emotional. Reminds me of the saying: the heart wants what the heart wants. Your head (logic) say: I am not interested in a serious relationship at this time, but your heart says: yes, I am!

    Your heart doesn’t have your logical considerations. It wants a serious relationship. This is probably why he told you that he is not falling in love with you and doesn’t want to give you false hopes- because he saw that you were falling in love with him.

    Reads to me that you better limit your relationship with him to co workers only, strictly co workers. Do you think you can do that, that it is a good idea and that you are able to do so?

    anita

    #183495
    peace
    Participant

    Thanks again.

    I know exactly why he told me then that he wasn’t falling for me. He definitely thought I was because I used to get all hyped up whenever we met and I used to suggest meeting every other day and would text him often. He also said he dreamt almost every night that week us getting married and stuff and he just obviously freaked out.  But I told him that’s just how I am – very expressive – wasn’t really falling in love either.

    I don’t think I am even now – I just don’t like this unclear situation and not understanding what’s going on.  That’s why I am seeking help here and talking to all my friends about it – I just want clarity. But obviously the only way to get it is to talk to him. But I don’t like such conversations because it’s hard for me to openly say everything I want to say in such situations…

    But before limiting our relationship to just co workers/ friends I will talk about this with him openly, because there are things that he does and says that suggest he does care too. I will ask him how he sees this whole thing and how he feels about it.

    And if he does care and says there might be something, I wouldn’t want to just cut it off without even taking a chance.  In this case I will tell him that I don’t want to force anything, but that I also want to stay honest with myself and if he feels somewhat similar I would like to take a chance and try be ‘more together’ because the way  it is right now is not really working for me anymore but I don’t want it all to end, because I like him and I like spending time with him and jeeeeezz is kissing him amazing!

    And if he says ‘no’ and that he doesn’t see this ever going anywhere and is nowhere near feeling how I am, I will tell him that I am starting to care about this whole thing and about him a little too much to continue this casual-no commitment-no expectations thing and that we should stop it all and limit our relationship to just co workers/ friends before it gets too complicated to work together…

    Either way I need to find out how he feels and I think this needs to move one direction or another and I feel that no matter which way it goes I will be better off anyway.

    Maybe I would like it even more if we just stayed friends rather than started some more serious relationship… i really don’t want any of that pressure and expectations and complications of having a ‘serious relationship’…

    Then, again – if I am really ok with staying just friends with him – I am starting to think that maybe I should just leave it as it is – being friends and also keeping the possibility of  having someone to hug and having at least some romance and warmth in my life – it is getting cold outside (and inside). Though I probably can’t do it without developing even deeper feelings and would still secretly hope that he will too… not the best idea after all…

    #183499
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear peace:

    You are welcome. You wrote that you want clarity and that “the only way to get (clarity) is to talk to him”- I don’t know if you can get clarity by talking to him about his feelings for you because he already expressed to you conflict on his part, dreaming about getting married and freaking out at the same time. So he is conflicted but when fear exists, fear often wins.

    Regarding the clarity you need: reads to me that what clearly motivates you is “having someone to hug and having at least some… warmth in my life– it is getting cold outside-and inside”). You experienced that warmth and you don’t want to lose it. You want to feel it again and again. Is this clear to you?

    Maybe you can get this need satisfied if you ask for and get a hug from him every so often? And maybe a kiss every so often because “jeeeeezz is kissing him amazing!”- but not more than that, that is, just a hug and a kiss, not in circumstances where it is possible to get more physical than that. And no talk about anything is required. Is that possible for you, do you think?

    anita

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