callibee is offline callibee Post #1  August 5,2009, 10:54am
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After not showing up here when he promised he would, I told him it was okay, but instead of being relieved I wasn't mad, he picked an argument, now claiming that because of work it would take him months to return. He called me to apologize, asked me not to see anyone else while he was gone. After a few days, he seemed annoyed when I called him to say I loved and missed him. Again, I asked him if he wanted to tell me something. He said " I need you to have faith in me." I told him I did. Later, we got into an argument after I asked him when exactly he was going to visit me. I'd always been the one to make up first, but I wanted to give him a break for a few days. He again asked me to have faith in him and added, "I need you to be patient." I wanted to but told him I felt there was something he wasn't telling me and I couldn't continue without knowing what it was. He said, "work is keeping me really busy,but I love you. I'll explain everything soon." Then he went silent. I wrote him/called him, but nothing. Two months later I found out he was getting married to someone else the following week. I called him and he didn't know I knew. He was sweet but kept exclaiming "it's been a long time." He didn't offer the info so I told him I knew. He didn't apologize or tell when it all started. He turned angry and demanded to know who told me. He started naming his friends and family as if ordering me to tell who told. I told him the only thing that mattered was why he didn't tell me. Still angry, he asked me, "What else do you know?" I didn't answer him. Then he switched and became sweet again and said, "that's what I was trying to tell you." What did I do wrong with this guy? Why did he do this? What should I do? His friend just said (when I told him I knew) that he really did care about me and that he met his now wife only four 1/2 months ago. What went wrong here?
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Dear Callibee,

I think you didn't do anything wrong. The fact is this guy did you wrong. If he is 29 and you are 18 he is in a position or should be to come and see you. You are in school where you should be spending your time. His choice to hold you to one standard (not seeing anyone else) while he dated and apparenty got engaged was a cruel and abusive thing. His anger was not in reaction to something you did rather a reaction to getting caught.

I expect that if he wasn't seeing this girl for more than 4 and a half months (which I expect he was). He got her pregnant and is marrying her in such a short time frame as a result.

You need to take some time to recover. I would recomend at least 6 months. Take classes. Meet people. Do activities that you enjoy. Resist the urge to try and reach out to him or his friends and family. He is not worth causing yourself any more pain over.

You are still very young. The right person will come along. You just need to take care of some other things right now. Remember none of this was your fault.

Have a better day,
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callibee wrote :
I met this guy who's like 29 and when I was 18 and he was great and fun and the first one I did anything sexual with. He moved across country for work and I started college and we'd been doing the long distance thing. One day he says he loves me and wants to marry me. I cared a lot about him but thought I should finish school first. He kept saying it was okay and that he'd visit me at school, but never did. He asked me to come out there but I couldn't cause I was broke and hoped that he could visit me. He started to seem a little distant and when I asked if there was something he wanted to tell me he said, only, "I love you."

After not showing up here when he promised he would, I told him it was okay, but instead of being relieved I wasn't mad, he picked an argument, now claiming that because of work it would take him months to return. He called me to apologize, asked me not to see anyone else while he was gone. After a few days, he seemed annoyed when I called him to say I loved and missed him. Again, I asked him if he wanted to tell me something. He said " I need you to have faith in me." I told him I did. Later, we got into an argument after I asked him when exactly he was going to visit me. I'd always been the one to make up first, but I wanted to give him a break for a few days. He again asked me to have faith in him and added, "I need you to be patient." I wanted to but told him I felt there was something he wasn't telling me and I couldn't continue without knowing what it was. He said, "work is keeping me really busy,but I love you. I'll explain everything soon." Then he went silent. I wrote him/called him, but nothing. Two months later I found out he was getting married to someone else the following week. I called him and he didn't know I knew. He was sweet but kept exclaiming "it's been a long time." He didn't offer the info so I told him I knew. He didn't apologize or tell when it all started. He turned angry and demanded to know who told me. He started naming his friends and family as if ordering me to tell who told. I told him the only thing that mattered was why he didn't tell me. Still angry, he asked me, "What else do you know?" I didn't answer him. Then he switched and became sweet again and said, "that's what I was trying to tell you." What did I do wrong with this guy? Why did he do this? What should I do? His friend just said (when I told him I knew) that he really did care about me and that he met his now wife only four 1/2 months ago. What went wrong here?
I'm not so sure that you did anything wrong, per se; instead I think it came down to just a lack of experience (and that's not a bad thing, nor a cut against you). Your gut was dead on about this guy--you knew something was up and truly, it was up to him to be honest about what was happening in his life. He should have ended things with you, and he was too cowardly to do so.

Long distance relationships are hard to maintain, and I have to give you a lot of credit for having so much faith in him when it turned out that he wasn't worthy of it. I'm sorry that things didn't turn out the way you had hoped they would.

If you choose to get involved in an LDR in the future, use this experience as one to learn and grow from. If you should suspect someone is not being on the level with you, then don't allow him to use phrases such as "I need time," or "I need you to have faith in me," to stall you. Honest communication is key, and if you don't believe someone is being honest with you, it doesn't give you much to build a relationship on.

Please don't shoulder the blame for this. Take the time you need to get over this guy, but then go back out there and find someone who is going to treat you with the care, attention, and respect that you most definitely deserve! Good luck to you!
 
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You did absolutely nothing wrong. In fact, under the circumstances and they way you describe it, I would say you handled yourself quite well when you confronted him. Well done!

He was a lot older than you (18 to 29 is a huge age gap, especially in maturity....which might not make perfect sense to you now), and I can certainly understand how that would have been very flattering for you.

Understandably, this doesn't leave you feeling good. Why would it? It's a really nasty way to treat another person.

When you've had time to work through your hurt and your emotions, try to figure out what the positive are you learned from this (i.e. all about you). I'd say in the least you've learned:
1. You have a very good intuition.
2. You now can recognize some serious "red-flags" in a relationship, and no one could do this to you again.
3. You are capable to opening yourself up to another person in a loving way.

You deserve much better than how this guy treated you and don't let him tarnish your self-esteem. There are much better men out there than this particular guy.
 
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Genie57 is offline Genie57 Post #5  August 5,2009, 4:49pm
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You didn't do anything wrong. He was a little old for you though for sure. It seems like your instincts were on the money. Learn to listen to them....
 
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