My ex-bf dumped me basically because I presented myself in a not mature way that made him think of me as not "serious" girlfriend potential, though we were gf/bf. He was a jerk sometimes, but so was I, and I let him walk all over me continuously, which always erodes any attraction a guy feels, no matter how smart or good-hearted he is. When he dumped me, he said he was very sorry for hurting me, that he really wanted to be friends, thought I was a great girl, but that I just didn't knock his socks off anymore, which I can totally see, based on my stupid behavior sometimes. I acted SO clingy and needy. So, I let him go for a month, then casually was able to start an e-mail exchange with him, and showed maturity in whatever I said and when. But I still felt such strong feelings for him. Just when I got him to talk with me again, feeling positive about me, and he would take my calls, and he'd respond to my e-mails right away, I e-mailed playfully, "so when will I see your handsome face again" and when he didn't respond for a few days, and I thought he was thinking I was crawling back to him (which I basically was, I guess), I was hurt at the thought of him having the upper hand once again, and I went off on him saying,"What, I'm not even worth your time as a friend? You think I'm so desperate that I want a serious relationship with you? If you got bored with me, try looking inside." Then, he said, "You are SO not stable, that's why I can't be bothered." I called him repeatedly - I mean, repeatedly, to talk to him, and not just because I was acting wrong and wanted him back. There was another issue - unfortunately, he was right about me being unstable in a way, but not for the reasons you might think. You see, I had gotten pregnant 2 months into the relationship, didn't have it, never told him because I was ashamed and scared, and that's why my behavior had become so clingy later in the relationship. I couldn't tell anyone about what had happened, for my own personal reasons, and all the bottled up feelings for him, the pregnancy, the eventual loss, and his slipping away from me because of my behavior, only made things worse.
So, he said he was going to ask me to dinner, but decided that we could never see each other again, based on that last e-mail. I hadn't told him about the baby, or what happened afterwards - he told me to never write him, call him again. I finally e-mailed him the truth, told him I was sorry for not telling him. He probably thinks I'm a crazy person, that I was lying, but I was just having a terrible time with what I went through and couldn't deal with it.
Needless to say, he didn't even respond to my e-mail about the baby and losing it.
Now, I am healing, but I wish I had been honest with him from the beginning, and acted like an adult about things all along. At least now, we might have been friends.
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