[Jake2008]

I think this is an easy one.

Contact the friend who messaged him in the first place, and let her take care of fixing the mess she has created. Tell her to phone him and tell him the truth. She is not much of a friend to do this to you.

She has tricked him into calling you, and if he is sincerely worried you might have cancer, he needs to be told you don't. But, not by you.

[roosterismydog]

I think this is an easy one.

Contact the friend who messaged him in the first place, and let her take care of fixing the mess she has created. Tell her to phone him and tell him the truth. She is not much of a friend to do this to you.

She has tricked him into calling you, and if he is sincerely worried you might have cancer, he needs to be told you don't. But, not by you.

I don't know what he thinks is wrong with me, she just said to him, I'm assuming you have heard about /... hope you are finally happy, so he could be thinking anything tbh

[Jake2008]

You said he probably wouldn't have contacted you if he hadn't received the text from your friend.

You have no control over what other people do, say, or text. The point is he sees an opening, and is being persistent in getting through to you, giving you the impression that he cares.

You have no obligation to respond to a situation that will leave you in a position of thinking twice about your independence, and him in a position thinking he's managed to wear you down and win at getting through to you.

Just my opinion, but if it were me, I'd block him. You are under no obligation whatsoever to speak to him under any circumstances.

[roosterismydog]

You said he probably wouldn't have contacted you if he hadn't received the text from your friend.

You have no control over what other people do, say, or text. The point is he sees an opening, and is being persistent in getting through to you, giving you the impression that he cares.

You have no obligation to respond to a situation that will leave you in a position of thinking twice about your independence, and him in a position thinking he's managed to wear you down and win at getting through to you.

Just my opinion, but if it were me, I'd block him. You are under no obligation whatsoever to speak to him under any circumstances.

I know he would have contacted me eventually, this is so hard. He keeps ringing me but I don't answer and my mobile has the answerphone turned off so it just rings and rings when someone calls me. I know that if I speak to him that my emotions will be stirred up again (not that they arnt at the moment). When he finds out I'm OK (not that I am the way I feel) he will disappear again for a while no doubt.

My head says that both my friends and I should just him the hell alone and let me get on with my life, but at the same time I find it flattering that he at least cares enough to see if I'm OK, does that sound wrong??

[Jake2008]

Rooster, you are not wrong to feel the way you do. That you are honest about it, is a good thing.

Now you have to figure out why you feel flattered that he cares about you. If he really cared about you, and couldn't get hold of you personally, logic says he would, if he wre sincere, call your mother, your best friend, your sister/brother etc. If all he really wanted was to know that you were okay, he would have found a simple way to do it.

He is a person who wears you down, and is used to getting what he wants. He was given an excuse to badger and drive you crazy via phone and text, but seriously, do you really think he is concerned about you, and/or your health.

Or, do you think it is more likely that he is up to his old tricks, knowing that you will be flattered, and/or just fed up, and you will break your resolve.

Either way, if you have contact with him again, regardless of why, is it going to change anything?

I know you're hurting, and all it would take is to pick up that phone to feel better, but each time you do that, it is going to be wose the next time around.

My opinion is, history will repeat itself if you don't stand firm.

[roosterismydog]

Rooster, you are not wrong to feel the way you do. That you are honest about it, is a good thing.

Now you have to figure out why you feel flattered that he cares about you. If he really cared about you, and couldn't get hold of you personally, logic says he would, if he wre sincere, call your mother, your best friend, your sister/brother etc. If all he really wanted was to know that you were okay, he would have found a simple way to do it.

He is a person who wears you down, and is used to getting what he wants. He was given an excuse to badger and drive you crazy via phone and text, but seriously, do you really think he is concerned about you, and/or your health.

Or, do you think it is more likely that he is up to his old tricks, knowing that you will be flattered, and/or just fed up, and you will break your resolve.

Either way, if you have contact with him again, regardless of why, is it going to change anything?

I know you're hurting, and all it would take is to pick up that phone to feel better, but each time you do that, it is going to be wose the next time around.

My opinion is, history will repeat itself if you don't stand firm.

Jake2008, thanks for your response, in answer to your questions, he has no way of contacting any of my family members and my best friend has blocked his email address so the only way of contact is through me. A sfor you asking does he really care for me?? I don't really know, if I did then I probably wouldn't be in the state I'm in tbh. He says he loves me but I just don't know if there words, all he seems to do is want to be with me and then hurt me, e.g. when he said he was going on hol with this girl and that something may happen between them. He said this a day after he was wanting to get back with me??

I haven't been in touch with him, I've been at a hen night tonight which was a good distraction tbh, I'm keeping busy. I think you are right when you say if you have contact with him then what will change, he will tell me what I want to hear then walk away when he feels fit.

I just don't trust him anymore, and I'm beginning not to like him very much either, when he rings now I want to pick up the phone and tell him to f$%* off rather than I love you. He just thinks that he can treat people like dirt and then walk away when he pleases and then just swan back into there lives when he sees fit.

My last texts to him where to say that I loved him but he didn't want to try and it takes two etc etc and he never replied, I sent him so many texts and none of them got responded too, to me that's just plain rude. He don't think twice of ignoring my texts for a week then getting in touch.

He plays mind gams with me all the time, he thinks he can come in and out of my life as he pleases and that annoys me so much, he must think I'm a fool in love?? Or just a fool

[Jake2008]

I love hen nights. I have them regularly in the summer with my girlfriends in the backyard, with a nice fire going. Very therapeutic!!

I think you are wise to keep talking. The more support you get the better.

Like anything major this all takes time and once you have gone from thinking about what a jerk he is to knowing he's a jerk, the rest starts to come easier.

Stay strong. :)

[roosterismydog]

I love hen nights. I have them regularly in the summer with my girlfriends in the backyard, with a nice fire going. Very therapeutic!!!

I think you are wise to keep talking. The more support you get the better.

Like anything major this all takes time and once you have gone from thinking about what a jerk he is to knowing he's a jerk, the rest starts to come easier.

Stay strong. :)

Thanks jake2008, I thought as soon as he text me id be texting him straight back, I've surprised myself that its nearly 24 hrs since his calls/texts and I haven't replied. Im just fed up of the mind games he plays with me, and then to admit to my friend that he has been playing mind games for his whole life so he is good at it really threw me. One of the last things I had said to him was that I was changing my number (which I didnt) and that if he wanted to speak then he would have to have done in by a certain day, he never text me back so for all he knew id changed my number. Then when he had that email from my friend he called my old number. Its like he knows that I won't change my number and he can always get hold of me. I don't want to change my number as its far too much hassle but maybe its an option now I may need to consider.

If I'm honest I probably like him calling and texting me, but I know it's a bad thing in the long run as its just prelonging the hurt and pain he will put me through if I'm being honest. Thants the thing with me, I'm a realistic person, I know he is a liar and someone I can't trust but I still love him. He knows I love him and plays on that fact

[roosterismydog]

Just a bit of a update really since my last rant above, he ex has rung me twice again and I've not answered. I got my mate to email him and tell him that I don't understand why he is calling me, that when I text him last week he never replied so she don't understand why he is calling. If it is because he is worried about me then he don't need to be, that if if I wanted him to know if something was wrong then I would have told him myself.

My friend also said that I have moved on and met someone new and that I'm happy (which is a lie as I haven't but thought it may have put him off ) but this afternoon he rang me after he read the email I bet. She told him that he has no business ringing me anymore, he made it clear that he had moved on and now so had I, but he still rings.

Sorry to rant, it just gets me down so much

[roosterismydog]

My ex has now found out I'm seeing another guy and is starting to get interested again, he always does this as I'm moving on

[starlite1]

Hi Rooster,

Sweetie, you are doing great! Don't give in to him. Let him wallow in his own sh*&. Keep moving on and away from him. Don't answer his calls/texts/emails whatsoever. You are doing great!