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Broken hearted, what do I do? Is there ANY chance?
My ex-girlfriend and I had been in a committed relationship for the last 8 months, and we've known each other for about 3 years via social forums.
I was in a 14 year relationship that ended and we started dating about 9 months after that. I'm 33 and she's 21.
Anyways, we had great affection for each other and it progressed pretty quickly, about 4 months in we were talking about marriage, kids, spending our Sundays looking through wedding magazines etc...
The thing is we're great for about 3 weeks and then there's a HUGE blow up and then it's WW111.
The cycle begins, she breaks up and I spend three days in the doghouse with her punishing me by not seeing me, hanging up on me when the convo turns sour, withholding affection etc..
Know I love this person, and I don't question that she loves me. What I can't understand is how you can tell your bestfriends that you think you've found the person that you're going to spend your life with when it's "good" and then litterally like a switch turn it off when things are bad? WTF??
I still talk to my ex of 14 years, but she's now married, planning to have kids the whole nine yards, and I have no interest in her romantically. We loved each other for a long time, and I'll always love her as a person, but want nothing to do with a relationship with her. My current ex, has always pulled the "I don't feel secure in our relationship" card. Which I've tried come hell or high water to prove to her that my intentions are nothing but to be with her only. She's never gotten over it but when I ask what don't you feel secure about she says I don't know.
The last little while I've noticed that she's become very controlling, and dismissive and also extremely withholding. I turn a blind eye and go along and then the straw that broke the camel's back is I went for coffee with a friend, whom she knows. This person is of no interest to me romantically whatsoever but trully a companion. She called right before our coffee date. (We hadn't spoken all day) and she says what are you doing? I tell her that I'm meeting said friend for coffee she says "Have fun with that" and hangs up.
Then the manipulation starts with I wanted to see if you wanted to hang but since you're busy I'll go and hang with my cousin. Which is complete hogwash because if she wanted to see me she would have said that instead of hanging up.
Anyways, I come to the conclusion that it's one thing that she feels insecure about my ex, and I nurtured it, but i'm beginning to see that it's an issue with EVERYONE!
I tried to call her back she didn't answer and I sent her a BBM saying that I wanted to ask her something. At this point I had made up my mind that I am responsible for the way she's treated me but that I couldn't do it anymore. She says she's busy and what is it blah blah. I say I can't be with you like this. She says Like what? Then end it then. I answer back saying that I'm sorry for wasting your time, and I hope you find what your looking for. The reply I get is okay, see ya. and she deletes me from BBM. Then a couple hours later, I go on FB to check emails and stuff, she's still on my page at this point. I scroll through a couple emails and a friend had a really cool saying that totally rang true about don't fight with an idiot because they will win with experience and I copy and paste it as my headline. Not even 15 minutes later she deletes me. 2.5 hours after our break up but 15 minutes after the headline change. Haven't heard from her since and its been two days.
I really love her, and I guess I'm hoping people can change and rise to the occasion. I'm not holding on the chance that it'll work out but I can't help but wonder why is it so easy for her to drop everything like we didn't exist? What do you all think
Thanks for all the great reply's. Just an FYI, I'm not a dude lol but the perspective from both sides is pretty cool. Thanks for all the great inspiration. Keep posting, you guys are all making it better. :)
12 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
You can't cling to a relationship based on what you would like it to be. It sounds very much like you're genuinely seeing this person for who she really is. Makes sense too: The "honeymoon" is over; your relationship isn't new and she doesn't have to try hard to impress you with her behavior. What's more, you've made it clear to her you're going to put up with whatever nastiness she decides to throw your way. I've seen relationships go like this and whenever the male has put up with this kind of behavior, the female has *always* gotten meaner and it's always been deliberate on her part. One such woman I knew told all of her friends that she was done with the relationship but didn't want to deal with the angst of a break-up so she was being as controlling and mean as she could just to make him mad, in the hope that he would get sick of it and leave her without a scene.
You need to take some time off from this girl. She's not on the same emotional maturity level as you are. You're thinking long-term and she's behaving like a teenager who's still entertaining her options. When a person genuinely loves someone, they don't treat them like she's treating you. I think you know that, deep down, or you wouldn't be asking the internet for advice. It may hurt to take a break from your goal of finding a dream partner but if this isn't meant to be, trying to draw it out will likely only make both you and her unhappier for longer.
- 1 decade ago
im not really sure what's going on with her, since i'm still a high school student
but to me, maybe she's jealous of your ex, or something like that. i dont know, maybe you should just try saying sorry even if you didn't do anything wrong, and then ask her "what's going on?' maybe something happened, or maybe you did something without even knowing it. girls can be really sensitive, trust me... if i like a guy, and he does or says something, it can hurt 50000 times more than if any other person had done or said the same thing. you should try asking her what happened and why you guys are like this now.. ask her if you did something wrong and tell her that you just want to know what you did wrong so you can fix it. apologize if needed. i know you just want to make things right again and it can be hard. but if you have no doubts that she still has feelings for you, then you need to make things right. im sure that she still loves you because if she didn't she wouldn't be treating you this way. i've had some problems and fights with this guy that i am so in love with. and i'll tell you what i was thinking. i just wished that he would take a step forward, was so frustrated when he didn't know what he did wrong and wouldn;t even apologize.. but you know what? it made it all better when he'd ask me what he did wrong, even though he was clueless... and he would do everything he could do make me not mad anymore. i thought it was the sweetest thing and it showed that he cared about being with me. so i think that your best bet would be doing the same and just showing her that she means everything to you and that you'd go the extra mile to make everything all better. trust me, just keep calling or messaging, whatever works the best.. don't annoy her, but just try to make things better by asking her what you can do..
i know how you feel in a way, and i also kind of know what she's feeling.
im sorry if this didn't help, but i really hope it did.(: please feel better(:
- 1 decade ago
I very sorry about your break up. Here is thing I am going to tell you is do you two really love each other because no matter what relationship everyone is going to be in we are all going to have some fight and it maybe stupid and it okay, but the key thing is to work it out and the best thing is communication, listen to each other one at a time, be honest, and conclusion with the issue that all it take. Now I know I am a girl; she would probably bring it up maybe use it against you, but try not to go back at it you know defending who right or wrong because if you do that then you never going no where with this relationship. The reasons why the key tools that I given work is because it work for me and my boyfriend and yes we both plan for life to be together, but we both plan that everything work out both our family maybe that some issue that come up because of course people say that it is different when two people are married and dating wise. We have known each other four year in high school and it is going to two year in relationship basically we are like high school relationship. I know your age b/w you two is different now have you every ask her about she ever been in a committed relationship herself. Now if she haven't then you probably need to take it slow w/ the relationship planning, but if she have then here is the communication come in you need to know what happen because maybe she is dealing w/ mistrusted or cheating. In my conclusion, if you both love each other then she can't just get over like that even if she show it, but if you meant it then you need to move on everyone can found love it may take 100 time broken heart, but must never stay broken learn something from it. I wish you the best of luck.
- jonathan jLv 41 decade ago
she'll most likely call back. a woman in love is an interesting thing she probably is atlest as torn up about breaking up as oyu are. however should oyu get her back let this be a lesson to you..you were in a VERY long relationship. anyone who comes in now is automatically going ot be intimidated because of that. so with that said you need to make sure who ever you date next (or your girlfriend if you get her back ) you establish clearly that they are the priority. and they have nothing to fear of oyur ex. since oyu were with her for 14 years you probably still communicate a lot. well you may have to stop that. it will be hard and i am sure you only consider her a friend but no one wants to be second place.
so make sure if oyu get her back you let her know how much oyu love her, you reduce how much you talk to your ex etc. if you have moved on from your ex it shouldn't be an issue, your paths crossed and now you go two seperate ways. now it's time to devote to oyur current girlfriend
Source(s): good luck and i hope you get her back you two sound like you had something special . and also because she is a woman she'll think she's right apologize immediately for whatever you think you did. - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- 1 decade ago
just so u know that women get easily offended by the little things men said to them.
although it's indirectly,no intention,whatsoever.
in my point of view,your ex seems to be seeking your attension.
the more u try to connect to her, the more she's avoiding you.(hell yeah its weird,but true)
yeah.
women get jealous easily too.
ever since she knew about your previous love life,of course she would feel insecure.
she started to get mad,ignore you,pissed you off,blaa blaa blaa
well,i can say that she doesn't want you to talk to other women except her and only her.
you two know each other for quite a long time,.. the way she's acting like that is because she already knew what's your reaction to her > at the end of the day,u will try to get back to her.
my advice is wait for couple of days more and then text her that you want to see her at __pm,on __,say that u will wait for her..
if she comes,do something special to her.,it can be like serenade her in front of the public..u know,romantic stuff that u've never done before with her.make it crystal clear to her that you love her deeply and want her back in your life...its only her in your eyes.NEVER try to bring up the things that you guys fought about/the other women.
or if she didn't come,,express your true feeling on paper.write thousands of "im sorry" note or whatever then paste it in front of her house..include roses or a gift(thing that she had been longing to buy)
this might sounds crazy and lame,but it actually can work
women can easily melt with those stuff that i said above.
well,just my 2 cents tho..
best of luck :)
- 1 decade ago
what else can you expect? she's 21. she doesn't know what she wants in life right now. it's very disappointing because if she doesn't see what she has right now. then once she's lost it then she will want it back and then it'll be too late. you should talk to her and let her know how you feel and if she still acts like a kid. then let her go. and it'll be pretty hard but you can't be the only one trying really hard in a relationship.
- 1 decade ago
lol i used to be exactly like her but ive changed now anyway she gets jealous when your with other girls which why she gets angry and cuts the phone.
It must seem to you as though she can drop all her feelings and ignore you but really she doesn't she want you think that because really she wants attention.... as in you begging her to take you back for intance when she said she gonna go out with her cousin instead she just wants you to be like oh im sorry i come see you right now....kind of thing
Good luck
- Anonymous1 decade ago
So, let me get this right. You're 33, she's 21 and you were together 14 years.... so at the beginning you were 19 and she was 7?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Sometimes in life you have to just give,and not expect anything in return.Try being as selfless as possible.It's hard,but it will pay off in the end.That is if you Truly love this person,which it seems you do.
- marianlaughsLv 51 decade ago
I think you already know the answer to this one, she's manipulative and immature and life's too short to play games with her. Move on.