| At the 72 hour mark now, of no contact. I hung out with one of my guy friends for a bit today, then got some motivation and cooked myself a real dinner and did some housework.
Trying to make plans with friends and fill up my schedule, so to speak. If she contacts me, I want to already have plans to be busy. I would like to confront her at least once in person, to get my money back and say a few things - bringing up the disrespect in the OP mainly. I won't do anything like offer ultimatums, or do/say anything to appear weak or needy, just busy and uninterested in spending time with her. I won't actively cut her out, but rather just fade off the map. Now that I've gotten to know her real personality over these last few months, I understand that caring about her or having feelings for her just isn't in my best interest. It's nothing I can change or control.
I just wish there was some switch I could shut off, you know? Right now, strongly considering going after one of her close friends, J. J, like me, is in recovery for drugs/alcohol and also fading out of my ex's life. About 6 weeks ago, I had a pseudo threesome with them both at J's house (J lives 25 minutes away from campus) but my ex asked me to "stay away from her" and I reluctantly agreed. Of course, my mindset at that time was getting my ex back... making her happy. J isn't as physically attractive as my ex, but a nice girl that I've developing a good friendship with... unfortunately, as I bode my time she's mentioned something about seeing a new guy. The window may have passed, but we'll see where it goes.
Thanks for keeping the topic alive, Tru. It's good to have someone in my corner, that isn't personally involved IRL. I feel a bit stronger every day after not contacting her... although in my mind I know that if I did, I could easily hang out with her and probably sleep with her. I know that's not in my best interest long time. When she broke up with me originally, it was almost completely unexpected - I've chalked this up to my suspicion of her borderline personality behavior. When I first started talking to her back in March, we seemed to just "click" so well. She's extremely magnetic. She was interested in everything I said and did, seemed to have so many good qualities, and she seemed to put me on a pedestal. Always saying "I like you, I like you a lot. How do you feel about me?" and always trying to please me. After the breakup, I had resolved to NC - it was easy, because I was definitely hurt and she knew it. And before long, I was seeing someone else and quickly forgot about her. But that someone else never worked out, and I got sucked back into my ex when she came back to school. I figured the FWB route would be a way to get her back - get that magnetic awesome attraction going again. With everything that's happened now, I see how different her and I really are. The sex was incredible, her personality is still magnetic, but the things she does here and there are blatantly painful and disrespectful and she doesn't even seem to realize it. She's the only person who's ever accused me of being selfish, arrogant and an asshole - in reality, I think this was just her egocentrism projecting these qualities on me. Perhaps with enough time, I can still maintain some sort of friendship, even with benefits, but I doubt it. The quality of how I felt back when we were dating comes back, and it makes me sick to my stomach thinking about her with other guys again. I guess in a way, I never really fell "out of love" with her, or the infatuation at least, because I know it wasn't real mature love. Since I broke up with my last real LTR a year ago, I've been with 9 women (and somewhere inbetween with a few others) but none of them invoked the kinds of emotions in me that this one does. It's almost like a case of one-itis, but my logical mind knows just how unhealthy it is for me to be friends in any way with an ex that just doesn't seem to care back. Since we became FWB, she's accused me of using her for sex, but I felt she has been using me for so much more... including sex. A place to stay. Someone to take her out, go places, cook with, hell I even enabled a MMF threesome for her. I would buy her little things here and there. And I would do it again, it's been a long time fantasy of mine as well, believe it or not, though of course I'd rather do FFM threesomes. She's attempted to get us into one a few times to little avail.
Funny enough, I still can't really understand why she contacted me Monday when she did. I probably scared her off talking about the money. Another voice in my head says that now she got money working over break, she's doing things with the people she really wants to hang out with, and she'll probably come back when she's broke or something. I'm talking myself out of it. And I don't want to just use some other girl as the rebound to her, because that's not really fair to them.
Also, I should mention I'm trying a no-fap challenge right now as well. Day three of that. I turn her coldness into a positive thing for me - the first breakup, I quit drinking/drugs. Last contact three days ago, quit fapping. Hah. Get me interested in new women, and forget about her... since I found usually if it wasn't porn, it was her I was fapping it to.
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