LivingAndLearning8
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I was in a relationship with a girl much younger than me for about five weeks. She truly liked me in the beginning. Actually, she was the one that pursued me for about a month before I decided to give her a chance. She tried to lock me down as her boyfriend as soon as she could, but I denied my commitment. When she asked me "what are we?", I said that "we are staying together. We are more than friends, but we aren't bf/gf yet". As time passed, she started losing attraction mainly because she found out that I'm not a high value man, and I was giving away emotional validation without getting much in return. In fact, she was a virgin and we ended up not having sex at all.
I made several mistakes during this relationship, but I'm still learning from them. While we had talked about breaking up before, and I was the one that usually initiated this sort of talk, I never really wanted to end up things with her.
During the time we spent together, I had plenty of chances to go No Contact, to walk away, to end the relationship first, or to at least have a healthy break up. All the signals were there. But a man without options is powerless, and I tried my best to save the relationship. She had moody swings, and even flaked some of our dates, but I kept giving her attention on a daily basis. We exchanged e-mails, text messages, and phone calls. In other words, my behavior went from "jerk" to "pursuer".
We did setup a date a week before Valentine's Day (in my country), but we argued over text during the night before. It was the first time that I stood to myself, and I wrote that if "she is not satisfied, she can find someone else to make her happy, because I was tired of pleasing her and not being recognized". She kinda sent some messages "apologizing" for her behavior (said good night and wrote poetry), but I ignored them before going to bed. I ended up losing my sleep during the night, and I replied to her at 2 AM, when I knew she was sleeping. To my surprise, around 10:30 am of Sunday I received a text saying "XXX, I want to break up". That was it.
I read it a minute later, and I panicked. I lost my frame with her for the last time. I said "YYY, let's talk over the phone, ok?". When I called her, it got to her voicemail (Which is standard for her). I sent two more messages. Something "cute" trying to salvage the relationship, and the last one saying "YYY, I can't force you to do anything. You are an adult and free to make your own choices. Just don't do something that you will regret it later, ok?". She didn't reply. She didn't call me. She didn't send an e-mail.
We both went No Contact. I deleted her phone number, our messages, all her/our photos, and our e-mails. After 3 days, she broke her NC with an e-mail:
""Staying together, in this sense, shows how, in the context of fragile people and insecure of their own value, the interest of seducing is to assure it's own value, more than of the shared pleasure (...) deep down, what we see is the fear of connection, of contact (...)"
To a man who doesn't know what he wants - refuses to be a friend, but denies the relationship. This "not knowing" isn't only applied to romantic relationships, but also to life."
I thought that she was trying to say that she broke up with me because I didn't give away my commitment, and that my indecision with certain actions led me to live this sad/lonely/messy life. Somehow she is right, but I know that I allowed myself to be beta-fied and that is why I truly lost her.
During that same day she disabled her Facebook profile and blocked her Instagram. I don't use Social Media, but she knew I had access to these pages. Since then, she resumed her No Contact, and I haven't broke mine since my last message (9 days).
I really thought that she would eventually call or message me to say that she was sorry, that she missed me, but it seems like her attraction level dropped too much. I still feel like it's not right that our relationship finished like that, that she didn't have to guts to meet me in person or to talk with me on the phone.
I have watched that Swingers' scene multiple times, but I realize that the odds we are ever going get back together are close to zero. If I change to a man with abundance mentality, then it's pretty much over. I understand that in order to become a "real man", I have to let her go, but as a man, I feel like it's my duty to make it clear that I don't hate her and I enjoyed our time together.
That is why feel like breaking NC, so I can send her an e-mail thanking her for our time together, that I've learned a lot, and wish her well in life, despite her critics. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't realize that I have so much to learn about self-improvement and sexual strategy.
My fear is that she might be seeing someone else already, or that she might never reply. I also think that it's very likely that she deleted my phone number, and that she will never call me again. In your opinion, is it fine to break NC in order to "make peace with myself" or should I keep it that way?
tldr version: Girl broke up with me over text. We never had a chance to talk about our differences. She sent me an offensive/negative e-mail after the breakup. I haven't contacted her since then. I want to thank her for opening my eyes. Should I?
I made several mistakes during this relationship, but I'm still learning from them. While we had talked about breaking up before, and I was the one that usually initiated this sort of talk, I never really wanted to end up things with her.
During the time we spent together, I had plenty of chances to go No Contact, to walk away, to end the relationship first, or to at least have a healthy break up. All the signals were there. But a man without options is powerless, and I tried my best to save the relationship. She had moody swings, and even flaked some of our dates, but I kept giving her attention on a daily basis. We exchanged e-mails, text messages, and phone calls. In other words, my behavior went from "jerk" to "pursuer".
We did setup a date a week before Valentine's Day (in my country), but we argued over text during the night before. It was the first time that I stood to myself, and I wrote that if "she is not satisfied, she can find someone else to make her happy, because I was tired of pleasing her and not being recognized". She kinda sent some messages "apologizing" for her behavior (said good night and wrote poetry), but I ignored them before going to bed. I ended up losing my sleep during the night, and I replied to her at 2 AM, when I knew she was sleeping. To my surprise, around 10:30 am of Sunday I received a text saying "XXX, I want to break up". That was it.
I read it a minute later, and I panicked. I lost my frame with her for the last time. I said "YYY, let's talk over the phone, ok?". When I called her, it got to her voicemail (Which is standard for her). I sent two more messages. Something "cute" trying to salvage the relationship, and the last one saying "YYY, I can't force you to do anything. You are an adult and free to make your own choices. Just don't do something that you will regret it later, ok?". She didn't reply. She didn't call me. She didn't send an e-mail.
We both went No Contact. I deleted her phone number, our messages, all her/our photos, and our e-mails. After 3 days, she broke her NC with an e-mail:
""Staying together, in this sense, shows how, in the context of fragile people and insecure of their own value, the interest of seducing is to assure it's own value, more than of the shared pleasure (...) deep down, what we see is the fear of connection, of contact (...)"
To a man who doesn't know what he wants - refuses to be a friend, but denies the relationship. This "not knowing" isn't only applied to romantic relationships, but also to life."
I thought that she was trying to say that she broke up with me because I didn't give away my commitment, and that my indecision with certain actions led me to live this sad/lonely/messy life. Somehow she is right, but I know that I allowed myself to be beta-fied and that is why I truly lost her.
During that same day she disabled her Facebook profile and blocked her Instagram. I don't use Social Media, but she knew I had access to these pages. Since then, she resumed her No Contact, and I haven't broke mine since my last message (9 days).
I really thought that she would eventually call or message me to say that she was sorry, that she missed me, but it seems like her attraction level dropped too much. I still feel like it's not right that our relationship finished like that, that she didn't have to guts to meet me in person or to talk with me on the phone.
I have watched that Swingers' scene multiple times, but I realize that the odds we are ever going get back together are close to zero. If I change to a man with abundance mentality, then it's pretty much over. I understand that in order to become a "real man", I have to let her go, but as a man, I feel like it's my duty to make it clear that I don't hate her and I enjoyed our time together.
That is why feel like breaking NC, so I can send her an e-mail thanking her for our time together, that I've learned a lot, and wish her well in life, despite her critics. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't realize that I have so much to learn about self-improvement and sexual strategy.
My fear is that she might be seeing someone else already, or that she might never reply. I also think that it's very likely that she deleted my phone number, and that she will never call me again. In your opinion, is it fine to break NC in order to "make peace with myself" or should I keep it that way?
tldr version: Girl broke up with me over text. We never had a chance to talk about our differences. She sent me an offensive/negative e-mail after the breakup. I haven't contacted her since then. I want to thank her for opening my eyes. Should I?
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