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- Jul 28, 2024
As someone currently going through something similar, DO NOT RESPOND TO HIM WHATSOEVER.I don't have a good way to end this comment, I just...I felt like you girl-kiwis in here would Get It and know what I'm going through and have insights from your own experiences. I wish my ex would leave me alone.
I cut him off after nearly two years of being gaslit, verbally/emotionally abused, threatened, and stonewalled, listening to him throw mantrums over the phone and punching holes in his wall because "how I said hello felt demeaning". All I did was answer in a higher pitch because I was excited to talk. He admitted he was abusive twice and not willing to change but I stuck it out hoping I could convince him if I just kept communicating like he asked. Obviously every issue was my fault. Therapy, medication, articles and videos read or watched at his request. He shut me down every time I did what he wanted and refused to cooperate or take blame for anything. He was projecting and purposefuly creating situations to get pissy over.
He was so heartbroken that I left and would send goofy messages on alts trying to win me back, then he found out I told someone what he had done to me. Immediate, nonstop, graphic death threats for months. I caved and talked to him to ask him to get help because I'd feel responsible were he to hurt anyone else, he blamed me for "making him" send that shit because I wouldn't respond.
I also struggled with a lot of guilt after the initial cut off. I wanted to talk to him but knew he'd be mean again within days. He couldn't keep the facade up for long, it happened every time I came back. I didn't realize how manipulative he was until I pushed aside some guilt to make new friends (he made me abandon the last ones) who I'd send screenshots to. They'd immediately recognize what he was doing which was simultaneously reassuring and embarrassing. It made me realize he had been doing that the entire time I had known him. He got much more obvious about it when he started targeting known insecurities, making more detailed threats, going after anyone interacting with me, pretending to be me and saying awful things to push people away, saying if he did abuse or kill his next girlfriend that it'd be my fault for not stopping him. All of it accumulating into a whining fest of begging me to talk for just a few minutes.
That's what the entire thing was about. He wanted to talk for just a few minutes to see if he could rope me back in and these bouts of threats were only because it worked the first time. He's now devolved into suicidal threats and as much as I want to tell him to do it, that'd be giving him what he wants. He wants my attention because no one else is going to give him any. It is frustrating, although very funny, sending off whatever gun-to-head video comes through to the police who admit there is nothing they can or will do. Seems I'm not the only one who wants him dead at this point.
I do occasionally write to him but I never send anything. It's a reminder and an outlet for my aggression because unfortunately for me, unlike him, I'm aware sending detailed desires of wanting to bash his skull in with a rock until his eyes fall out and make him eat them is unhinged. Any sort of response to him means I care and caring means he has a chance still. It's very "man yells at cloud" because I am doing absolutely nothing back and it's only making him more pissed off and desperate. He seems to think this has led to zero consquences. He is "arrest on sight" if he is anywhere in my area because he has zero reason to be here and the police are fully aware he is armed so whoever spots him first is likely not going to be charged for shooting him.
He was so heartbroken that I left and would send goofy messages on alts trying to win me back, then he found out I told someone what he had done to me. Immediate, nonstop, graphic death threats for months. I caved and talked to him to ask him to get help because I'd feel responsible were he to hurt anyone else, he blamed me for "making him" send that shit because I wouldn't respond.
I also struggled with a lot of guilt after the initial cut off. I wanted to talk to him but knew he'd be mean again within days. He couldn't keep the facade up for long, it happened every time I came back. I didn't realize how manipulative he was until I pushed aside some guilt to make new friends (he made me abandon the last ones) who I'd send screenshots to. They'd immediately recognize what he was doing which was simultaneously reassuring and embarrassing. It made me realize he had been doing that the entire time I had known him. He got much more obvious about it when he started targeting known insecurities, making more detailed threats, going after anyone interacting with me, pretending to be me and saying awful things to push people away, saying if he did abuse or kill his next girlfriend that it'd be my fault for not stopping him. All of it accumulating into a whining fest of begging me to talk for just a few minutes.
That's what the entire thing was about. He wanted to talk for just a few minutes to see if he could rope me back in and these bouts of threats were only because it worked the first time. He's now devolved into suicidal threats and as much as I want to tell him to do it, that'd be giving him what he wants. He wants my attention because no one else is going to give him any. It is frustrating, although very funny, sending off whatever gun-to-head video comes through to the police who admit there is nothing they can or will do. Seems I'm not the only one who wants him dead at this point.
I do occasionally write to him but I never send anything. It's a reminder and an outlet for my aggression because unfortunately for me, unlike him, I'm aware sending detailed desires of wanting to bash his skull in with a rock until his eyes fall out and make him eat them is unhinged. Any sort of response to him means I care and caring means he has a chance still. It's very "man yells at cloud" because I am doing absolutely nothing back and it's only making him more pissed off and desperate. He seems to think this has led to zero consquences. He is "arrest on sight" if he is anywhere in my area because he has zero reason to be here and the police are fully aware he is armed so whoever spots him first is likely not going to be charged for shooting him.
These men have zero self awareness and are so delusional they genuinely think this sort of behavior gets them what they want if they just keep trying. It's clear he's stalking you from finding out about your sister, he thinks playing the good/down on his luck guy will make you change your mind, and sending you items back will serve as a reminder of him. He's such a good guy, even his ex wants to talk to him so why don't you? Don't you understand how much he's changed? How he's totally not seething at the idea that you are better off without him?
He's obsessed with you and the best thing you can do is pretend he doesn't and never existed.