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Q: relationship with ex ?
asked by: OfficerJagger on August 8th, 2008
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Hi there!

So, I am seeing a guy I went to elementary school with. I hadn't seen him since we were 10 or 12. We're both 22 now. We use to play on a hockey team together and we were best buds growing up.

He's really wonderful! He's outgoing, get's along with everyone, he's very caring and profound, no body decent would dislike him. He's also VERY good-looking (not that that's relevant)

Anyhow, we have been dating for just over 5 months now (no big deal, right?) Well, we both broke up with our ex's only a few weeks before we started seeing eachother (uh-oh) I constantly assured him that i'd rather be friends if I was infact a re-bound, he assured me I was not. I trusted him and dove in a new relationship (my first BIG mistake).

So, my much needed opinions are based on the question "What's ging on between him and his ex?"

He still has her photos on facebook with them two kissing and all. Not listed as in a relationship with anyone.. (Hello! What about me?)

His dad and her dad play in a band together so they sometimes see eachother. My bf's dad had a party one night with his band (So his ex was there) and she was chasing him with squirt guns and flirting and dragging him behind the house etc. I natuarally would have beat the $#! out of both of them, but 1. (I need not be so immature anymore) and 2. (It was a giant family party) Anyway, so I brought this up and said "I understand you want to be friends with her still, and that was completely fine by me until all that happened" In return, nothing.

My bf has now been invited by her to her cottage 'cause another family band thing, I was blown out-of-the-water when he mentioned this. what do think i'm gonna feel? So, I wasn't invited, he's gonna spend the night there in a tent (With the ex or without? Who knows..)

On facebook he tells me she messsages him saying "I miss you" and "Lindsay has you pussywhipped" etc.

Why does he tell me this and then encourage he by playing with her and going out with her etc?

Aside from that he's the type that hates to say no in case someone is hurt, but he hurts me in the process of protecting her...

What should I do?

Am I being jealous?
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bottledwater
replied on August 8th, 2008
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be carefull
I think from what youve said here, she wants him back and shes got a good plan going. shes spent time building a bond with him past thier break-up, showing him that she can be fun and exciting while you probably wernt looking too happy at him while they were playing at the party.

now shes seperating him from you, and removing him from his current life (by taking him to a new region..the cottage), therefore further seperating him from his relationship with you. this will make him easyer to seduce, along with the idea that if something happens noone will know because they are so far from home.


my opinion is this girl has the full intent on seducing him and bringing him back to her, you should be worried. the only thing stopping her is your boyfriends ability to stay faithfull. i wouldent let him go to the cottage, but then he may think you are suffocating him by keeping him around you. its a tough decision.
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OfficerJagger
replied on August 8th, 2008
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Thank you for the opinion. He assured me he wouldn't go, he decided it wasn't appropriate (What was his first clue? lol) Do you think that he sounds like the unfaithful type because of the facebook, and not stopping her from doing those flirtatious things in front of me?
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bottledwater
replied on August 8th, 2008
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no he sounds like a good guy, i am a guy as well and i cant think of anyone as i do my girlfriend and he seems like the same. id have to say if one of my female friends had a watergun fight at a party with friends and family i wouldent think twice of it either.

theres always room for error, but he sounds like hes trying to help soothe your mind. tell him about your concern, and for the facebook, or next time your doing something with him take a nice picture of the two of you and make a comment like "you know what would make a great facebook picture, why dont we make it our personal pictures together?" or a modification of it, chances are he just hasnt noticed that the picture is still of his ex, and not you.
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OfficerJagger
replied on August 8th, 2008
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Aww thank you so much for the ease of mind. I feel much better.
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lil_scorpio
replied on August 8th, 2008
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Sounds like you have a right to be hurt! If the girl is an ex, he should leave it at that. Everybody has baggage, but once you're in a relationship and it's "not" a rebound, then the ex's should fall by the way. You should be the most important person to him right now, not the ex.

Just a thought, but maybe he likes the attention he gets from 2 people chasing after him? Guys can kind of dig that. Maybe you should sit down and TALK to him, get your feelings out. Tell him that he may not want to hurt his ex, but he's hurting you. Tell him that you are into him and ask what he wants out of this relationship. Don't interogate him, just talk clamly to him about it. I think you deserve to know where his head is.
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Marianne0558
replied on August 8th, 2008
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I wouldn't trust him going anywhere overnight with her...
Especially if you weren't invited.

It can be hard to resist sometimes, especially when there are feelings involved (which obviously there are).
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