the_stig said:
History is last december we dated non-exclusive for a few weeks, she came on strong but dropped me hard and was with another guy.
The fact that she came on so strong would have been a
YELLOW flag to me. It wouldn't have meant not to get involved with her at all,just to take it easy and proceed with caution.
I would have wondered why she was coming on so strong to someone she hardly even knew. It's somewhat normal for a guy to come on strong,but when a girl does it,
especially if she's attractive,it makes my "spider sense" tingle.
the_stig said:
They broke up and we started talking slowly, then dating again. I've been leary about getting involved again for obvious reasons,
I understand you being leary,but how do you know so much about her dating life? I guess you assumed there was another guy when she dropped you,that's easy enough,but you somehow even knew when things went bust between them.
the_stig said:
i've brought up the past a few times and she gets upset. She claims she didn't know what she wanted before.
Oh...so she "didn't know what she wanted"? Hmm. So
that was the reason she left you and started seeing this other guy. Ok. So now that she's back,does that mean she
NOW is no longer confused and knows what she wants?
That
"I didn't know what I wanted" line was a bunch of crap,as I'm sure you know.
I don't think she's back with you because she suddenly came to her senses and "realized" that it was you she wanted all along,I think she's back simply because things didn't work out with the other guy.
You have cause to be "leary". I don't see how you could be comfortable with her. You said she "dropped you hard",then started seeing someone else. Then they broke up. Now she's back claiming she didn't know what she wanted when she left.
Naw dude,that's too much wackiness for me. And if ALL THAT wasn't enough,you said.....
Friday she pulled back sexually/physically because she is "shy sexually, isn't totally comfortable, doesn't know if i'm sleeping around and needs to protect herself".
So you started seeing her,then she dropped you "hard". Then she went to another guy,then dropped him. And now,she's back with you. She's back,but refuses to have sex with you because she's "not comfortable",although the two of you have already had sex before MULTIPLE TIMES.
Wow. All that drama for someone you're not even in a relationship with.
THE FIRST THING I would have done she when said that
"doesn't know if you're sleeping around/needs to protect herself" line was throw it right back in
her face.
I would have been like,"What???? Need to protect yourself? Wait a minute......
you left
me,ok?
YOU stopped seeing
me. You CHOSE to go be with another guy. THE WHOLE REASON we have to re-connect or comfortable with each other again is because of a decision
YOU MADE,ok? I was cool just hanging out and kickin' it with you,but because you
"didn't know what you want",you went out and got with some other dude,so don't give me that "I need to protect myself bullsh!t".
I'm not the one who left,YOU did. I don't know what all you did with this other guy. If anybody needs to "protect themselves" (and use the air quotes when you say this),it should be me".
This would probably piss her off even more,but so what. There's a time to be cool and let some remarks roll off your back,and there's a time to blow up.
I would have went off on her for that "need to protect myself" sh!t. She left you to go be with another guy,then comes back and says she needs to protect herself because of
YOU? Dude,I would have went off.
This is DIFFERENT from the remark you made. Yours was insensitive. With this remark,you know FULL WELL what you're saying,and make NO APOLOGIES for saying it.
And if it offends her,then TOUGH.
It was
HER who set all this in motion by deciding to leave in the first place.
the _stig said:
Tonight I said "guess you dont need me to spend the night if we aren't even phyiscal anymore" and she flew off the handle. Dumb thing to say, but i've told her I don't just want sex and respect her decisions but find her behavior confusing and odd.
You contradicted yourself. You told her you didn't want just sex from her,but your remark IMPLIED that the ONLY REASON for spending nights with her were for sex. You also tried to backpeddle after putting your foot in your mouth,lol.
Yes,your remark was "rude". It's not always bad to offend someone,it's just WHAT YOU SAY that determines whether it's bad or not.
What you said was BAD. The remark I would have made probably would have offended her as well,but she would have known that SHE WAS AT FAULT and that it was HER ACTIONS that set things up to play out the way they did.