Man. It is one of the worst feelings. In my mid twenties I thought I had seen a good spectrum of the problems you can have with women. This one is a first for me too, and my situation is extremely similar to the story below. Especially that feeling that she didnt fully trust me even though we were both really attracted to each other. What really sucks is seeing her look at you and knowing that she likes you, and knowing that there is something else in the middle of you that can prevent a relationship or make it very difficult. It's out of your control. With my girl it happened a couple years ago, in a different state. Very difficult to prosecute and often the girl is so afraid or emotionally crushed that she wont want to come forward.
Guys saying that she might be lying, maybe... but the clusters of individual indicators or red flags in her behavior that come out over time... At first you think shes just really shy but know that she likes you, eventually you think if you keep doing things right it will grow into more, but she's just kept me at a safe distance while we've been seeing each other. It's tough to think that some piece of **** messed up a girl's life, the impact on her family, the impact on the next guy that (tries to) date her like us...
Its a rotten feeling. Anger sadness and disappointment(that it happened, not with her) are the mix that I've got. I had thought that things might not work out with us but never thought I would find out something like this is the reason why.
And she's completely gorgeous by anyone's standards, athletic, involved, not a partier, a girl I had fun with when we were hanging out.
The thing that makes it difficult is that when you find out something like that you want to support her and be with her, but she's keeping you at a distance.
It would take a miracle to turn my situation around.
I am dating some other girls and trying to decide whether I still want to hang out with the one I really like. I'll see her once or twice a week anyway b/c we are involved in the same things in the community. So I can't get away, just going to try to take my emotions out of it more, but guys that have really had this happen, I know what it's like now, and it f*cking sucks.
BlakeW5 said:
But this is something I've been through.
Here's a little background: I dated this chick for 5 months (we've been broken up for 2 now so this is fairly recent). I always got this weird feeling that she didn't trust me even though I did everything in my power to help her trust me. 3.5-4 months in the topic (trust) comes up in conversation. She tells me point blank she can't trust guys. Why? She got raped. Did I feel bad for her? Of course I did. However, it pissed me off to no end that she waited until I got real feelings for her before she told me. So I find out she can finally trust guys now..... after we broke up. It killed me because I put in all that hard work to show her not all guys are a$$holes only for some new guy to get the new-improved version of her. If it hadn't have been for her trust issues (the cause of MANY fights) this girl would have been close to perfect. Honestly, I'm glad she's better now, she's had a hard life and deserves better, but I'm mad as hell I had to be the transition guy. I never did one bad thing to the girl but I had to pay for what other guys before me did to her. If I had known all this going in, I may have just cut her loose and tried to help her outside of a relationship. I'm not saying I regret her, I'm just saying I invested a LOT and only got hurt in the end.
Straight-up this isn't something I like to talk about because the whole situation and how it played out really hurt me. Just be prepared. If you do decide to go for this girl it's gonna be one hell of a roller-coaster ride. So ask yourself "Am I really ready for this?" and then ask yourself if you really care enough about this girl to do through it all. Finally, if you do go through with it prepare for the possibility that you'll get hurt and come out the loser in this deal.