Here's the deal....
An ex pursued me for the past 3 months, he initially said he hadn't 100% broken up with his then girlfriend but was only seeing her once a week if that and that he made the biggest mistake of his life by allowing himself to lose me (the first month or so I played REALLY hard to get then gave in (I really did love him).
After a painful month and a half of what seemed like some serious mind games he finally said he had completely ended the other relationship and all he wanted in the world was to make me happy and build our future together. This is a very wealthy man who promised me the world.....and I mean the world starting with swaring he would never ever lie to me again, just wanted to make me and his kids happy to offering me hundreds of thousands of dollars to start my own business, to being here with me 3 - 5 nights a week and speaking up to 10 times a day....he has his children VERY often as his ex wife travels up to 20 days a month for business.
I thought I knew where he was all the time....Last week I told a friend that we were back together and I was really happy....within an hour my phone rang and I learned that he never broke it off with the other women and she has been making calls to acquaintances of mine asking if he were back involved with me as she was suspicious...THEN, that night she called me and I was completely honest....she told me he had been asking her about marriage, recently took her away on a weekend that he told me he was busy with the kids (and called me all weekend!) etc. and she freaked (as did I)...She got in her car and went to his apt. and asked me to meet her there (my gut said not to) BUT I didn't want him to be able to wiggle out of this. We confronted him, she literally beat him up (ALA Jerry Springer)......
He pathetically said he cared about both of us and was sorry, esentially we both told him to take a hike. The next day he must have called me ten times begging me to give him a chance to make it up to me and swore he would never call her again, then it came out through a friend he was calling her and saying THE SAME THING- even sent her flowers....When I found this out the next time he called me I told him to never call me again!
NOW, even though she knows he was still pursuing both of us word has it that she is most likely taking him back (he called her mother, friends, etc. begging for help to get her back......while still calling me. He even had his ex wife call her to encourage her to take him back).....It's really a twisted situation with a pathological liar.
Here's my deal-----WOULD you believe he is still coming to our gym? I go to the gym almost every day as does he (he lives around me, the other woman lives an hour and a half away he keeps positioning himself right in front of me so I can't miss seeing him or walking by him when I go in to take a class. I do my best to intentionally ignore him.
There are TONS of gyms in our area
My friends say I should join another gym (I am in a contract at mine and can't afford 2 memberships)AND, I say he should leave and find another gym, I DID NOTHING WRONG!
He should be too embarrassed to be there, shouldn't he?????
I've even learned that he has convinced this other woman that I was pursuing him......NOT TRUE AT ALL
When I heard this I called him and told him to stop adding insult to injury and told him I couldn't understand how he could show up my gym....his response was ridiculous.....something to the effect, you don't know how it kills me when I see you there, you don't know how bad I feel....
HELLO, stop going to my gym, stay away from me!!! He has no intention of avoiding me, is this narcissism or what????????
Am I right on this one???????????
Advice? What would you do?
And please don't tell me to change times, there are specific classes that I take.
An ex pursued me for the past 3 months, he initially said he hadn't 100% broken up with his then girlfriend but was only seeing her once a week if that and that he made the biggest mistake of his life by allowing himself to lose me (the first month or so I played REALLY hard to get then gave in (I really did love him).
After a painful month and a half of what seemed like some serious mind games he finally said he had completely ended the other relationship and all he wanted in the world was to make me happy and build our future together. This is a very wealthy man who promised me the world.....and I mean the world starting with swaring he would never ever lie to me again, just wanted to make me and his kids happy to offering me hundreds of thousands of dollars to start my own business, to being here with me 3 - 5 nights a week and speaking up to 10 times a day....he has his children VERY often as his ex wife travels up to 20 days a month for business.
I thought I knew where he was all the time....Last week I told a friend that we were back together and I was really happy....within an hour my phone rang and I learned that he never broke it off with the other women and she has been making calls to acquaintances of mine asking if he were back involved with me as she was suspicious...THEN, that night she called me and I was completely honest....she told me he had been asking her about marriage, recently took her away on a weekend that he told me he was busy with the kids (and called me all weekend!) etc. and she freaked (as did I)...She got in her car and went to his apt. and asked me to meet her there (my gut said not to) BUT I didn't want him to be able to wiggle out of this. We confronted him, she literally beat him up (ALA Jerry Springer)......
He pathetically said he cared about both of us and was sorry, esentially we both told him to take a hike. The next day he must have called me ten times begging me to give him a chance to make it up to me and swore he would never call her again, then it came out through a friend he was calling her and saying THE SAME THING- even sent her flowers....When I found this out the next time he called me I told him to never call me again!
NOW, even though she knows he was still pursuing both of us word has it that she is most likely taking him back (he called her mother, friends, etc. begging for help to get her back......while still calling me. He even had his ex wife call her to encourage her to take him back).....It's really a twisted situation with a pathological liar.
Here's my deal-----WOULD you believe he is still coming to our gym? I go to the gym almost every day as does he (he lives around me, the other woman lives an hour and a half away he keeps positioning himself right in front of me so I can't miss seeing him or walking by him when I go in to take a class. I do my best to intentionally ignore him.
There are TONS of gyms in our area
My friends say I should join another gym (I am in a contract at mine and can't afford 2 memberships)AND, I say he should leave and find another gym, I DID NOTHING WRONG!
He should be too embarrassed to be there, shouldn't he?????
I've even learned that he has convinced this other woman that I was pursuing him......NOT TRUE AT ALL
When I heard this I called him and told him to stop adding insult to injury and told him I couldn't understand how he could show up my gym....his response was ridiculous.....something to the effect, you don't know how it kills me when I see you there, you don't know how bad I feel....
HELLO, stop going to my gym, stay away from me!!! He has no intention of avoiding me, is this narcissism or what????????
Am I right on this one???????????
Advice? What would you do?
And please don't tell me to change times, there are specific classes that I take.



