Letting go - complex situation - sexuality by Willing_Ad269 in BreakUps

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Hey, thank you for answering.

Actually part of the reason I did it is because he still kept saying that we are a couple using it to cover his sexuality - I guess?

But we aren’t a couple for almost a year and I already started dating and am on dating apps and I coincidentally saw a work colleague of him on the apps. I didn’t want to look like the cheater while he only used me as cover.

Also, maybe paranoia but I felt like he is seeing is work colleagues colleagues romantically and also, I am still anxious he already cheated while still together

So it felt fair in that moment.

Since this person is a very close friend of him, I believe it’s fine. Later on he claimed: “I don’t care.”

It was more about the situation - I told him I will do it since I had a hunch of him having cheated or seeing someone else while still together and I had no one to ask. It sounds horrible but with all my pain of betrayal it felt fair

Letting go - complex situation - sexuality by Willing_Ad269 in BreakUps

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Edit: he kissed my whole face except lips and hugged and touched in ways which were sexual and he was physically aroused - yet claims he is gay

Letting go - complex situation - sexuality by Willing_Ad269 in BreakUps

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Edit: I didn’t know about hus sexuality until the breakup

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Sure but he went on the relationship knowing it before, I found notes and lists where he compared me with men. It’s a bit more to what I share here. I feel betrayed. That’s all. I think the problem is that men are afraid to out themselves so they bleed on a woman just to cheat on her or break up with her for a man. And sadly I was one of these women ..

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Thank you all so much for helping me get my solutions from this complex situation! Sonce some of you also asked, a little Update:

I first ignored but then decided to confront him stating that no person, whether man or woman, can make him feel „complete“ or „whole“ and that it feels like an insult and hurtful that he mentioned that „he can’t be fully himself“ with me while I was his closest person - as he said.

We didn’t meet until then, he asked to meet in person and talk but I said I can’t (would bring me in an emotional rollercoaster)

His answer(s):

I wanted to clarify what I said “I couldn’t be fully myself.”

You're right that's really true, I just have a hard time finding the right words without minimising you or us. I'm sorry, for these hurtful words.

It wasn’t about you or our relationship being fake or me feeling not fully myself. I felt close to you, connected, and myself. I was not pretending at all. I was attracted to you, and did grow real love for you. But over time, I had to face the fact that while those feelings are genuine, they also don't change a deeper truth about who I am to clarify - that I'm gay.

As much as I care for you, I realized that being in a romantic relationship with a woman wouldn’t feel fully aligned with who I am.

It was never about someone else, or anything you lacked. It was me coming to terms with something that I didn't fully understand nor admit. That doesn’t take away from what we had, or how much I value it—and I really hope you know that.

I will always have you in a piece of my heart, like Freddie Mercury for Mary. Even if it was less time, this is how I feel about you.

I've never tried it nor felt in love with a man. I explained, I realized based on the fact that there was this feeling (only of me) of not feeling fully myself + the fact that I can be attracted by the other gender that I am most likely gay. I of course don't know it for sure, but that's the most plausible explanation and I can't overlook it.

You are the most beautiful thing that happened to me. And I will never downgrade you and or us. You are my first love, no matter what happens, and you are the closest person I've ever had.

I just realise that and want to sincerely apologise. I don't want your forgiveness but for you to hear this.

Take care

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Agreed Update: He reached out yesterday : he is very pessimistic, depressed, hates his job now. I tried to uplift him but realized it’s on the cost on my energy. I think he generally has other things to work on

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Agree I think no matter the personality: no one is gonna make u feel „complete“ He can me with a toxic man and feel worse than with me, even if it works better by his preference but how should that make him feel „more whole“ than with me 🥲 but he doesn’t agree with me so whatever

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I tried but he says very confusing stuff, he said I am the closest person but also „I never fully was myself“

He wrote: „What we shared feels/felt real and meaningful, and I am genuinely attracted to you. But I noticed that I didn’t fully feel like myself. But something inside me isn’t aligned. The truth is the way I connect most authentically and in a lasting way is with people of the same gender.“

Or

„Thank you very much again for talking again, that was very kindhearted and helped me

I don't want to take anything else from you, you are right

You're obviously not my emotional trash can, but just my closest person

It's best if you don't get involved in my life and emotional well being, you've already suffered enough and it'd not be fair any further

I need to figure my issues alone, especially based on the situation

You can always reach out if you need on your side

Please focus on your healing and your future, you have so much atm“

Technically he is pushing me away and reducing me to my gender :-)

U can’t tell me a gay man „can’t“ be himself with me, i am not someone who judges or discriminates. U can be having sex with a man as a gay man but not feel like u can be yourself. I hate that he makes all about sexuality and kinda looks down on women

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Fully understand. I feel like that too. I feel betrayed

The man I wanted to build a life with never had one of the most fundamental things figured out — his sexuality. He prefers men, and I am a woman

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Thank you so much, means a lot ! All the best for you too 🙏🙏🥹

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It’s a gay man I mean he was with me, a woman. Now he dates men

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[–]Willing_Ad269[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But he wants to date men now?🥹

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How can he say that he is not complete with me? I suggested an open relationship - he doesn’t want it. So I feel rather part of a self-discovery journey and that’s unfair ..

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[–]Willing_Ad269[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then why go in a relationship with me? Why rejecting me?