Quietude, this is for you- my final straw thread that I posted a few months back

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#1 Jul 8 - 9PM
trueblue101
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Quietude, this is for you- my final straw thread that I posted a few months back

I am humiliated that I shared my life with a man who could treat me this way but here it goes.
Long story short: we were close friends in college, didn’t see each other for about ten years, he moved abroad and contacted me when he was in town, we met and dated long distance for a year, something didn’t feel right, I did research and realized he had Narc. tendencies (inflated sense of entitlement, inability to empathize, constant need for attention, always turning things around on me, changing the subject when I brought up how he hurt me, caught him in little lies, his needs always came first, never really trusted him, ect) I ignored it for a while (probably bc we were long distance so he wasn’t close enough to devalue and discard me) and then came my breaking point.
We broke up in Feb. and I saw him when he came into town in May and had a few good nights together. On a Sat. night I went out with my friends and he went out with his and after not hearing from him, I called him at his hotel at 3:00am and he answered and when he heard my voice he said “let me call you back” I said no, and he said it again and hung up on me. I called back the hotel and he didn’t answer. He finally called me two hours later and I was sleeping. I called him in the am and freaked on him and you know what he said to me?... that he was there with his guy friend and a girl they met and he was drunk and should have spoken to me but didn’t and that he was sorry and that he didn’t do anything with that other woman. He further tried to distort the truth and ask if I heard the music playing in the background. He totally was trying to distort the reality, I know what I heard when he answered, it was dead silent. Even if I believed that BS story that his guy friend was there, he should have excused himself to call me. He swore that nothing happened with the girl but his story doesn’t add up and fine, let’s say nothing happened with her- it was important to him to act as the single cool guy than to talk to me. A GUY THAT CARES ABOUT YOU DOES NOT DO THAT TO YOU.
That was the final straw and I am done. EVEN ON HIS BEST DAY HE WAS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.

Nov 11 - 12PM
quietude (not verified)
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trueblue

Gotcha, didn't realize it's been posted before.
Nov 11 - 11AM
time_to_move_on
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there was no real definining moment...

I think I posted this elsewhere. But it was about him having a go because I was being too upbeat talking to another guy. My ex had left me for 3 mths after my mother died. I'd cared for her through terminal cancer. The day after she died he'd threatened to throw a stereo at my head in the middle of a row. Not long after that we then split up for 3 mths as I was sick of him and would not go round and talk "about us". I had him back!! Then he moved in, and I was just tired, tired of his rubbish. His constant going on. I'd spent 3 mths grieving, feeling isolated as I was in a city where I didn't have a job/no support network really apart from one close friend. He knew all this, and he treated me the way he did. 3 mths later, he came back, saying all his fault, blah, blah. And then I could not bear the sound of him anymore. He went on about his own life, cried yet again, while all the time emailing his ex. Then had the nerve to have a go at me for being "too upbeat" when someone asked how I was doing, and why wasn't I like that with him? Hmmm? So glad to be free.
Nov 11 - 11AM
trueblue101
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Quietude, this is for you...

Quietude, I started a new thread similar to yours a few months back. Please take a look at people's responses. I get so sick rereading my own post.....
Jul 11 - 12PM
Carolyn
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They create so much distrust

They create so much distrust and problems. they have no impulse control and find lying much easier than just not creating the problem. It's like 'the dog ate my homework' he met a girl and took her back to the hotel and just made problems. anyone who lacks judgement, common sense, loyalty, and respect doesn't deserve you.
Jul 10 - 11PM
Marie
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Last straw

OMG have so many to list! Maybe when I found away messages to a woman he was involved with before me, that left her husband for him only to have him dump her. He left I love you away messages online begging her to contact him night after night. Then figuring out he was IMing with another woman night after night while talking with me. Being at another woman's house every night I was away on vacation. All the broken promises, passive aggressive bs, lying, cheating, keeping the lie that he loved me going even though it was so obvious it was a load of bs, I could go on and on about all the things he's done the emotional damage he's caused but sometimes I just get tired of thinking about it. I'm glad all the drama has been over and have not heard from him in over two weeks!
Jul 10 - 6PM
liselotte
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insulting friends and humiliating me

Insulting friends and humiliating me in front of his colleagues... and then saying: "the Dutch always brag about freedom of speech, but when you tell someone the truth they are offended"... This is when I left.
Jul 10 - 4PM
Jodie
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I'm not sure if the last

I'm not sure if the last straw was when he tried to sleep with a close friend or when my best friend tragically died and I just found out and was crying on the floor as he called his buddy to find out if they were still going to the gym...or maybe the last straw was when I had surgery and fainted outside the hospital and he was screaming "What are you DOING?? GET UP and walk to the car!"...... Perhaps the last straw was when he said if I told his parents he did coke he would chop me up and throw me in the dumpster....or the time he said he hoped I got raped. Ahhhh no the final straw was after I broke a case in the house and he tackled me, held me in submission moves for an hour and threatened to "put me to sleep." yes, that was the final straw..... "Cry now because you lost him or cry later because you have him."

"Cry now because you lost him or cry later because you have him."

Jul 10 - 9PM (Reply to #12)
Barbara (not verified)
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the last straw

the last straw with exNH was I was bleeding out for 4 months straight after giving birth and one night he went out to his normal meeting with his "club." The next day one of the members (an older man) called and asked how I was. Then politely said "Pardon me but - WHAT THE HELL is exNH doing at meetings when he's got a sick wife at home who just gave birth?" I said I really didn't know that he should ask exNH that. Then I said something and including the words "..my disability.." The guy was stunned he said - "wait, you're disabled?" I said "yes I was diagnosed 2 years ago." He said, "ExNH talks about you like you are healthy but lazy... we all had no idea." I called a lawyer the next day.
Jul 10 - 2PM
GhostBuster
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My last straw...

When he told me I was mentally ill (projection) and he hoped my dog would die soon. He got tossed out the door...with my engagement ring in his clutches.
Jul 10 - 1PM
jenn99 (not verified)
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...

The N has expressed his unconditional love many times….all while juggling different women, and finally admits to doing that but claims he ‘doesn’t do that anymore’…claims im the ‘love of his life’ and that he ‘calls from other women’s places’…hasn’t’ visited or seen me in over a week and claimed he was sick for ‘4th of july weekend’ but im sure he was with someone… won’t see me while im on my period b/c im ‘no use to him and no good to him’….in order to see him I have to pay him 100.00...which of course won’t happen… All this after proposing and asking me to marry him while drunk and completely made himself look like scum was obnoxious and crazy..jealous wouldn'tlet me even talk to a guy as a friend, but while he's cheating he says to "go get with a guy and do sexual acts with him"..…lifting my dress up during a photoshoot so everyone could see, where he treated me like garbage, along with 100's of things and claims if he wants to lift my skirt up in front of people he can and i cant say anything abt it..…now claims he may come to see me b/c he has to see his ‘doctor’ who I think he does ‘sexual things’ with as well… so he can get two birds with one stone… claims if i want to be with him i have to accept being degraded and that's all he's going to do and i have to shut my mouth and 'do what he says'..anyway expressed to him we’re not in a relationship and are just friends if anything…and ppl in relationships see each other without condition…im looking for someone else..his rseponse was ‘he’s wasting his time is going to get a real girl and not a whacko’.. and he claims that no matter what im going to be his sub….so I said I was his sub but not his gf….
Jul 9 - 4PM
better off
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Ummm...when I found out he

Ummm...when I found out he secretly was involved with another woman that I know on the internet...a friend I thought. I don't know how involved they were...but the fact that it was a secret from me is pretty much all I need to know. And suddenly all the walls came crashing down that he really had played me all along, that I really wasn't "special." (And there surely wasn't anything special about this girl...I've also seen him flirting with another girl who I can't fathom why he'd be interested in, knowing him as well as I do. But, as Barbara would say, she has a pulse.)
Jul 8 - 9PM
devoured_soul (not verified)
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My final straw was a lie, a

My final straw was a lie, a story that just "didn't add up". There were soooooo many of those. Good for you! You are right...HE IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU! The comments like, "I didn't do anything" scream guilt. I heard that so many times and all it did was tell me he actually did do something. An innocent, normal person doesn't spout off with something like that. It was his guilt.
Jul 8 - 9PM (Reply to #2)
James (not verified)
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Final Straw?

Easy, When I saw how her needs came before her own children needs. As a parent this was unacceptable.
Jul 9 - 6AM (Reply to #3)
Scoop
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Easy . i went for him for

Easy . i went for him for comfort the day i found out my mum had lung cancer and that evening he dumped me for the 3rd time . To be honest im still speechless but yesterday he sent me an email saying he still wants us to be friends .. so thats nice . ! Peru x
Jul 9 - 1PM (Reply to #4)
Barbara (not verified)
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friends?

I'd rather be friends with an ax-murder. Blech! http://www.heartless-bitches.com/rants/manipulator/eighteasyways.shtml "want to be friends" from a Narc is their way of saying - come on let me crap on you some more!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Free articles & information for abuse victims: http://abusesanctuary.blogspot.com Effective Coaching for Victims of Pathologicals http://one2one4victims.webs.com/
Jul 10 - 1PM (Reply to #5)
neveragain
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How Ironic

I just got an email from my ex-N out of the blue yesterday too. He said that he hoped I could find it in my heart to "forgive those who had caused me anguish and pain". Er, ah, "THOSE WHO".....now, who might THAT be???? What a dork. I will not be responding and I've set up my email so that everytime he emails, it forwards right back to him. My final straw was (well, there were many) him hanging up on me while I was calmly asking him to say something comforting to me. He screamed, "You've ruined my night!" and slammed the phone down. I called him the next day and he never called me again....until AFTER my daughters' wedding (two MONTHS later). This was the wedding that I had BEGGED him to help me put on....NOT PAY FOR (I told him I'd PAY FOR EVERYTHING) but just be there for me and help with all the tasks involved. HE DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE THE DRIVE. He said it would be too hard on his back. neveragain
Jul 10 - 4PM (Reply to #6)
Barbara (not verified)
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neveragain

please forgive me... so I can come around and crap on you again when I feel like it http://narcissists-suck.blogspot.com/2008/02/testing-for-repentance.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Free articles & information for abuse victims: http://abusesanctuary.blogspot.com Effective Coaching for Victims of Pathologicals http://one2one4victims.webs.com/
Jul 11 - 2PM (Reply to #7)
neveragain
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WOW, Barbara

What a GREAT article. Thanks so much for the link. It's facsinating to see and read all about the way N's work their victims. I am learning so much. Maybe some day I'll feel like I'm not a victim anymore. Thanks, neveragain