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Is he emotionally manipulative? (Help its my first relationship-im 23 years old)

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    j9west077
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    1) Said he had 5 ex gfs and he allowed all of them to break it off with him rather than him doing the dumping-he’s 26 years old.

    2) Gives the silent treatment for days.

    3) when I apologise for my wrongdoings (even though I haven’t done anything wrong), he just replies “right”. I usually apologise when he gives the silent treatment because I think i’ve done something.

    4) When I know I’m right about something and other people have said Im in the right, he would disagree and say “I don’t like people who are narrow-minded. You are speaking nonsense. Your thoughts are nonsensical. It’s all in your head.”

    5) On the first date, he talked about his exes and said he admitted himself to mental health services because of what one of them did to him-that relationship was only 7 months. I thought he was trying to gain my sympathy?

    6) He always complains women are fickle and don’t know what they want. He also makes fun of my mixed ethnicity.

    7) Made a joke about me needing to lose weight and goes on about how pretty or hot other women are in front of me.

    8) When I call him out on something, he says “hey you’ve forgotten stuff about me and I don’t complain.” He’s also said he never liked me in the first place but he still asked me out? and also my friends said it was clear he was showing signs of interest.

    9) Whenever I want to leave, he says “I don’t deserve anybody.”

    10) When I have made plans to meet with him in the past, I end up waiting 2 hrs for him. He didn’t even apologise

    11) He said that he never mentioned he was “the one” when in the past he did.

    #19430

    He doesn’t sound like he is very respectful or that he likes you very much. When a guy is really into you, he’ll be nice to you and not make fun of your weight or your ethnicity. 😯 Leaving you waiting for 2 hours is very selfish. I think you can do better with someone else. 😉 Trust your instincts. 😀 (Next!)

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    j9west077
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    Thank you. I did feel like he was a bit “weird” and “off,” especially when he said he admitted himself to a mental health service after his ex broke up with him on our first date (7 month relationship). I was wondering whether if revealing that much personal information, he was trying to make me feel sorry for him?

    #18344

    I’m not sure why he told you that, especially on a first date. It could be his way of letting you know that if you hurt him in some way, you’re going to be victimizing him, which is sort of manipulative and a sign that he’s not really ready for a relationship. Everyone knows that relationships don’t come with insurance and sometimes they work; sometimes they don’t. There’s love and there’s hurt, and that’s just the way the world works. What’s more important is that [b]you[/b] have enough reasonable doubts about this relationship and him to be able to list them numerically and write me — very early on in the relationship — and that’s your cue that this isn’t right, and you should move on. Don’t waste time with someone you’re this sure has so many incompatibilities with you. It’s much kinder for you and for him, if you recognize the incompatibilities and move on. You have very good instincts. Learn to trust them.

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