My ex really needs to disappear from my life. There, I've decided it.
Seriously... just disappear. Stop texting me out of the blue wanting to make chit-chat and then suddenly go cold. Why? because I'm forcing myself to be warm to you (which itself is incomprehensible WTF). I am really starting not to care anymore.
ETA: I don't know why I feel this need to be nice to him. I think it's because for so long he accused me of being cold and heartless, so for a long time, I went into overdrive to be thoughtful about my words with him. Turns out he was quite the emotional manipulator. That bastard
These days, I still occasionally fall into the same patterns: he'll hit me up excitedly, I'll be lukewarm, and then when I realize he's being lukewarm back, I'll try to come off as more excited or participative... and it's just... not something I need to be doing anymore
Had a few conversations with my mother and a close friend and concluded that I don't need him in my life. He is adding no value whatsoever at the moment. Like, none. My friend questioned why I felt the need to be accommodating to him... allowing us to occasionally meet up when we're in each others' towns. My only answer was:
well, that's been the norm forever
But that was then... and this is now. Why meet up? To catch up? I could learn all these "updates" on Facebook anyway... and really, they add NO value to my life, nor to my interaction with him.
My friend and mother asked me how fulfilling these catch-up sessions were. Frankly, they aren't at all. We sit in a restaurant or drive around and babble about nothing, and then he gives me some sentimental hug, and we part ways. And he doesn't even pay!
... Yeah, NO VALUE WHATSOEVER.
I am especially annoyed because recently last time he was in town, he requested and expressed excitement about hanging out, then casually mentioned he might not be able to make it. It's like uh, ok, I am blocking time out of my schedule at your request, which I didn't even want to do, and you cancel so casually (granted, I'd given many cues that I didn't want to meet)? OK.
Yes, there isn't really a place for him in my life... and I don't care to create one. I've held on to this dude and allowed him to hold on to me for so long, and I feel like he's trying to keep me around to either monitor my moving-on process, or try to potentially work his way back into my heart.
NOT happening. I have decided, and it is FINAL, that I do not want to date nor marry him. My heart has (almost entirely) closed off to him, and I like it that way.
I really need to just be blunt and just say that I don't really care to meet up.