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Don't know what to do about these 2 guys.....

Hey,

Ok well I'm at uni at the moment. Broke up with my bf of 5 years at the end of january. A couple of days after I got together (just kissing) with a bloke.....this happened twice within as many days (god i hope my ex never reads this). Anyway, the next day he left on a round the world trip for 6 months (I knew this was going to happen before I got together with him). Now, don't get me wrong I really liked him and stuff, so I'm not convinced that it was rebound or anything, and i don't regret it now, but I don't know how these things work so I suppose it could have been. Anyway, for the first few months of him being away we kept in touch loads, email, texts and he wrote me about 7 letters. I found it really hard to cope for the first few weeks when he was away, although I knew we weren't really together or anything, it was just odd, and I really really liked him. However for the past 6 weeks or so the contact has been very much reduced, however any texts i get from him always say 'loads of love' or 'loadsa love' at the end- which only happened after we got together and not before (I knew him from my Christmas job)

In the meantime, there is another guy that I really like at uni. I have known him more or less for the whole of my first year, and we've always got on really well and everything, and I got through on and off phases of really liking him. Well, I saw him the other weekend (with a group of people not a date or anything) and all those feelings came flooding back. I'm not sure if he likes me back or not....but I've been round to his a few times for coffee and stuff- nothing's happened btw.

Anyway, I really don't know what to do. I kind of feel I owe it to the travelling guy to wait until he gets back and see if anything happens- but we didn't make an agreement or anything, well, only to keep in touch.....which implies just as friends. My feelings for the travelling guy also aren't as strong as they were I don't think, although this could just be cos we aren't in contact as much. But I really really like the guy at uni, and I think about him a lot, and part of me wants to say something to him before we go home for the summer. But then I feel guilty and get worried in case travelling guy gets back and expects us to be together, and I do still like him I think....

Just wondered if anyone had any advice really about what I should do, I know ultimately it's my decision, but all these things keep going over and over in my head and I just can't seem to make and sense of them...

Ruthie xx

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Reply 1

It's hard having a long-distance relationship like that. The chances are that you will drift apart. It sounds like what you had is already starting to wear off, as you say he is contacting you less etc. Also you said you were only together for a short period of time. In order for a relationship to last in such circumstances it would have to be really solid to start with.
So, i wouldn't have thought that he would expect you to wait for him, or to be waiting when he gets back. If you are single when he gets back, then obviously there will be something there still and you could probably pick up the romance where it left off.
I say go with the flow. If something happens with this other guy at uni, let it happen. Don't think about it or analyse it so much, just let your heart decide :smile: Obviously you will still have feelings for the other guy, but they are already fading.
Spend time with the other guy on a more one-on-one kind of level, as you only know him as a friend, and take it from there.
Hope it all works out ok, luv lil_crazyflakes :biggrin:

Reply 2

lil_crazyflakes
It's hard having a long-distance relationship like that. The chances are that you will drift apart. It sounds like what you had is already starting to wear off, as you say he is contacting you less etc. Also you said you were only together for a short period of time. In order for a relationship to last in such circumstances it would have to be really solid to start with.
So, i wouldn't have thought that he would expect you to wait for him, or to be waiting when he gets back. If you are single when he gets back, then obviously there will be something there still and you could probably pick up the romance where it left off.
I say go with the flow. If something happens with this other guy at uni, let it happen. Don't think about it or analyse it so much, just let your heart decide :smile: Obviously you will still have feelings for the other guy, but they are already fading.
Spend time with the other guy on a more one-on-one kind of level, as you only know him as a friend, and take it from there.
Hope it all works out ok, luv lil_crazyflakes :biggrin:


Thanks lil_crazyflakes :smile: I mean we never agreed to have a relationship, or to wait for each other or anything....and he could have met lots of nice girls on his travels...

The uni guy is really shy so I think I'd have to make the first move, which I'm kind of reluctant to do in case he doesn't feel the same....

Ruthie xx

Reply 3

ruthiepoothie
Thanks lil_crazyflakes :smile: I mean we never agreed to have a relationship, or to wait for each other or anything....and he could have met lots of nice girls on his travels...

The uni guy is really shy so I think I'd have to make the first move, which I'm kind of reluctant to do in case he doesn't feel the same....

Ruthie xx


Yeh, being away so long, he will probably find people. As i said, if at the end of his travells you both haven't moved on you can always get it back anyway so no harm done. I think you missed him so much because anyone yu get attached to in that kind of way you would miss if they went; just because it's what you are used to and you miss them being around.

Invite the uni guy out for a drink, or coffee or something. Or a leisure kind of thing you both enjoy doing. Make sure it's just the two of you though, then you will be able to guage how he feels about you in 'that way' :smile:

Reply 4

I say go with guy number 2. To be perfectly frank I doubt traveller man is waiting. If you'd been together a while and sat down to discuss it before he left then perhaps. But it's such a long time and like you said things are already fading slightly. See how you get on with guy 2 is my advice! :smile:

Reply 5

If I were you, I'd ask the uni guy for a coffee/drink/whatever and see what happens. It's nearly the end of term anyway, so you've got nothing to lose, and it sounds like you like him a lot. You're already friends which is fantastic - and you can see how things go from there :wink:
You and the travelling guy didn't make any promises to each other. If nothing materalises with the uni guy then maybe the travelling guy will be back in the picture when he gets back - but I don't think he'd begrudge you having found somebody else in the meantime when between you and him it was just kissing rather than a committed relationship. Travelling changes your perspective on a lot of things and I should think he'd want you to share the same freedom.
[Sorry if this rambles, I've had so very little sleep...]

Reply 6

englishstudent
I say go with guy number 2. To be perfectly frank I doubt traveller man is waiting. If you'd been together a while and sat down to discuss it before he left then perhaps. But it's such a long time and like you said things are already fading slightly. See how you get on with guy 2 is my advice! :smile:


Yeah what you say makes a lot of sense :smile:

Perhaps, I'll see if he wants to meet up for a coffee something this weekend....(he has exams all this week).....

Suppose it's not really that hard to just say to traveller guy when he gets back that I don't feel the same way anymore....

Ruthie xx

Reply 7

dazednconfused
.....You and the travelling guy didn't make any promises to each other. If nothing materalises with the uni guy then maybe the travelling guy will be back in the picture when he gets back - but I don't think he'd begrudge you having found somebody else in the meantime when between you and him it was just kissing rather than a committed relationship. Travelling changes your perspective on a lot of things and I should think he'd want you to share the same freedom.......


I think you're right, and if it was just a random bloke I wouldn't be fretting this much, I think it's only cos I liked him so much and knew him already it seems more of a problem.

Anyway, hopefully i can still be friends with traveller guy whatever happens....so suppose I've gained a friend out of all of this if nothing else :smile:

Ruthie xx

Reply 8

Yeah he is right,it's great that you're frinds already because you already have something to base a relationship on, and you already know you get on :smile:

Reply 9

lil_crazyflakes
Yeah he is right,it's great that you're frinds already because you already have something to base a relationship on, and you already know you get on :smile:


But what if he doesn't feel the same and I ruin the friendship :frown:

Ruthie xx

Reply 10

ruthiepoothie
But what if he doesn't feel the same and I ruin the friendship :frown:

Ruthie xx


That's why i said to see him in a neutral kind of environment. Then you won't scare him off, but if he feels the same way, you will be able to tell as it's just the two of you. Just don't come on too strong, guage how he feels about you from how he acts. :smile:

Reply 11

lil_crazyflakes
That's why i said to see him in a neutral kind of environment. Then you won't scare him off, but if he feels the same way, you will be able to tell as it's just the two of you. Just don't come on too strong, guage how he feels about you from how he acts. :smile:


I would say from having been in a just the two of us several times before ,that he likes me, i mean he finds stuff i say funny and sometimes winks at me and stuff....and if I ever give him a lift home he always invites me in for coffee...but he's really well mannered and stuff so he might be the same with all the girls...:confused:

Ruthie xx

Reply 12

Get him drunk and then pull him

MB

Reply 13

ruthiepoothie
I would say from having been in a just the two of us several times before ,that he likes me, i mean he finds stuff i say funny and sometimes winks at me and stuff....and if I ever give him a lift home he always invites me in for coffee...but he's really well mannered and stuff so he might be the same with all the girls...:confused:

Ruthie xx


Hmm,look at such body language. Watch him around in general, see if he is like this with other girls or just you. To me it sounds like he likes you. I'm sure it will become apparent. As soon as he sees you are potentially interested i think he will probably give off all the right signals. If he doesn't carry on being just good friends :biggrin:

Reply 14

musicboy
Get him drunk and then pull him

MB


:eek: Suppose that's one way of doing it lol......

But I would prefer him liking me to be actually true rather than through simple intoxication of alchoholic substances!!

Thanks for your input though, oh how i love your little comments :smile:

*hugs*

Ruthie xx

Reply 15

ruthiepoothie
:eek: Suppose that's one way of doing it lol......

But I would prefer him liking me to be actually true rather than through simple intoxication of alchoholic substances!!

Thanks for your input though, oh how i love your little comments :smile:

*hugs*

Ruthie xx


while a high level of alcohol might cause you to do things you don't mean to (normally passing out in strange places) low levels generally just make yu lose your inhibitions - he wouldn't be just doing it cos he was drunk.

MB

Reply 16

musicboy
while a high level of alcohol might cause you to do things you don't mean to (normally passing out in strange places) low levels generally just make yu lose your inhibitions - he wouldn't be just doing it cos he was drunk.

MB

It would be awkward though, because after you wouldn't know if it was him or the alcohol talking. Especially not on a first 'date' kind of thing x

Reply 17

musicboy
while a high level of alcohol might cause you to do things you don't mean to (normally passing out in strange places) low levels generally just make yu lose your inhibitions - he wouldn't be just doing it cos he was drunk.

MB


Hmmm.....perhaps i could lace his cofee with something.......:wink:

Ruthie xx

Reply 18

ruthiepoothie
Hmmm.....perhaps i could lace his cofee with something.......:wink:

Ruthie xx

:p: hehehe

Reply 19

this might have been said, but you should go for the other guy. you only kissed the guy that went out, you're not even going out. you shouldn't feel any guilt, and you shouldn't put your life on hold for a guy that might not even be interested when he gets back.