She Just Found Out That The Guy She Has Been Dating Printed Out Photos Of Her From Social Media And Framed Them Around His House
A 22-year-old woman has been dating a 24-year-old guy named Steve, and she got to chatting with Steve after he sent her a message on social media that was, well, random.
She didn’t know Steve and had never met him in real life, but she figured the message was harmless.
But then, Steve began sending her multiple messages every couple of months, and he blocked her right after the message got delivered.
Steve kept doing this again and again, and then this February, Steve sent her a message that included his phone number before blocking her one more time.
“I decided to text him thinking I’d just troll him and move on with my life,” she explained. “However, we texted for months and got super deep and got to know each other to the point where we both decided to grab coffee and meet in person in May.”
Right after that date, Steve asked if they could be boyfriend and girlfriend, but she was not exactly keen on this idea.
She had learned that Steve isn’t going to college and also does not hold down a job, and that made her pause and think that he doesn’t exactly have his life in order.
Although she wasn’t ready to jump into a relationship with Steve, she wanted to keep talking to him. As she did, she realized he was very nice and that only made her like Steve more than she had before.
Steve also asked her out on another date, and she said yes. She asked Steve to drive to her house to get her for their date, and she figured it wasn’t a problem to give Steve her address.
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Steve seemed safe, he seemed like a regular guy, and he seemed like someone who would not jeopardize her safety.
She let Steve know that she would be ready at 6 p.m. for their date, but when 2 in the afternoon came, she noticed Steve was parked in his car directly by her house.
She wondered if Steve had some errands to run, and never thought about him being outside her house hours early again.
So far, she has been on 3 dates with Steve over the last 2 weeks and still thinks that he’s a very kind man, but a couple of hours ago he did something that really made her skin crawl.
“Today, he sent me 2 photos of my old profile pictures framed,” she explained. “I thought it was super weird…I look at it longer and realize he put a fake smile on me in picture 1 and smoothed my skin and made my eyes look huge in the 2nd picture.”
“It creeped me out and I told him to take those photos down and that it was weird that he’d done that. Especially framing photos of me? After only knowing me for 1 month? And not even my original photos??? He had to alter my pictures to his idealized version of ME??”
She likes Steve, though more like a friend at this rate, and she’s not sure how to tell him this or if she even should.
She’s worried about hurting Steve’s feelings, but she’s also worried about leading him on.
“I don’t want to end things because he’s been really vulnerable with me in saying that he doesn’t have any friends and that he’s an only child,” she said.
“I feel like I’m the only person in his life right now and I don’t want to mess things up and cause him any pain whatsoever.”
How do you think she should handle Steve from here on out?
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