She’s Convinced She Dated A Psychopath When She Found Out After Breaking Up With Her Boyfriend That He Spent Months Building Up A Fake Persona He Knew She’d Like
Have you ever entered a relationship with someone who didn’t show their true colors or red flags until a few months in?
One woman remembers a guy she dated in high school who seemed to get worse after every month they dated.
She met him during her freshman year of high school. The first day she saw him, she spotted him talking to her ex in gym class and noticed that he seemed uncomfortable. She asked him if he wanted to walk laps with her that day, and he happily said yes.
On their walk, he began trash-talking her ex, which she didn’t mind because her ex was not a great guy. After a few days of flirting and talking, she decided to ask him out.
They officially started dating, and the first few months of their relationship went pretty well. There were a few things that were “off” about him, like how he was often rude to teachers and other students at school.
He would also often complain about the house he lived in, but when she visited his place for the first time, she noticed it was one of the nicest houses in town. She chose to ignore this behavior for a while.
Then, things progressively worse, and her boyfriend’s actions became harder to ignore.
For instance, at one point, his family was struggling financially, so she found a way to raise money for them. Despite her efforts, he didn’t seem to care and wasn’t very thankful.
“In the last few months of dating, he treated me like I was stupid,” she said.
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“I was giving him a month to fix his behavior. The final straw was him not caring about my grandma’s death, then getting mad at me for being upset. I dumped him a week later.”
After dumping him, her ex-boyfriend showed up at her house unexpectedly to demand back a hoodie he had given her. She didn’t know where it was because her mom had cleaned up around the house. Her dad eventually had to intervene and tell him they couldn’t find the hoodie.
Her ex-boyfriend continued to act out. He would get angry at her for not answering his text messages, spread rumors about her being a cheater who treated him poorly, and started body-shaming her.
Then, she learned something about her ex that shocked her. She found out that the summer before they met, he knew he wanted to date her, so he spent months building up a fake persona he knew she’d like. He spoke to their mutual friends to find out what she was into and put on a facade so she’d be into him.
She got really freaked out when a mutual friend remembered her ex telling them he didn’t feel empathy for anyone. That convinced her that something was seriously wrong with this guy, and she couldn’t believe she had been with him for seven months.
Did you ever have an ex-partner who behaved like this?
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