QUOTE (scranton temp liz @ May 31 2008, 12:10 PM)

guess who got a call at 6:30 am today on day 6. Here's how this went down...
Nick, "hello hunny"
Me, "where the he11 have you been that you can't bother to call me for a week?"
Nick, "I've been taking care of me, for once I'm doing everything for me and if people don't like it, sorry, but I'm focused on me"
Me, "Well you must have been talking to someone else or what ever cause you haven't bothered with me in a week"
nick" No, just me, mom, dad, and my daugther and I'm going back into my place by monday, I'm feeling so much better"
me, "yeah really how are you feeling" He didn't get the double meaning behind the tone of my voice
Nick, "I'm good"
Me, "you can't call, message me you just do this?"
Nick, "I've deleted anything you've sent me over the last few weeks, I don't want to see how mad you are cause I'm getting better and I'm doing this for you"
Me, "whats this surprise"
Nick,"It's for you, for us"
Me, "have you been seeing someone else at all, have you fallen in love with anyone else, because you should just tell me"
Nick "No. Why do you ask me that? It's you. You are it and I love you. Listen to me I love you okay. Hun, you don't have to worry.
Me, " you don't act like it"
Nick, "I'm going to call you later okay, I need to go. But hunny it's always you, don't forget that okay, I love you.
I didn't get to ask him all my other questions and I'm not sure how to take that cause part of me was really still ticked off and part of me just sank into that glow of lovely dovey mushy love. But it's nice to know he's totally thinking of himself right. I know he's had a surgey and he had a bad time of it, but I'm supposed to be his finacee right? So it's nice to know that cutting me out of his life is normal. true I didn't go chase him on this but I always chase him and I get taken advantage of when I do.
I want my happy ending!
Becca, I haven't chimed in on this for a while, but I have to here. You are not going to get your happy ending with this man. The bolded parts of your post really stood out as the reasons why:
Bolded Text 1: Who the hel! calls at 6:30
a.m.?!? Every time you mention he calls, the times are always at the most insane hours possible. Your sleep patterns are majorly screwed up, mostly because he selfishly calls whenever he wants, at times that should be reserved for emergencies only. You know why? Because he doesn't want anyone else to hear that he is calling you. And he's checking on you (NOT in a good way). For someone who claims to love you, his calling at these times and destroying your rest shows a gross disregard for your health and well-being.
(Toxic relationship: 3 Good relationship: 0)
Bolded Text 2: So, he's taking care of himself, is he? And if "people" (does he mean you, or are there other folks that he has shut out of his life during this time as well) don't like it, they can go soak their heads? This is a man who ALWAYS takes care of himself, and for the past several years he's had
you as a willing slave to massage him and dote on him and worship him. About the time you start to wake up from the bliss, and ask "what is in this for me, by the way?" he completely cuts you off and doesn't communicate with you? Sure, he's had surgery. I've had the same surgery. If there were someone I loved out there, there is not one single thing about said surgery that would keep me from keeping in contact with them. Sure, he isn't up to running a marathon right now, but his cutting you off seems a lot more like teaching you a lesson about questioning his hedonistic ways.
(Toxic relationship: 6 Good relationship: 0)
Bolded Text 3: He has deleted and ignored everything you sent him over the past few weeks? Really?!?!? Let me think, are these the same weeks that you had a major falling out with your mom and crashed in despair? Are they the same weeks that you suffered major problems with your back and ended up in the hospital yourself? Are they the same weeks that your pain-in-the-neck brother was there, tormenting you to the point of insanity? A casual acquaintance would have been there for you, but this man who "loves" you ignores and deletes messages from you? Of course they were increasingly hostile messages - he is a complete coward. And it seems that all he has offered you to make up for this spinelessness is this vague promise that in a few weeks he's going to do something magical for you. Oh, a promise he made in the whacko hours when his mom and daughter were asleep and couldn't overhear him. Becca, I'm sorry, but as soon as these two women get wind of the fact that he's planning something with you, they'll do something to stop it. And he'll let this happen. And you'll have a choice. Do you just take it again, for the millionth time? Or do you decide that you are so much better than this? We think you're dazzling. And it is so much better to be alone than lonely.
(Toxic relationship: 15 - or more! Good relationship: 0)
Bolded Text 4: As soon as he realizes that you aren't going to melt into a pile of goo at this craptastic phone call that he deigned to give you, he scuttles away again, to continue hiding at his mother's house. The conversation was getting out of his control, so he ended it. Sure, you might hear from him again today, after everyone else is out of the house. Or you might not. You aren't a person he feels an obligation to keep promises with. He just expects you to be there, whenever he snaps his fingers.
(Toxic relationship: 20 - at least! Good relationship: 0)
I'm so sorry to say this, but unless he gets a brain replacement surgery, I can't see that he'll ever value you the way you deserve. Sammy said it so well a few days ago - he gives you THINGS because that is a lot easier than giving of himself. In these times of trouble - for you and him - he completely abandoned you. The only blessing is that you never had children with this man, because then you wouldn't have the freedom to move on without looking back. There is nothing tying you to him but your love - which was very real, and some memories of plans you two were supposed to be making together.
Over the past few weeks, you have proven yourself to be so strong - looking for jobs, not chasing after him. You have the incredible power now that you know you can survive without him.
And I'm sorry about this long post - I've been trying to stop being the Queen of Meddlers, but your post just put me over the edge. The man is a menace, and he's hurting someone I consider a friend - and, in the words of Veebs, OH, MB, Sammy, and everyone else here, you deserve better!