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In a relationship while wanting something better

blatinoking

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I need your help guys......I'm in a relationship, but I'm no longer interested. He's a good friend. But he's still madly attracted to me, and I don't feel the same about him. I want to date other guys and meet other people, but I don't want to hurt him. I've shared these thoughts with him and he just won't let go, and at the same time I don't like to be the cause of another's pain, so I just stick around although I want out of it....what should I do? This guy has like a 6th sense and can tell when I've talked to other guys that I like or likes me and gives me hell.......oh and by the way we live together.
 
true.......the main problem is me not really wanting to hurt a good guy who's always getting hurt. the relationship basically started with him sharing his feelings with me. He said he was "in love" with me, but we had only known each other for maybe 3 or 4 weeks. I told him the feelings weren't mutual, he broke down, cried, and gave me his stories of how he's always getting hurt. The following month he kept calling me telling me how much he's hurt and how he's depressed. To make a long story short, I finally gave in and agreed to get into a relationship with him. I know, I SUCK!
 
wow. sounds like we bagged the clingy/emotional guy.

just ditch him. before his whiny attitude makes you want to kill him in his sleep.

dont worry bout him. worst case scenario, he off's himself. and you know....thats like beyond your control if sombody is mentally destructive.


So True.......I would feel like it was my fault
 
The best and only way is, u have to tell him what the true feeling of you to him. U said that you don't hurt him, but your heart has gone with others, from this point,it is unfair for the guy who loves you much!

It's good to find a right way face-to-face that poor guy, ok?! I wish u guys have a good,right relationship soon. Good luck!
 
It is clear that you still care for your ex-partner, and in that light, I would encourage you to move.

Emotionally you have broken away from him, but until you are no longer living with him, your lives will be entangled and you can only become more frustrated over time. Feelings will be hurt more if you stay.

Good luck, regardless of how you handle the situation.
 
My 1st real relationship was like that. I was 19 and he was 24. I really loved him as a person and would die if he ever felt hurt. I could not imagine being the one to hurt him. we dated about 3 years and one day i fell in love with my best friends boyfriend. He was a awful guy and very careless of people's feelings.He was 18 and just quitting high school. what was i thinking?! But i wasn't thinking. My bf caught us in bed together and it devestated him. He never dated woman but started after that cause he was so hurt. I felt like shit!!! it only made it worse that i spent the next 7 years with this guy in my life as my ex stuck around waiting listening to me crying over this guys constant cheating. My ex was bitter and angry the whole time! i tried to stay his friend and we even moved back in together as friends but soon i felt bad and started sleeping with him. so now i was cheating on my new boyfriend with the same guy i had left for the new guy. it was confusing! they even got into a fist fight and my new bf was more butch shall i say and could take care of himself so i worried more about my ex getting hurt and that made my new bf pissed off.It all ended really badly. I left them both and they both caught HIV!!! But i could not watch over them forever. So moral of this fucked up story is GET OUT! you WILL fall in love while with him with some other guy and it WILL get ugly. Finish this relationship up and move on. Break off all ties with your bf no matter how hard it will be. You will hurt him less now than making him sit around waiting and watching you date and fall in love with other guys. Don't do that to him.
 
blatinoking ...

You say you don't want to hurt him, but in fact you are hurting yourself by denying yourself a true loving relationship AND you're hurting him by providing him a lover that is not what he believes.

The sooner you get out of this situation, the faster you both can heal. COMMUNICATON is so underutilized, so don't fall victim to the lack of it!
 
All of you make great points..........RicanDAB, I've told him my feelings and he just wouldn't accept it and couldn't let go, but the problem is we are living together....he's basically become more of a "mentor" giving me advice about life and stuff, he's 34 I'm 23 so he feels like a big brother, but still wants to be a lover. BlueDragon4, I can definetly see that happening and he has a terribly violent temper.
 
You have to get out of this for several reasons, man.

First and foremost, you don't love him nor do you want to be in a relationship with him. Breaking up is going to hurt him, there is no way around it. But you are hurting yourself and setting both of you up for a much harder fall the longer you avoid it.

Second, he knows you want out. Combine this with that he manipulated you to get into the relationship, probably manipulated you to move in, and you have a relationship that is based prinicpally on will power and not on actual feelings, chemistry or a connection. He is continuing to manipulate you by forcing this dead/dying relationship to exist and it's now just a sham. He knows you have a conscience, and that he can use your desire to be a decent person and not hurt him to get what he wants from you. He is holding you accountable for his happiness, which is a common problem in relationships, but is a destructive behavior pattern. It's not your job to make him happy or to fix him or something in his life. To do so is to ask something of you you cannot deliver, and therefore sets you up for failure. This is a power game, and you're the victim. Tricks are for kids, get the fuck out.

Third, he's too old not to know better, and you shouldn't have to teach him how to have a relationship like a grown up. Try dating a grown up instead.

Fourth, breaking up is a decisive action, not a democratic one. This is a life lesson you both need to learn.

You are being used, and have been since day one of this "relationship." It's time to stop.



Damn Sir.............you must have been in my shoes
 
Here's my advice. Get someone to help you through this. A counsellor.

Because you are going to feel extremely guilty and bad for breaking up with him. And when that stuff hits, you are going to be REALLY confused (Does my guilt mean I am being a bad person and should not break up with him? What does it mean?)

One thing I've learned in life is to feel the feeling and do it anyway. So I feel the guilt, acknowledge it, and then do what's logically best for me anyhow. But I don't do it without a support system of some sort. In your case, I'd recommend therapy. Good luck!
 
Here's my advice. Get someone to help you through this. A counsellor.

Because you are going to feel extremely guilty and bad for breaking up with him. And when that stuff hits, you are going to be REALLY confused (Does my guilt mean I am being a bad person and should not break up with him? What does it mean?)

One thing I've learned in life is to feel the feeling and do it anyway. So I feel the guilt, acknowledge it, and then do what's logically best for me anyhow. But I don't do it without a support system of some sort. In your case, I'd recommend therapy. Good luck!
I don't understand why he would need therapy? Do you mean his bf?
 
I don't understand why he would need therapy? Do you mean his bf?
I think he needs therapy because the only reason he got into this relationship in the first place is because he felt sorry for this guy and guilty for not being in love with him. So he started a relationship out of guilt.

And then this:
I want to date other guys and meet other people, but I don't want to hurt him. I've shared these thoughts with him and he just won't let go, and at the same time I don't like to be the cause of another's pain, so I just stick around although I want out of it....
Now he can't leave because he doesn't want to feel responsible for his bf being in pain when he leaves. If he does try to leave without any support, I'm willing to bet he will last about 24 hours before the guilt drives him back to his bf.

I think he needs a lot of help with this situation, more than we can offer in a forum like this.
 
The longer you stay there, the more hurt it will cause him. Distance yourself from him if you really have no more feelings for him. I can tell that you're a very sensitive person because you feel guilty hurting him and that's a sign that you really do care for him. That's normal, why would one want to erase all the love they have shared just because they can't be together anymore? Just know that by telling him the truth, you are setting the both of you free and in the end, it will be for the best of the both of you. I know this might be besides the point - my ex did get back with his ex because they were living together. So, maybe you might also want to carefully look at your own situation and reassess your feelings for him.
 
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