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A Friend In Need.

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  • punishing her is the last thing on his mind, he just wants to be with her as they are living apart.
    To Love Is To Be In Love. Play with Fire Expect To Get Burnt. A Relationship Is A Two Way Thing!
    Love is not something you make up and it has away of making you push your own boundaries, love always comes out on top.
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  • jellyhead
    jellyhead Posts: 21,555 Forumite
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    She say’s that she is sorry for what she had done and that she doesn’t want to lose him, she said that she would help him and be there for him but now she texts him very little and has come out with her phones stopped working and had to change it for her spare (which does not have a very good signal) and hasn’t text him all night. I’ve told him that if she really cared then she would at least got signal sometime or tried to find a signal so that she could text him. My friend is getting worse the longer this goes on and rather than him calming down all she is doing is making things worse for him.

    Maybe she's watching TV/a film, maybe she's in the bath, maybe she's having an early night?

    What does he expect her to do, go out into the street and use a payphone? It's late, does she have children in bed? Why the urgency, why can't he wait until she calls him tomorrow? When did he find out about this, today? I take it she didn't want him to stay over tonight. Maybe she needs some breathing space to decide whether she really wants to get back with him or not?
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  • jellyhead
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    carrying on from the old she agreed that what ever they done in that time they'd be answerable to but to him that doesn't matter, what does matter is that she said that she'd be there to help him and she hasn't helped him at all.

    Answereable to?

    why? They weren't together!

    She probably needs some space to consider whether she does actually agree that she should be 'answerable' for something like that, when she was on a break!

    either way, he needs to wait for her response in her own time. If her phone is broken and her signal's not good then there's nothing she can do about it, I'm sure that she'll find a callbox tomorrow or get her phone sorted out, or even go and talk to him face to face.

    If she's lying about the phone then she just isn't interested in talking to him right now, and I think he should respect that and leave the poor woman be.

    If she wants to talk to him she will, without him hounding her.
    52% tight
  • Zazen999
    Zazen999 Posts: 6,183 Forumite
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    Maybe he is a bit too needy. I can't see what advice you are going to get here?

    Can you show him 'The one where Ross and Rachel were on a break' Friends episode?
  • jenhug
    jenhug Posts: 2,277 Forumite
    its Ross and Rachel "We were on a break!"
  • jellyhead
    jellyhead Posts: 21,555 Forumite
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    Tell your friend to come on here (after watching that friends episode), we'll keep him company and take his mind off things :)
    52% tight
  • Your past threads suggest you're not the best bet for giving advice to someone whose girl sounds like she wants space :eek:
  • Zazen999
    Zazen999 Posts: 6,183 Forumite
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    Your past threads suggest you're not the best bet for giving advice to someone whose girl sounds like she wants space :eek:

    You're right - I suspect this is the same girl.....which is why MW can't see the bleedin obvious.
  • Emmzi
    Emmzi Posts: 8,658 Forumite
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    if she isn#t texting it#s because she doesn't want to

    if she isn't calling it's because she doesn't want to

    this has nothing to do with tech. if people wanna communicate, they always find a way

    your mate should move on
    Debt free 4th April 2007.
    New house. Bigger mortgage. MFWB after I have my buffer cash in place.
  • Doesn't sounds like you should be feeding your friend with your opinions. Her sleeping with someone else was hurtful, but wasn't wrong. I'd step back and be there for your friend without giving your opinion.
    Student MoneySaving Club member 021
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