I understand your argument and the guy has made his decision to never speak to her again, but I would argue that he is not completely over it. Has he learned from it? Of course he has and that's clear, but I wouldn't necessarily say he has handled it in the most ideal way. There comes a time in which you HAVE to let go and him holding on to this anger over what happened in the past is not healthy. Closure is extremely important and at the very least should have provided that (he does not HAVE TO). In the end what is his gain if the woman continues to look for him wherever he is? I wouldn't want that on my end, but maybe I am in the minority when it comes to these situations.

I am not saying she was not in the wrong. Yeah I am still sticking with my initial thoughts...he is clearly holding on to something if he doesn't even have the decency to tell her straight up...its over for good and suggest that she start her life with someone else. A simple response saying that those days are over would have been sufficient. I am not a fan of therapists/counselors as they have a terrible track record when it comes to changing peoples lives.
Sorry, but what are you talking about, Liquid? Did we read the same article?
1) The man started a new serious relationship. He rightly told her not to be sending anymore cards because it was upsetting his new partner and it was inappropriate. She couldn't be content with that, so she decided to harass them with nuisance and aggressive phone calls despite not even wanting him back, but just for childish one-upmanship over his new girl. His only fault was not reporting her to the police for harassment and/or changing his number.
I don't know your situation, but ask yourself this: How would you handle it if your girl's ex kept sending her cards and when she tells him to back off he still keeps ringing your house making threatening phone calls - even if he no longer wants her?
This is like someone leaving a very well paid job without giving any notice for no reason other than they think they "can do better", then when they find themselves a new job and become unemployed, they try to reapply only to discover their boss hired a new person, then get angry at the boss for daring to hire a new guy and even cussing them both out for it despie not even wanting the old position back. I mean, how stupid does that scenario sound?
2) How is he holding on to anger? I see no evidence of that at all. If you're talking about his initial reactions to her after she caused him and his woman misery, then that's natural. Wouldn't you react the same way? She's been the bane of his existence for years and keeps causing him trouble despite him warning her off and not replying to her attempts at communication. She's obviously poison. This has been going on for YEARS...the poor guy just can't catch a break and it must be driving him mad. Of course he has to cut ties with her for his own emotional, mental and even physical health. He had a very lucky escape and he knows it.
You say he "should have" provided closure? Why? The man was cordial and friendly with her for a long time even AFTER they had already broke up. What more could she require? What is he supposed to do, keep meeting her in a cafe every three months with a "no hard feelings" talk just to reassure her? Where would it end? She's an adult, not a fukking child. She's not his responsibility. He doesn't owe her anything. He had/has a new woman in his life and when that occurs, the dynamics and boundaries change and he let her know that. This trick is nothing more than a fukking bunny boiler and I'm surprised she didn't break into their house and try to kill them.
3) You say "In the end what is his gain if the woman continues to look for him wherever he is?" How is that his fault and what is he supposed to do to prevent that? Don't you think remaining in contact with her would only exacerbate the situation? The marriage was over years ago. They don't have kids together where they have to remain in contact. The chick is evil, not to mention insane, because she just wants to get in his head and plague his psyche even after all this time. I sense the real motive behind this article is not even to make her story an example to all these other ditzy headed chicks out there, but to mess with dude's head and make sure he doesn't forget her. The Daily Mail is like the biggest newspaper over here and either he or someone he knows will come across this article and show him, therefore bringing flashbacks and possibly affecting his current marriage.
4)If she can't get over him, then that's what we have therapists/counsellors for.
5) SHE left HIM. That's the bottom line. A part of taking personal responsibility as an adult is moving on and letting the other person be happy if you really care about them, no matter how hard that may be.
She's still wondering what could have been...not complete closure. Listen we can go back and forth saying what he could have done. I am just putting myself in that specific position. If someone were to bring her up to him his response will probably be filled with anger. The other way I am proposing it will probably be a response of indifference at this point. There is no price in how much better it feels.I don't see how he needed to give her closure. She left him and he told her to stop calling and sending letters. Sounds pretty clear to me. Her being stuck on him has nothing to do with closure and everything to do with her not being satisfied ultimately with the other men she dated. She obviously had closure or she wouldn't have pursued two long term relationships after she left her husband. She isn't owed anything beyond being told not to contact him anymore. She's just sad that he's happy and she isn't. If the next guy she dated wanted to marry her, be faithful, and have children she wouldn't give two fukks about turning her back on her ex husband. She's remorseful NOW because she fell flat on her face and is out in the cold.
I am not saying she was not in the wrong. Yeah I am still sticking with my initial thoughts...he is clearly holding on to something if he doesn't even have the decency to tell her straight up...its over for good and suggest that she start her life with someone else. A simple response saying that those days are over would have been sufficient. I am not a fan of therapists/counselors as they have a terrible track record when it comes to changing peoples lives.
You said you are surprised she did not try to break in and kill them, further strengthening my position on this whole thing. CLOSE it...absolutely get it out of her head that those days are over and she should look for someone else. I say this because I had to handle a situation similar to this when I was younger and think I handled it much better than Matthew did. Why? The girl is now married and has a kid and is at peace with her life instead of holding on to a mistake that she made years earlier. A simple phone call was all it took to diffuse the situation FOREVER. I think she might have been in this position of 11+ years still "wondering" what was going on and I never saw the gain on my end of not providing that closure to someone (She was still holding on for 6 in my case). In fact I gained a whole lot of peace of mind knowing that if I am walking around in the old neighborhood that I don't have to possibly deal with the fact that I might run into her and have her give me a sob story of how she would have made things better. My ex wrote a letter to my sister, then enclosed another letter as well for me...thats when I knew I had to diffuse the situation as I saw the obsessive behavior start to come out. She did not write to me directly because by that time I had already left NY and had no clue where I was living.
Again, I might be in the minority here. But its very comforting on MY END knowing that I don't have someone looking for me or thinking of what could have been so many years after the fact. THAT is what I REALLY consider moving on..for BOTH.
She's still wondering what could have been...not complete closure. Listen we can go back and forth saying what he could have done. I am just putting myself in that specific position. If someone were to bring her up to him his response will probably be filled with anger. The other way I am proposing it will probably be a response of indifference at this point. There is no price in how much better it feels.

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Reallyif you read through the posts. I'm on my phone right now, so it's too time consuming to copy and paste posts. But really some women, even when they're in their mid 30's with nothing going for them, think they're too good for a "normal" life. Been seeing that trend a lot lately.
Then they turn around and get mad at men for now "growing up" and marrying them.I'm the EXACT same way. I'm not about to be doing magic tricks for these chicks. Too many females out here to be concerned with one who's playing games.
