Long story short, my boyfriend of one year is downplaying his past relationships. And I mean seriously downplaying; to the point where the relationship was barely nonexistent from his point of view. For example: A couple of years prior to me, he was in a long distance relationship (she lived in the same state as him before becoming official, than she moved). From what I can gather, they were together for a year, if not a little more. They meet each other's parents, told each other they loved one-another, talked about moving in together and he gave her super heart-left messages; making her seem like she was the 'one'. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty serious to me.
He doesn't like to talk about any of his past relationships. And if he does, it is short. He won't mention any names. I have to ask for them. He doesn't trash talk them, just doesn't like to have conversations about them. Anyway, I know all of this because I have his Snapchat password. Yes, he gave it to me. I got curious and I was looking up past girlfriend's names. And he is the type where he saves messages, so I read what was saved. I just wanted to know a little more about his past since he wouldn't go into it.
When I asked him about this certain girl, I was told they only 'dated' for about three-weeks. They never become official because she had plans on moving to Texas. When she finally moved, she had called him over another guy. Crying her eyes out over the new guy, telling him that she wanted to move back and was making a huge mistake. However, in their messages, this is all wrong. His very last message to her was about how much he missed her, he forgives her over the new guy in her life, wants to completely move to Texas and so fourth. She left him on read. However, he seemed pretty crushed over her moving on from him. This isn't the first time where he has downplayed something, but never to this extent.
In a word, fear.
Your guy is scared to tell either you or himself (or maybe both) the truth, which is that he cared, and one or more of his past relationships WERE serious.
He's scared because caring means he was rejected, not the other way around. If you look at the versions, the story told by the texts where he was left on read shows he was vulnerable, offered to move to TX, and the girl ghosted him. In the version he told you, she was the one who was vulnerable and was crying her eyes out. He flipped the story to make himself the one in power.
On one hand, it shows he's scared of losing you, so you matter to him, but on the other hand, it also shows lying is something he is comfortable with, and also that his actions are fear-based and that's not a good scenario. I would be seriously questioning this relationship.
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Hard to tell. It's good be doesn't want to keep them at the top of his thoughts. I think he might still have some feelings that he might be still burying. Sometimes people have a hard time letting go.
He may see something in you and letting time go. I don't think he purposely leading you on about them if he gave you access to check out his chats. He may be in a different place than when last texted. It's a good sign he trusts you, that he still had those chats avialable. When I break up with a girl, I delete off all my messages.
At least he is not delving into your last, as many guys want to know if they are seeing the town Schwinn.
Girl I'm tryna find out that as well. Like maybe he thinks u'll be mad if he said he loved her or was too attached to them. He doesn't want u thinking about them but then again him saying they weren't serious does it mean urs is serious really gets a lot of what ifs pipping jnto ur brain and u jump to conclusion and suffer in silence.
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Looks completely normal i guess , bc if he didn't do that he would be considered as looser by many and he doesn't want to lie that's actually good i believe.
Why do you want to bring up his past so bad , just roll with it.
What matters is how his treating you now isn't it so stop judging himHe wants to leave the past in the past. It's also possible that he's treating them like they aren't big deal because he doesn't think they are a big deal.
You are as guilty as he is researching his data in secret. He gave you the King to the Kingdom and use misused it...
Clearly they weren’t if they didn’t last right? Kind of makes sense
Just be carefull then is my advise
Of course he is probably a bad ass
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