My girlfriend told me a few months ago we needed to take some space apart because I needed to change things to save our future. We still talked and hung out and I checked into a rehab program three weeks later.
While I’m in treatment, she starts dating a guy we both met about 6 months before the breakup even though she made it seem like we were “kind of together”. We texted after I got out of treatment and met up twice, which went great both times. I told her about all the progress I had made. The second time I asked her to meet up so we could talk about us and when I asked her, she got really cagey and distant and gave me kind of vague answers of “needing to do what’s best for her”. I accepted her decision and later apologized for how I had fallen short.
Fast forward 6 weeks, she posts an Instagram pic of her on a date with the new guy from a trip they took just 2-3 months after we broke up. She texted me a few days later on my birthday and I said thanks but we shouldn’t talk anymore cause I need to move on and that we couldn’t be friends cause things ended vaguely and we were together for 3.5 years. She got upset but said she “understood”.
Two days later, I post a Snap story of my 5 month sobriety chip. Immediately she starts posting snaps to her story, even though she isn’t usually active on her Snap story. I posted another pic a few days later and sure enough she starts posting a bunch of pics about a trip she was on and stalking my LinkedIn profile.
Her best friend also posted a pic of a text exchange between her and the new guy where she says “Can’t wait to see you tonight and play together”, which I think was staged cause she was on a trip with her dad at the time. Finally, the next weekend I post a Snap of me hanging with my friend and the next day she posts about being at ACL, which we were planning on going to together.
It just seems too conspicuous to be her and it feels like she’s trying to send me a message. Is it regret or seeking attention?
