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He keeps a certain amount of distance between me and him… he follows back all his other students on instagram but never followed me back (and I unfollowed him).

He flirts with me, gets mad when I like someone else, and expects me to only take guitar advice off him and his mate… he got a bit mad when I post on Facebook asking about guitar/musician related stuff and then he always texts to say stop looking on Facebook, other people don’t know what they’re talking about (true, but there’s some good advice on there too). Also during guitar lessons if I mentioned I had a lesson with someone else or took advice from someone else he’d say “you’ll only confuse yourself if you listen to other people’s advice, they don’t know the angle that we’re coming from” but then he will say something that completely contradicts “there’s no secret to learning guitar, it’s all just hard work and focus” but then he makes it out to be some wishy-washy thing like there’s an inner circle of musicians who know the secrets to playing… I feel like I’m going crazy. Then another guitarist explains something to me in such a simple way (his friend) and I understand it better. Is he trying to confuse me and undermine my confidence so I get more lessons with him?
Really strange because all his other students say how great he is and how he’s really helped them… I just get more confusion. I also said how I want to learn jazz standards etc. and he said that what I’m trying to learn is too complexed at the moment… but I can play it fine with a bit of practise? I dunno just feels like he’s scamming me and giving better teaching to other people… why would this be?

My cousin and I had a falling out after she did something I asked her not to do revolving a guy…She is transgender and at first I told her to look on his page then I said never mind bc I realized I may not be able to trust her. I felt upset because I was not over the guy and it took me a year to really stop hurting….. I was telling my mother about it and she unknowingly admitted to me that she did snoop and she tried to see if he would reach out to her…. which hurt me soooo deeply. Instead of addressing the issue or supporting me, my mother brushed it off and continued to act as if nothing was wrong between us. This made me feel betrayed and dismissed, and I’m finding it hard to move past it.

she said things like “she wouldn’t do that “ “take responsibility for involving her” “ you’ve done things too” ( I would never try to talk to someone else’s person)…

I feel extremely hurt..