3 years ago. January 31, 2021 at 3:32 AM
How can you tell if a relationship has come to the point of time to move on?
This is the dilemma that I have been wrestling with for the past few months. How long to wait for something before your just wasting time.
I met a Dom on this site and just as we started to get to know each other and had met a couple times once in public and once at his house then COVID hit. We never got to the point of making things official. We are just in some kind of weird holding pattern. He got extremely busy. We haven't been able to spend much time together. When we can I think we have a great time. He said he enjoys our time together and wants more. Unfortunately this is only about every other month and sometimes only for a couple hours at most. We have never done a scene or even had any kind of sex. A little kissing and touching and me giving oral. Neither of us has been seeing anyone else. Lately it seems he has been losing interest. I have been getting more frustrated and sad maybe even a little depressed. I just can't help but think that if he really wanted to see me he would find a way. We only live an hour apart. I have tried to come up with ideas even so far as traveling to where he happens to be. He travels a lot for work. I will admit I don't have much confidence in myself. I need the reassurance that he thinks of me and misses me and wants to see me.
He says he wants communication so I tried to regularly tell him what I'd going on with me and what I am thinking. But the communication seems to be mostly one sided. He doesn't seem to open up to me unless we are in person. I am thinking I misinterpreted what he meant by communication. He will text me if I text first but rarely if ever does he text first. Phone conversations I could count on one hand and video chats are a never. Maybe I have been to needy or asked for to much. If so why not just be straight with me and tell me?
Recently he was supposed to text me and let me know if he had to go out of town, this was on a Wednesday and he was supposed to text by Thursday to let me know. I heard nothing from him and I waited and waited. Finally on Saturday night I texted him needless to say I was upset. I didn't rant I just let him know he had hurt me and I was angry. (Mostly angry with myself for allowing him to be important enough to hurt me). Turns out he had a family emergency which is why he didn't text on Thursday. Which is fine but I thought that by Saturday I would have deserved a short text to let me know what was going on.
He says he expects and gives respect but I don't feel very respected. I asked him to let me know when he wants to see me and have stopped texting. I don't want to play games but I don't like the feeling of being so low on someone's priority list that I can't be bothered with. Kind of squashes my already low confidence and self esteem.
I don't want to give up but I don't want to be disrespected and treated like an afterthought either.
Feels a little better to just let it out.