He Smothered Me so We Broke Up, But I Still Miss Him

Question: I was in a relationship for a year with a gorgeous, kind, sensitive widower. When we were together, we lived separately, but after 10 months I had a serious accident and he decided to move into my house to take care of me.

After two months, when I was ready to go back to work and normal life, I asked him if we could get back to our normal routine (3-4 nights per week together). He didn’t want this and demanded more of my time and our relationship fell apart.

I’ve been divorced for 13 years, so I am used to—and I love my “me” time— and I have other commitments/interests like my elderly dad, my adult children, my horse, my garden, and great friends.

He had NO social life or friends before me and now he’s socializing with my friends and his new girlfriend who moved in with him immediately after meeting him. When we broke up and he started dating her, he was still texting me saying there would never be anyone like me and it’s not the same with her and I would always have a place in his heart and that he thinks about me all the time.

I miss him and think of him but it all got too claustrophobic for me. I texted him a happy birthday recently and I have noticed I am blocked and it is unread.

What is your view on all this? I feel in my heart he is my forever person. My adult kids who live with me think he is wrong for me and that he was too needy.

Hopefully, you can decipher this as I can’t understand it.

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