I read a book recently, and maybe it’s something you’ll want to look into, called Attached: The New Sciene of Adult Attachment by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller. What you described about him in your comment reminds me of the Avoidant type of personality who goes back and forth like he does. There’s also Secure and Anxious types too. Here’s a link to the Internet Archive for a free PDF copy if you want to check it out right now https://ia800508.us.archive.org/20/items/AttachementTheory/Amir_Levine%2C_Rachel_Heller-Attached__The_New_Science_of_Adult_Attachment_and_How_It_Can_Help_You_Find_–_and_Keep_–_Love__-Penguin_Group_USA_(2010)[1].pdf I used this for a while before buying a physical copy.

I think the book may help you for the future in detecting this type of personality trait so you are less likely to get deeply involved with someone like this again. The book also helps you discover what type you are and how to manage what you feel and learn about who you’re most compatible with as well as helping to explain some of the things you feel.

It may also give some insight into what was going on for him and help make some sense of the confusion you’re feeling about the relationship and why things didn’t work out. It sounds like in all this, you go back and forth not knowing why he did this or why he reacted that way, but hopefully this could help shed some light and give you some insight to help move on.

You sound like you had a lot of genuine love you gave to him and he just wasn’t present for it in the way you needed him to be.

I’m sorry it’s hurting as much as it does for you right now.

What is that policy? I’m not familiar with that.

Yeah, I’ve heard that before like the Switch 2 being cheaper than the US and the used market is much much cheaper in price and quality than the US for consoles and games.

Japan getting bonuses has been a thing for a long time and not exclusive to video games. I remember having to use less than legal ways to get exclusive songs off CD releases from some of my favorite musical artists because only Japan got those exclusives. And they didn’t hide it either. The CD literally said “Japanese exclusive”.

The only reason I’ve found is that it’s to encourage Japanese customers to buy the merchandise in their region and not buy outside of it. I’ve heard it had to do with a weaker currency’s valuation in the Yen and so giving them exclusives made it less likely they’d buy from another country to save cash by getting the exact same product. That’s also partly why region locks are a thing to prevent people from buying in a cheaper region.

Comparing yourself to others is never healthy. Everyone has unique preferences. He liked girls with short hair, the next guy you’re interested in won’t like girls with short hair, etc. (just an example, I don’t know the true preferences, obviously). You’ll never please everyone by comparing yourself to other women and trying to figure out how you could please/satisfy him so that he’d never leave.

And some men (and women too) are serial cheaters and there’s nothing anyone, not even them, can do about it. They’re never satisfied no matter who is presented to them. I think I know someone like this in my family. He and his family (wife + two kids) went to an ice skating rink and he was somewhere making out with another woman. His wife divorced him and he ended up dating that other woman for a time before that ended. He went through dozens of women ever since then (that was the late 90’s) and married at least 3 more times since and cheated on them as well. Dude just isn’t satisfied no matter who he’s with.

And here’s the kicker, every woman was different than the next. Some white with blonde hair and others dark skinned black women and some mixed race with different hair…my point being that there’s really no way any of these women could look at the other women and compare herself to the next or previous woman to understand why he wasn’t fully satisfied with them and felt a need to go to the next. Any of them doing that would go insane trying to figure out what went wrong and what they could’ve done differently. Because there was likely nothing that could have been done to satisfy him.

Your ex could be that way. But no matter the reason, he was a jerk to do that to you instead of manning up and telling you he couldn’t be with you anymore and let you off easier.

Though I do want to bring up something I noticed in your text but be honest and as gentle as I can be about this. You said that he had threatened to break up a few times prior to this. When someone does that, you should take the threats seriously and reconsider the relationship no matter how you feel about them in that moment.

Either he’s immature and he’s resorting to a permanent solution like total break up instead of working through problems you two have (if he was the type to say “I’m done. I don’t want to do this with you anymore” anytime an argument or disagreement breaks out). That’s immature behavior and you don’t want to be with someone like that long term. Or the other possibility is that he was being honest and you were prolonging the inevitable by asking him to not leave. He could have been giving you a strong hint that things are not working for him in this relationship and it’s only a matter of time before he finally does something like cheating on you to get out of the relationship for real this time. That doesn’t excuse him cheating on you, I want to be clear. But he may have felt that you weren’t listening to him and letting him go like he was telling you and instead of just being honest and letting you off, he went for other women instead behind your back. That was still wrong, no matter how you slice it. Cheating is never acceptable.

I’m not sure which of the two he was to say without a doubt, but either of those possibilities are never good to stick around for. In my personal experience, when women have threatened to break up with me, I call them on it and let them leave. “You said you wanted out, so you get an out.” I’ve felt very strongly for some of the women who did that in my life, but I reminded myself that the hurt will only get worse the closer you get to someone and they do something in the future to break your heart. Either eventually ghosting you, cheating on you, or really going through with breaking up with you and this time there is no retry on the relationship, they’re just done. It hurt, most times, to let them go, but it was honestly the best decision when someone tells you how they feel like that. Those words don’t just come from out of thin air or spur of the moment. People who bring up threats like that have thought of it for one reason or another and it’s not something you should just brush off.

Your last paragraph is somewhat true, but I’d like to offer a different perspective for you. In this time away from him, don’t dwell on who you lost out of this. Focus on yourself and finding ways to make you feel whole being you and leaning on you. Don’t make your focus and your sight be on how someone else sees you. Don’t get caught up in the idea that you need someone else to make you feel whole. Find ways to feel good about who you are and what makes you happy. When the right guy comes along, you’ll be in a better place when you’ve found peace in yourself and who you are on your own and letting him be a man who simply complements your life, not a missing puzzle piece you can’t live without.

Worse, expect an increase in price with no new features in the coming 12 months

Every subscription does this.

What a legacy he left behind

Had some major problems this last update on mine when the kernel update went through.

Turned out that my motherboard needed an update that was causing incompatibilities.

But he looks so trustworthy!

All that obnoxious crap makes me want to stay away longer when they do this kind of stuff. I keep getting notifications about chess.

AliExpress is filled with phones like this. Though 5G is still hit or miss.

I’m personally looking for a mini iPhone knockoff but all are 4G and some don’t even have 4G, last I checked. I see a ton of other cool flip smartphones there though.

“Don’t be evil”

as if I was a monster

Dude

An apple scissors

Reminds me of those fluffy Japanese pancakes

That tail up and with the hook means he’s super content and comfortable with you! A straight tail upwards is good on its own, but that slight hook means even more.

Would be nice to get Minecraft in Steam too

Edit: just came on to find all these replies. What I mean is that I abandoned Windows and only use macOS and Linux now. I prefer Bedrock over Java and there is no way I am aware of to play Bedrock except using something like the Android version which isn’t the same.

I just wish we could get a release on Steam in addition to the launcher and other ways we currently have. If nothing else than putting the launcher in Steam and a way to somehow use Proton to play it in Linux, at the very least.

Microsoft doesn’t want that to happen for obvious reasons, so this won’t ever happen.

They used to give you something for being late and not fulfilling the promised date like a few dollars as a gift card. Now they just shrug and say tough shit.

Some patent troll hit the jackpot with this one

There’s a guy I see on YouTube who does some pranks like this but with the stuff in the store.

He cut the chip out of his card and then puts it in stuff like behind the wrapper of a juice bottle or under the sticker of a fruit and then has that scan to pay.

One of them got him in trouble with the store because they thought he didn’t actually pay even then it went through successfully lol

At first I thought that said “picked in Thailand”