The more I think about my ex, the more I realize that asshole clearly manipulated me and never truly cared about me. I mean, the 1st obvious red flag : we went out for over a year and half, he NEVER ONCE told me "I love you". In his words that's because he was not the romantic kind at all, so I simply hoped he would still say it to me very occasionally at best.. Then how he wouldn't let me talk to his friends when he had them over the phone or whatever... Actually rarely ever saw (at best a couple times) pictures of him with his friends/family. Without them being a good couple years old or way older when it came to family pics. I never saw "recentish" pictures of his family?? (Which he is very close to mind you.) Just like I can't get over the fact he used to tell me all the time I was "mature for my age" (he was several years older than me but we met when I was already an adult) and suddenly, the last time I saw him, he casually dropped a "You're not very mature but I find it endearing". Like, I don't care if he finds me mature or not, but why SUDDENLY change your mind after years of telling me the opposite??