Hannah Louise Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 I recently broke up with a guy I was with for a couple of years. He was emotionally and verbally abusive towards me, but I put up with it for quite a while (don't ask me why), but then he hit me a couple of times, so I ended things. That was a year and a half ago and we've had no contact since then, apart from a couple of messages/e-mails he sent me just after we broke up, basically saying that he hadn't done anything wrong and that it was my fault for winding him up! Anyway, I've moved on from it all, but now he's moved house so he's living not far from me (to be fair, his family do live around here, so I don't think he's trying to stalk me or anything). I keep seeing him in the street or in local pubs and he keeps approaching me or trying to talk to me, but I don't want to talk to him! I know it seems rude and immature to ignore someone, but like I said, I've moved on - I don't feel I owe him anything and I can't forget how awful he was to me. Yet if I don't talk to him, he gets nasty and starts making sarcastic comments about me 'being bitter' and 'not being able to move on'. I don't want to talk to him, but I feel if I don't acknowledge him he will think I'm still upset and he still has some kind of 'hold' over me. I just wish he'd go away! Any advice on how to deal with this?
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