So I break up with a girl about a year and a half ago. Sucks for a few months but eventually I get back on my feet, workout, and start crushing it with women again. Get pretty popular, draw lots of attraction. Eventually meet a cute girl and start dating. Things are going great, no drama. Think I want an LTR with her. Tell her I don't feel like seeing other people. 2 weeks ago she starts pulling away from me. I'm over at her place and she randomly starts doing things on her own with no regard that I'm there like looking up random shit on her internet. Call her out on how exciting we are and I pin her down and fuck her. Keeps her happy for a bit I can tell. She keeps doing it though and I like her a lot so I just roll with it. She's never done this before so fuck it.
I eventually leave and still notice a distance in her. The next day I get REALLY sick. Receive next to 0 support from her, but she's busy with work. End up having to cancel going up with her on a business trip she was on because I'm so sick. Finally recover a bit, enough to visit her, which I do. Its out of my way but I care about her and wanted to support her. She seems a bit cold still. She suggests meeting up later that day and I agree. She comes over, I kiss her but she makes no move to kiss me back. I don't react and just plow through. Cook us dinner and chat a bit. She says she has a friend coming in to town tomorrow and can't stay the night because she has to prepare. Eventually move to couch to watch a movie and I get no affection whatsoever. I call her out on it and it snowballs into our first fight... she gets super emotional and starts saying things about not knowing if I fit in her life and complaining about me not telling her she did a good job or supporting her during her work thing. Says I hurt her feelings by teasing her... Tell her I was sick and doing the best I could. Apologize if I hurt her. She keeps spiraling and says she's not sure where to go from here. Mentions possibly breaking up... I panic, this is totally unexpected. I'm normally very masculine and display alpha behavior but I got beta af and start telling her my feelings. Tell her that she's scaring me and I feel self-protective. Feels like she can't hear me. Eventually she says she wants to go and let her feelings calm down. I let her go. Text her an hour later asking if we're ok and she says she doesn't know and needs to sleep to let her feelings settle. I ask her not to leave me hanging too long because this is very challenging for me. She knows I have abandonment issues... Pops left when I was a kid. Cue the violins... Anyways, we exchange a few more texts and she says she's going to spend the next 3 days with her friend who is in town (female) and that she's call me in a few days to meet up and talk about this.
Now that I've had time to clear my head and get healthy I am extremely disappointed in how I handled this. She caught me while I was weak and recovering from sickness and just blasted me with an emotional outburst I was not prepared to handle and now I feel I've lost frame and her respect and power int he relationship. While my head is clearing up I want to get an outsiders perspective on how to handle it when she does call to talk about this. Any advice would be appreciated,
TL;DR: GF of 3 months surprises me with a fight when I'm recovering from sickness. Dont handle it well. She wants space to figure out her feelings. Leaves me wondering the status of our relationship...
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