I’ve posted about this in the past and I can’t believe I’m still engrossed in this shit all these months later but here I am. I appreciate all your criticisms and the time you took to read this stupid long post. Yes, I am lifting, yes I am eating clean, yes I am gaming women, yes I read the sidebar often.

My Ex-LTR broke up with me after I was released from prison because I totally lost frame and showed way too much weakness. Fine, no biggie.

I work for her father (I started working here while on house arrest, not many other options and we had already been together for 3 years at that point). Her family is completely obsessed with me and will do anything to keep me around in the meantime. Cushy job, upward mobility in the company, a car with free gas (a big deal in the country I am living in), random bonuses, and vacation days whenever I please. I don’t take advantage because I have a very strict work ethic and always have, especially now when I am trying to separate my professional relationship with them from our personal relationship. Keep in mind I am actively on the job hunt.

I was living at their house while under house arrest, and we developed a strong personal relationship. Her parents have a great relationship and he father is a strong father figure. They imagined that even though their daughter and I had broken up, our relationship would stay the same. I made it very clear in a mature manner that it would not. Since then, her father, mother, and brother have been constantly trying to get me to come visit, eat dinner with them, go on vacation with them. Her mother would constantly try and shit test me and talk to me about her daughter to see if she can get an emotional response from me and I would literally just pretend that something came up at the particular moment and hang up the phone. Her brother sometimes asks me who I’m dating and I tell him I am not discussing these things with my ex’s brother (I am dating around, not paying any mind to her). I have distanced myself in an appropriate manner where if they need me for something I will answer the phone or message, but have not seen them in our personal lives for quite sometime. I figured that they had got the message.

She went on her “find herself” (read: cock carousel) trip to India about 3 months ago and refused to see me before she left. Fine, no problem.

A few weeks into her trip she sends me a message and tries to follow me on social media. I ignore. At this point I block her on all social media, but leave WhatsApp unblocked because she had blocked me a few weeks after I did not respond to the message.

Another month goes by. I have stuff in her room and have repeatedly asked her mother to pack it up and give it to me (I don’t have a lot of personal things after prison and would like what little I have to be with me). Her mother shit tests me and tells me I have full authority to go into her room and take my shit (“this is your house! Do what you want here!) because she knows I won’t and she wants to leave some sort of door open for when her daughter returns. I tell her that I will not go into her room because that is not appropriate. I then get a random accusation from my ex that she “knows I went through her room”. Admittedly, I reacted emotionally when she said this and responded with “I didn’t, but now I will”. She blocked me. Fine, no problem. I still haven’t received my stuff. During this month I made my boundaries very clear with her family and they let up off my back so I figured I was making some progress and I can at least survive until I find another job opportunity. Clearly I was wrong.

Her mother recently met up with her in Thailand, and it has been non-stop. A week into their vacation together, I get a message from my ex saying “I’m sorry that I hurt you. This trip is a healing time for me. I am growing and finding my better self. Things are different than they were in the past, I hope for you too. I really hope you’re doing well.” I hit her with an “ok thanks” text the next day and left it at that. A few days later her mother messages me that she will pay for my trip to Thailand if I reach out to her daughter. Keep in mind her mother made it clear that this was not at the request of her daughter, but rather I should reach out to her daughter and ask her if she’d like me to join (lol) I tell her very clearly that we are over, and I am not reaching out and thanks for the offer on the trip but I am busy. We get into the topic of the message she sent and she says to me that she is clearly trying to start a conversation with me and I tell her no thank you. She then says her daughter is very upset that I took a girl out a week after we broke up and was yelling about it on the trip (6 months later and this shit still bothers you?). Knowing her mother is manipulative, she says that she is trying to talk to me and that I am not interested in talking to her. I state very clearly that yes, she is correct, I am unwilling to talk to her. When her mother broached the subject of us getting back together (lol) to her daughter, she responded with “anything can happen” and not “we are not ever getting back together”, which made me laugh and pissed me off that she still assumes she has the power to make such a decision. Again, I reacted emotionally, and sent her a message that said, “have fun on your trip I am not looking for friends right now so hit me up when you are back” and get a response of “yea for sure” about 15 seconds later. I wait a day for the dust to settle so she won’t realize and then block her.

Now, I know this is an ex, I know I am not getting back together with her and I know I must distance myself as fast and as much as possible from her family, but as I am relatively new to TRP (began my journey about 4 months ago) and would like to apply and understand principles that I read about here in real time I am curious to know what the fuck is going on here exactly? Insight into the mind of these psychopathic people would be greatly appreciated. Also, any criticism for how I am handling them and what my next steps in my journey should be would also help.