impishlilhellcat
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Thank you LadyPact for posting on this topic. Thanks to everyone who shared their experiences. My experience happened in college. It ended up lasting for about 3 years. I was working at a campus coffee shop. This guy would stop by everyday. We'd chat, laugh, joke, and probably flirt a little bit. It wasn't much of a surprise when he asked me out and I was attracted to him, so I thought I would take the chance. We went out and things got weird really fast. He started analyzing and kept commenting on my body language. He was completely off the mark. He also got a little too grabby for comfort in the car. When we got to the restaurant, I thought oh good this will be over soon. After we ate I asked him to take me home. He decided that he didn't want to do that. He kept trying to come up with things we could do next and I kept insisting that he just take me home. After some time he finally took me home. He proceeded to follow me up to my apartment, even though I made it perfectly clear that I didn't want him to come up. He even tried to push his way into my apartment. He asked for my phone number, because we had only spoken while I was at work. I declined to give it to him. Unfortunately, it was a campus apartment and all numbers were easily listed on the student directory. So eventually he found my number anyways. At this point I had tried being nice, but ended up shutting the door in his face. I thought that was the end of it. It was only the start. I ended up asking to be transferred to another coffee location on campus, because he would come into the coffee shop and start making a scene. For awhile he couldn't figure out where I was working, which was a huge relief. He would call and leave messages and call and call and call. I too thought if I ignored it, it would just stop. Then he started showing up every where I was at or casually running into me as I got out of class. I called campus police, but he was an employee at the University. They didn't want to rock the boat and he hadn't really done anything harmful. I ended up having to move 5 times. I would have a few months of peace and then he would find me again. I was a broke college student and couldn't afford to move off campus. I felt safer in the dorms than anywhere else. There were always people around. He managed to get my instant messenger name. How he did that I have no idea. He'd message me and when I'd move he would somehow get the new room phone number even though it was unlisted. I eventually moved into a dorm that was only for females and completely locked down at night. The icing on the cake and when I was able to do something, because those messages were never threatening, came when I was studying with a male student and we had decided to stop and grab something to eat. We were friends in the same classes both putting in long hours. He had a girlfriend and I had on and off relationships. We were in line grabbing our food and he stormed up to me, blew up, and started yelling and screaming. He did this in the middle of the student union. It was insane and scary, but I had witnesses. I also graduated not long after and moved several states away. Luckily he never turned physically violent, but I always felt like it was escalating.
< Message edited by impishlilhellcat -- 11/27/2015 10:13:29 PM >
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