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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here—I completely recognize I was judgemental and I admitted it to him. I apologized and I admitted I misunderstood the situation.

I feel terrible because I feel like he turned on me after being nice.[/quote]

He didn't turn on you, he just decided he wasn't interested after an incident which showed really clearly that you were incompatible. When you are older and dating it is much easier to weed out what you are into and what you aren't. He saw you clearly have very different humor/tolerance for silly things and he ended it. You would have been within your rights to end the relationship because you don't like things like that (I also probably would have pumped the brakes in the face of fart jokes or stink bomb usage) and he is within his rights to end things because you clearly find him juvenile and you reacted really intensely in a text (I also would have pumped the brakes if I made a joke and someone recoiled like that).

There don't have to be bad guys in every situation. You dated a couple weeks and it didn't work out. You're not going to be compatible with every nice guy on the planet. It's fine, brush it off, thank you, next.

TBH you framing this as the silent treatment makes it seem like you are the problem here. He broke up with you in a way that did not seem mean and that clearly communicated that he wouldn't respond anymore so you weren't in limbo. That is NOT the silent treatment. It is honestly pretty courteous in break up land. [/quote]

I would tend to agree except that in the messages right before the last one he was saying he could never be mad at me, he was willing to go above and beyond for me, he thought we had something special, etc.

Then he said he would make my decision easier by cutting off phone and text contact because he didn’t think I was in it anymore. He finished by saying “sometimes you don’t realize a good catch until you throw it back. This really sucks.”

I wanted to keep seeing him until I hit the ick about what I thought was him laughing about grossing people out with farts: When I realized what he actually meant by stink bomb and something in his youth I tried to explain and I did apologize for being judgemental.

I didn’t even get a chance to discuss and I feel like if he actually cared and wasn’t just saying words he would’ve heard me out or called or something.[/quote]

Or he is actually fine with fart jokes and even though this wasn't about that it made it clear to him that he wasn't compatible. He didn't want to say mean things so he sandwiched his no contact statement with a bunch of softening compliments. This isn't about your decision, it was his decision.

Regardless it was two weeks, either he was a nice guy who wasn't into you so you weren't compatible or he was a jerk who wasn't into you so you weren't compatible.

Either way there is nothing to be done but move on and little to be gained by overanalyzing. Try to be less quick to jump the gun in the future![/quote]

I think he jumped the gun by making such a drastic and dramatic decision to stop communicating, not me (OP).[/quote]

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