How (or Would you) answer this e-mail from my Ex?...LONG

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A little history first...Back in 1990...

Right at high school Graduation, I met an fun, handsome and steamy guy named IAN and I dumped my steady "nice" boyfriend for this new Bad Boy...

I was used to dating a lot but I was really innocent and he took me for quite a ride. In the beginning, he was nice, sweet and fun, or so I thought. He was my "first" and I thought this was real love. I was wrong. In the space of 5 months, it went from being nice to controlling to violent.

I lost my $, my pride, my self-esteem, and almost myself. I got kicked out of my apartment by my roomates that could see the jerk for what he was but I was blind. My grades went down the tubes and so did I. He got very jealous and controlling and he pushed me around a lot. Then he began hitting me...I of course thought I could "fix him" but after a few months, we had a huge fight. I dropped him off at his parents and I went to a friend's place.

The final straw was when he threatened my best friend. That was when I called it quits and that is when my nightmare got worse.

For the next year, he followed me, harrassed me, and threatened my friends and I. He said he would kill himself if he could not have me. When I could not take it anymore, I ran to another city 12 hours away to go to school and thought it would help. My best friend joined me 1 year later...
He found my phone number several times and I had to get an un-listed number. He always found a way to get at me. When I would come home for summer vacation or for a week or Christmas, he would call and tell me what I was wearing that day, where I had gone, and who I was with...I was a prisoner...I started staying in Ottawa in the Summer when school was out because I did not want to see him. This went on till 1995-1996...

In the mean time, in 1998, I met DH..Fell in Love and have found the most loving, caring, sweet and nice man I could ever dream of. God has blessed me with a walking angel and I am the happiest woman alive.

The other day I got an email at work from someone saying that we had gone to school together. I asked who this person was and he respinded that his name was Randy...thinking this was my weekly driving buddy from College (we would share gas to go home on the weekends...Just buddies), I was happy to hear from him and I was just about to send my answer to his email when a funny feeling came over me...I did not think this was Randyfor some reason...So I turfed my original email I was going to send and asked him a bunch of questions to see if it really was Randy. I never said the email were from me as I left them unsigned.

I got an email back saying,

"Hmmm..well you got me there. I have been caught. It isn't randy, it's Ian. I know i don;t need to give any more info for you to remember me. I didn;t think you would want to talk to me if you knew it was me, so hence i had to try some way to see if it was you. I am hoping that you will talk to me Sam. Last i remember of you is you telling me that i did something, but i have no clue as to what it was. I didn;t know what it was that day on the phone and to this day i still don't know what went wqrong after we last met. I think of you often Sam, and wonder what it is i did that was so bad. I hope you will tell me.

Ian
"

Everyone including DH, my best friends and my Mom all have different ideas on how I should handle this...I am not sure.

Do i answer and tell him off, do I just delete it, do I tell him not to contact me ever again and block his addy from my email, my DH want to tell him off, etc. etc. etc...

The bad thing is He knows where I work since he found my email on my business site. I am alone at the motel several hours a day but it is now closed for the winter so it'snot so bad, I guess.

Please tell me what you would do...Even 15 years later, this has sent shivers down my spine and fear in my head.

How do I get this creep to leave me alone...???

Sorry it's so long...
 
Sorry you are going through this. I would probably just delete it. I think having any contact will just encourage him. Even if you tell him to leave you alone he probably won't so I'd just ignore it.
 
I would email him back, remind him of everything he did to you and tell him if he comes anywhere near you or your family you will not hesitate to contact the police, in fact, contact the police now and get a restraining order. This guy sounsd psycho!

So sorry for what you went through. :grouphug:
 
call the police dept about a restraining order, if you can document any of the past. Perhaps have dh respond to the email telling him he doesn't like you communicating with bf's from your past.
 

Delete and block any more emails from your ex. As a guy, I have never, ever contacted ex-girlfriends to just chat and pal around with. He's obviously looking to hook up again. Just move on and do not respond...your non answers will speak louder than anything you or your husband could say!
 
If it were me and some guy who had been physically violent to me, I'd delete the email and change my email address. You owe him nothing, and I'm a great believer in a leopard never changing his spots. Thank your lucky stars you met a real man in your DH and forget you ever saw this email from your ex.
 
I can't change the email...It's our business email and it printed in CAA books, Provincial visitors guides and all our brochures and business cards...

thank god I leave for Florida in 14 days...I'll be gone for over a month so that should help.

I don't think I can document the past with the police...I burned anything he ever gave me and I am no longer in contsct with people I knew back then.

I have moved back to my home town here since Jan. 2003 and since I had not seen or heard anything about him, I figured he was long gone. My DH is trying to see where his email may be from. We think it might be out west...I hope he is far away. :guilty:
 
Sorry to hear he's trying to re-establish contact with you...
I wouldn't trust him and it doesn't sound like you do either. He sounds scary to me and the less contact made, the more maybe he'll realize you are truly done with him.
I think if you respond to his email he may think you still care. By replying at all, you may give him hope(delusional or not) that there is a chance to be in your life again.
I would block him and not have any further contact with him.....
 
I've never had anything like this happen to me but I would save the emails, block his address, change my email address if you can and try to document anything that happened in the past and that does happen.

If you decide to go with a restraining order you will want all the information you can.

I may even give a call to the police and find out what they have to say.
 
Aneille said:
I may even give a call to the police and find out what they have to say.
I agree on that part, just to see what they have to say and how to handle it.
Keep the bad past in the past as it will certainly disrupt your happy life you have now.
 
Do not reply!!!!!!

You owe him nothing....

Any response at all is egging him on, and thinking that he still has some tiny bit of control over you. Any reply by you or your DH will come back to haunt you. It will backfire. It will only open doors.

Do not reply!!!!! (Ohhhh, did I say that already!!! ;) )

PS: There has to be SOME way that he is finding you. Is it thru electronic searching and tracing??? Seems unlikely, since it is a work email. But, possible.

I would be VERY concerned that somebody is selling you out. Who could it be.

There are ways to make yourself harder to 'find'. Perhaps you or your DH know somebody who could help you do this? My DH's boss is VERY protective of his personal information... and he has been successful. All the usual searches on him do not turn up ANYTHING. Unfortunately, if this guy has your social security number. Then :earseek: Something as simple as those free credit bureau reports could easily show him everything! (ex. your current employer....)

And, unless you have already accessed them all, and set your own passwords, he could type in your name, social, birthdate, etc, and get instant access???

I would definately consider making a police report.... The email that you do have already shows that this guy is being deceptive (obscuring his identity) and stalking. Even if the police can not issue you a restraining order, it would be a good idea to have this official report on file, in case it is helpful in the future.

HUGS!!!!
 
If you do a search on google with my name (just my first and last name) it comes up with the Provincial Vacation Guide and I am listed as the contact person for Our Motel. He sent the email to my business account for our motel.

I can't beleive how easy I was to find....AAARRRrrggggg
 
Delete it, have no contact with him at all in any way. He will see any contact at all as a positive.
Go to your local police department, get a restraining order against him.
Talk to your work, get them to change your email.
Change your phone number, even if it is unlisted.
Get and use caller ID for every call.
Get a cell phone if you don't have one already.
If he calls you, merely say, "I'm calling 9-11". Hang up, then do it.
 
Oh God, Sam!!! I am so sorry you have to deal with this!

What's very creepy is all these years later, he's searching for you online. He has not forgotten. Please do not email him back. I'm worried that because he got your email addy, he knows your address and phone number too. Please contact your local RCMP or city police. Just get your contact info and his name on file with them to have this case documented, laws have changed since your last encounter with him - you may not have been able to do something in the early 90's, but they take stalking a lot more seriously now.

Where in N.B. are you? My dad was RCMP in Moncton for some time in the 60's and 70's - he might still know someone there who has not retired who could help you or could point you in the right direction.
 
I'm in Shediac...15 minutes from Moncton and Ian is from Moncton...

Thanks for the concern.
 
I agree with the others who have encouraged you to not respond to him in ANY way. If you engage him by returning emails or corresponding in any way, he will see that as a continuing connection and encouragement.

Snoopy's right about the leopard not changing his spots; his twisted mentality would not allow him to understand or admit that his actions in the past were wrong or threatening then, and trying to explain it now would be still be futile.

Ignore him.
 
DO NOT DELETE OR ANSWER THE E-MAIL. You need to save this e-mail and any other communication you may get from him as proof that he is harrassing you. You will need to present it to the authorities before they will issue a restraining order or take action should it be necessary. Please file it under a separate heading in your e-mails and keep any correspondence which looks fishy along with it.
 
DELETE IT AND IGNORE ANY FUTURE E-MAILS FROM HIM!!!!!!!! He wants interaction with you whether it is positive or negative. I would also change your e-mail address. The abuse will continue if you allow him to engage you. Good luck!!
 
I'm sorry your going through this. I have too been stalked and at this point since you have no proof of the past you would probably be unable to recieve a restraining order.

I would suggest that you email him back explaining that you have no desire to discuss contact or have any communication with him what so ever. Tell him if he does attempt to contact you in any way you will take it up with authorities. I do feel having DH contact him would not be a good idea, it could cause a testosterone flare and that would not be good. The only reason that I say to contact him at all is so if he proceeds to call, show up or attempt other contact on the basis of "I did not think she got my email!". This way you can jump on any further attempts and tell the police that you made it perfectly clear that you wanted no contact. Keep copies of all the emails and any other correspondence.

Do you have a dog? I think mine made me feel a lot more secure, I'm not sure if they would allow it in the motel but it might be a little piece of mind.
 
Laugh O. Grams said:
Delete and block any more emails from your ex. As a guy, I have never, ever contacted ex-girlfriends to just chat and pal around with. He's obviously looking to hook up again. Just move on and do not respond...your non answers will speak louder than anything you or your husband could say!
Ignore him AND get a restraining order. This guy is not stable. He is still holding onto a relationship that ended a decade ago. He scares me & he's not bothering me.
 


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