I think my ex is still in love with me!! Help!!!

This might be long just a fair warning

So when I was a junior in high school (4 years ago) I was just kinda getting out of this relationship with a guy. But I had an art class with a different guy, I’ll call him Andy. Andy’s a popular guy, extremely talented artist, like, amazing. Andy starts showing interest in me and vice versa, he gave me this really intricate painting of a heart shaped lock for Valentine’s Day. So I get out of this relationship with this other guy, wanted a rebound, Andy says he doesn’t want anything serious, great.

Andy and I start this exclusive but not committed relationship. Friends with benefits. He took me to prom, brought me food, does the whole nice guy thing. He did a few pieces of art inspired by me, nude portraits (without my face in them), and paintings of me. We have a nice time for maybe 6 months. But I let someone else that I was interested in (I know, dumb high schooler always in and out of relationships, I’ve definitely calmed down). So I needed to end it with Andy. I called him over to my house and broke up with him. He was super upset, refused to leave my house, tried to take back the art he gave me. Eventually he calmed down enough to go home.

But things got weirder. Andy went to my house a couple of times and put gifts in my mailbox. Like expensive perfume and makeup. He bought me a kitchenaid stand mixer and put it in my dad’s car while he was waiting to pick me up from school. I politely thanked him for the gifts (I probably should’ve just given them back but those mixers are like $350) but told him to please not send any more. He was mad but said okay. I guess he was still mad because a while later, he posted a video of him setting fire to a portrait he did of me. Like it was so obviously me that a few people asked if it was. I called him because I was so angry he’d do that. I yelled at him and told him he needed to get help. Like that’s beyond creepy and violating. My dad even went to his place and talked to him too. And I blocked him on everything after that.

Flash forward to like over a year later, I’m in a relationship with the guy I broke up with Andy over, took a gap year before college, Andy is dating a girl too. I figured “he’s in a happy relationship, so am I, I’ll unblock him. So I did and he follows be back on everything. He sends me messages, I don’t respond. Comments on my story, don’t respond. I either never responded to him or gave him 1 word answers. He told all his friends that he’s still in love with me. It goes on like that for a while. He sent me some heartfelt messages but I just do t want to engage.

Another year goes by and the dude I was dating broke up with me, not really relevant but I finally get to be single. Not too much going on with andy. Saw him at a club for like 2 seconds but I held hands with a dude so he wouldn’t talk to me. Mind you, I’m still very creeped out by him and how he handled the break up. But anyway last summer I get a message on snap from Andy saying the creepiest shit and he tells he he wants to “fuck my brains out”. I’m so fed up at this point I screenshot it and send it to his mom. She apologized profusely and said she was gonna talk to him, and told me he said it was his friend. His friend added me and sent me a message along the lines of “I’m sorry, it was me who sent the message on his phone, he’s just so in love with you and it sucks seeing him so hung up on you”. And I believe him now bc that same friend sent me a video of him jacking off. Andy knows about that and still decided to stay friends with him, despite being so in love with me.

Andy is still blocked on everything, or so I thought. He comments whenever our mutual friend posts me,saying “wifey”, “you’re so lucky you get to be around her”, etc.

THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR 4+ YEARS

And the other day, I get a text from a number I don’t know. Guess who?!?!

I just don’t even know what to do, like I wanna ignore him but maybe he just needs some closure??? It was supposed to be a fling and it’s grown into this creepy ass sick joke. Literally anytime something creepy happens my friends say “maybe Andy did it”

Anyway, thank you if you read my little novel. Any advice is appreciated ❤️

Already an update: my friend just messaged me and said “I really wish you could see Andy’s story 😬”

***to provide some context, I was 17 when we had our fling, and I’m 21 now. He’s 23. And @ the comment about the gifts, I really should have given them back but now it’s been like 4 years lol.

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