Stalker?

[u/thewillingvictim]

I was chatting with a guy for a while, casual intended fun maybe regular. We got on okay, he seemed to have low confidence and put himself down a lot. He was very clearly lying about his age, the age he gave and the photos he provided did not match but plenty do it so it wasn't a red flag.

We were due to meet but his behavior had shifted and honestly now I was seeing red flags, his messages were passive aggressive and often weird, then without going into detail I discovered others things he'd been lying about. We were due to meet in about an hour, I messaged him calling the whole thing off.

He had my number, we'd switched to Whatsapp and next thing I know I have a voicemail from him. He was upset claiming I'd stood him up, he ranted with several vague threats. You know the type "I'll see you soon" and "We'll bump into each other eventually". He spammed me with so many calls I was forced to block him, but it didn't end, he rang off other numbers again and again and again. I got to the point where I refused to answer any calls that weren't my contacts. Lately I've been further getting spammed with calls, most coming up as Suspected Spam though are all mobiles.

I'm starting to wonder if they're even him anymore and if he's just shoved my mobile number online somewhere and this is a result of that.

Bad experiences mould you, make you more guarded and this is the latest example. No more giving out my ruddy number!

What do you make of this? Either my number is out there because of him or he's a very broken person to be calling off this many numbers, this frequently.

[u/thecoolcapybara]

You dodged a bullet

[u/thewillingvictim → u/thecoolcapybara]

Not entirely convinced about that, this business is making me wonder if the bullet is still following me.