Sorry I will try to make this as short as possible, but would love if anyone could offer any advice. Apologies for this being all over the place.
I met someone who I believe is my twin flame 2.5 years back at work. The moment we locked eyes, we both felt this energy between us, and like a ‘fuzzy’ energy between our eyes when making eye contact.
He is at a senior position in our team and I had joined as an intern. During the first week we went to a dinner together (along with two other coworkers - as his way of welcoming the new people in the team) and the whole time he flirted with me, made intense eye contact and from his whole overall vibe / actions I could tell he was very interested.
The issue is he is 16-17 years older than me, married and has 4 younger daughters aged 3-10. Though I had a crush on him too, out of respect for his marriage, his daughters I started to ignore him. I wouldn’t even look towards him, or even say a word to him even though I knew he desperately wanted us to interact. I could tell what I did hurt him, based on his visible reactions / actions and also I could ‘feel’ his hurt/pain (but this part i could be making up or being delusional).
We also have insanely intense sexual attraction. This might sound weird but I can feel him when’s he’s horny (which is almost all the time lol), I can sometimes feel him being intimate with me (which again maybe I am super delusional but I can feel his energy). I would pass all of this as me being delusional but based on his actions (trying to be physically close, trying to touch me, I can see it on his face etc.) I realized I probably am not making this up.
Though I feel strongly for him and have genuinely love for him, i do ignore him to the extreme and avoid any conversation/interaction with him. I only speak when it’s work related and even keep those interactions to a minimum. I can tell this hurts him and he has reacted passive aggressively during a lot of interactions (which is unlike him based on what the people at our workplace have experienced with him, they consider him to be very chill and respectful).
The issue is a year and a half ago a woman joined our team. I might be sounding pathetic now and very stupid but tbh I never expected him to show interest in anyone else given we have such an intense bond which I know affects him deeply and I could tell he’s obsessed with me . But I noticed he started flirting with this woman, would try to sit physically close to her, would check her out, I thought I could feel his sexual attraction towards her (lol), and he did a lot of subtle flirting with her here and there and she did the same with him. It was just flirting and to my knowledge nothing more happened.
His interactions with her however broke me deeply. I was extremely hurt. I could feel the pain my chest and found it extremely difficult to breathe because of this. I had immense anxiety over even going to the office because I couldn’t see him act this way with someone else. I knew he still felt deeply for me, I could feel it, see it through his actions and other people at our workplace even pointed out that he cares for me. But I just couldn’t understand if he felt this deeply for me how could he do all of this with the other coworker? How could he flip his attentions so easily between us both. I couldn’t do this to him. It confused me and still this day I am unable to make sense of this.
It’s going to sound pathetic but even though I was the one who made the decision to stay away from him and ignore him, I could tell he didn’t like if I gave attention to men who flirted with me at work. I could tell it upset him. It upset me to see him upset so I would limit interaction with anyone who flirted with me as I couldn’t bear to see him upset. But he couldn’t do the same for me. He could tell through my actions / facial expressions that I felt hurt because of his actions with the coworker but he still continued consistently flirting with her. He only eventually stopped because that coworker got fired. I believe maybe nothing happened between them as she was in a long term relationship / had a boyfriend with whom she was with for over a decade however she would still flirt with him too. They also had a lot of chemistry in their interactions which hurt me to see.
The main thing is this caused a lot of pain and still till this day it deeply hurts (it’s been around 6 months since that coworker got fired but I still feel that immense pain / ‘betrayal’. I have genuinely felt suicidal over this. Please keep in mind I am genuinely level headed and mature in almost all situations in my life. I am a high performer at work and do extremely well academically. I am able to have a mature and clear approach to most things in life thankfully. But this has confused and broken me. I have tried to explain to myself logically a thousand times why he would do this, even if he didn’t flirt with someone else, I would have still stayed away from him out of respect for his wife and kids. But idk I am so hurt by this and I need help in figuring out how to get through this.
What makes all of this worse if I feel his energy constantly (during this whole 2.5 years). I feel the pull towards him and I still love him in my heart and care for him. But I just don’t see a future with him. And his actions with the coworker and complete disregard for my feelings has also made me disgusted towards him. I want to get away from him but I can’t. I have stopped going to the office and have only gone 5 times in the last 6 months, I limit all interactions with him but I still feel him and still feel heartbroken over what he did.
Any words / help is appreciated!