My ex is scaring me. He’s been in Vegas since Thursday with some friends. I tried to maintain some sort of friendship/relationship between us, but that has proven time and time again to be impossible because of the embittered history and the still-bleeding wounds on both of us. Last week was a string of ugliness. I left my cell phone in my car last nite and when I got to it this morning to go to work, I saw I’d missed 5 calls from him between 10:30 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.. The voice mails he left were insulting in parts, bittersweet in others. I was hanging out with coworkers at Outback Steakhouse after work today and missed 3 more of his calls at 7:30p.m.. These voice mails are even scarier. From phrase to phrase, sentence to sentence, he’d switch gears from “I miss you, I love you” type stuff to spiteful, cold accusations that I seem to be doing better judging by my outgoing voice mail message and that it’s “shit [I] play”, that he hopes I enjoy doing some guy while I’m thinking about him, that he’s proud of me for walking away from him and yet disappointed in me because “I know it’s bullshit.” And how he forgives me for everything I did to him. (!?!?!) And then he urges me in a saccharine voice to call him back. Is he kidding??? Those voice mails give me the heebie jeebies and I want to go into a witness protection program, I certainly am not tempted to call him back! The ironic part is that if he knew this is the reaction I’m having to his – in my opinion, passive-aggressive, mentally unstable – voice mails, he’d be highly offended. I can hear him now. “You ACTUALLY think I’m gonna hurt you? When have I EVER caused you physical harm?”