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Have you ever had a stalker?

I've had a few, both online and irl.

When I was around 14, my "ex" stalked me after I "broke up", he punched me in the face so I bled, and threatened me multiple times. He waited for me outside of a friends house, and then followed me when I walked past him, pulled out a knife and tried to cut my hair off - cut my finger cause I covered my hair - so that no other guy would want me. He threatened to end me, and tried to stab me saying that I was going to die.

I also had one that was in my class when I was 17, he followed me home, showed up uninvited outside my grandmas house, just standing there asking me to come outside, after I already told him (20 min before) that I wouldn't meet him, he threatened me, tried to fight my friends, and it didn't stop until I lost my freaking mind on the bus and screamed at him to leave me alone (he was following me - after I several times told him to turn around and stop). It didn't stop, but instead of stalking me, he turned to hating on me, talking down to me in-front of people and so on^^

I had another stalker when I was 17-18, online, I still have no idea who it was, but he kept adding me on msn from different profiles, threatened me, and told me he would find me and what he would do to me. I'm not sure how many times I blocked this guy, and he just kept coming back somehow (even emailed me).

When I was 23, I had a guy stalk me from a dating app, he found my social media, and added me, I accepted at first, and he got extremely weird, so I deleted him. On the dating app, I could see that he had circled around where I lived several times. He kept messaging me for almost a year, asking to meet, telling me that he wasn't a rapist or stalker, and that I was just paranoid (I never claimed he was). He found out where I worked, and eventually drove around at the time I was walking to work, so I saw him. He asked me again to meet - now that I had seen him - I still said no, so he called me fat (i was underweight🥹), he came to my work a few times after that - I just ignored him.

When I was around 25-26, a guy followed me on insta, and would dm me, telling me what I was wearing, and where he had seen me, but I never saw him^^

My ex stalked me after I broke up with him. He threatened to ruin my life, but he also sent me messages just telling me where I was, what I was doing, who I was with and so on, without me seeing him, so I constantly felt watched. He sent people to spy on me, one guy even walked into my apartment, pretending that he had the wrong number, and 5 seconds later I got a message about who I was with and what I was doing. Every time I blocked him, he came back somehow, he also sent me an email telling me how stupid I was for blocking him. One time I fell asleep while watching tv, I told him the next day that I fell asleep (cause he had texted me), and he texted back saying "since when do you sleep with the lights on?". He took a job in google, and one time texted me asking me why I was looking for a lawyer (nobody knew that I was looking), I asked him how he knew that, and he said "google knows everything". He hacked my accounts, and is the reason I stopped using my google account. He also made up stories to get a reaction from me - saying he was in the hospital, that he had been in a car crash.. It really didn't stop until I got married, but he also hacked my fb a few years ago 🥹 I feel like he's moved on now tho, thankfully 🙌🏼

I've also been followed several times by strangers - which is almost worse..
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Predatory men will often try to frame you and your existence in a way that excuses treating you poorly.

I'm proud of you for having strong and clear boundaries with this. Is that patronizing to say? I say it as a friend.

I'm glad some men have toned it down since you got married. I can assure you it was the right decision for everybody's wellbeing and if I got a chance, I would remind them that justice can occur through more than one framework and can depend on who the "victim" knows.
This is all so scary and sad that it happens so often 😔

I've never had a full on stalker but I've been followed many a time by strangers
@GoldenOldie I made a comment directed at the OP, then at you, in this reply thread.
GoldenOldie · 31-35, M
@SomeMichGuy you reply twice separate. Two notifications with my username
Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
@SomeMichGuy Exactly. The times I've been followed (which I shared in a new post), was scary because I had no idea what they wanted, where their minds were at. Which ofc can be the same online, but at least then they're not able to reach out and grab you or something. I think both can be traumatic, just in different ways. Long term online stalking can be extremely draining mentally, can cause paranoia, and it might escalate over time, which is really scary.
exexec · 70-79, C
An adult neighbor stalked my wife when she was a teenager and in college. If she sunbathed in her yard, he came out to water the garden or she could see him in an upstairs window with binoculars. He seemed to always stop by the pharmacy when she was working there. It got so bad that she told her father, who talked to him and he either stopped or was not so obvious.
theweekdy · 22-25, M
I’ve dealt with my share of both online and in real life. I’m really sorry you went through all that and I’m glad you’re still here 🤍
GuiltyBiStander · 31-35, F
Yes.

Several.

Not good, but don't feel like sharing details.

Sorry for what happened to you.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Personally only online. And on another site about ten years ago.

However some friends and myself once took care of a stalker IRL in 1980. He never bothered her again. 😊
Every instance you recounted should serve as a warning to women everywhere to be aware. Needless to say I'm sorry those happened to you.
Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
@onrealityofdreams Thank you!
@Cassieeeee You're welcome.
DayDreamer3 · 36-40, F
Yes, I have had to deal with a few.
I don’t like to post on social media. I don’t really like being in videos. I don’t trust easily. I’m looking forward to getting old and fat lol
Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
@DayDreamer3 I can understand that. I usually don't update in real time anymore on sm.
Selah ·
Not really. Just normal girlhood experiences with predatory men. Be safe and smart.
Vin53 · M
A .380 makes a fine concealed carry that has enough ooomph to get the job done.
Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
@Vin53 we're not allowed to carry here
Vin53 · M
@Cassieeeee Let hubby take care of anyone. Thats what hubby's are for.
GoldenOldie · 31-35, M
@SomeMichGuy my stalker gaslighted me… I’m sharing my take. I’m getting Deja-vu.

Let’s stop talking
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Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
@SomeMichGuy I think I'm so numb to it now.. This is just some of it, and most my trauma is way worse than any of these experiences, which is why I can so easily just sum it up as something that happened^^
MrAverage1965 · 61-69, M
These must all have been weird troubling experiences for you. Did you ever report them ?
Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
@MrAverage1965 Yes and no. Didn't really think it was something to report. My mom wanted me to report my ex, cause she got worried about his obsession..
When I was a popular media celebrity in a small county, I had more stalkers than you could shake a stick at. It didn't bother or concern me in the least.
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GoldenOldie · 31-35, M
@SomeMichGuy I find you disingenuous and in-general your attitude attacking me so hastily over my stalking experience incredibly sus but I’ll leave it here… if you stop reply-messaging me
Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
@SomeMichGuy I also first thought it was directed at me, but I don't have fake accounts, I'm not a troll and haven't stalked anyone so 😂

@GoldenOldie I'm not surprised tho, there's a lot of crazy people making several fake accounts to harass people.. Has happened several times to me on here🥹
Lostpoet · M
Yes and it ruined my fcking life. I didn't even know guys could have stalkers.
Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
@Lostpoet Yeah, it's not really spoken about is it.. But I know several guys that's had stalkers. Sorry it ruined your life 🥺
how did he manage to hack you?
@GoldenOldie how did they manage to reset it?
Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
@GoldenOldie No it was my ex, and he used his job. @vbxcfg He used his job, and I'm sure he got my passwords at some point..
GoldenOldie · 31-35, M
@vbxcfg “forgot my password” it kinda makes the system security weaken and potentially the email is the weak point. It’s why reusing passwords is bad (but how easy it is makes it common—who wants to remember 30 passwords and remember which goes to what site)

Most sites enable password reset. A lot of info is on scraping sites; “oh no pwned” can tell you the breeches 🤓
Moneyonmymind · 31-35, M
not for me but ive also never heard of a stalker ever being a good person.
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
Sounds like you drive them crazy and then you dump them
Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
@Ferise1 🙄 First guy I "broke up" with cause he tried to break my window. Last guy I broke up with cause I caught him cheating. The others I never dated 🤷🏼‍♀

 
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