Sorry, it just sounds like a crazy idea for me :)…

The truth is, nobody knows why. Possibly not ever Tyler.

Berate and make fun of Tyler.

Tyler lashing out at you the next day is his defense mechanism against you rejecting him. I know that in your mind you did not reject him, but in his mind you did. And the reason behind this is mostly because it didn’t go anywhere sexually. This normally wouldn’t be an issue for guys that have learned to rise above it, but most men still have not. It boils down to how society and how guys can be, made especially worse by college.

The conversation that he probably had with his buddies would have probably went something like this:

Friends: So Tyler, did ya bang her?
Tyler: No, we had a lovely evening cuddling as she fell asleep in my arms.
Friends : >

Now had you acknowledged him in some way there would have been no problem. You needed to make Tyler feel like a man, because his personality was too passive to make what you did together enough.

I on the other hand am, of course, assuming the contrary. Just because. That’s all. No miscommunication, just skepticism about the facts. At first, I believed my grade school principal when she told me the moon was made of cheese. That doesn’t necessarily make it so. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but often times it’s much more ordinary and mundane.

1. Yes, Tyler was in V’s apartment.–”Anyway, I came home from class one evening to find my roommates throwing a party.”

Nowhere in the story does it state the two leave the apartment.–”I fetched a few pillows and blankets from my room”

You don’t think they were anywhere near sexual contact? Well maybe not in V’s mind.–”Back when I was a young college girl, if a guy made me laugh until my sides hurt, the panties were coming down.”
If V makes a statement like that then its perfectly reasonable to assume Tyler was expecting the panties come down after making said sides hurt.– “Tyler was fucking hysterical.”

Its only mind games from the perspective of V in this case. Tyler’s goals were simple. (re: side splitting=panties dropping) Thats not so much a mind game as a means to an end.

They both had a lot to do with the circumstances. I doubt during the night Tyler got up and became this contentious person by means of talking to V’s male roommates on the situation.–”I’m going to interject right here and now to say that I have always been a very light sleeper.”

Tyler, probably didn’t have a lot of luck with women,”Obviously, Tyler was a bit of a dork.” He was likely frustrated sexually, as every human being gets.

Men don’t cuddle on the couch late at night with a girl they just met when they do not want a sexual relationship. Tyler was impatient. V was unaware (or unwilling to) of Tyler’s sexual agenda.

Miscommunication caused Tyler to close himself off and become angry at V. Miscommunication caused V to not get the signals Tyler was giving her. It happens, sometimes its tragic.

I met this great wonderful girl, I made her laugh and did everything right. But it turns out she was just another tease and I don’t have time for that.

You not letting it go any further (when it could have, you were into him and it was your place so you two could have had privacy) was the reason his attitude towards you changed.

I feel like I have insight on this Tyler character. He probably has two modes, hilarious fun loving and charming, and then distanced,contentious and aggressive.

He really liked you, you mocked(unintentionally) his sexual goal. I probably would have reacted the same way he did. I doubt this was the first time someone he had gotten close to withheld sex from him. One day he probably got frustrated with situations like this and decided to handle them this way.

Like I said I probably would have done the same thing, men get VERY contentious when sexually frustrated in that way. You made the connections you wanted with Tyler, a deep emotional connection that still affects you today but men have to make an emotional and physical connection and you withheld that from him.