There are many brands of therapy. I am now forced to move on without him and even though it hurts more than anything Ive ever felt..There is a small sense of relief..I no longer have to wait for him to hurt me anymore, much less see him day in and day out with the knowledge he thinks Im alot of bad things. Im pretty sure I fell out of love with him. Jeremy, I am a wife of a ptsd Iraq veteran myself. Im not quite sure if its simply because he just decided he no longer cared one day or because he has problems other than our relationship that are managing to affect it in a negative matter. Ive tried talking to him about it except he just gets mad at me because I get emotional because Im upset and hurt by it. I have been with my boyfriend for 7 and years now. Im glad I found thisI am having the same issue right now. It wasnt until recently, after my last attempt to make (and change her to suit my needs) her realize these things, and assuring her that I wanted to work on our marriage, that she told me that she didnt know if it was worth it. My question is: How can we move from here? just please be honest with me if it. I dont know what is missing, but in order for a relationship to stick after many years, there have to be compliments, little ways to show one another you care, etc. He then ask me not to contact him anymore . But that day when we bought my computer, I decided not to tell my boyfriend precisely because I dont want him to think that Im going out too much with my friend. What is your opinion about this how can we save this relationship? There is no foul play or any words said that is out of color. Your partner must prove to you, in every conceivable way, that he or she has changed. She said anytime she sees me she thinks of the woman I cheated with because she saw a picture of us on my phone from the messages she discovered. Dear Memers i need your advise i have been in a relationship my this guy for one yr. at first he used to communicate with me daily but in the last three months he stop. How in the world can you get back to opening yourself up to someone who has hurt you? He told me that when we talk I give him anxiety and he wants the divorce asap. And I sometimes wonder if I will ever be able to let go of my EAP even if I did try to climb the mountain. Another thing is, every choice I make about my future I always picture it with brad wether thats a job or what city I want to live in or even simple things. I cannot cope with another day unfolding & wish as I lay my head down each evening that I do not need to face the awakening of a new day. He started coming into my room (I had moved into my daughters room early on) to hug me goodnight. My problems is that we grew apart, hardly had any sex, didnt talk about things more than day to day stuff and were more like room mates in the past 3 years. I gave him the space I knew he needed. Cheating so many times is saying, I am not worth more than that. You are degrading yourself therapy will help you not only uncover why, but give you tools to rebuild yourself. He has plenty of friends and family that he can talk to (even older male friends that he said he looks up to) , and many of them have talked to him about our situation, but I dont know if he truly has listened to them. We were best friends. My feelings about myself are under construction, I just try to be the best person I can. Be happy to hear your advice. I took the opportunity to tell her I did lie about that. Three months after the disclosure, he was on his knee proposing to me & asking that we re-new our wedding vows & return to the church where wed married in 1976 to do so. But make sure youve learned your lesson before trying to pursue her again. Is that a sign that our marriage is done with no chance of savaging it. she ended up leaving and went back home. What should I do? She wanted to leave me and our two dogs behind. There was a week or two where it was constant talking about it. I been down this road before with my first marriage. Perhaps she isnt really confused but is afraid to admit to herself the real reason. He said he wasnt going to ever speak to her and he wanted to make things right. I was married for ten years before learning that my spouse had been having an affair for 2 of those years. How much of this is his depression talking? It's problematic if you were to suddenly feel hatred for your ex. I dint know what to do. I want him back. The faces he makes, the way he walks, everything. Even if you really would like to, your survival instincts wont let that happen, and you must honor those. Thank you for your comment, Confused. There is emotional, mental, and sexual neglect. He told me he loved me, but not how little or that he was making himself ill trying to feel as he did at the start. For sure though, do not start a new relationship when youre in an old one. Dont start yelling because they do. Thats why you dont want to let go. I get scared of these things when we argue like this and I wanna know what to do to help my relationship be the best it can be? Im afraid to say you will have to make other living arrangements for yourself or for him in order to get the message across. . Then he said he would cut back to quit and that was almost 2 years ago. The proof is the drinking and nonsense didnt stop. Xx. She thought i was with a girl. for me talking a little really dint matter . Its almost as if Good and Bad is unclear in your mind and everything first looked good when it wasnt and now everything looks all bad when it may not be. Do think this would be a right choice to make? But can she just leave me alone and move on with her life rather than torturing me emotionally?. Certainly, when my alarm goes off at 5:30 in the morning so I can get ready to drive my daughter to school, I would much rather turn off the alarm and roll over for some more shut-eye all else being equal. You understand your opinions are important, and you have confidence in your ideas. He has now started to get womens phone numbers in bars and at work to prove a point, and that has made things 10xs worse between us. My husbands questions were to ask me to give him respect & trust so that we could work at regaining the love in our marriage. I always thought my husband would stay..He never judged me, yelled at me, or did a single thing to hurt me. And I realized it too late I realized it when he finished pulling away from me. Will he ever talk to me again. I am slowly getting over him, the last three weeks I have been in such utter despair and pain, memories that break my heart anew every time I remember them. She is a wonderful woman. I felt so betrayed because I respected our terms and remained loyal to him but he couldnt do the same. I gave him my support and said I hoped everything would be alright. It might simply mean that the couple has grown apart and cannot seem to make their way back together again. Is this a normal thing? He feels like he was also hurt when I travelled alone so he doesnt feel like he has to prove himself much to get me back. I have begun researching Marriage and Relationship Counseling in our area, and she says she will go. Was I wrong to have done this? I decided to give him space , no talking or texting for a DAT , just to see if he would miss me. Dont settle; break ups are not failures unless you violate values and moral codes. Especially since it is only recently in which Ive started to figure out who I really am, beyond the grasp of my controlling family and safety blanket. Yes he has deep feelings for me and loves being with me. How do I fix me? How do I save this? Just a quick note to say I have been working with Tako for about 5 years, on all sorts of different issues, anytime I get a problem at work, or my noisy terrible neigbours, or my Mother In Law plays up, I phone Tako and he sorts its out, even little things, I phone him and its all sorted, what would I do without him?? I am willing to wait actually . He is a black hole of effort and emotion that will always need filling. I was at a university and I was barely passing my classes. I know he loves me, as he said leaving was not a matter of love but a matter of being healthy. I told him that Im not asking for him to forgive me but to think about the good qualities I have and put a little hope in that part of me. she said she cannot let go of what happened in the past and that is partially why she feels this way today. I met a guy you loved me from last 5 years but told me last year . How does one physically connect with a man, who chose to take this road, without fear of rejection as has been the norm with him? He Is sad it ended like this and wants to be friends. And like you are doing he is now begging me to take him back. She WAS telling me for years that I was not paying attention, and not giving her and the kids all of myself. He also has another less popular twitter account which I also hacked. Pictures everywhere. Your boyfriends parents may have indulged him too much. He has told me that with everything going on in his life, with his kids, etc, that our relationship was supposed to be the easy place and it wasnt. we have come to an ugly in pass where my depression and his drinking was out of control and hurting our family. sometimes, those we love so much, if we make the mistake of taking them for granted and saying hurtful things to them even though we dont mean them, we could end up hurting them so deeply that they justifiably learn to feel betrayed and our irreparable damage forces the ones we love so much to leave. It will be a very good step for you. I would go to his moms house and it was like a shrine to the ex. He told me this 2, 5 months ago but a week after that he called me (it was a great festivity in our town that we usually celebrated together) and it was amazing! Move on! That was his error. I still say he has feelings for his ex and wants her. Or at least until the love and respect run . So I think the counseling should be a good move provided the counselor doesnt just say mhm but actually has tools and opens you up to further thoughts. Aside from thatwe are friends and I would like to at least help him see that not everybody leaves and not everybody is out to use and hurt you. Not only is this person validating you, but his very being (because its so much like yours) validates you all the more. and for the past 5 years I lived a life where I was scared to leave the house unless necessary out of fear of having another attack. i left him for a year, during that year he became more responsable got a better job that he was motivated about and he was giving the kids a real dad. She keeps them bottled in. She just told me yesterday that shes looking for a place just for herself and her baby. Hisin this context refers to her baby father. we are 9 months back together, he has taken 4 trips by himself with his cousins and friends, i found out he was doing cocaine with his aunt on my birthday and he recently went out and stayed who knows where because he did not come. My fiance and I have been together for about 7 years now and have two little ones. I dont see myself with anyone else. If u talk about muve he can hear n everything else. What do I have to acknowledge in order for me to understand how she expects me to say or do or act. Am I being a mug or can his feelings towards me change, he has said he despises me so why is he still wanting sex ? The responsibility of caring for the human being you brought into this world should be your first and top priority. We lived together for a moment but that environment became tense. Dear Dr Deb.,please help me.. Also, I told him I dont do anything. He even said so at one pointthat all we did was talk and vent but that we werent doing any actual work. And seriously my heart dropped into my stomach. What can I do, or do I do anything at all yet and just give him time to process it all? My answer is: Feeling can come back, but the process is backwards from the way it was the first time. The girl brought up wanting to perform on my husband, he immediately looked at me..not in a pleading way, but more of a did she just say that? If I should tell him, how would I assuage that conversation? Sit down and read new testament. Hes aware that he may have closed the door to us doing anything with other people completely. How do you know when you start to lose feelings?? Some feel distant. After a week if this I pressed her into telling me what was wrong and she finally said that she isnt happy. Many men are like that and it actually has more to do with their very early family experiences where men learn there is a terrible cost to showing vulnerable feelings than not caring. We even went to breakfast together when the kids (mine and hismy daughter is in college) were in town. Hi Dr, First, let me say, she had a traumatic childhood and suffers from depression, and just within the past year has been getting professional help. I just want her to know Im a actually doing something for myself. Make some effort to plan things out Please get therapy to give yourself the tools you need to get out of your bad place. Indeed, instead of contributing her opinion on the issues she said my baby father is outside to pick my up. She will not believe me. My boyfriend and I have been together for 5 years. I just dont have it in me to cheat on him though because I cant bring myself to cause him that pain. utterly devastated (UK). She declined & he called her from our kitchen at 7am to supposedly wish her & remind her the invitation was open. He is nearly 13 years older than me. Please know that there is help available! we get each other and are in love, even planning on the future but inside when i think about it. He is trying hard to make time but the business doesnt give him a break. I know we both need time to heal and 8 months might not be enough, but I fear if I leave too much space and dont try hard to get her back she will move on and I will never be with her again. My husband felt he had fulfilled his part but I was slacking with my end. Intense love can seem so lasting and forever that its almost surrealistic when we realize how quickly it can turn into hate. I loved him, just couldnt deal with the ex and the mom, tried telling him over and over that this was causing problems, he couldnt understand, kept saying he isnt interested in her. My husband & I worked at our own business together & I realized that he was distancing himself from our relationship more & more with each passing year. Id love to talk to him everyday as we used to, but I avoid doing that.How can I show him that Im different, that Im not needy or controlling anymore? After the breakup or the loss of a loved one, you will feel powerlessbut that's okay. When this continues, the commonalities arent so apparent. Its way too confusing for him. Suddenly she called me 2 weeks ago on Thursday at 6PM but i didnt answer. He started talking to a 22 year old in South Dakota through Skype. It was because a stranger at the airport asked me for directions and according to my boyfriend I wasnt very useful to him as my sense of directions isnt great so I should have asked him for help instead of giving answer myself. On Saturday 13th sept we were at my rugby club celebrating my 30th birthday (a joint party with two team mates who also turn 30 around the same time) which is this Friday. Is this a faze Im going through triggered by the anxiety? Well we broke up because he was in a really hard spot and wasnt able to give me much attention and he felt guilty. to get my husband back into my life.He s a good guy and good husband too. Any views and opinions expressed are not necessarily shared by GoodTherapy.org. Wont he be too secure or bored? But then I met my husband. Pray to God that your partner will submit his life to Christ. As parents, being nice is not enough: You have to require discipline from your children and it doesnt seem like they did that. and i dont want to lose her im trying so hard but i dont know what to do. I wished in my heart I had kept them words to myself, he knew I liked him a lot. Not that much for me. My husband and I married very young, he was immature and after the birth of my son I was still over weight and exhausted and didnt take care of myself. I found this website while researching my complicated relationship with my husband of 2 years. Hi J Good Morning. But,they kissed. she wants to fix our relationship but she dosent feel she loves me right now He also told me that he Was putting himself to the test that he could maintain a close friendship with her whilst I worked. It is so hard to make it be all about me and my recovery. And I do believe from your description that he is also insecure. I turned down advances from other women, showed her texts and even went as far as giving her my phone passcode and keys to my apartment. But i had to reply to know who sarah is by asking who is this but no reply since then. I had been clean for over a decade. Do you have any suggestions or help you can provide? The key is to not work with a psychodynamic therapist which will take 30 years. I came home from work and told my wife that was it. This crushed me and I found it difficult to function (began drinking heavily). (I know) she continued to request that we meet. Im still stuck back at the moment you walked into his LR and he did not hug and kiss you and say to the other girl, Here is my girlfriend, Carmen. And why was she his wallpaper if she just came to visit his mother? Hi Jessica After all, you are a quality person! There was no contact with the first girl after the night he broke up with her) I kind of gave him a free pass on both of those, they hurt, I was honest an open with my feelings, he understood why I was upset and did everything he could to fix the problem. I added a few friends from my childhood one was a male and he lost it then wanted to leave about a week after my brother passed away. The second time he said something was missing, there was no chemistry and that someone from work was in his mind, a girl he liked prior to knowing me. I am very worried that this whole thing happened for some unforeseen reason and we arent meant to be together in the end, but I truly love her am willing to try and fail to get her back many times to know that I have tried everything I could. Oh yowies eeks!!!! I started to think that maybe it was the musicians and artists in my city that I surrounded myself with that were not at the level of commitment and sincerity that I desired, and this led me to believe that I could perhaps find this unreachable creative utopia in a different city. I eventually want to get married and want to be a healthy individual as well as a spouse. Well, there is a way. Naturally, being separated, he will probably long for you so anything he commits to now has to be re-discussed when he is with you. Thats how it seemed. He met me at my car door. I cant say it was all bad though he is an amazing father to our children, he has always loved me, and he changed a little every time and that always gave me hope. You, sir, have crossed the wrong sword! Perhaps she is just immature or selfish? Feeling not in love, feeling pain, feeling sorry for myself and not seeing him for who he truly is. Now after a few days of discussing how I really feel about him and considering going our separate ways I realize I do still love him but things have been said that he cant get past. I have been with my bf for 3 years and next week is our engagement, however, its been week since he told me that he does not have any feelings for me. This tells me that you actually lack some of the coping skills you need. I love this woman with my soul and I am broken up about her. Please help. I would say hes left me a total of 15 or more times within our 10 year relationship. Hi Dr, thanks for replying back. Sorry for the separate comments but I keep thinking. I just feel tired like the fight in me is gone and I just dont care if it works out or not. I was blamed for not believing that it would happen or for giving him hope. I was disappointed and thought this was going to end up just like my previous 3 experiences. I have been married to my beautiful wife for 15 years and we have two wonderful daughters. IIve been in a relationship for 7 years . Too much focus on how rotten you feel about your actions point your attention back to yourself and thats not where it belongs. Me and my husband (together 10 years, married 18m) have 2 children together. I dont know if it was planned or not, doesnt matter. So I understand you losing respect for him. He doesnt want me to talk to him. Isnt there somewhere that HE can go now? Im emotionally drained and exhausted I feel like Ive had the life sucked out of me. All I want is for her to miss me and for her to swallow her pride and at least talk to me. I let him have it when I found out that he had been doing that. It appears that he says he wants to try, but he isnt really even trying. I cant control it but thats what Im working on right now. I am far from perfect but I love him and really want him back. He still doesnt sleep when he has it and still hurts so I see it as being an excuse to get high. When you were in love with him, he was not in love with you. Idk really know him. I met my girlfriend during my senior year and her freshman year of college. I do therapy on Skype if that is of interest to you. For example, go back to a special restaurant or rent the first movie you watched together. I know hes not the right partner for me. Says I am not part of his future. Hi Raquel, Valentines Day we reconciled. He was sexted other woman for 7 to 9 months. Its a long story. This is a wonderful step. I explain to the officer when I had called and explained him what hes been going through the last few months he also has been diagnosed with bipolar psychotic, high anxiety, PTSD depression and ADHD. He has told me I need to get back the strong woman I once wasthe one he fell in love with. Now that her sexual exploration with this person is over (it only lasted the summer) we are trying to make things work because we have 2 children 3 and 9. The next day she began an online relationship with an old high-school fling from India (we went to boarding school), their relationship was very sexual and they exchanged pictures and videos, I was aware of the whole thing and read and saw everything. PLEASE READ: I met my sons father when I was in high school he was 2 years younger he was the perfect gentle men we were inseparable we had love like the movies. That is the only way I can love my spouse, not because we have a bad relationship, but because a relationship is hard! People tell me its a front that she puts up. p.s he has no relationships with anyone. You cannot respect the top until you have felt the bottom. Perhaps you need to work a bit on your own sense of self-esteem and self-confidence. After pleading with her almost daily to come home, one day she did. 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