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Created on : Friday, July 01, 2005, 05:06:14 pm
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Is it time to end things with your significant other? Or, have you just been handed a relationship pink slip? Share your stories.

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January 25, 2006, 5:54 am PST

Moving on IS hard

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Hi, 

I haven't logged on in a while. I hope you are doing better than before. I hope you stay strong and remember what I said in my message.  To answer your question I did consider abortion, I even went to 3 different places with him to talk to someone. I had the strangest feeling come over me and I left.  Needless to say at this point it is to late. He has started calling but still doens't want to maintain a relationship.  I have been praying and putting my faith in God.  Sometimes thats all we can do.  

April  

You're right,sometimes that is all what we can do. When i put my faith in God,i become stronger and i do believe that nothing passes by without punishement. So people who hurt us will get hurt someday. I think being alone does not always mean being weak,because even if you are surrounded by people, mostly the wrong kind of people,it doesn't make you stronger either. I just wish you the best of luck and life is still ahead of you and i am sure you will meet someone who would love to raise a family with you. I am also sure that i will meet someone who deserves me. I just learned so much from this experience ,and it hardened me in so many ways. Thank you for your support although you're half way around the globe. Do you have any email or address i can contact you through? Best of wishes... Rayane.
 
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January 25, 2006, 7:03 am PST

should i

Been with the same man going on 29 years, don't live together we don't see each other everyday.talk on the phone.everyday but he lives with his two grown daughters and they don't want him to get married or live with me because they know I'd make them get off there lazy f-- A-- and get a life ..anyway met a man on line. and he wants to meet me we have alot in common and he seems like a good guy. but i don't know if i should feel guilty about meeting him. i know i shouldn't but well thoughts on my problem..
 
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January 25, 2006, 7:52 am PST

Breaking Up

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I am in the process of getting divorced after 23 years of marriage. My wife and I have 4 sons ages 22,20,18,and13.I have loved and still love my wife. In my 23 years of marriage no other woman has mattered to me other than my wife. I have never even looked at another woman. The son rose and set on my wife.She on the other hand does not share my feelings of love. She is a bartender and that is more important than me. I am not fun to her OI am just a bill payer. I earn a great living and we financially want for nothing. 

 I have now entered into a relationship with a wonderful and beautiful young lady who I have fallen deeply in love with. She is also in love with me. We have know each other for 4 years but only very casually.Not even as friends but aquaintences. She was our waitress at a resturant that I frequented 2x a week. When she herd that I was getting divorced she called me as a friend to see if I was OK. that nite we talked for 5 hours about nothing at all . we spoke the next nite and over many weeks one thing led to another. The problem is that  I am 49 years old and she is 23. I know this has disaster written all over it but for every bad reason there is 1000 good things happening. My marriage was pretty lousey for the last 7 or 8 years so I have had plenty of time to greive for the loss of my marriage. I am someone who loves to love and be loved. With my new lady I feel both. I am COFUSSED and would love to look in from the outside but I am too involved to have a good look at the situation ,but my GUTand my HEART tells me this is good.  

  

Thanks for any insite that anyone can give. 

If your heart and gut tell you it's right, then it's right for you!  You are the only one that truly knows what makes you happy.  She is an adult, so why not have a relationship with her?  I know what going through a divorce is like and I am now dating someone amazing!!!  He was also a friend for a long time and in time turned into more once we both actually got divorced.  Life is short, don't want for something that Society thinks is right, you have to look into your heart and brain to see what is right. 
 
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January 25, 2006, 9:31 am PST

Not a Good Idea

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Hi All 

  

I am in the process of getting divorced after 23 years of marriage. My wife and I have 4 sons ages 22,20,18,and13.I have loved and still love my wife. In my 23 years of marriage no other woman has mattered to me other than my wife. I have never even looked at another woman. The son rose and set on my wife.She on the other hand does not share my feelings of love. She is a bartender and that is more important than me. I am not fun to her OI am just a bill payer. I earn a great living and we financially want for nothing. 

 I have now entered into a relationship with a wonderful and beautiful young lady who I have fallen deeply in love with. She is also in love with me. We have know each other for 4 years but only very casually.Not even as friends but aquaintences. She was our waitress at a resturant that I frequented 2x a week. When she herd that I was getting divorced she called me as a friend to see if I was OK. that nite we talked for 5 hours about nothing at all . we spoke the next nite and over many weeks one thing led to another. The problem is that  I am 49 years old and she is 23. I know this has disaster written all over it but for every bad reason there is 1000 good things happening. My marriage was pretty lousey for the last 7 or 8 years so I have had plenty of time to greive for the loss of my marriage. I am someone who loves to love and be loved. With my new lady I feel both. I am COFUSSED and would love to look in from the outside but I am too involved to have a good look at the situation ,but my GUTand my HEART tells me this is good.  

  

Thanks for any insite that anyone can give. 

Have you ever listened to Dr. Laura?  I listen to her a lot.  I don't think it is a good idea to be in a romantic relationship with this young lady.  You have to remember that you are old enough to be her Dad.  She is just starting her life.  Your children will resent the fact that you are with someone their age.... not a good idea.  Remain friends.  Although this 23 year old may look at you in a favorable light right now, in time as she grows up, she will get her independence and not want a "father figure" to rescue her.  And what about children?  She will probably want children and then your own grandchildren would be the same age as any new children you may have with her. 

  

All around-- NO.  Take some time for yourself.  Rediscover who you really are.  Pray for God's will and not Yours. 

 
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January 25, 2006, 10:10 am PST

hardest thing

  hey guys...straight to the point...ive been with my girl for a month but we know each other for 4 years...not a close relationship but we knew each other...well she just recently broke up with me yesterday....she said because she isnt ready for a relationship and she doesnt trust me...she went on my myspace profile and checked one of my friends that i consider a family member...she went on one of the pictures and saw a comment i left...i said she had a pretty smile...she said that im a liar....she isnt my a family member...other than that she sais theres other things she has noticed...but didnt tell me...and the thing is this girl within the time we have been together she has really helped me out with my stresses..she makes me happy....ive never tried so hard to keep someone happy or give my all to someone...i told her just to give me the chance to earn the trust but she sais she has been in relationships like that and she just becomes a b****...sorry for that word but it was her exact words....we also moved too fast...but i didnt know it was a problem...she sais she still has feelings but she really doesnt think it can work out....i think its not fair for me not to get a change to prove myself...i know ive been faithful, havent cheated, and from my part ive been honest...pleace someone help me out...what should i do???? normaly people come to me for this kind of problems but when it comes to me needing the help i blank out...i can explain in more detail if its confusing you guys but please im really hurting and i would like some help.....thank you
 
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January 25, 2006, 10:41 am PST

Ex-gf's intentions

My relationship with my ex ended 2 months ago. We have talked a few times but couldn't reconcile. She wanted her space and wanted us to move on. So I did. She didn't want any contact between us. Even though we shared a dog, she took the dog and I couldn't see it anymore. Then out of the blue, she sent me an email stating that she felt bad that I didn't see our pup anymore. And would drop off the pup at my house when I want to see it. What is her intentions?
 
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January 25, 2006, 4:27 pm PST

can i overcome resentment?

I recently found out that my fiancee/boyfriend of 5 years was having a secret affair with another girl. It lasted about four months. I eventually caught them in bed together. Needless to say, I took him back. I later found out he started seeing the same girl again, 2 weeks after i caught them together. He had told her we broke up and the only way i could find out was to confront her. So i did. Yet again i took him back. I found out about the second affair in December. But now I'm finding so hard to live a happy life with him. I'm constantly questioning him and accusing him of being with her. I'm afraid that i am begining to push him away although i now believe he has stopped cheating on he. I've become extremely depressed and it's putting a strain on our relationship. I guess what i'm getting to is that i need advise from anyone and everyone that has it, good or bad. How can i overcome the resentment i feel towards him? I cant even go one hour without thinking about him with her. Please help me!
 
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January 26, 2006, 12:03 am PST

I need help!!

 I thought when I found my boyfriend it was the best thing that has ever happened to me. We had met online and soon got together and now four months later I am starting to question what he's up to. My boyfriend has and eight month old son with an ex girlfriend and the weird thing is I dont think he's messing around with her because he can't stand her, they are also in a legal battle over paternity and custody of the child. The court process has just started so he says he has been distant because he's stressed out. I understand that and all but the same web site where we met there is a profile with his picture his info and all these girls talking to him. He swears its his brother who is using this profile cause we both deleted ours when we began dating. My problem is the sign in times on this profile match all times when he and I are not together. Everytime I bring it up he starts crying and gets really upset and says i don't trust him. I have been hurt so many times that I am very suspicious of men. He used to call me or text me all day now I will be lucky if he calls me 3 times in one day and when we do talk its like 5 minutes at the most. I'm really stressed out about this. PLEASE HELP ME!!!
 
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January 26, 2006, 6:18 am PST

Sooo not you

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 I've been with this guy ever since i've been in college 3 1/2 years ago.  Well this past December he graduated and ever since then we have been having problems.  Every time I start to think it goes good it starts to go bad.  I've done everything in my power I think to make it work.  I go home every weekend to see him, but lately he just doesn't seem like enough.  He works 2 jobs right now so we dont get to spend time with each other as I would like to.  It might sound selfish but I feel like he don't put in the effort that I do.  Maybe its just a guy thinh I don't know.  Here's my problem and he knows about this guy.  I have been talking to this other guy back and forth over the phone and internet over a week or so.  We go to the same school and I don't see the problem with it.  My boyfriend knows that we have been talking and didn't seem to have a problem with it.  It's not like I was hiding anything from him.  I believe trust and honesty in important in a realtionship.  Here is when the problem comes in the other day after I got out of school I met him for lunch and thats IT! Nothing else happened me and this other guy went our separate ways.  Heres the thing my boyfriend knows that the other guy wanted more in return and assumes that we have done something apparently.  I felt really bad after the fact and told my boyfriend that night that I had met him for lunch even though I didnt do anything that would indicate to me that I did anything wrong.  Well after I told him he got real quiet and went ballistic and as a result told me he never wanted to see me or talk to me again.  I can't help but think about him and how horrible I feel for doing that, but at the same time I feel like I was not out of line on this one I told him and I didn't keep it a secret from him.  I have a hard time thinking what I would do without him and I was wondering is he going to realize he reacted or just give up on our future together?  Also I want to know peoples feedback on whether I was wrong or not meeting him for lunch and whether that is considered cheating?
 Okay you definetly didn't do anything wrong...your allowed to have men as friends are you not?? To me it sounds like your ex is having a hard time right now...working alot will do that and the fact that he realizes you guys might be slipping from one another...I think it was jealousy that might have caused his reaction but the fact that you and this other guy only went out for lunch and nothing else happened it's fine....as long as you don't feel anything for this guy except for friendship....i think the way your boyfriend took it though is that because you felt that you had to tell him maybe you felt guilty....you shouldn't at all if this other guy is a friend...now about your boyfriend saying that the other guy wanteing more....well every guy thinks that...they know how the guy mind works so maybe you had friendship feelings for the other guy but maybe the other guy had more than that for you...but since nothing happened....you wouldn't know...the way you have to look at it is if he went to lunch with another girl he's been talking to alot lately would you have done the same to him?? This was not cheating....just lunch with a friend
 
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January 26, 2006, 6:23 am PST

Your better off without him

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I recently found out that my fiancee/boyfriend of 5 years was having a secret affair with another girl. It lasted about four months. I eventually caught them in bed together. Needless to say, I took him back. I later found out he started seeing the same girl again, 2 weeks after i caught them together. He had told her we broke up and the only way i could find out was to confront her. So i did. Yet again i took him back. I found out about the second affair in December. But now I'm finding so hard to live a happy life with him. I'm constantly questioning him and accusing him of being with her. I'm afraid that i am begining to push him away although i now believe he has stopped cheating on he. I've become extremely depressed and it's putting a strain on our relationship. I guess what i'm getting to is that i need advise from anyone and everyone that has it, good or bad. How can i overcome the resentment i feel towards him? I cant even go one hour without thinking about him with her. Please help me!
 I know this may sound harsh but once a cheater always a cheater...you shouldn't have taken him back....it's only going to get worse....You need to leave this guy and don't take his crying or begging or anything...You don't need this and are better than that...Cheaters deserve Cheaters....
 
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