So, I’m a pretty nice, chill, laid-back guy. I’ve got a good heart, and unfortunately in my last relationship, my ex just kept taking advantage of my niceness. We dated from May until November of this year. It started with little things. Over the summer I would take her out for nice dinners, and she’d rarely manage to say a simple "thank you." Same with coffee/desserts when we’d meet up. Instead of thanking me for paying for her, she’d get angry and yell at me and tell me that if I pay for her she’s just going home? Then I have a friend that could get me New York Mets tickets in the front two rows, on days when he didn’t want to use them. So whenever he couldn’t use them, I would get them, and I would invite her, and never once did she come along, or thank me for offering them to her. For some reason I kept letting these things slide. Then, once we went away to college things got worse (we are at different schools). For her birthday in July I got her fairly expensive gold bracelet. For my birthday in September I got….nothing!! Not even a card….She called me, but still- not even a card? Come on! Then as time went on, she just was rude on the phone- as if she was PMS’ing, except all the time, but she said she still loved me and that she wanted to be together. I had had enough of her at that point, so I ended things. In the future though, how do I stop these types of problems earlier?!
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After 10 years of being together he started lying, cheating, stealing from me, not bringing money home. He was a substance abuser and at times verbally abusive. We have been apart for 3 years and now I can finally afford to get the divorce…he has "found" God and wants to come back to make things right. He is trying to get on his feet. We have 3 children that need him and really miss him. I know he has a good heart but i am afraid to take that chance. It is extremely financially hard to take care of the kids on my own. He claims that he needs to be with us to live to his potential. I am lonely but I think that he should try to thrive on his own before I even consider taking him back. Is this wrong? right now all he brings to the table is our history (prior to him doing wrong) and that he is the father of my children.


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My fiance (who I’ll call P) and I have been together for over a year (he only recently popped the question, and don’t plan to get married for another year or so when we graduate from graduate school).

Anyways, I found a box under the bookshelf in the living room today that contained old letters and A HUNDRED photos of him & his ex-girlfriend (who I’ll call X), who he dated 12 years ago for 4 years (and KEPT IN TOUCH WITH until he met me).

This is how the two of them met: X had a boyfriend, but cheated on him to begin dating my fiance, beginning a 4-year-long relationship that consisted of her telling my fiance that they were soulmates (and belonged together for life), but cheated on him with that other guy (and many other guys) for those 4 years.

The fourth year that X and P dated, X found some guy that she was planning on marrying, but she told P, "if you say youll marry me, I won’t marry this guy." By that time, my fiance P wasn’t sure if he could trust her so he said no. She went off and married the guy, had kids, and till this day still e-mailed him about how they were soulmates and belonged together.

My bf has a very good heart and always sees the good in people. I don’t care if he keeps in touch with his other exes but I can tell that this woman is still manipulating him (pretending to be a nice and "changed," and telling him she hopes hes in a happy relationship.

Anyways, I have been trying to tell my fiance that just because she didn’t PHYSICALLY abusive to him doesn’t mean she wasn’t abusive. She made him lose faith in love until he met me. I asked him, "if I was in a 4 year relationship where the man beat me every day but told me we were soulmates and that he loved me, I would also lose faith in love. But if I met you and felt safe again, WOULDN’T YOU BE BOTHERED if I still kept photos of this guy, letters he wrote me, and kept talking to him (even though he was still telling me we were soulmates)?

My fiance said, "you have to believe in forgiveness," and I replied, "some people don’t deserve forgiveness. If I cheated on you and abused you for so long, I DON’T DESERVE to have you in my life anymore."

Okay, story over :/.

What can I do/say to make him see this? What can I do to make him throw out the photos/letters?

Even if he does it, will it CHANGE the way he feels?

If I leave him, will he realize he needs to change then?


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