Hi all,
I've been having relationship issues lately and seek some advice.
I'm deeply in love with my current GF. We have been together for more then two years now and been sharing a home for almost two years. About 3 months ago she started crying in bed and she ended up telling me she was scared of not being in love with me anymore. I was broken. See our relation from my point of view was going really good. We had fun together, we shared everything, I was a great support for her and the sex was good... I mean basically nothing was indicating this to me. Intuitively, I got suspicious, cause I know girls enough to smell something was wrong. So that is how I found out that she and her ex BF from like 5 years ago (witch I knew and respected the fact that she was seeing as friends from time to time ) were sharing deep feelings about each other. She always was honest about the fact that this guy was very important to her (like a brother let say) but she also was clear that she could not imagine being with him. They did not do anything physically but I felt cheated emotionally by their psychological bond. I told her to leave and think about this. I said I wanted her to come back but I wanted her to be 100% with me, so basically take your time and decide what you want. Of course she came back. I knew how important this guy was for her and felt that if I told her not to see him anymore, it would be literately push her away from me. So I asked her to set a clear limit to him. A definite line between friendship and intimate bond that could not be crossed and to keep me up to date on if she talks or chat to him. She did just that for about a month. But it did not do me well. She now tells me she cannot be with me cause she feels bad that this guy is still in her head. She says that she (and him to) are not able to truly be in relationships cause there is still something between them. She does not want to lose me because, well she loves me and feels good with me, but she feels trapped with this other guy on her mind. She feels if she stops all contact with him without "closing" their relation it will always be in her mind. She doesn't know what to do. She says the best outcome she could expect would be to go with him and witness this is all fantasy so then she could come back with me and be 100%. But that is just something I cannot accept.
So now we are on what we call a break.
We still live and sleep together. We share everything like before. We support each other we cry together. But we do not kiss or have sex. We both still need each other. but I'm wandering if I should take a firmer approach and ask her to leave again? Or staying by he side could solidify our relationship?
It's just hard to be attractive and win her heart back when feeling desperate. I'm always on the thin line where I want to give her space, but still want to be there for her.
And meanwhile, the other guy is like ok take your time. So she juste has a fantasy of him, and could hard truth about me. Its hard to compete with a fantasy when you just feel dumped.
Anyways, I could go on for ours....
Thanks fo any advice!
Hi all,
I've been having relationship issues lately and seek some advice.
I'm deeply in love with my current GF. We have been together for more then two years now and been sharing a home for almost two years. About 3 months ago she started crying in bed and she ended up telling me she was scared of not being in love with me anymore. I was broken. See our relation from my point of view was going really good. We had fun together, we shared everything, I was a great support for her and the sex was good... I mean basically nothing was indicating this to me. Intuitively, I got suspicious, cause I know girls enough to smell something was wrong. So that is how I found out that she and her ex BF from like 5 years ago (witch I knew and respected the fact that she was seeing as friends from time to time ) were sharing deep feelings about each other. She always was honest about the fact that this guy was very important to her (like a brother let say) but she also was clear that she could not imagine being with him. They did not do anything physically but I felt cheated emotionally by their psychological bond. I told her to leave and think about this. I said I wanted her to come back but I wanted her to be 100% with me, so basically take your time and decide what you want. Of course she came back. I knew how important this guy was for her and felt that if I told her not to see him anymore, it would be literately push her away from me. So I asked her to set a clear limit to him. A definite line between friendship and intimate bond that could not be crossed and to keep me up to date on if she talks or chat to him. She did just that for about a month. But it did not do me well. She now tells me she cannot be with me cause she feels bad that this guy is still in her head. She says that she (and him to) are not able to truly be in relationships cause there is still something between them. She does not want to lose me because, well she loves me and feels good with me, but she feels trapped with this other guy on her mind. She feels if she stops all contact with him without "closing" their relation it will always be in her mind. She doesn't know what to do. She says the best outcome she could expect would be to go with him and witness this is all fantasy so then she could come back with me and be 100%. But that is just something I cannot accept.
So now we are on what we call a break.
We still live and sleep together. We share everything like before. We support each other we cry together. But we do not kiss or have sex. We both still need each other. but I'm wandering if I should take a firmer approach and ask her to leave again? Or staying by he side could solidify our relationship?
It's just hard to be attractive and win her heart back when feeling desperate. I'm always on the thin line where I want to give her space, but still want to be there for her.
And meanwhile, the other guy is like ok take your time. So she juste has a fantasy of him, and could hard truth about me. Its hard to compete with a fantasy when you just feel dumped.
Anyways, I could go on for ours....
Thanks fo any advice!