Title:
am I being a crazy, controlling girlfriend?
By:
My boyfriend and I have been together about four years. We have never really been with anyone else but eachother, we met when we were 16. We lived together all last year, and thats when our relationship started to really change for the worst. He stopped paying as much attention to me, basically stopped trying as much. I felt totally neglected, and we would get in fights over me thinking he is not paying enough attention to me. I am always afraid that he doesn't really want to be with me, and that he is just going to find somone else better, and leave me. I have always been this way toward him, but it has gotten really bad the more and more problems we have. I threaten to break up with him all the time, but don't really mean it. When I am upset over somthing, and I'm trying to tell him how I feel, he seems to find somthing wrong with it every time. How could the way I feel be wrong in any way, its just how it is, theres no right and wrong about it, its just a feeling thats there. So I end up getting really frustrated and threatening to break up. Then later I get mad at myself for doing that. I would never want to lose him, I don't know what i would do without him. This weekend, he went out of town to see his best friend, a few hours away. I wasn't invited, and I guesse I understand why, there was some graduation for his best friends little brother and they didn't get enough tickets or somthing. There are these girls that hang out with his best friend, and they always have to be there when my boyfriend comes. Last night, a bunch of them were camping out, and of coarse, these two girls were there. He called me, and we talked forever, I was crying and upset because I couldn't be there and have fun with him. I felt really left out because I wasn't invited either way. Then at one point, these two girls (one of them likes him), walked up and started hugging on my boyfriend, with me right there on the phone. The girl that likes him was talking like right in the phone, and was like "awwww, why don't you come sit and talk with meeeeee". He was talking back like I wasn't even there, then the two girls started making out right in front of him, I could hear them like they were right in the phone, then my boyfriend hung up on me. He told me that he thought I had hung up,and thats why he did that, but I was obviously still there. He was really upset that I was so sad last night, he was like, "you have nothing to worry about, ohhh don't cry babe, I love you". I could tell it really bothered him that I was upset. He is a really trusting guy, and I know if I can't trust him then I will never trust any guy. He has never cheated on me, but I just get so jealous and posessive it makes me sick to my stomach. Would you be upset over this!? Or am I just being a crazy, posessive girlfriend. I already feel like his friends maybe don't like me anymore, he sais its not true at all. But i feel that "that girlfriend", that is just crazy and everyone wants him to break up with me. I am a good person though! It just hurts me when he goes off without me and has fun, and makes memories with other people, especially other girls, that like him, and I am not there to makes memories with him too. I want US to do things together like camping with friends, but I feel like we don't do stuff like that together really. I feel like he is bored when he is just with me, and only has allot of fun when he is with his friends and I am not there. It hurts me so bad. He even tells me he's bored allot, or I can tell he is, but then he never makes effort for us to do fun stuff together. When I come up with anything, he's like no, I don't wanna do that, or he will but he'll complain that he is bored, but then he'll willingly go do that same thing with his friends and have fun doing it. What am I doing wrong here! I know I am jealouse and posessive, but I just CAN'T help it! Do I have grounds for being upset that he went out and had fun without me, and the whole situation with those girls happened with me on the phone? Oh, and also, he kept repeating outloud what we were talking about. We were arguing and i was upset over this girl, and I feel like he was saying it so that everyone can hear what we were talking about. He swore that knowone could hear him because he was sitting off to the side. Even when I would say, stopp repeating what we are talking about outloud, people can hear and its none of their business. He would then repeat that. I told him its embarrassing and I don't want people to know what we are fighting over. I guesse I am ahsamed that I was so upset over the whole situation, and I also don't want those girls to know that they got to me. He doesn't get that. Maybe I was just being paranoid, but when those girls walked up to him, he told them that I was upset, with me right there on the phone, even after that fact that I he knew I didn't want anyone knowing! Is he just not listening to me when I tell him not to repeat our business, especially to them!? Pleaaaaaaaaaaase help me. I don't think i can ever break up with him, I am just miserable. I didn't sleep last nite until 4 in the morning and woke up at 7. My stomach aches with anxiety so bad that I cannot stand up strait! I was supposed to leave this morning to viset my dad, but I cancelled because I am so sick with anxiety that I don't even want to go. I am mad that my boyfriend is spending the whole entire memorial weekend with his friends, and these girls. He is not coming back until Monday morning, and he left Friday night. I feel like we should do stuff together on holiday, wether its with other people or not. We are supposed to be partners, we aren't supposed to have these separate lives! I probably am making a bigger issue out of this than it is, but I can't help how I feel. What do you think?
Responses to this article:
--- Friday, June 25, 2004 - Been there its hard
Answer by: someone
Hi there, beleive me, i totally know what you are talking about. Inface me and my feyonce were going out for about a year or a year and a half and saw another girl kiss him in a parking lot, he didnt know i saw this, then when he saw me later on that day, never mensioned it at all, infact denied it then finially admitted that she kissed him, he said dont worry and that he loves me but he never did ANYTHING to stop her. Anyways, I broke up with him lots in arguments, and did it again, but this time that day, it lasted, I couldn't beleive it. I didnt sleep or eat for THREE DAYS. Finially, my friends got me to go out and met this guy, (rebound). Two months later, my (now feyonce) boyfriend came to my door crying, begging me back. I tell you, ever since I said yes, now we've been together three years as of last wednesday and engaged for seven months. Sometiems you have to let them know what their loosing for them to appreciate you. I'd be pissed if he did what your boyfriend did to you. Did he call you back after the phone hung up? If not, I'd seriously stop being in denial and think of maybe he hung up on you for those girls, and maybe had sex with them. Its easy to make beleive what won't hurt you. Dont let anyone treat you for a fool. Plus, You are the one that might look in the mirror fifty years ago and say man, i should of done this instead of that. noone can break YOU, noone can control you, you are in control of your life and you are capable of having more potential than this guy!
LOVE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: Love Q & A : Get your love & relationship questions answered - NEW!! Love Q&A Forum | Old Love Q&A Love Pros : Professional Help with love's challenges & relationships