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I don't know how to forgive my boyfriend
Relationship Stress / by Mtotta
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 January 6th, 2025
...See more I found porn on his computer. When I talked to him about it he said that he needs help and that he's been addicted to porn for 8 years. We've been together for 3 years. I told him from the start that porn is a deal breaker as it would make me feel cheated on. He said he tried to quit but would keep going back to it. He wants to stop but didn't know how to get help. I was staying at his and his parents house. I stormed off and he got his parents and told them everything. I was heartbroken. After a while we talked ad he said he wants to give it up for me and himself and we made a plan. It's been 2 weeks now since he's stopped, but I don't live with him and I worry he's lying to me a en though hes usually truthful. He showed me how it says online that if he stops for 90 days then he'd be completely over it. Im trying to support him because I love him. But when I ask how it's going, he still says he's always tempted to watch but doesn't. It makes me so angry hearing him say he's still tempted. To me it feels like he's been cheating on me the whole time, looking at other women and jerking off. Some days I love him and some days I really hate him. He broke my trust and made me doubt he loves my body. I can't sleep some nights and I don't know what to do. I want to scream and break things. And I want to hurt him like he hurt me but I know it's not right. I don't know what to do.
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Should I ask him for a break?
Relationship Stress / by Mtotta
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 October 7th, 2023
...See more I've been with my bf for a year and a half. It's both of our first relationships and we are students at university. Everything had been great for so long and I feel like he genuinely loves me but recently I keep feeling unhappy and think about breaking up even though I don't want that. I think I just want him to realise he's losing me and to do something about it but I don't know how to tell him. The thing that's been bothering me the most is that he's very cheap. I only get gifts on special occasions and he's never paid for a date (we each pay for ourselves). But Ive paid for dates before. He's always complaining about not having money and says when he gets his next student loan he will spoil me, but every time he gets it, nothing changes. The only money he spends on me is when he gets ingredients to make food at home and is still very stingy with how much I want to use. I've talked to him about how he wouldn't struggle for money if he got a job, and that he could just work 2 days a week so that it doesn't mess with his studies, but he makes the excuse of needing to find the perfect job even though he's not looking for one. I think he's being lazy. This makes me feel unvalued. And I'm not one to say that a guy has to make loads of money for me to be with him, but I'd like little gifts and to be taken out. Everything else in our relationship is great but this 1 thing is making me feel worse and worse and I don't know how to bring it up or how to fix it. I thought about taking a break, but I don't know how that would solve it. Should I tell him I need a break and say that I don't feel valued? What do you think I should do?
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