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Asked Jul 20, 2012, 03:40 PM — 16 Answers
My fiancé and I were in a long distance relationship for about a year and his mother died and I wasn't able to come there during his ordeal. When I was planing to come there he told me that he slept with a few women because he was lonely. Now I understand that he was lonely because it was a long distance relationship, but when I finally came I found out that he has been in a relationship with a woman for 6 months. He asked me to marry him not long after I got there and he slept with his other woman a few days after we got engaged. We finally moved back to my home city and things could not be better but I still so hurt and still very angry about what he has done. Do I stay with him and marry him or do I break up with him?

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Jul 22, 2012, 02:32 PM
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Do you really think I should leave him after he moved back to my home town with me, bought me a house in my name and filled it up with the latest eletronics and furniture? Also he stays at home and whenever he goes somewhere he takes me with him.

Here's my problem - you posted your question, you asked for opinons, you got them and turned defensive.

So here's how I see it - you are considering staying in a relationship with a man who cheats because he moved to your hometown, bought you a house and filled it with electronics and furniture and takes you with him when he goes out?

Sorry, I'd rather buy my own house, electronics and furniture and not be with a cheater.

In fact, I've been known to do exactly that.

It sounds like you're selling your soul for material things.
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Jul 22, 2012, 02:41 PM
I would not marry him. How could you marry someone who has hurt you so bad? YOU DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS... do not ruin your life. FIND BETTER
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Jul 22, 2012, 04:07 PM
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Here's my problem - you posted your question, you asked for opinons, you got them and turned defensive.

So here's how I see it - you are considering staying in a relationship with a man who cheats because he moved to your hometown, bought you a house and filled it with electronics and furniture and takes you with him when he goes out?

Sorry, I'd rather buy my own house, electronics and furniture and not be with a cheater.

In fact, I've been known to do exactly that.

It sounds like you're selling your soul for material things.
He bought me all of those things to aplogize for what he did, and that is why I was asking for advice. I dont know if I should stay with him although he is showing signs that he wants to work it out.
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Jul 22, 2012, 05:10 PM
He bought you all the things out of guilt and to appease you most likely.
Don't sell yourself short by allowing him to put a price on your love and loyalty.
He's already disrespected the commitment that goes with engagement, what will stop him from doing the same in a marriage.
Things don't matter to me, honesty, faithfulness, consideration and respect do.
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Jul 25, 2012, 10:30 AM
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He bought me all of those things to aplogize for what he did, and that is why I was asking for advice. I dont know if I should stay with him although he is showing signs that he wants to work it out.
Clearly you are going to stay with him. I've stayed in relationships like that more than once. Statistics show women will be in an average of 7 abusive relationships or go back an average of 7 times to the same abusive man until they see the light. I am single and love it. God has provided all my needs and I volunteer at nursing homes, offer art therapy, and am learning how to open my own business. How great is that?!? You can be your own person too.

This sure beats being owed by someone else! My years of abuse has ruined me emotionally and I am on my way to becoming healthy for the first time in my life.

I have been strangled, starved, raped, kidnapped and abandoned in a blizzard thousands of miles from home by my own Ex-husband. Amazingly no one else, family, friends or church were able to help me, my support system failed me. God made a way for me to escape and survive each time. Escaping is useless when you go right back to the same captor or just another one.

I was used for child pornography by my own father and all of his wealthy friends during most of my childhood. I was happy when he died, thought I was free only to connect with other abusive men. I am damaged but have a huge capacity for loving, I am extremely empathetic and creative. My own genius came from the abuse. I am a member of mensa and score in the top 2% of the county in spacial concepts and am finally using my talent.

Please watch for the isolation that is sure to come. Be careful, be prepared. Have an emergency bag packed in your car and find out where your local women,s shelters are. You will leave him, and most women leave an abusive man only when they know the next abusive act will end up in their death.

Go to a support group where you can learn about the different types of abuse and learn how to recognize red flags. Listen to other stories from women in abusive situations. One women's abuse ended with the husband training their dog to attack her. She finally left after the dog ripped out her throat, she survived and the hospital filed charges. He'll spend the rest of his life in jail. Who are you with, how bad can it get?

It is all about control, which is what he has over you now, and he will do anything to keep you under his control. The red flags are waving, Please open your eyes!
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Jul 25, 2012, 12:42 PM
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My fiancé and I were in a long distance relationship for about a year and his mother died and I wasn't able to come there during his ordeal. When I was planing to come there he told me that he slept with a few women because he was lonely. Now I understand that he was lonely because it was a long distance relationship, but when I finally came I found out that he has been in a relationship with a woman for 6 months. He asked me to marry him not long after I got there and he slept with his other woman a few days after we got engaged. We finally moved back to my home city and things could not be better but I still so hurt and still very angry about what he has done. Do I stay with him and marry him or do I break up with him?
I can understand your being hurt and angry but why in the world did you stay with him? You think he will stop cheating on you after you marry? He went back at it after he asked you to marry him.
Give him his stuff back and leave him. In his eyes he has bought you and now he can do what he wants to do.
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Jul 25, 2012, 04:12 PM


Do you go out anywhere without him (work and/or school doesn't count)? Do you have friends and family or interests of your own? Do you trust him to go out with friends or pursue hobbies/sports he is interested in without getting worried that he is pursuing another woman?

Every couple needs time to be with other people to bring fresh energy into the relationship. If you can't trust each other to stay loyal when you aren't together then the relationship will stagnate and suffer.

He bought you a gilded cage. Do you really want to be beholden to a man who has shown that he cares more for another woman's feelings than he does yours? You have only his word that he didn't pursue her and wear her down while telling her that you didn't exist, were cold and heeded warmth or one of a thousand other lies cheaters tell.

What does he do for a living? Do you work?

I would pack my personal belongings and walk away with my held high knowing I didn't allow him to buy my self-respect.
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