gr8love
Jul 6, 2010, 07:57 AM
We are both unemployed: I'm freelancing making very little money and she is on unemployment looking for work after just graduating with her Masters degree.
My girlfiend is a volunteer Board member at a non-profit. Its been great for her as she has met many people that she feels can benefit her career wise. I have been to the events and met most of the people she volunteers with.
(OVER THE COURSE OF 5 DAYS):
About two months ago she told me she wanted to break up. We had been fighting a lot and she told me that she hadn't experienced enough in her life and that she needed time to "figure herself out". She wanted me to leave or for us to make arrangements right away. She spoke about using the time to become a better girlfriend for me and about how people break up and reconnect after years all the time. She said that, that is what she wanted. I told her that I could not make any promises about having a future but that I loved her enough to let her go.
I was staying at a hotel for two days and during that time we had been speaking on the phone, crying together. She was telling me that she felt that it was the wrong choice and that she would regret it but needed to make it.
Honestly, it felt like she was pushing me to say " I will get back together with you some day". I didn't promise this but I did assure her that we would both be OK.
NOW IT GETS TRICKY
I found a sublet and accepted it on the morning of my third day away from home. I went to the house to pick up my clothes around noon and was with love and affection. She urged me to cancel the sublet and to stay living with her to work it out. After an afternoon of crying together I canceled the sublet. I left for the gym around 4 PM and got text from her saying "Im sorry but I really can't do this, I know I said I wanted to be with you but when you are away its clearer to me".
I was now back at the hotel having lost out on the sublet. She called me about at 2 o clock in the morning drunk. She told me that she loved me and that she missed me and was sorry for being crazy and going back and forth with me. She told me that she was going home to sleep and wanted me to come back in the morning to REALLY work things out.
I went back in the morning and as it turns out, she told me that after she spoke to me at 2am she went to another part of town to hang out with one of the guys that volunteers at the non-profit with her. She said that they didn't have sex but did other things.
To make a long story a little shorter:
- I forgave her after a day of crying and two more Indecision about our relationship from her part.
- I emailed the guy and told him that this can never happen again.
- she told me it wouldn't happen again and I actually do trust her
- we are back together; still fighting but working on it and getting better
AT THIS POINT:
She still volunteers at the organization along with the guy. The organization has social events and I am upset that they see each other even though nothing happens and they are not alone together. I haven't asked her to quit because I feel that it is too selfish but I don't think I can bear that they still see each other.
I don't want to hold a grudge and end up punishing her later.
Should I ask her to quit?
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
My girlfiend is a volunteer Board member at a non-profit. Its been great for her as she has met many people that she feels can benefit her career wise. I have been to the events and met most of the people she volunteers with.
(OVER THE COURSE OF 5 DAYS):
About two months ago she told me she wanted to break up. We had been fighting a lot and she told me that she hadn't experienced enough in her life and that she needed time to "figure herself out". She wanted me to leave or for us to make arrangements right away. She spoke about using the time to become a better girlfriend for me and about how people break up and reconnect after years all the time. She said that, that is what she wanted. I told her that I could not make any promises about having a future but that I loved her enough to let her go.
I was staying at a hotel for two days and during that time we had been speaking on the phone, crying together. She was telling me that she felt that it was the wrong choice and that she would regret it but needed to make it.
Honestly, it felt like she was pushing me to say " I will get back together with you some day". I didn't promise this but I did assure her that we would both be OK.
NOW IT GETS TRICKY
I found a sublet and accepted it on the morning of my third day away from home. I went to the house to pick up my clothes around noon and was with love and affection. She urged me to cancel the sublet and to stay living with her to work it out. After an afternoon of crying together I canceled the sublet. I left for the gym around 4 PM and got text from her saying "Im sorry but I really can't do this, I know I said I wanted to be with you but when you are away its clearer to me".
I was now back at the hotel having lost out on the sublet. She called me about at 2 o clock in the morning drunk. She told me that she loved me and that she missed me and was sorry for being crazy and going back and forth with me. She told me that she was going home to sleep and wanted me to come back in the morning to REALLY work things out.
I went back in the morning and as it turns out, she told me that after she spoke to me at 2am she went to another part of town to hang out with one of the guys that volunteers at the non-profit with her. She said that they didn't have sex but did other things.
To make a long story a little shorter:
- I forgave her after a day of crying and two more Indecision about our relationship from her part.
- I emailed the guy and told him that this can never happen again.
- she told me it wouldn't happen again and I actually do trust her
- we are back together; still fighting but working on it and getting better
AT THIS POINT:
She still volunteers at the organization along with the guy. The organization has social events and I am upset that they see each other even though nothing happens and they are not alone together. I haven't asked her to quit because I feel that it is too selfish but I don't think I can bear that they still see each other.
I don't want to hold a grudge and end up punishing her later.
Should I ask her to quit?
WHAT SHOULD I DO?