Trust Issues: Boyfriend lying about looking at porn
My boyfriend of 2 years has always been very sexual, he had a lot of porno mags / dvds when I moved in with him but he got rid of them because he said he didn't need them anymore because he had me. We have sex daily(if not twice or 3 times daily!) So I have a hard time understanding this but when I woke up from napping one day early last spring and came out to the room where he was (he was on the computer) and he was just on the homepage of the internet then I realized he messed up and never removed the last search from the toolbar. It was titled "female name(I don't remember) nude" I was furious and immediately called him on it and he appoligized & reassured me he was just bored and didn't have anything else to do (... he couldn't even come wake me up as I was nude in the other room?)
I got passed it as him just being impulsive, not meaning anything by it but a couple months later I was trying to find the website for one of my newer student loan payments in the history of my laptop and I saw that about a month after the first incident he was looking at porn again! This time while I was at work(he was temporarily laid off at the time) so I again called him on it but this time I elaborated greatly on the feelings of shame and insecurity knowing I wasn't good enough for him and how hurtful it was to me that he had to look at porn to satisfy his "urges" instead of using me. He again apologized saying he'd never do it again knowing how much it hurt me(blah,blah,blah)...
At this point my trust was broken in him so I began checking his texts/phone calls and shortly after he started working I saw a text he sent his MARRIED brother that said, "send me naked chicks" in reply there were a multitude of different pics his older brother sent him that he forwarded on to his "new buddies" at work. I also noticed a lovely graphic of a stripper doing a pole dance as the background of his phone :( I was again very hurt and called him on it. He agreed that if I was to be looking at good looking naked men on my phone and the internet he'd be just as jealous (if not more!) and he again proclaimed to me he'd stop. For the summer it seemed like it did. (I cancelled our internet service because we couldn't afford it anymore last summer)
Then fall came along and he was laid off again because of the weather... this time he'd spend the day at my mom's house while I was at work. Well when she got home one evening she called me asking what I'd been looking at while at her house because she had a pop up from a dirty site so she ran her virus scan and it detected a virus! I was again(go figure) furious and confronted him with it only I told him I saw it in the history because I didn't want him to feel embarrassed that my mom found it! But this time his reaction was different he got mad at me for snooping and checking up on him! I explained to him how hurt and how insecure it made me feel when he choses to look at these things and he ended up apologizing but I feared he would just try to hide it so I had my mom put an adult filter on her computer so he couldn't access anything too bad when he was there. Well he got around it and it happened one more time... he again was "sorry" and all that jazz I've hear ALL too frequently.
This spring the time came for us to get new phones... I was nervous because it had been so long since he'd had internet that he'd try looking for porn once he had the internet at his fingertips. Not much to my surprise the FIRST day after having our new phones I checked his history only to find that while we were laying in bed cuddling (as he fondled me) he was "playing on his phone" ie: looking up porn! We had an argument and less than 2 months later something similar happened I checked his history(he tried to delete it but I knew a way around it) and I saw he was looking at porn. This time I gave him an ultimatum. I told him he needs to get his **** together and stop acting like a 17 year old boy or we're through... (he's 27 and I send him dirty pics of me ALL the time to satisfy his urges!)
We'll you'll never guess but I was snooping again today(after almost 3 months of finding nothing and my trust finally starting to build it's way back up) I saw a text he sent to his newest buddies at work of a topless(probably 18 year old) chick and it caused me to blow up with anger and sadness and I'm very hurt right now. I am at a total loss of what to do... I want to see a relationship counselor but he just thinks we can get over it without "paying someone to tell us what we already know"... when we obviously don't know how to work through our problems very well!
I am VERY insecure and untrusting... all 3 serious relationships I had before I met my current boyfriend ended in me being cheated on and lied to and my parents recently divorced because my father is an abusive son of a ***** who cheated on my mom for several years before she found out. I have been to counseling on my own but I really would like my boyfriend and I to go before we lose everything we've worked for these last 2 years...
Does anyone think it's worth it to go to counseling at this point? What's the best way to show him the benefits of counseling to convince him to go with me?
Thank you SO much for reading! Any constructive advice would be so welcomed...