Ask Experts Questions for FREE Help !
Ask
    MS.CONFUSION's Avatar
    MS.CONFUSION Posts: 9, Reputation: 2
    New Member
     
    #1

    Feb 29, 2012, 03:46 PM
    Should I leave my relationship of 9 years?
    I have been with my boyfriend for 9 years and we have 2 children together. Our relationship has always been about his needs. He has always been extremely jealous to the point of me losing all of my friends for him. So I finally got fed up and left him five months ago.

    He was devastated he started reading books about getting over his jealousy. He got a job (he had been unemployed for a year while I brought home the bacon.) He enrolled in school and quit drinking and partying, so I decided to give it another go.

    And now five months down the road he has started drinking again, quit his job, and is slowly allowing his jealousy to take over again. I feel that its my fault for allowing him to fool me into coming back, and I feel guilty leaving again, but I am really unhappy. What should I do?
    odinn7's Avatar
    odinn7 Posts: 7,691, Reputation: 1547
    Entomology Expert
     
    #2

    Feb 29, 2012, 03:49 PM
    You already know what you should do, don't you?

    Do not feel that this is your fault because it's not. He attempted to change for you but just can't do it. People find it difficult to change and he seems to be one of them. Seems his drinking and partying is worth more to him than a relationship... and he quit his job? I think he's just using you and you are allowing him to do it.
    talaniman's Avatar
    talaniman Posts: 54,327, Reputation: 10855
    Expert
     
    #3

    Feb 29, 2012, 11:06 PM
    No shame in trying again to make the family work. Not your fault he could not keep up with the positive changes he made. But now that its failed, do what you did before, with no guilt.

    LEAVE!!
    Climbingrose's Avatar
    Climbingrose Posts: 4, Reputation: 3
    New Member
     
    #4

    Mar 2, 2012, 09:43 PM
    He wanted change because he love you. Maybe because you always feeling upset and not happy so the family was so cold for him? That why he feel whatever he trying to do you may not care about? A man without job always feel bad about that. He got a job and why he quit his job? Did you share with his feeling or ask him about that? I don't know if your both sharing enough together or not yet. There are nothing to feel wrong if you give him a chance one more time after you find out the reason make him getting worser day after day? Help your children's father and love him enough to let him feel there are nothing to worry about, to jealous about. Otherwise, find some help before decide to leave him.

Not your question? Ask your question View similar questions

 

Question Tools Search this Question
Search this Question:

Advanced Search

Add your answer here.


Check out some similar questions!

Should I Leave Loveless Relationship? [ 9 Answers ]

Okay, I've been going out with this guy for 2 years now.. and I don't know if I love him anymore? When we first got together, it was fine, we had a good few months, like any relationship.. Then, a few months into it he told me he was leaving me because he couldn't bear being tied down in a...

How to leave an abusive relationship? [ 3 Answers ]

Moved from, https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/relationships/being-abused-boyfriend-want-know-how-stop-261680-3.html, to its own thread. I burst into tears after reading your story, I originally signed up with this site to find answers on how to fix/end the relationship that I am in. I felt like no...

Should I leave or stay in a relationship that isn't going anywhere? [ 2 Answers ]

My boyfriend Kenny(24)and I(20) have been together 5 months and living together 4, It seems like we are stuck, It doesnt seem like he can see it going any farther, I would love to be with him for a really long time but he seems hung up over his ex-fiance of 6 yrs, they broke up 2 yrs ago but they...


View more questions Search