Originally Posted by
caragirl
The advice i need is how do i get him to realize he can't treat me like a dog , even though i've let him before , how do i get him to realize i'm serious this time?
The answer is simple... by being serious, as stupid as that sounds by what you said in your post your only telling yourself your being serious but your actions are proving otherwise. If you were serious you would not take him back in the first place. If you were serious things would have ended a long time ago. If you were serious he would not even know you have changed your ways of thinking because he would be cut out of your life.
So stop telling yourself your being "serious" because you can only fool yourself for so long. Taking things to heart actually involves some pretty hard things to get through if you want to do the right thing for yourself stop letting him walk over you because that's a serious problem. So take a outside look at your relationship, what do you have to lose from taking a stand against him? An already decimated relationship? Take a stand for yourself and he will either change and start to respect you or he will leave for easier "prey". But one thing is for certain by the way he acts towards you he does NOT respect you, whether he says he does or not, the answer is obvious. So take a stand for yourself and get serious.