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    Buddhist Wife
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    Hi Letty,

    What do you want?

    Do you want to live like you are living now? Does it make you happy? I’m not being facetious here, I’m genuinely asking. For some people this is what they want. They like being non committed and for them, love with a partner is about a lot of ups and downs, changes and trials. If this is what you want, you have to try and move to a place of acceptance where you accept your relationship for what it is.

    For others however, the majority I think, what they really want is stability. They want traditional monogamy, a marriage and children if possible.

    It seems to me that if you fall into this later group, you have to ask yourself some very serious questions about whether this man is the right man for you. He has already shown that he is comfortable with lying to you and is unreliable. These characteristics are extremely detrimental in a marriage and a man with them is likely to make a bad father.

    Sometimes we love someone but we cannot have them in our lives, because what they do to us is too damaging.

    I send you love and support and I hope that you find a solution that pleases you.

    #40554
    Letty
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    Hi Buddhist Wife, thank you for your reply. Wow, your first question really made me think! I have been married before as has this man. We both have children from previous marriages. If I’m honest with myself, he also chose to leave his daughter for a job, she was staying with us 3 days a week when we lived together. I really loved his daughter like she was my own, but he struggled to get close to my son in the way I would have wanted him to. I know he cared , but he struggled to show my son any physical affection. What I want us stability, reliability, support and a genuine 50:50 partnership. I just can’t understand why I feel so attached to him? So maybe I just need to be honest with myself and realise that maybe he is just not capable of giving me what I want. When you said he is comfortable lying to me, that was quite shocking, probably because the truth hurts. I want him to change bug I honestly don’t think he can. Maybe our “talk”‘will just lead to another couple of months of hurt and stop me from moving on with my life. Thank you so much for being so honest with me. Sometimes when you are so entrenched in the drama of such a relationship you don’t want to see it for what it is. Xx.

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