I think you should tell them, “I'm sorry, but I really don't feel like I can trust Tom not to get physical again if he gets upset by something, and I don't want to put myself or my family in that position.”
Especially since it sounds like he hasn't made any kind of acknowledgement that he screwed up last time. I would guess he thinks his actions were fine.
Honesty, time, trust, communication, therapy, journaling.
If the core of jealousy is due to previously being cheated on then this is a bandaid to a much larger issue. He needs to work on healing from that trauma.
If your issue is insecurity then you should be working on that as well. Why are you insecure? What's the root of the problem? How can you learn to love yourself?
My partner & I both spend one on one time with opposite genders. But we both know our own boundaries, trust one another not to get into compromising situations, & are able to communicate our feelings. We both know the other people we spend time with & feel comfortable with these individuals in our lives.
By the way, what you mentioned isn't a boundary but more of an arbitrary rule. A boundary would be “If you spend one on one time with the opposite gender I will leave this relationship”. You cannot (in the literal sense) control another person's actions.
At this point I just think it sounds offensive. The insistence that women in their early 20s are too “mentally underdeveloped” to make fairly basic lifestyle choices just sounds insulting. They started dating at 21 and 29. Really? She was groomed? The law said she was old enough to drink alcohol…old enough to die in war…old enough to do porn…old enough to smoke cigarettes…old enough to sign up for $100k loans. But she's not old enough to date someone 8 years older than her? Make it make sense.
I also forgot to add their is a friend of mine who cheated on his gf and I told my gf and she judges and hates him for it and voices it to me all the time, but I feel cause I have said something in the past, that if I say anything abt her friend she will get mad and say “she nice, don’t talk abt my friend”
the fact that you think she broke up with you for setting a boundary and are now shocked that she actually stuck by her own word is wild. good for her, i would do the same if i had to beg someone to comfort me when i’m sick and then they lash out cuz they’re annoyed.
You're not creating any drama, his friends are. And frankly, his friends sound sketchy to me. Like, I wouldn't to be alone with any of them… especially considering your boyfriend doesn't seem to believe you or care when you tell him they're making you uncomfortable.
Personally, I would dump him. Do you really want to have to brace yourself for hours of discomfort and anxiety every time his friends come around? That is nothing something I would put up because he can't be bothered to check his friends.
The fake ring probably doesn’t fit very well, since costume jewelry can’t be custom-sized. Real gold and platinum are more comfortable when sized by a competent jeweler, so you might be able to wear it every day.
Look, if op wants to stay, good, but that doesn't mean you should lie about shit to make her good no? That's literally my point. Sweeping it under the rug won't work here, acting like it didn't matter won't work, “focusing” On certain things won't change anything, op is not a kid, yk, he can tell he was done dirty. The correct is not lying to make her look good, it's accepting she screwed and trying to make her win ops trust, what you're doing is “focusing on the goodside” And leaving all the badthings with op.
Kudos for you feeling healthy enough to talk about your life with others. Your fiance is being a dweeb. Allowing strangers to know more personal information allows them to become less than a stranger to you so you should dilute your stories with things like “this one girls father” not “my father.” Unless you wanted to know him long term which it was way too soon to bring up that conversation with a potential friend anyways.
My SO has horror stories from her life and as long as it's a nice conversation she's able to have I'm happy for her. If she's getting blasted at a bar to get it all out then I'd try to help her along to therapy, not alcohol. What you did sounded collegiately appropriate. Your BF doesn't own your trauma and holy crap I just realized he's your fiance at 18 and you haven't worked this stuff out already that he doesn't get ownership over your experience but the privilege to know you.
So for the past few [insert the time frame] where we've been talking, I've pretty much played and toyed with your emotion. I noticed you kinda liked me, and I acted on it pretending that I liked you back. Why I did this, well quite simply I though it was all fun and games, untill resently I've realise that what I have done simply is not right and pretty fucked up to do to another person, and basically I feel pretty ashamed by my own behavior. This reason I'm telling you all this so bluntly, is because I didn't know what to do or how to stop it, so I asked reddit how to slither out of it like a spoiled child. But this dude recommend me I simply told you the god honest truth, so you could realise the kind of scumbag I am. So yeah that's about it, I truly hope you hate me as much as the hate I've received by making the reddit post, because damn, a girl like you deserves so much better people in their life than what I have to offer.”
What makes you think you can handle his emotions? And why would it be your job to handle his emotions? HE needs to learn how to handle his emotions. Ridiculing his elderly mother is disgraceful behavior. He sounds like an immature, selfish jerk.
Why are you still in contact? He cheated, he killed it (the relationship).
No.
I think you should tell them, “I'm sorry, but I really don't feel like I can trust Tom not to get physical again if he gets upset by something, and I don't want to put myself or my family in that position.”
Especially since it sounds like he hasn't made any kind of acknowledgement that he screwed up last time. I would guess he thinks his actions were fine.
My opinion is that this is stupid.
Honesty, time, trust, communication, therapy, journaling.
If the core of jealousy is due to previously being cheated on then this is a bandaid to a much larger issue. He needs to work on healing from that trauma.
If your issue is insecurity then you should be working on that as well. Why are you insecure? What's the root of the problem? How can you learn to love yourself?
My partner & I both spend one on one time with opposite genders. But we both know our own boundaries, trust one another not to get into compromising situations, & are able to communicate our feelings. We both know the other people we spend time with & feel comfortable with these individuals in our lives.
By the way, what you mentioned isn't a boundary but more of an arbitrary rule. A boundary would be “If you spend one on one time with the opposite gender I will leave this relationship”. You cannot (in the literal sense) control another person's actions.
Not your call. Pls back up.
He chose you, that's what matters.
At this point I just think it sounds offensive. The insistence that women in their early 20s are too “mentally underdeveloped” to make fairly basic lifestyle choices just sounds insulting. They started dating at 21 and 29. Really? She was groomed? The law said she was old enough to drink alcohol…old enough to die in war…old enough to do porn…old enough to smoke cigarettes…old enough to sign up for $100k loans. But she's not old enough to date someone 8 years older than her? Make it make sense.
I also forgot to add their is a friend of mine who cheated on his gf and I told my gf and she judges and hates him for it and voices it to me all the time, but I feel cause I have said something in the past, that if I say anything abt her friend she will get mad and say “she nice, don’t talk abt my friend”
the fact that you think she broke up with you for setting a boundary and are now shocked that she actually stuck by her own word is wild. good for her, i would do the same if i had to beg someone to comfort me when i’m sick and then they lash out cuz they’re annoyed.
Again, are you the one to decide if a couple needs therapy?
You're not creating any drama, his friends are. And frankly, his friends sound sketchy to me. Like, I wouldn't to be alone with any of them… especially considering your boyfriend doesn't seem to believe you or care when you tell him they're making you uncomfortable.
Personally, I would dump him. Do you really want to have to brace yourself for hours of discomfort and anxiety every time his friends come around? That is nothing something I would put up because he can't be bothered to check his friends.
The fake ring probably doesn’t fit very well, since costume jewelry can’t be custom-sized. Real gold and platinum are more comfortable when sized by a competent jeweler, so you might be able to wear it every day.
Look, if op wants to stay, good, but that doesn't mean you should lie about shit to make her good no? That's literally my point. Sweeping it under the rug won't work here, acting like it didn't matter won't work, “focusing” On certain things won't change anything, op is not a kid, yk, he can tell he was done dirty. The correct is not lying to make her look good, it's accepting she screwed and trying to make her win ops trust, what you're doing is “focusing on the goodside” And leaving all the badthings with op.
Kudos for you feeling healthy enough to talk about your life with others. Your fiance is being a dweeb. Allowing strangers to know more personal information allows them to become less than a stranger to you so you should dilute your stories with things like “this one girls father” not “my father.” Unless you wanted to know him long term which it was way too soon to bring up that conversation with a potential friend anyways.
My SO has horror stories from her life and as long as it's a nice conversation she's able to have I'm happy for her. If she's getting blasted at a bar to get it all out then I'd try to help her along to therapy, not alcohol. What you did sounded collegiately appropriate. Your BF doesn't own your trauma and holy crap I just realized he's your fiance at 18 and you haven't worked this stuff out already that he doesn't get ownership over your experience but the privilege to know you.
“Hello Amanda, we need to talk.
So for the past few [insert the time frame] where we've been talking, I've pretty much played and toyed with your emotion. I noticed you kinda liked me, and I acted on it pretending that I liked you back. Why I did this, well quite simply I though it was all fun and games, untill resently I've realise that what I have done simply is not right and pretty fucked up to do to another person, and basically I feel pretty ashamed by my own behavior. This reason I'm telling you all this so bluntly, is because I didn't know what to do or how to stop it, so I asked reddit how to slither out of it like a spoiled child. But this dude recommend me I simply told you the god honest truth, so you could realise the kind of scumbag I am. So yeah that's about it, I truly hope you hate me as much as the hate I've received by making the reddit post, because damn, a girl like you deserves so much better people in their life than what I have to offer.”
What makes you think you can handle his emotions? And why would it be your job to handle his emotions? HE needs to learn how to handle his emotions. Ridiculing his elderly mother is disgraceful behavior. He sounds like an immature, selfish jerk.