Thank you all so much for your replies!
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Originally Posted by Vibrating Obsidian
The question which can arise for the man you love is “Am I just another number?”
What will your relationship provide that it hasn’t for the rest of your relationships?
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This is excactly how he feels! He has told me so. I don't know how to give him that security. He believes in actions... not in my words.
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Originally Posted by divine1966
How did you ruin his life if those partners you had BEFORE you even met this guy?
I don’t get it.
Why does he even need to know how many partners you had and why does he have a list of their names????
And he calls you a slut???
There is no future with this man. I’d be done with him.
In the future when you meet the right person there is no need to provide numbers or names. It’s enough to know that you had partners before. Who needs to know details and why???
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That list of his was a strategy to try to take those facts of his mind on paper. And I guess, a way to look for plot holes... to catch me lying or confusing facts... He felt betrayed because I did not tell him about my past and because I did not get tested before we got intimate.
He says that he has completly lost trust in humanity. Because the one person that should be closest and hold you dearest betrayed him. I did not risk his health on purpose. But as a matter of fact I did. But out of stupidity. He won't forget this easily.
And I can't blame him for that. I was so naive and careless. In the beginning of our relationship when I had an appointement at my
gyn. Some of the things he had said made me doubtfull about men I had been with. I got tested on
chlamydia... but I acted so
cowardly and egoistic...
neither telling him about the test, nor about the negative result. I still don't know how to get my head around this. What was I thinking?? How could I blame him for his doubts and lack of trust? It is nothing but a natural and healthy reaction to sneak behaviour.
The other thing is about personal values. It was his choice to wait. He never wanted to get involved with anyone who has a past like mine. According to his values I was a bad and sick person.
He used to still see positive qualities in me. Else he would have just left me... not seeking therapy.
Well and I guess some of the things just scared him in a way... because he started doubting weither he could be enough. Weither I was looking for the same.
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Originally Posted by Curry
I have been wild in my youth. I was so lonely. My first husband judged me. He was nice and easy going and kind for the most part. He didn't tell his family who lived overseas that we got married, he wouldn't discuss future economic plans even though I was in college with him and we got married early so he wouldn't be deported. I now have a relationship where we communicate about making love and we communicate about anything I want to or my partner does. I don't separate my life into compartments, my goal is to think and feel and be present in all parts of my life. I also don't want a partner that is wonderful in only one or two parts of my life. I love having someone who is respectful and gentle when he asks to talk about my business, my life. It is wonderful not to be put down.
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I am glad that you found love! Thank you for sharing. The way you describe your relationship sounds quiet simular to the one my boyfriend craves and one that I am looking for, too. Comunication is important. It is what we are struggling at.
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Originally Posted by ForWhatItsWorth2U
Your thread title says it all. If he can't cope with your past, that is HIS problem.
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Is it? To some extent, yeah. If he feels like he will never be able to cope with it, it would be best to admit and call it off.
On the other hand he is suffering and not in a healthy state. As his partner I want to support him no matter what. But, yes, I can't solve this. I can only be there... try to rebuild trust. Give him the feeling that at least I am sure that this is right. But the more I feel that he does not love me at all the harder it gets.
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Originally Posted by prefabsprout
I fail to see what your past has to do with now, you have not cheated on him with anyone. He sounds deeply insecure. I am very sceptical of his therapist's claim that people like you don't change - that does not sound like the kind of thing a therapist would say (therapists know more than anyone we can and do change!) I am wondering if he is making that up to add weight to his own opinion.
Really he sounds deeply insecure about his own worth. Not sure what you can do about that, if he recognises it and wants to change it might be possible to find a way forward but dumping all his insecurities on your past is not going to help.
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I am deeply sceptical about the therapist, too. Not because she is working against the relationship. But because she is supposed to help him. And not send a person away feeling worse without offering any kind of suggestion. He is taking therapy because he wants to save the relationship.
Yes and no. My past and the beginning of our relationship are quiet blended in his view. I regret so much that I ever got involved in being someones affair. That was one of the worst things I ever did. But that thing ended only a few monthes prior to our relationsip.Though he knew about this, because we were both unhappily in love at the time and talked a lot about it...
Still. That person called me when I was with my boyfriend. And because I avoid to harm people I just said I would call back... not thinking how the man I was dating could feel about it...
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Originally Posted by tecomsin
How can he be wonderful to you?
It isn't clear to me why you felt the need to share these things to begin with. Were you looking to be accepted 'warts and all' or for some kind of atonement?
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I guess some of the things I told him as a friend made him a little suspicious. And I did not want to ly. I did not want to hide my past. I think it was not what I told him. But how. I felt insecure. I was stammering. Giving very short answers. He wanted some kind of reflected commenting. Context like: I did not have intercorse with all of the men.