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What to do...? Relationship problems...

Ok, my question is this...what should I do in this relationship? Stick it out, keep it going, and make it better...or quit while I can?

My girlfriend and I have been dating for 7 or 8 months now. I'm 20 and she is 19. I love her and she loves me, but a bunch of mistakes have led us down the road of jealousy, possession, and not trusting each other. 

The first 6 months of the relationship were amazing, nothing ever went wrong, no suspicions of anything at all, and it was all sweet love and all that jazz. Then I read her phone one night on a whim and she had sent a bunch of messages to a guy she had actually told me kept hitting on her and that she thought was really weird flirting with him like mad and making it seem like she really wanted to sleep with him and cheat on me. He called her but she didn't pick up but she had said "yea I think I'll be alone at that time...if not call me again later..." and that same night I went out to a club and danced with a girl and told her to call me later with no intentions of seeing her again or cheating.

So I found out about these messages she had sent a couple days later and told her it was over and then the tears started flowing and she started explaining that she had been hurt really badly in the past by a cheating boyfriend and that she only did it for attention and that that is how she responded to guys because of insecurity issues (which I know she indeed does have) and that she wasn't planning on cheating on me...I later found out about a bunch of other messages like this flirting with a bunch of random guys...anyways I told her I could forgive her but for the next 2 months insecurities ate me alive and I yelled at her while she cried and I said a lot of really mean things and told her probably 50 times that 'if you've ever cheated on me I need you to walk away from me right now and not talk to me again'...after 2 months of emotionally abusing her I told her that I danced with a girl and told her to call me later the same night she sent her messages. At this point she walked away from me and everything flipped on me. She told me that she has never let another guy touch her body since we started dating and blah blah...I asked her why she had never told me this about never letting another guy touch her body all those times I had asked her if she had cheated and she said she 'wasn't about to give me that compliment while I was accusing her of untrue things'...but we got back together and things got even crazier...we got really drunk on a beach together and I somehow ended up holding the hand of a girl that I used to hook up with at the same time I was hooking up with my current girlfriend (before I said we should stop seeing other people)...my girlfriend saw this, punched me in the face, and ignored me for the rest of the day.

Against all odds we're back together again, but can it work? It has been good for 3 days with only a few minor problems, but can we build the trust back? And how am I supposed to know she has never cheated on me? There have been rumors spread that she has cheated on me and rumors spread that I have cheated on her. I know the ones about me aren't true and she believes me, which makes me inclined to believe her (I feel like she wouldn't believe me so easily if she had really been cheating), especially since she has been hurt so badly by cheating in the past and actually does care for me (even though she gave me a black eye :P) 

I love this girl, I want to help her, she wants to help me, but I don't want to stick it out with her if she has cheated on me or will most likely cheat on me. I know I'm not going to cheat on her but she doesn't...she says she doubts my intentions sometimes...I'm just not sure what to do or what to believe...

Anyone with some good relationship experience care to throw in their 2 cents? And can any females give me some advice? All the male advice I get is basically 'this girl is crazy bro leave her' but I don't know the nuances of the female psyche and I have heard that girls crave attention as much as guys crave sex...if she really wanted attention from that guy and not sex it's all good but if she really was going to hook up with him I want out...

Ahhh! Help me out please :) Peace and love... 

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I waded through all the details about you and she and she and you and on and on. You are both emotionally exhausted in each other's company and need a lo-o-o-ng. lo-o-ng, lo-o-ong break. You re both young and have a lot to learn and you only learn through experience. Both of you should start dating others and stop thinking and comparing about each other. You might find after a year or so that you have each been able to develop a deeper and more meaningful relationship with others OR you might also find that after all the dating you still love each other and will be able to develop a deeper appreciation and love for each other without recrimination and accusations. I wish you both much success for the future.


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Live simply, love generously, care deeply,

speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Hi,

    I agree with Rock 100%.  I will give him 2 thumbs up for that.   Very nice advice.   In addition to what he said,  I think you two are very immature and need more  rest time from the dating scene to clear up your minds.  You are very young to sustain a serious long term relationship based on love , patience, and tolerance.  All the things that you both did were all pure childish, trying to retaliate and to get back at each other, hurt the other person emotionally.  It will probably take 5-6 years before you are going to reach the emotional maturity that is a very important ingredient to form a successful marriage.  In the meantime, I suggest that both of you should get busy improving yourself, getting a good education and building a profession and a career that will make you more financially stable and more desirable and also being able to contribute positively to the society as a whole.  Young people are the pillars of society and  the hope of a greater nation.  So it is really very important for the younger generation to be guided in the right direction in life.  I come from the Philippines and I see a great  difference of the teenagers here in America and other Asian countries.  The priority of people your age here  in America is mostly about sex, sex, drugs, alcohol  and teenage pregnancy whereas when we were growing up, our priority was to finish college and to become professionals, and boyfriends came later, because we thought we could find a better man when we graduate from college.

     There are so many teenagers your age who don't finish college.  This country provides student loans, so there is no excuse for people here to be poor or underprivileged.  There is no reason why professionals from Asia and other countries would come to the U.S. to fill the job vacancies in Nursing, Engineering, Medicine, Medical Technologists and scientists.  If kids like you are guided properly in their life direction, you will have a surplus of all these professionals and there will be no room for foreigners like me.

     You are young enough to be my son, I'm 54 but I did not have any children.  If you were my son, I will advise you to go on with your life, get busy preparing yourself to be a better person so that you will be proud of yourself being able to contribute to this society and not  being a liability like a lot of these kids now.  I don 't know how you will take this advice.  I am sure you did not expect this kind of response from somebody in Yedda but that is how I really feel about young people who are misguided and waste their precious time doing crazy things  that get them nowhere.  I hope you and your friend the best of luck  and success in life.


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I appreciate the advice and it seems very sound but it's so very hard to say goodbye to someone you still love and have feelings for.

We tried separating but we were both so miserable and couldn't get anything done or think about anything else...

I wish there was some other way :( nobody ever told me life and love would be this hard! 


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WOW, I read your problem and question, my best advice from a female point of vew is that you two need to splin up you. You to will never be able to trust eachother completly. that will onley lead to more hirt feelings, betrayel, and drama.  Im sorry to say this but you to are not helthey for eachother.  

It is true about girls craving attention, but if she went to the extreme to make another guy think she is going to sleep with him to get the attention she is wanting she will go farther whin it comes down to it.  You have every reason not to trust her. I wouldent.  I understand having ishews but that is no reason to leed someone on.  If her hart was truley into you she would have never done that no mater how much she needed the atention.  If she would lead someone else on like that what is stoping her from doing the same to you. Oh and you sayed that she was willind to beleve that you didnt cheat on her so that in return has made you feel like you should bleve her, here is another point of vew the reason she is so willing to beleve you is becouse she has allready cheated on you and is feeling guiltey for it, and she is wanting to hide the fact that she has and is using reverse phicolagy on you. To kinda gult you into beliveng her, and not looking in to the fact that she may have cheated on you to much. eater way it goes your trust has bed broke for eachother, those lines haven ben crosed, and now you to should count it as a loss, and go your seprate wayes. 

I hope that helpes 


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