I have currently been seeing a guy for about a year. When I met him he had a "girlfriend" in another country, and I was ok with this because he rarely went over there to see her. He tells me since he and I have been together that things have changed between him and her, and that I am the only person in his life that makes him want to do everything right.
We have gotten pretty serious over the year, I have helped him with a lot of things in his life, and I find that I really do love him. He says that he loves me, but I know that he talks to many girls online and on the phone. He says they are just friends and he is not doing anything with them. He even has plans to go visit one of them for a few days.
He tells me I just need to trust him but the bottom line is I DON'T. I feel like I am constantly looking for him to do something and I am constantly being 007 trying to catch him in lies, etc. I had a really bad un-trustworthy marraige before this so I think my brain is already screwed up with trust issues from that. I just don't understand if I mean so much to him why he would need to have all these other "friends," and how do I truly know if he is having sex, etc. with them or not?
Am I crazy for continuing on in this relationship? Is it just going to eat me alive to keep up with this? Or is there some way that I can find out the truth and work it out? I keep thinking that if I just stick it out that he will realize that he only needs me and the other girls he talks to will drop off - some of them already have. It seems like there are red flags everywhere and I feel sick to my stomach just thinking about it, but I feel like I love him so much that I don't want to leave.
I just don't know what is the best decision for me and what I should do about this. I would LOVE some advice. Thank you so much.