Thursday, August 4, 2011
Should I just break up with my boyfriend?
I have been dating boyfriend for 11 months now. He is 5 years younger. He has never been married. I have a son. From early stages in our relationship I told him my feelings, let him know I wanted a life and a family with him because I was in love with him. Around the time we started dating, I had just started my own business and it has been really tough. But, because during the summer my son is not here, we were able to have a totally wonderful summer. However, once the summer was over and I had my son during the school year, things changed. I felt he didn't really understood that it is a complete different thing to date someone who has a son. At the same time, during the school year my business was going thru growing pains and I was working a lot. During the most difficult times of the business, he kind of felt overwhelmed with our relationship and I felt he pushed me away. While before he used to invite me to his family activities and be really nice with me, he then stop doing that and for Thanksgiving he didn't invite us to be with his family. This got me really sad because I have no family in the city so I had no place to go for thanksgiving (I wrongly assumed he was taking me to his family). He then broke up with me in January because he thought "it was too much". I imagine the "too much" means that I have a son, I am running my own business (which is a lot of work), I can't go dancing with him all the time, and both my business and my daughter are my first priority and I know it was hard for him. The point is that we went back together and again I mentioned to him that I really would like us to plan a future if he was serious about it; I feel very lonely and I am truly in love with him. I again told him how much I loved him and how much I wanted to be with him. He told me about how he too feel he is "ready" to have his own family and all that... he never mentioned that he wanted that family with me though. At a later time, he told me that he care about me but that he hopes he can fall in love with me during the summer. To be honest, I thought the reason why we are once again trying to work things out was because we loved each other. I did not know he was not in love with me. I confronted him and asked him if he was in love with me. He said no. he says he care about me, but that he thinks he can fall in love with me during the summer. WTF?? I feel that because during the summer my son is with her dad, he knows things will be pretty cool. But, then again, the school year will be back and my son will be with me, so then what? Also, if after being together a year he is yet to be in love with me, I feel it has no sense for us to continue in the relationship. Should I stay in this relationship after my boyfriend has made clear he is not in love with me?
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