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Am I being mistreated? Is this emotional abuse?

Q.   My boyfriend and I have been seeing each other for 2 years. I don’t know if this is emotional abuse or if there is something I can do to fix the problem. This morning I had gone to make a shake for him and when I poured the material inside ...

A.   23 October 2016: Thank you for all of your feedback, I really appreciate it. He is not a diabetic and has no pressing health issues, but he claims he is a different person when he is hungry. He has recently told me that he needs to also date other women because he ... (read in full...)

Am I being mistreated? Is this emotional abuse?

Q.   My boyfriend and I have been seeing each other for 2 years. I don’t know if this is emotional abuse or if there is something I can do to fix the problem. This morning I had gone to make a shake for him and when I poured the material inside ...

A.   23 October 2016: Thank you for all of your feedback, I really appreciate it. He is not a diabetic and has no pressing health issues, but he claims he is a different person when he is hungry. He has recently told me that he needs to also date other women because he ... (read in full...)

I surprised him by doing the housework but he reduced me to tears. Is this guy worth being with?

Q.   I have been with my boyfriend for 8 months. Last night I went over to his house but got there an hour before he did. The house was a mess with dishes and dirty laundry everywhere so I thought as a surprise before he comes home I would clean. (as a ...

A.   29 October 2015: Wow thank you all for the overwhelmingly support and your detailed answers regarding my situation. All of you have very good points. It's just so hard to break away from a situation when he is so hot and cold. The moment I start breaking away he ... (read in full...)

He avoided me, had a few drinks and was all over me, next morning back to avoidance!

Q.   Why can't I learn not to obsess over things and just let them go? This weekend I went on a short trip to a cabin with a bunch of my friends. There was a guy that had also been invited there (we both knew eachother was going because there was an ...

A.   2 March 2015: Thank you Honeypie and Sage, I agree with you Honeypie that he just used the 'I was drunk and don't remember' thing as a cop out because I can guarantee you he was not drunk at all. There was barely any alcohol involved and we were together... (read in full...)

We've been on three dates now, so why isn't he making any moves or asking me out again?

Q.   I have been on 3 dates with this guy I met online 3 weeks ago, we plan one date a week. The last time we went 3 days ago out we met up with another couple (my friends) for a meal then after we hung out alone for a few hours just walking around town ...

A.   19 February 2015: Dear Femmenoir, Thank you for your response again and feedback. So he contacted me about a few hours after I posted my last response to you! He sent a text asking how I was and what I was doing. Then we text for a bit and then he said "so when is... (read in full...)

We've been on three dates now, so why isn't he making any moves or asking me out again?

Q.   I have been on 3 dates with this guy I met online 3 weeks ago, we plan one date a week. The last time we went 3 days ago out we met up with another couple (my friends) for a meal then after we hung out alone for a few hours just walking around town ...

A.   18 February 2015: Dear Femmenoir, Thank you for your feedback and I very much agree with you. BUT it's my fault that I did not give the backstory to why I invited my friends. So I was definitely not planning yo do it but on our 2nd date at the end we were drinking... (read in full...)

I'm really hurting after getting a break up text. I don't know how to deal with it!

Q.   I was just broken up with over a text message from this guy who I was dating for close to 3 months and we had spent 24/7 together. Over the course of these three months we had gotten really close and he said he had never had a gf that was as carin...

A.   23 September 2014: Thank you everyone for your feedback. Still having a tough time but I have deleted him off all social media and erased phone number and messages. Trying to move on without any type of closure and from a text break up is tough but I guess I have to ... (read in full...)

I did not just expect him to pay for his share only! Is this a sign of cheapness?

Q.   I have been dating this guy for a month and a half. This past weekend we went on a mini weekend trip with another couple. The other couple had bought all the food for the trip and paid for the accommodations and at the end they were going to let us ...

A.   28 August 2014: Thank you for all of your insight you all really helped put things in perspective. I have decided to wait it out and see how things go with him, if it's too extreme then he is not for me but if he is just trying to save money for a future then I ca... (read in full...)

This guy cancelled 3 hours before a date because he met someone else when he had been the one to suggest the date!

Q.   I met a guy online a month ago and we went out on a first date and had an amazing time. Since then he had been texting me and sending pictures and flirting, then he asked to set up a second date. I agreed and we set it up, 3 hours before the date he ...

A.   30 April 2014: Thank you everyone for your answers, all of you really helped me put things in perspective, I deleted his number from my phone and erased everything about/from him. Moving on fast and yes definitely going to tell him no if he ever contacts me again. ... (read in full...)

Should I assume that he is dating someone else? or is stressed at work?

Q.   I met and have been going out with this guy for three months now and we did not have anything other than a flirtatious relationship up until one month ago. The first time we slept together was amazing and we had great chemistry. The next night af...

A.   9 May 2013: Thank you for all of your feedback. I am sad to say you are all correct, but it just hurts that when I had the conversation with him that if all he wants is sex then I can't just have sex with him and not develop feelings, that he turned and told me ... (read in full...)

He's confused me. Should I be concerned? He tells me he likes me, but he doesn't really act much on it.

Q.   I met this guy through friends years ago but he lived in a different state. He recently moved to my town and we connected through facebook and started going out on dates. The first time we went out he tried to kiss me but I backed away and ...

A.   9 April 2013: Update: We went out this past weekend and as soon as I got there he wanted to hold hands and put his arms around me (we hadn't seen eachother in two weeks) and said he missed me then we had drinks afterwards lots of fun, then we went back to his... (read in full...)

He talked me into a long distance relationship, then dumped me saying he couldn't handle it. Now he's in another LDR!

Q.   I met my ex boyfriend online, it was long distance (he was in New York and I was in California) so we started talking on the phone. He told me in our first conversation that he had moved to New York from Europe as a foreign medical graduate to get ...

A.   4 January 2013: Thank you to each of you for your answers, reading each of your comments really helps put things in perspective, you guys are very helpful. The weight I feel on my heart comes from wondering how he could just delete me from his life (all communic... (read in full...)

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