My boyfriend is a compulsive liar. Should I leave him now?

A female age 36-40, anonymous writes:

I have been dating a guy for almost 2 years. He was my first boyfriend. At the beginning of the relationship he was a mess ie.was a pot head, porn addict,continously talking about exes, didnt see me much and was really lazy. But at that time i didnt really want a too serious relationship. Eventally i fell in love. After a few arguments and half a year later, he promisied me that he would quit pot and porn. Eventally he said he did. For a year he told me this. However, after a while i clued and and he confessed that he hadnt stoped either for the whole year. However he did say that recently he did stop porn and pot, which is why he was comfortable admitting it. Furthermore, I found out that he had and had sex with a girl (before this relationship)in his bed, after telling that he hadnt. This was important to me because I was not comfortable doing it for the first few times where he had done it before because he had said so much stuff about this girl in the past. In addition, I found out that he lied about the amount of times he had sex with his ex (he said twice but really it was much more). However, I forgave him and was willing to move on with him getting some help with his porn and pot. For 6 months we continued and I began to trust him again. Then just yeasterday I grilled him because of somthing very mean about me and found out that he lied about quiting porn. In addition he still had sexually explict pictures of his closest ex after telling me he throw it out after he broke up with his ex 4 years ago. Moreover, he had looked at these pictures during our relationship and recently. Further more, he had kept explict pictures of past friends and serviced himself with them recently and during our relationship. I just feel so disrepected and dont know if I should or even could trust him again. But it is killing me that I must leave him because I love him so much. But I just cant know whats a lie and whats not. Am I over reacting? He has improved so much. He has stoped pot. And honestly I donno if there is a guy out there that doesnt lie about porn, and that doesnt do porn and that doesnt lie about exs and other girls. My question is, should I leave him? will he change? and if I should leave him, how can i do it without it hurting too much? Last night i felt so sick to my stomach that I throw up.

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