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Don't feel good enough :-( !

43 replies

lovenit · 29/11/2011 15:13

I don't know if I'm just hormonal tbh, but I have been feeling this for a little while and I need to get it off my chest.

I've not long been with my bf nearly 3 months so we're still working each other out. I've had some terrible relationships and feel a complete failure anyway. This guy hasn't actually been in a relationship for nearly 4 years, he's dated loads of women but he has always been fussy who he gets involved with, so initially I was very flattered he wanted me as his gf and he seems to changed alot of things in order to have a relationship with me, and he says he's happy, but I just don't feel I'm good enough. I don't know if its me with the issues, or if this relationship isn't right. I feel a crap parent, feel I don't do enough like cook the things he likes, I feel my house isn't clean enough, I say the wrong things, sometimes do the wrong things around him. Yet other times I feel fantastic with him!

When I asked what he loves about me, as he has told me he loves me. He just says I scrub up well and am good in the sack lol! He thinks its funny and I can laugh with him but he doesn't seem to think its important to tell me my good points as i know my bad! Yet I tell him. People around him tell me he's besotted with me and they can't believe how happy he seems and can't actually believe he is in a relationship and advertising the fact. So whats going wrong here? Is it me??

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AnyFucker · 29/11/2011 17:22

aww see ?

you don't need a man, especially a crap one

lovenit · 29/11/2011 17:26

No I don't I simply don't need this situation at all. I am worried about telling him though, but I know he knows there's something wrong!

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AnyFucker · 29/11/2011 17:31

why are you worried about telling him ?

I get that you are a nice person who doesn't want to hurt people...but really, at this stage he is just someone you have been dating

he isn't really "boyfriend" status in my eyes, and certainly not your "partner"

you said yourself in your OP you are still getting to know each other

well, you have got to know that it isn't going to work out

there is no more you have to say

lovenit · 29/11/2011 17:41

hmmm you don't know him like I know him, and he very much sees me as his partner I know that! It has been more than just dating rightly or wrongly

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buzzswellington · 29/11/2011 17:48

You know that's a classic red flag, right? Moving too fast too soon - acting more committed than is reasonable given the time scale?

lovenit · 29/11/2011 17:52

yeh he has been very full on, prob another reason I feel the way I do.

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buzzswellington · 29/11/2011 18:14

Just because he's making it out to be something it can't really be yet, doesn't mean you have to buy into his reality, or that you 'owe' him more than you'd owe a boyfriend who was more casual about things.

AnyFucker · 29/11/2011 18:27

more thn just dating ?

what do you mean ?

what has he been trying to push you in to ?

you know you have to end this don't you, before you get in any deeper

so he is deluded ?

his problem, not yours

fuzzynavel · 29/11/2011 18:59

Hi OP,

Gave DS something else to do nicked his laptop to come see how it's going.

I'm a bit concerned about a few comments you've made since I departed.

Do you know him through friends then?

Why does he think he's your partner sort owns you now?

fuzzynavel · 29/11/2011 19:02

Sorry, just scrolled up a bit more and you have already said you met him through friends, how close are these "friends"?

fuzzynavel · 29/11/2011 19:07

Have you told him you'd try for a baby with him or are you late/pregnant?

lovenit · 29/11/2011 19:19

no nothing like that don't worry, just meant it has been very quick and full on, he is quite needy and has insecurities himself and has basically opened his heart to me. He's thrown himself in, sometimes this has been nice but sometimes it has been a bit over whelming. I don't think I am just another shag tbh I do think I mean something to him, he just doesn't know how to have a relationship and I think is trying to take control, but I can't
/won't put up with that!!!!

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VioletNotViolent · 29/11/2011 19:24

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fuzzynavel · 29/11/2011 19:24

Phew! So glad to hear that OP.

See - you are stronger than you think aren't you honey.

So, what's the plan of action then?

lovenit · 29/11/2011 19:30

I don't know I just feel like being on my own, I haven't contacted him and he hasn't contacted me yet. I'll just play it by ear I think have a bath after the kids are in bed and then maybe plan a text......... eh oh !!

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fuzzynavel · 29/11/2011 20:04

Horrid when it turns out like this isn't it. Shattered dreams huh.

Once again, well done though and onwards and upwards.

Do, also maybe seek a bit of councilling. You sound well on the way to a healthier outlook but a sounding board/bit of direction wouldn't hurt.

Good luck x

lovenit · 29/11/2011 21:24

Thank u fuzzynavel! Still not said anything yet, about to do it :-/

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AnyFucker · 29/11/2011 21:27

< manly pat on shoulder >

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