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What would you do? 7 years later and a baby and my boyfriend still has a certain level of commitment issues?

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humanpotato · 19/04/2022 10:05

So previously me and my boyfriend broke up after being together for 6/7 years this was because he was unsure for a long time if he wanted to be together and I'd had enough of him being unsure and I left. 6 months down the line we get back together and I move back in, months later I'm pregnant and now we have a 5 month old baby so now things aren't as simple as before. Getting married is something I would love to do, this is where I have a problem. If my bf didn't agree with marriage or see the point in it then I could understand and I'd just have to say fair enough and put it to bed BUT he actually does love the concept of marriage and has pondered on it. However this is the problem, all these years spent together I've made a house a home, given us a child, put my everything into this relationship yet he is still unsure if he can commit marriage to me? (His words he said he has commitment issues to marriage which makes him human) so this make me question our relationship in all honesty... what more could he possibly want? He wants to buy a house together so I asked him "how can you be unsure of getting married when surely buy a house with someone is a much larger finical and legally binding commitment?" His response was "well if we split up we've both gained because we'll both have a house and how is it a bigger commitment when marriage is something sacred between two people?"

Well that last sentence was enough for me, so another one of his reasonings is because it's a sacred commitment? And what I'm not worth that? That's what that says to me anyway?

He says "how can he want to commit to a wedding when we I question the relationship all the time?" Which I 100 percent believe he's gaslighting because the only time I question our relationship is around this subject because if he's still unsure about us the second time round even after a baby etc then surely it's just not meant to be is it?

OP posts:
Aquamarine1029 · 24/04/2022 00:25

You're just not listening to him. He has issues with marriage, yet he has a baby with you? Please. He will never marry you.

Aprilx · 24/04/2022 05:54

humanpotato · 19/04/2022 10:18

@Octomore

If he really wanted to marry you he would. But he doesn't.

You're worth more than this. Stop trying to prove to him that you're worthy of him, just leave him to his commitment issues.

A baby is a bigger commitment together than marriage btw. Was having a baby an active choice the two of you made, or did it just 'happen'? Did you think a baby would make him commit?

This is another one of my points I totally agree that a baby is a bigger commitment and the pregnancy was wanted by both and the actively tried.

I can't understand why he'd agree and want a baby when he is so uncertain of our further together Sad

You also agreed and had a baby together when you are uncertain of your future together, in the sense that you don’t seem to know where you stand that is. So neither of you really thought this through, in a way you thought it through less than he did as men are often happy to walk away and be part time dads.

I can only echo the chorus, he doesn’t want to marry you. I am not convinced by commitment issues, I think people only have these until they find somebody that they want to commit to and unfortunately for you, he hasn’t found that someone yet. Don’t let him waste any more of your time, he has already spelt it out for you.

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