Signs your long-term relationship is petering out

[Tesla]

If your partner of 8 years lives many miles away and when he comes to visit stays a week or so, but ignores you most of the time, does not wish to go out anywhere with you and now claims he can't sleep in the same bed with you because he's become allergic to the perfume you're wearing -when you don't wear any - and also responds to the question, "Are we still a couple or not?" with either, "I refuse to answer that/ I don't want you to know", also does not phone you, takes days to respond to text messages and then only brief/succinct, emails only in response and then never,ever, ever signs off with any sentiments such as miss you, love you, etc. Never sends birthday, Valentine, Christmas cards or presents, claims to be too busy to stay at Christmas, and can't afford to drive down to see you because he's skint, or when he does visit, it might be very irregular such as for a week, then nothing for 6 months, then another few days, then nothing for a couple of months, and you never know when he'll next visit nor will he commit to any kind of regular visits,...

does it means he's just not that into you anymore, his love long since faded, and you're just hanging on out of stupidity? Should you just bear the heartbreak and dump him and find a new man who actually wants to be with you, love you and cherish you?
especially if there's young kdis involved?

I've tried every measure going to keep communication alive in this long-distance relationship and pine for him when he's not here but can hardly bear the anxiety anymore of never knowing when he'll next visit. I'm utterly in love and always have been, so how can I get him to communicate with me and reassure me he still loves and wants me, depite the distance.

I've asked for an occassional "Hang in there, I know you miss me, I'll see you soon" but he refuses to give me even that tiny morsel of reassurance

I'm slowly becoming heartbroken, I feel like the most important relationship in my life is slipping into history.

There are quite a few others. He/she is clearly stuck for copy on a regular basis.

But I still don't see a connection between these ridiculous threads and the articles.

Can you enlight me, Portia?

They are leaving the thread, which is good.

It's complete rubbish, I work in advertising and understand in detail how brands are supported online and how paid for search words, etc, works. There is no way that companies like Glaxo or Diageo would endorse this kind of activity for promotion. My educated guess is that either the OP is a fully paid up attention-seeking nutter, or if this paid-per-minute thing is genuine, they're going to find out pretty quickly that they've signed up to some marketing scam and won't see any of that pathetic £1.50 per word.

Anyone who spends even just an hour browsing mumsnet and this forum in particular ought to have an appreciation for just how valuable a resource this place is for women who are genuinely vulnerable and need help and support that, for whatever reason, they aren't able to get anywhere else at that time.

To abuse it is pretty despicable if you ask me.

I thought they were implying that they wrote professionally to get reactions out of MNers. It was a pretty obscure article they linked to, and co-incidentally that journo regularly shunts crappy pieces to several regional papers which invariably reference mumsnet in a sneery tone, much like the OP.

It's a theory, but not a bad one, I think.

Well I expect the misogynistic bastard (whatever sex it may be) is quaffing it's Baileys and feeling smug right now. I believe in karma though.....Mwa ha ha....

I think the next article will read something like this:

Long Distance Relationships

In which I uncover the shocking truth

It's a very strange thing to be involved in a long distance realtionship, or "LDR" as it is commonly known on the internet (which is totally brilliant and where I not only wank my cock to pieces, but also where I do the vast majority of my research because I missed the important part of my journalism DEGREE)

I have been involved in an LDR with not only my brain, but also my conscience and any kind of compassion or humanity for years. People often ask me "Dave, just how do you cope with being such an irrelevant wank stain on the boxer shorts of humanity?" I usually reply with a laugh and a spouting of the cliche "A cunt man has to do what a cunt man has to do" but now and again I like to go onto Mumsnet and be a twat.

My latest foray was to find out how the mums - I mean they're clearly thick because they've given birth - would advise a woman, who was clearly going through some emotional problems with a LOVELY partner, who may be a little...well, distant.

Yet again, I ended up wanking into a shoe. Why do I do this to myself? I know not.

Here is some statistics:

97 percent of MNers who read this thread thought I was a twat
85% of women I have ever met recoiled at my bad hygiene and snorkel mask
I am a 100% pathetic individual.

£700 GET IN!

Right, I got that, but this psycho hasn't been starting threads on Primark bras etc, though?
I mean the threads are sort of about nothing really, so I don't see how you could get an article out of it?

so they start dumbass threads so as to get quotes? God that's sad. They can't even research an article properly. Maybe he/she (Dani??!) should go work on The Matthew Wright show, should fit right in.

ShirleyKnot- Bwahahahahahaha

at shirley

Inspired Shirleym inspired

DeFluffy

I was thinking maybe it is Matthew he is really that sad,can picture him sitting there rubbing his hands and laughing.

Portia - HAHA! And this thread, right here, is the reason that I will keep on calling bloody TROLL. (not that I did this time, I was too busy arguing about hybrid children and weird internet privacy BOLLOCKS all day. )

Shirley I'd pay money for that article! (hoping to see it in Scotland on Sunday this week)

Will send this thread to the Scotland on Sunday paper tomorrow, if this is 'Dani' I'm sure they'll be really impressed with how he/it/she brings their name into disrepute.

And more importantly how fucking shit Dani's aticles are, jesus, write something interesting.

Fuck me you really do live a sad life don't you?

Why don't you use some of that £700 to buy yourself a fuck and get it out of your system? You never know, there may even be enough left over to buy a personality (although maybe not, I suspect it would cost you a lot more than £700 to get a woman to go anywhere near you).

shirley is that you??

df x

It totally is DF

SK
xx

Well, you can get paid to post on forums. I don't think Mumsnet needs to pay for content, though; we're gobby enough! The rate is around $0.05 a word.

sorry, duff link before

Link doesn't work, Grace. What do you get then?

Shirley you are on fire today girl

MN has led me to ignore my dc all day today it has just been so car crash all day.

But you got all cross when someone did LMGTFY at you.

Or were you under another name?

I know- I particularly enjoyed Staycee, shame she's gone