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problems showing emotion?

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Hello I'm new here and hoping you all may be able to help me a little or point me in the right direction.
The thing is I have a girlfriend I have been with now for 2 years, I love her very much and spend every possible minute with her.

However I have real problems showing any sort of emotion towards her. I never experienced this in my last relationship, in fact I cried an awful lot in that, but over the last 6 years of my life I have not cried, except once when I was explaining the situation with my ex to her after she asked about it. i

I was with my ex for about 6 years, was married but now am divorced. I feel I am completely over her, however I still do not show any emotion towards my new girl. Even when she cries and we are practically splitting up I still dont cry and struggle to even show emotion on my face. I know the simplest thing is probably to say I am not over my ex but this is not how I feel and is not the only time I experience trouble showing emotion.

My parents split and I don't really care, my grandad died and I didn't go to his funeral. I feel there is something more in depth wrong, here can anyone help me ?

What to do next?? (Relationship has stuck)

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To be honest i dont know anymore, i have been with my partner for 8 years, when it all started the relationship was great, we talked, listened, had fun, and respected each other, great sexually and we communicated all the time. But over the last few years the problems have surfaced and i have doubts.

We have got to the stage where she will not live with me, she will not stop over at mine ( i must add i have my own house, she still lives at home with her mother we are both 29), our sex life is non existant, she is never in the mood and whenever i try its not tonight maybe tomorrow but tomorrow never seems to come. We have talked about this and its my fault for wanting to have a sexual relationship, she just doesnt want to anymore, and ive tried all the old things, flowers, a romatic meal, whisked her away for a weekend of fun but nothing, she even went out in the summer last year and brought some new underwear for a special occasion but still not seen it, in fact she has left it in my wardrobe in the bag with the labels still attached.

Since the new year, its been no phone calls, no txt messages in fact nothing i see her once a week if im lucky, i spend more time with friends and its not through me not trying, i call, i txt i even go round to her mums, but all she does is sleep or so im told.

How can my partner stop his ex from poisoning his teenage daughters?

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I am struggling here to know how to support my partner in his quest to maintain a healthy relationship with his daughters. They are both victims of a tirade of emotional blackmail by their mother who does everything she can to poison them against him and me, his partner. Now that he has pretty much reduced his contact with their mother she leans on them for suppport, tells them that she is going to die, and cries continually. Their response is obviously to care for her and are becoming increasingly hostile to my partner, who has done everything he can for them, bar remain with their mother after finding out of her affairs. Despite everything, he has refused to make negative comments about her and kept his anger to himself, in order to protect them from knowing the worst.
He loves his daughters and is a devoted father, and hates the idea that they possibly now hate him and cannot understand anything from his point of view. His ex still remains in the family home, has a fantastic maintenance deal while he rents a flat, lives very frugally and is unable to afford to buy anything for the foreseeable future. Much of the maintenance settlement was forged out of his guilt of having to leave his daughters.

My boyfriend is curious, should I "test" him to see if he'll cheat on me with a man?

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I have had indicators that my boyfriend might be gay (high-pitch, etc), other people can see it too. I caught my him looking at gay porn several times. Each time he has said that he was never going to act on his attraction to guys, he is also attracted to girls, that he would never leave me, would always love me, and that he wouldn't look at gay porn again. I would ideally like to be with a straight guy, but I love him, and I can deal with it if he is bi. However my fear is that one day he will change his mind about our relationship and decide he wants to be with a guy. We have sex almost every night, and we both enjoy it. Before all of this happened we had planned on getting married soon. I honestly do want to marry him. I love him more than I have ever loved anyone. He treats me great, is so considerate. We have so much fun together. I can't imagine being with anyone else. I am committed to him and feel that he is committed to me...I just don't want to make a mistake. I have contemplated devising a test: sending him a fake email from a supposed guy who is interested in him and see if he responds, and if so, how he responds. Am I crazy? Should I do this?

He thinks we "wore it out"

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My boyfriend and I have been together for about 4 months now. We started off in the absolute infatuation stage, having sex 3-4 times a day whenever we could do it. I have a very high sex drive for a woman, so I never have to "be in the mood" for sex, I'm always in the mood!
I thought my boyfriend was this way also, it seemed that way. But the past couple of days, I've been feeling strange about our sex. It is almost like he is trying to get it over with as fast as he can, and we don't really interact all that much during either. As any other normal person would feel, I feel a little rejected and insufficient. When I talked to him about it, first he got defensive, but then he said that he thought maybe we wore out "the whole sex thing."
I don't know what to think, we're both just 24 years old, and I don't think this should be happening. I'm trying not to make it a big deal, but it's kind of eating away at me. And now he thinks I'm a nymphomaniac and calls me "porn star" because he thinks that is the only reason I love him. This is putting a strain on our relationship and I could use a little advice. Thanks

Why so few responses to serious questions?

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I have been a "member" here for a while now and I'm frustrated by what seems to be a lack of response to most posts. Several people post serious, deep questions about relationships, sexual issues, etc. They are literally begging for help and advice!

Am I just not seeing the responses? Or are there actually no people here who CARE enough to respond?

When someone posts, obviously hurt and upset over a lack of response by a partner, or worried that a relationship is falling apart, why are there so few of us who seem to try to offer help?

Am I wasting my time here? Or is my browser simply not showing me all the responses?

Thank you.

How to make this work (Erection goes)

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I am a 25 year old female who, about three months ago, met a wonderful man (age 27). He just moved to my city, started a new job, has new roommates, and met me very shortly after. Although we are both extremely attracted to one another, he cannot sustain an erection during sexual intercourse. He gains an erection fine, and when he has had alcohol, often manages to keep an erection throughout sex. However, whenever he is sober he cannot perform. Obviously, this has taken a toll on our relationship. He has tried to correct outside stresses by re-committing himself to his job, eating better, and starting a work out regime. However, he still struggles. We have both never encountered sexual difficulties in the past, so this is a struggle for us. Are there just times or people that one cannot be sexually intimate with? Or should we make some sort of efforts to change the situation. We are becomming more distant, and although sexual intimacy is important in relationships, I would hate to lose him over this problem if it is fixable.

problem with bleeding

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okay so here is my problem; my boyfriend has fingered me many times in our relationship and there has been never any problems, but see i had my period like 3 days ago (during the whole time of my period he never fingered me) and then the next day he did finger me and when he did i got a little blood. I dont understand why there is blood if this has never happened before and his nails are short so nothing was cut..unless there is something cut and just something i dont know about. What do you think? I would like to know as soon as possible, im worried. Thanks.

I like my friends girlfriend

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Ok, so i like this girl, she's responsible, ambitious and has some sence of what she wants to do with her life.
I'm a college student looking to future my education and gain a degree in the medical field or some similar venue.
I like her, we get along, we have enough in common that we can chat like friends about different things that are important to us, even on an intellectual level. However, she is my friend's fiance. She's made comments before about wnating me to be her "puppy dog" to nuzzle her and give her emotional support(since her boyfriend is not there for her). She's asked me straight up if i think she's attractive and all, and i told her she was, without any delay to think about it. Her boyfriend is kind of a loser who keeps no job and she supports him 100%. She even has admitted how frustrated she is with this and seem near the breaking point, although she says when she looks into his eyes that she just cant say no to him. I think this girl is hoplessly stuck on this guy and dont know how to really show her how i feel about her without risking my relationship with her or my friend who is dating her. I really feel like im wasting my time, but how can i tell if she likes me in that way, and how can I casually tell her how i feel about her without fucking up everything that is involved in this situation in my life?

Living with pain

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I am 22 when I was in the fifth grade I started my period and we realized it was very abnormal. I was skipping months, starting early,late, and having long or short periods but never any that were consecutive with a prior one. I was put on birthcontrol in the sixth grade and stayed on that untill I was about 20.
I was married a year and a half ago. The night of my wedding I had sex for the first time and that was when I found out that it was going to be almost impossible for me to have painless sex.
I went to some doctors and got no answers so I started looking up my symptoms on the internet to see what I could find. I was convinced that the problem I was having was due to a disease called endometriosis. In all of the searching for answers I was willing to try anything. I was put on a new birth control every month with no good results. I gained about 25 pounds in 2 months from the effect of the pills and even tryed the birth control shot. I then had a month long period and in that time the pain was unbelievable.
That was when a doctor suggested premature menapause. This is the method of treting endometriosis, but whithout being sure I had that I was mad the doctor even suggested it. So I swiched doctors and decided I was going to have the surgeryl. After having surgery for this disease I learned that all of my organs looked perfectly fine and there was nothing in there. The doctor said that this pain was possibly in my head which made me and my family extremely mad.

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