http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/marriage-counseling-blog.html The Couples Blog brings you the latest problems and struggles posted on our Relationship Forums. Subscribe here... en-us marriage counseling Fri, 11 May 2012 19:21:59 GMT Fri, 11 May 2012 19:21:59 GMT marriage-family-counseling.com http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/an-ex-is-an-example-of-who-not-to-date.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/an-ex-is-an-example-of-who-not-to-date.html I dated an abusive boyfriend throughout high school and I made the same mistake with my recent ex boyfriend. I hate that I keep making these mistakes. Fri, 11 May 2012 19:21:53 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/i-was-in-a-relatioship-for-3-months-then-she-dumped-me.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/i-was-in-a-relatioship-for-3-months-then-she-dumped-me.html We were good for each other. Laughed and loved. She broke up with me. Then wrote me a letter saying she was wrong! I took her back. I didn't care, I Thu, 10 May 2012 21:00:20 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/i-made-a-mistake.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/i-made-a-mistake.html I met a fantastic guy from Pakistan a year ago. We got to know each other before dating. He's handsome and fantastic with me and the kids. We started dating Tue, 08 May 2012 20:51:20 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/is-it-me-or-is-that-just-what-he-says-to-make-him-fell-better.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/is-it-me-or-is-that-just-what-he-says-to-make-him-fell-better.html I have been with my bf on and off for 3 years now. The first 3 months was great. He took me on holiday, he got on well with my children, yet he started Tue, 08 May 2012 13:46:31 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/torn.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/torn.html I have been married to my husband for 6 years. In that time he had been in the military and I was a stay-at-home mom to two kids. He always used to tell Mon, 07 May 2012 16:00:05 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/is-it-him-or-me.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/is-it-him-or-me.html I've been with my boyfriend for about 1 1/2 yrs and I think I need to go, but I will really miss him. I got pregnant, like a month after we met, with Mon, 07 May 2012 15:55:13 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/im-the-sugarmama.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/im-the-sugarmama.html My boyfriend and I have been going out for about a year and a half. We already feel like a married couple because of how much I have to sacrifice. From Mon, 07 May 2012 15:50:25 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/does-he-know-the-difference-in-loving-the-person-and-loving-controlling-the-person.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/does-he-know-the-difference-in-loving-the-person-and-loving-controlling-the-person.html From the beginning of our marriage my husband has always talked to women, and even asked them out. We have been married for over 30 years now. He was a Mon, 07 May 2012 15:45:40 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/beginning-of-abusive-relationship-.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/beginning-of-abusive-relationship-.html I was 14 when I met my 18 year old boyfriend; everything was fine. My birthday came around April 9. He bought me gifts and everything to school. He was Mon, 07 May 2012 15:33:14 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/boyfriend.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/boyfriend.html i have been dating my boyfriend for a year now. he has been the best thing that has ever happened to me, the best. of late he sees me once or twice a Thu, 03 May 2012 21:15:59 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/not-me.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/not-me.html I would not ever have imagined that I would have been in a relationship that made me doubt things I had accomplished before I met him. A control freak, Tue, 01 May 2012 13:43:38 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/misery-loves-company.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/misery-loves-company.html Hi all, I hope that you do not find this too boring. I met my partner 5 1/2years ago. We hit it off straight away, but i was a bit cautious as I had a Tue, 01 May 2012 13:40:10 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/should-i-stay-married.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/should-i-stay-married.html Long story shortened. . . I've been married for 10 1/2 yrs and have 4 kids with him. We have had a horrible marriage. Abuse of all sorts, separated more Tue, 01 May 2012 13:36:25 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/dont-know-what-to-do.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/dont-know-what-to-do.html I met my boyfriend... then fell pregnant after 5 months. Then he went on holiday for a month and missed the birth of his baby. He says he wasn't there Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:14:48 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/my-husband.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/my-husband.html My husband drinks morning noon and night. i thought i could be there and give him the best way i could. He tell me I'm lazy, dumb but I'm not the one with Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:09:27 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/10-years-of-mentalemotional-abuse-and-still-in-the-rut.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/10-years-of-mentalemotional-abuse-and-still-in-the-rut.html Dear readers, i hope u can bear with this long, misery post i'm writing. I thank u all for reading. Together with him since year 2000. We got engaged Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:06:53 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/abusive-cheater.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/abusive-cheater.html I've been with my 40 year old boyfriend (I am 32) for ten years now. He has never been incredibly faithful, ie; phone sex, chatting with women in chat Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:00:47 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/calling-it-over-done.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/calling-it-over-done.html Hi everyone. Well, I been in a relationship with my boyfriend for five years off & on. Started off good, but 2011 was the first time he put his hands on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:59:21 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/its-my-fault.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/its-my-fault.html Today I yelled at myself as if it wasn't me... ''You're so f---ing stupid because you can't just LEAVE!!! You deserve to be degraded, ridiculed, treated Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:43:32 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/worried-and-confused.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/worried-and-confused.html Hi. I'll get right to it. I think but am not sure if my boyfriend is an abusive person. We've known each other for 3 months now. We met online and hit Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:39:28 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/seeing-it-for-what-its-worth.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/seeing-it-for-what-its-worth.html It wasn't really a surprise that I fell in love with abuse at an early age. I have a lot of examples in my life that can point to the damaged people I Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:26:28 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/pregnant-woman.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/pregnant-woman.html I've dated my partner for 3 months, then got pregnant. After that he lost his job, was arrested came out of jail, seemed to be lost in life, no longer Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:16:51 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/was-it-me-.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/was-it-me-.html In the beginning, things were absolutely perfect I had met the man of my dreams. I never thought someone would take me on with three children. My previous Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:22:16 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/did-i-forgive-him-too-easily.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/did-i-forgive-him-too-easily.html Me and this guy have been going out for 5 months, and he's my first boyfriend. I feel like I'm in love with him, but we get into lots of fights. I mainly Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:16:42 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/is-it-me.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/is-it-me.html I've been with this man (for lack of a better word) for 8 years. He has never hit me, but I wish he did some times. At least with a cut or a bruises you Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:14:22 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/learning-how-to-move-on-from-an-abusive-relationship.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/learning-how-to-move-on-from-an-abusive-relationship.html I'm just starting to learn how to leave an abusive relationship. I don't know if I'm doing it the right way, but I have found someone else and my abuser Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:05:43 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/i-love-this-man-i-had-8-children-with-but-were-always-fighting.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/i-love-this-man-i-had-8-children-with-but-were-always-fighting.html But he is always the meaner one and sometimes scares me. He turns everything I say inside-out, upside-down, anyway to turn it on me to just be mean to Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:42:47 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/the-truth.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/the-truth.html My boyfriend of 8 months is out of control. I haven't told my parents any of this and I need to get everything off my chest. When we first met, he was Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:37:01 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/always-trying-to-be-the-pleaser.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/always-trying-to-be-the-pleaser.html I met this man that I really started to care for. We have been together for about a year and two months,give or take. We recently moved to a different Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:56:41 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/confused3.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/confused3.html I've been with my partner 3 yrs. in the beginning he put me on a pedestal and nothing was good enough. then in disagreements, he started swearing at me Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:56:24 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/tired1.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/tired1.html Sad thing is... the questions are my story. I answered yes to all of them. And we have been together 42 yrs. And he controls everything. And everything Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:23:29 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/what-to-say.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/what-to-say.html My husband and I have been together about 4 years. I knew where this was going from the get-go. He has gotten physical. I don't know what to say and am Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:42:56 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/year-and-12-with-my-bf.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/year-and-12-with-my-bf.html I am still with him but I want to leave. Things are awful. I tried to leave but he convinced me to stay and, like a naive woman, I did. He made promises Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:38:50 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/to-stay-or-not-to-stay.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/to-stay-or-not-to-stay.html i am 18 years old. me and my boyfriend have a wonderful son who means the world to us. we have stable jobs, transportation and a stable home. he does the Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:44:20 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/scared-to-leave-and-confused.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/scared-to-leave-and-confused.html OMG, I've read a few of the stories on this site and I've had a lot of the same things happen to me, and unfortunately i am still with him. The name-calling Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:32:08 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/3-year-relationship1.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/3-year-relationship1.html I have been in a relationship with my current boyfriend for 3 years. The first 8 months was amazing. He made me feel so loved and we had/still sometimes Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:44 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/i-just-dont-understand.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/i-just-dont-understand.html Okay, maybe I'm just a little overly scared because I have been in an emotionally and sexually abusive relationship before. It took me a year and a half Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:17:54 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/young-and-naive.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/young-and-naive.html When I was fifteen, I met a boy that I never thought twice about. He was in a gang and basically was not my type. He was very persistent and I mistook Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:51:21 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/worst-day-ever.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/worst-day-ever.html I was making out with my girl friend in her university campus. In the country I live in, it is not that we can get too close to each other in front of Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:44:32 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/why-me.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/why-me.html My wife took this quiz and said I was mentally abusive. But when reviewing the questions, she was just as abusive as I ,and now it's just me pickin? Sousa Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:40:51 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/i-refuse-to-let-my-husband-control-me.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/i-refuse-to-let-my-husband-control-me.html i am married 3 years now. in everything i want to do, my husband has something negative to say. i wanted to take my GED. he didn't like the idea of me Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:39:02 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/hoping-1-day-it-would-change.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/hoping-1-day-it-would-change.html I've been with my boyfriend for 2 1/2 yrs. We have a 19 month child together... We rushed into the relationship n I fell pregnant quickly before we got Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:35:51 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/he-has-to-be-in-control.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/he-has-to-be-in-control.html I met this guy 8 years ago. We have lived together for 7 years. The best day with him was the first day. I'm not saying there haven't been good times, Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:00:36 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/what-is-the-problem-.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/what-is-the-problem-.html i have been with this guy for 5 yrs. just in the past 8 months he hasn't wanted to have sex or even kiss me like he used to do Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:54:45 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/loving-a-drug-addict-and-dont-know-what-to-do.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/loving-a-drug-addict-and-dont-know-what-to-do.html i have been married twenty years to the same man. we were married when we were teenagers. we have two grown kids 18 and 19. we are 37 and 39. he has been Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:16:18 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/abused-by-someone-i-trusted.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/abused-by-someone-i-trusted.html It took me 8 yrs to figure out that my boyfriend and I just weren't the right fit together. We ended it and remained great friends. But now that I ran Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:56:37 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/why-does-love-hurt-.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/why-does-love-hurt-.html My Boyfriend & I met in a youth shelter. I was 17, he was 20. At this time i was so weak and confused, and he was the only one to care or listen. He helped Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:55:11 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/bipolar-roommateboyfriend-from-hell.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/bipolar-roommateboyfriend-from-hell.html I moved into a new place in December with 2 male roommates, one who I immediately hit it off with. We started seeing each other after only a week, and Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:19:12 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/my-relationship-overall-with-my-boyfriend.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/my-relationship-overall-with-my-boyfriend.html It's a long story, but here we go. It all started two years ago ... when i first met my bf we just automatically hit it off!! Even though we only had one Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:58:04 GMT http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/crazy-in-love-or-in-love-with-crazy.html http://www.marriage-family-counseling.com/crazy-in-love-or-in-love-with-crazy.html I have been with my girlfriend for 2 and a half years now. It has been a very interesting ride. We met working together at Trader Joe's, and I was at Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:02:09 GMT