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You are going to have to be very clear with your mom:
I love you mom and I am sorry you are hurt. However, it is not okay for you to implicate me in my father's affair & put what he's done on me, as if I am less moral for wanting to maintain a relationship with him and my brothers. I would like to help you get into counseling or therapy so we don't lose each other because if you continue to manipulate me in this you ultimately will lose me.
Ultimatums need to be met head-on & confronted, otherwise she'll drag this out & chip away at you for a long time. So, put it back on her. Hopefully, she'll choose to get help instead.
i was thinking this the whole time i was reading it. i mean lavished with gifts is often a sign of abuse and grooming, not just of being a golden child.
“I know he’d be a great dad.” Why? He doesn’t even want children, what about him would make him such a good father? Not to mention the fact that he’s groomed you from middle school as someone that was college aged. This is not a man who should be raising children — he does not have their best interests at heart.
You can’t tell me he “didn’t know” your age; children are more easy to distinguish from adults than you seem to think. I regularly get clocked as being 16 at 24, but never so young I wouldn’t even be in high school. He knew you were a child before you “told him” and he continued the relationship even after he learned you were 15 and he was in his 20’s. He’s a pedophile and he is actively taking advantage of you.
My dude, she hit you. I have CPTSD and I have never EVER hit someone. If I did, you can bet I would be removing myself from the home to keep other people safe and having an emergency session with my therapist to figure out how to proceed to ensure the people in my life are safe. She has done nothing to actually prevent herself from doing this in the future.
You need to love yourself and care for yourself more than you care for Jane.
It can range from being sex averse to simply having no appetite for it but being willing to put up with it from time to time for a loved one. Each person defines their boundaries differently.
Asexuality is valid and in a hypersexualised world, incredibly difficult to come to terms with for some. It may or may not be a deal breaker in relationships.
That your partner is asexual isn't an issue in and of itself. The issue is that your partner knowingly deceived you, not just about their sexuality but their disinterest in kids, and is showing unwillingness to work towards goals you both agreed to once.
If she had come to this realisation over time, it would be a different matter, and dissolution of the marriage due to changing goals would be fair, but this isn't the case. Your relationship was built on a lie from the get-go.
I'd suggest you figure out what you want and what your BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) is before meeting with her.
Couples' counselling sounds like a first step (preferably with a therapist well-versed in LGBTQIA+ issues as acephobia is rampant even with queer spaces) if you both want to make it work. It sounds like she has kind of checked out, unless past trauma makes her withdraw when shit hits the fan.
Taking the dog is not on though. That'd be the last straw for me.
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You are going to have to be very clear with your mom:
I love you mom and I am sorry you are hurt. However, it is not okay for you to implicate me in my father's affair & put what he's done on me, as if I am less moral for wanting to maintain a relationship with him and my brothers. I would like to help you get into counseling or therapy so we don't lose each other because if you continue to manipulate me in this you ultimately will lose me.
Ultimatums need to be met head-on & confronted, otherwise she'll drag this out & chip away at you for a long time. So, put it back on her. Hopefully, she'll choose to get help instead.
i was thinking this the whole time i was reading it. i mean lavished with gifts is often a sign of abuse and grooming, not just of being a golden child.
“I know he’d be a great dad.” Why? He doesn’t even want children, what about him would make him such a good father? Not to mention the fact that he’s groomed you from middle school as someone that was college aged. This is not a man who should be raising children — he does not have their best interests at heart.
You can’t tell me he “didn’t know” your age; children are more easy to distinguish from adults than you seem to think. I regularly get clocked as being 16 at 24, but never so young I wouldn’t even be in high school. He knew you were a child before you “told him” and he continued the relationship even after he learned you were 15 and he was in his 20’s. He’s a pedophile and he is actively taking advantage of you.
My dude, she hit you. I have CPTSD and I have never EVER hit someone. If I did, you can bet I would be removing myself from the home to keep other people safe and having an emergency session with my therapist to figure out how to proceed to ensure the people in my life are safe. She has done nothing to actually prevent herself from doing this in the future.
You need to love yourself and care for yourself more than you care for Jane.
I'll go out on a limb and say…..I think she was counting on you not being able to come to Mexico with her
Asexuality is a spectrum.
It can range from being sex averse to simply having no appetite for it but being willing to put up with it from time to time for a loved one. Each person defines their boundaries differently.
Asexuality is valid and in a hypersexualised world, incredibly difficult to come to terms with for some. It may or may not be a deal breaker in relationships.
That your partner is asexual isn't an issue in and of itself. The issue is that your partner knowingly deceived you, not just about their sexuality but their disinterest in kids, and is showing unwillingness to work towards goals you both agreed to once.
If she had come to this realisation over time, it would be a different matter, and dissolution of the marriage due to changing goals would be fair, but this isn't the case. Your relationship was built on a lie from the get-go.
I'd suggest you figure out what you want and what your BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) is before meeting with her.
Couples' counselling sounds like a first step (preferably with a therapist well-versed in LGBTQIA+ issues as acephobia is rampant even with queer spaces) if you both want to make it work. It sounds like she has kind of checked out, unless past trauma makes her withdraw when shit hits the fan.
Taking the dog is not on though. That'd be the last straw for me.
Talk to a lawyer about your options with the house. Then confront her about this. Lawyer first.