My fiancee and I have been together nearly 6 years, lived together for 5 and a half, have a beautiful 3 year old daughter, been engaged for a year and we're getting married on October 10, 2010 (10-10-10). Here's the kicker; I'm Baptist and he's a Mormon. When we first got together I was not going to church and so religeon never even came up. I was a Chrsitian, but worked every Sunday, so I just kind of fell out of the church. We have lived all of these years and I have asked him about going to church, but when he mentions going to his church, I change the subject and we do nothing. I have recently turned back to God and I am so confused about what it is I want, and what God may want from me that it is eating me alive. Our relationship has been so hard for the last few years. We can be so happy and not have a single problem, and then we hit rock bottom. It has been known to get pretty miserable and nasty down here with the name calling, accusations, nagging, hostility and the control issues. He has never been physically violent, but when we get to this point I am just mentally and emotionally exhausted. Well, we are here right now and I don't know how much more I can take. Talking to him does not help, it seems like things are actually getting worse. Usually when we get to this point I can sit him down and explain what is bothering me and tell him the way he acts and talks are hurtful and it stops, at least for a while. This time seems different. I've been praying for God to give me a sign so I know if I should stay or leave and things are progressively getting worse and harder to deal with. Maybe this is my sign? Before I didn't leave because I was not working and my car was actually his car. Now I am able to support myself and my daughter. Which leads me to another thing; our daughter. We are both very close to her and I do not want to raise her in a broken home. I do love him. I have myself talked into leaving because I cannot stand to be around him anymore, and then he does or says something that changes my mind in an instant (keep in mind that I have not told him that I wanted to leave). It seems to be a never ending cycle, and someway, somehow I've got to break it. We are supposed to get married in October and I'm afraid things will get worse. But what if they don't? I just want some insight from someone on the outside looking in. My mother and sister both say that he is too controlling, and I try to hide the way he acts from them, but I guess they just see what he does when they're around. Maybe if I hear some advice from fellow Christians it will help me decide what it is that I need to do.
Thank you!!