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Godsgirl79

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I am engaged to be married next week. My fiance and I have been together 8 months. When we first got together we were back and forth a lot because I wasn't ready for our relationship. During that time he asked an ex girlfriend for sex and she messaged me on facebook that's how I found out. But he apologized and explained that we were so back and forth and he just wanted attention. I forgave him and gave him another chance. There have been other small indescretions since then that we discussed and I also overlooked such as one time he got on a porn site and another time he was flirting with someone on a game he plays. I installed a spylogger on his computer. We haven't had anything major lately but just now I saw dating sites on his browser history on his phone from last month and he got upset and called sprint and argued that they were pop ups and he doesn't ever use the browser he says. I already have doubts. I've already tried to break up with him n the past. We have been doing good this week but now this. And maybe he's right.. maybe that is that is what happened, i don't know. But basically I've been praying and asking God for strength and to somehow intervene to help us break up because I feel helpless and stuck. We live together. Even when I have tried to break up with him he won't take no for an answer and go away. I'm afraid of being alone again. I divorced a year ago and the kids have gotten real attached to him and love him. It's hard. Let me rephrase that, it's just about impossible for me to in my own strength break up and not get married. Because I feel stuck. I guess I'm just on here to ask for prayer and for your input about what I found on his browser history on his phone. What do you think? Please don't be harsh. Thanks.
 

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Let me ask you this. If you have spent the last 8 months pouring hot boiling oil over your head, should you continue to pour hot boiling oil over your head simply because you've already wasted 8 months doing it? Or should you stop pouring hot boiling oil over your head immediately and run far away from the hot boiling oil?
Hitting the "like" button on this.
 
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I am engaged to be married next week. My fiance and I have been together 8 months. When we first got together we were back and forth a lot because I wasn't ready for our relationship. During that time he asked an ex girlfriend for sex and she messaged me on facebook that's how I found out. But he apologized and explained that we were so back and forth and he just wanted attention. I forgave him and gave him another chance. There have been other small indescretions since then that we discussed and I also overlooked such as one time he got on a porn site and another time he was flirting with someone on a game he plays. I installed a spylogger on his computer. We haven't had anything major lately but just now I saw dating sites on his browser history on his phone from last month and he got upset and called sprint and argued that they were pop ups and he doesn't ever use the browser he says. I already have doubts. I've already tried to break up with him n the past. We have been doing good this week but now this. And maybe he's right.. maybe that is that is what happened, i don't know. But basically I've been praying and asking God for strength and to somehow intervene to help us break up because I feel helpless and stuck. We live together. Even when I have tried to break up with him he won't take no for an answer and go away. I'm afraid of being alone again. I divorced a year ago and the kids have gotten real attached to him and love him. It's hard. Let me rephrase that, it's just about impossible for me to in my own strength break up and not get married. Because I feel stuck. I guess I'm just on here to ask for prayer and for your input about what I found on his browser history on his phone. What do you think? Please don't be harsh. Thanks.

Sister, you can do so much better than this. You and your children deserve better than this.

You mention you divorced 1 yr ago, and starting with this guy 8 months ago. Do, you really feel that 4 months is enough time to figure out what you did wrong in your marriage and why it failed, and to start dating again?

Why not be a good single mom to your kids, be an example to them. Don't fall to the sin of "serial monogamy".

Neither of you are innocent, but this guy isn't LTR material and respectfully neither are you right now, since your still with him. Pray and ask God to reveal to you why your willing to live with a man before marriage when you know it's a bad example for your kids and a sin, and why your willing to accept such abysmal behavior from your bf. I'm sure going through a divorce, causes issues with self worth, do you feel like you deserve to be punished for something?
 
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SteveNZ

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Wow Godsgirl,
I feel for you. I bet your heart is screaming away inside...! :)

If I was your father (fathers love daughters almost as much as the Lord loves them) I would be around straight away to help you get out of the lousy situation.

Please, it is wrong all that is happening. Be free of it all now. You have suffered enough time to grow and smile again...

May I suggest that as identified before you are in a pot of boiling water. Marriage will not change anything for you.

I pray that you may find a way to get out and be free.
If there is this fondness and love between you both it will survive a separation and a God designed bond can form.

I honestly feel from your words that you do not need advice on what to do BUT a practical method to action what you know is the right action. HARD ..... yes. So very very hard but you are loved.

I will pray for you. Be whom the Lord who loves you has chosen you to be...and that is something pretty neat. :angel: :groupray:
 
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Wow, so many red flags and so many bad decisions... Lets start with him...

He's obviously wanting to float around, see what else is out there which basically says in big, loud words that he may eventually take his looking to the next step. He's not dedicated to the relationship as he should be to enter into a marriage.

On the same note, you installed a keylogger unknowingly on his computer shows a complete lack of trust on your part. Whether or not you find anything with it is kind of irrelevant because even by installing it, you're showing your lack of faith in him as well.

Basically, you're in a toxic relationship. Getting married to this guy would not only be a very stupid and selfish thing to do for yourself, but the fact that there are kids involved make it 100x worse because they depend on the decisions you make and long term, I would probably expect to see you once again divorced shortly down the road. I'm actually surprised that after a first failed marriage, that you would hop into another one so soon after beginning a relationship.
 
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I will just highlight in red all the things from the original post that scream "RUN AWAY RUN AWAY, WHY WHY WHY?!?!?!" ....

I am engaged to be married next week. My fiance and I have been together 8 months. When we first got together we were back and forth a lot because I wasn't ready for our relationship. During that time he asked an ex girlfriend for sex and she messaged me on facebook that's how I found out. But he apologized and explained that we were so back and forth and he just wanted attention. I forgave him and gave him another chance. There have been other small indescretions since then that we discussed and I also overlooked such as one time he got on a porn site and another time he was flirting with someone on a game he plays. I installed a spylogger on his computer. We haven't had anything major lately but just now I saw dating sites on his browser history on his phone from last month and he got upset and called sprint and argued that they were pop ups and he doesn't ever use the browser he says. I already have doubts. I've already tried to break up with him n the past. We have been doing good this week but now this. And maybe he's right.. maybe that is that is what happened, i don't know. But basically I've been praying and asking God for strength and to somehow intervene to help us break up because I feel helpless and stuck. We live together. Even when I have tried to break up with him he won't take no for an answer and go away. I'm afraid of being alone again. I divorced a year ago and the kids have gotten real attached to him and love him. It's hard. Let me rephrase that, it's just about impossible for me to in my own strength break up and not get married. Because I feel stuck. I guess I'm just on here to ask for prayer and for your input about what I found on his browser history on his phone. What do you think? Please don't be harsh. Thanks.

Oh, the whole thing should be red. :argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::destroy::destroy::destroy:
 
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Ok so this guy isn't a good idea. . . that is very clear.

What I want to know is what are you doing, you get divorced and 4 months later are with a new guy and just 12 months after that you are about ready to get married again??

Even if this guy was great. . . you got into this relationship way way too fast.

And this guy isn't anything close to great. Get out now before you have divorce #2.
 
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You know you shouldn't marry this guy. You're making every excuse in the book to convince yourself otherwise. You don't trust him; how can you give your LIFE to someone you don't trust?? You are responsible for who you allow into your childrens' lives as well; if you didn't trust this man from the beginning (which you say you didn't because he cheated), YOU are responsible for the hurt that these kids will feel from the breaking up of this relationship. You need to be honest with them, without giving them too much "adult" information, and you need to rebuild their security (hopefully by staying SINGLE for a long time).

Your post is well over a week old, and I hope you did the right thing and ran in the other direction.
 
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