It shouldn’t be this difficult. Love should not be this difficult. You’re supposed to enjoy an engagement. For some, the engagement is the high point of the relationship, the honeymoon phase, glorious limerence and infatuation, still novel passion, planning the wedding, your futures, dropping serious coin on rings, Bride magazines, can’t keep your hands off each other, etc…
But instead, your four years into an engagement, engaged to do…what?
She was engaged to cheat and you’re now engaged to reconcile? You’re trying to avoid a divorce before you’ve even married yet.
This is not a good start. You’re showing up to the starting line of the Baja 500 in a clapped up Dodge Monaco with half a tank of gas, it’s dark out and you’re wearing sunglasses.
Wait until life throws kids at you, aging parents with declining health, a mortgage, career stress, marriage doldrums, a crisis or three, and the ravages of time.
You’re going to want a savvy mate that will always have your back and will stand by you through it all. Is this her, someone who needs boundaries spelled out to her? If she really loves you, SHE will create the boundaries. She will compulsively create boundaries to protect you, you Ifeelsolost, because she loves you with all her heart and can’t imagine living without you, and will fight for you.
The girl you’ve portrayed seems to imagine living without you, can’t be pushed too hard or she’ll kite, is avoidant, afraid of dealing and, is basically not FIGHTING for you.
So our main form of communication about this is via increasingly lengthy WhatsApp messages.
This is a terrible form of communication. Texting is full of reading between the lines pitfalls. A good counselor can teach you two some excellent tools for intimate communication. Intimate communication is what holds marriages together. It is an absolute, fundamental prerequisite to marriage.
WhatsApp, BTW, is a cheater’s favorite text app.
[This message edited by RealityBlows at 10:13 AM, Sunday, October 30th]