• ArbitraryValue
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    12 hours ago

    Relationship tests are toxic.

    Hah. The woman I was briefly married to really wanted me to be jealous, but I didn’t realize that at the time. I was just happy for her whenever she told be about her great friends who happened to be men.

    This culminated when she told me it wasn’t fair that I had had other sexual partners in my life but she had not. I replied that if she was asking me for an open relationship and it was really important to her, then it would be something we could discuss. That was not what she wanted to hear.

    She was not a nice person (to put it mildly) so I don’t regret being so clueless.

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      5 hours ago

      My current SO is similar. They asked if I’d be okay with them watching a movie with a friend of my gender online. I said, “sure, go for it” offhandedly. They were flabbergasted and said they expected me to be jealous. They then asked how I’d feel if it was in person instead, and I said, “I’d want to meet them first because I don’t trust them, but I do trust you.” Again, flabbergasted.

      My SO is a nice person though, just a little protective. We’re happily married and we make sure to inform eachother about anything the other may be uncomfortable with. We just differ in what we’re comfortable with, and I think that’s fine.

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        4 hours ago

        I divorced her after six months of marriage a long time ago. I’m embarrassed by that, but my mistake was in marrying her, not in ending the marriage so quickly. I’m proud that I had the courage to leave.

        I do wonder if there was anything I should have done differently which would have made the marriage work, but I’m more confident about my decision to leave after a more recent ex of hers found me so that he could tell me that she was a “horrible psychopath” who ruined his life. Apparently he knew my name because she told him how bad I had been to her, and after their breakup he suspected that she had been lying.

        As for right now: I’m single but it’s 100% true that being single is better than being in a bad relationship.