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I'm newly married(2 months ago) and a majority of the time I am happier than I have ever been. However, about twice a week, I feel like he is covering up something or lyeing to me. I need to know if this is my own personal problem based on things that other men have done to me in the past(baggage) OR if I should follow my intuition that something isn't right. This feeling is driving me crazy and I am finding myself getting angry at him more often because of things I can't prove. I have no proof so I have no reason to tell him I'm mad at him. I don't want to ruin my new marriage, so please help by telling me whether or not, based on the facts if most people would feel suspicious or if it's all in my head because I've been played so many times.

Here's the scenario: I am in my late 30's, divorced 3yrs ago after a 12 yr marriage to someone who cheated on me multiple times. Dated another man for 1 1/2 yrs afterward who I fell for but he was very disrespectful and after finally catching him with incoming texts on his phone(this had been going on the whole yr and a half) it turned out he was still seeing his ex the entire time but kept it secret because she was married. This has also happened to me with men I dated prior to my first marriage. Every, single time, including Now with my new husband, each of those men constantly told me how much they loved me, how perfect they thought I was, how lucky they were to have me, etc. But each and everyone of them cheated on me when they were telling me they loved me(minus 1/4 of them).

So now I'm newly married to what I feel is my soul mate. When we first met, it was as if we had known each other forever. It's like hanging out with my best friend all the time plus having great sexual chemistry. But, here's what's troubling me: I have caught him lyeing to me over stupid little things(like, if he's on his way home he calls and says he will be home shortly, and that he's at so and so intersection, but then, as we are talking, I hear the truck door/key chimes as if he is just getting in or out of the truck. Why would someone lie about something so stupid?) He also lies about how often he talks to his daughters, mother. This worries me because when I first met him, people told me that he was still sleeping with her. He said that people made it up and I believed him but then why would they talk so often and if nothing was going on, then why would he lie about it? (he is deleting her calls and texts on his cell) But common sense tells me that he would not have married me if he still wanted her. I am also scared because the last 3 weeks, he has been trying new sexual positions-where is he learning these? I did find a porn site on the history on his blackberry. But also, he has a very high sex drive, usually wants to about 3-4 times a day. The last 2 weeks, it's only 1x every other day. He has been stressed due to bad finances right now so I have been trying to convince myself that's it. But, he also is not where he says he is(he's self employed) and there are unaccounted hours during the day. It's now gotten to where we don't talk. We went somewhere last weekend, and during the 2hr drive, I tried to make conversation, but he had no responses. This has been happening after he gets home late from work everynight. We sit and watch t.v, he wants to cuddle but he ignores my conversation. Is it just stress? I also keep thinking back to when we were dating and he had women all over the place still calling him for booty calls and he still text them back instead of ignoring them. He had to change his cell # when we got married to stop the calls and texts. (we only dated for 6mths prior to getting married so I blew off the texts/calls figuring that was bound to happen for awhile til they found out he wasn't single anymore. Even though it hurt.) I am now finding myself suspicious of his phone calls. He is on that thing 2000 minutes a month! Sometimes he doesn't answer it when I am with him but we are not doing anything. He always used to answer it. Now he will just let it ring sometimes if I'm near him during the day. I find that suspicious because it's not because we are talking or doing anything. He always picks up the phone when we are having a good conversation and then he forgets where he left off.

Help, is my past baggage messing with my head, or is my intuition correct. I don't want to mess my new marriage up, but my gut just feels so strongly that somehtings not right. However, this man tells me how happy I make him, every single day and how much he loves me. Can you please give me your opinion of whether this is in my head or cause to be suspisious?
- November 20th, 2009, 05:05 pm
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How about both. It sounds like you have a gift for picking cheaters.
- November 20th, 2009, 05:17 pm
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You need professional help.

Oh and to steal one from Melman, paragraphs are your friend.
- November 20th, 2009, 05:45 pm
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It reads like a self fulfilling prophecy! Your turning a dream into a bad dream! You need to get some counseling to deal with your baggage that you brought along with you into a new marriage at your current rate of distrust and your anger the marriage won't last a year. What happened to trust? He has done nothing wrong but your forcing him to play a roll in your bad dream and your poor behavior is getting out of control. Get some help now!

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- November 20th, 2009, 05:49 pm
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jayjay wrote :
How about both. It sounds like you have a gift for picking cheaters.
+1....personally I wouldn't have picked a man who was in such high demand to begin with. You knew these things before you married him but chose to do so anyway. I agree that you do need to seek counseling. It's not intuition but something much deeper at work here. In the future when you get a better understanding of the choices you make then hopefully you will also be free to love a worthy person and not let your past hurts interfere and poison the relationship.

Should you chose to stay with your current partner (I'm as much a slave to hope after all) you both need to deeply commit to some intense couples counseling. From your post he has some deep rooted issues as well as clear signs of depression peppered in there. I don't envy you. You have a lot of work ahead of you but your future happiness is worth it.
- November 20th, 2009, 06:48 pm
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I say go with your gut, and don't keep your eyes closed to what you see that is going on. Get counseling for yourself to deal with your past and your present situation. Ask if he will commit to the marriage and to you by going to counseling with you. If he refuses, still go.

Sit down with him and have a long talk with him. Let him know how you feel about everything. Tell him how all of this is affecting you. This will show you if he is willing to work things out with you. Give him a chance, but not a blind chance. And he gets only one chance, otherwise this merry-go-round will keep spinning.

I'm speaking from my own experience. I was married for 10 years to, who was, I realized later on, a sociopath and pathological liar. They do what is called "gas-lighting", which means that the person distorts what you see is real, to where you don't know anymore what is a lie or the truth. It causes "crazy-making", which sounds like what you are going through right now.

In my case, the truth was evident, confronting me right in the face, and he was so convincing, and would tell me just enough to have me believe the lies, because there was always some truth in what he was saying. I stopped listening to my gut, because I wanted to stay devoted to him. I wanted to believe that things would get better. But once I started confronting him further on the lies, after I got documented proof that he could not ignore, he became extremely abusive, to the point where he almost killed me.

I am not saying that your situation is exactly like mine, but only telling you what I learned from my mistakes (not to say your mistakes are the same either, but after going to counseling and trauma therapy, I take responsibility for my part in it). I did not stay true to myself.

I remember one day listening to Dr. Laura on the radio, and she told a woman caller, "you knew what he was when you married him". I wish I had heard that before I married, rather than after my separation/divorce.

Step back and take a deep breath, and decide for yourself what you are able to live with. Decide what you will tolerate and what you can't live without. Don't concern yourself too much with what your friends or family might think. In my culture, a divorced woman is looked at like she has leprosy. I endured a lot from all kinds of stress from it because having my life is more important than what they think.

Remember that no one, other than God, will love you more than you love yourself. You have to love yourself first, before anyone else can. You (all of us) deserve to be loved, respected, protected, cherished and nurtured.

Good luck!
- November 21st, 2009, 06:51 pm
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I'd suggest couples counseling. It could be that he is cheating; it could be that you're over-reacting because of your history and your insecurities. I'm sorry that instead of having a honeymoon period in your new marriage you're experiencing a lot of pain, stress, and fear instead. Do something about it! Go see a counselor.
- November 23rd, 2009, 09:28 am
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I agree with Sassafrass on this one. You need to go in for some counseling or some deep introspection about yourself. Why are you choosing this type of man? Is it the challenge? Does it validate you if you can win such a man?

Maybe he doesn't really suit your needs at all.

I will say that most players never really settle down. They think they want to. But they can never really handle the intimacy that is required to make a relationship with one woman deeply satisfying.
- November 23rd, 2009, 02:29 pm
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Thank you all for your candid posts. I think I do need to face the fact that I probably need counseling. 2 months ago when I got married, we packed up and moved to another state to be closer to his family. I moved from the only place I ever lived. I left behind my job/career which I associated my self identity with. I left behind all of my friends and everything I have ever known. We left so abruptly that any chance of keeping friendships was lost and my new husband gets so upset if I travel back to that town because he is worried I might run into my ex boyfriend which he is very jelous of. I have no friends or family where we have moved to. The unemployment rate is 15.5%, I can't get a job even cleaning offices when I used to be a professional. I'm at home all day, applying for jobs or running errands for my husband.. You can only cook, clean and do laundry so much before it's all done. I love my husband dearly but I feel lost. My old friends don't even have my new phone number so I get no phone calls except from my husband. Money is very, very tight so joining a gym or something to meet other women to hang out with or even going out to meet people isn't an option right now.

Your posts made me see that this seclusion is starting to take it's toll on me. Thank you
- November 23rd, 2009, 04:08 pm
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scandalous wrote :
I say go with your gut, and don't keep your eyes closed to what you see that is going on. Get counseling for yourself to deal with your past and your present situation. Ask if he will commit to the marriage and to you by going to counseling with you. If he refuses, still go.

Sit down with him and have a long talk with him. Let him know how you feel about everything. Tell him how all of this is affecting you. This will show you if he is willing to work things out with you. Give him a chance, but not a blind chance. And he gets only one chance, otherwise this merry-go-round will keep spinning.

I'm speaking from my own experience. I was married for 10 years to, who was, I realized later on, a sociopath and pathological liar. They do what is called "gas-lighting", which means that the person distorts what you see is real, to where you don't know anymore what is a lie or the truth. It causes "crazy-making", which sounds like what you are going through right now.

In my case, the truth was evident, confronting me right in the face, and he was so convincing, and would tell me just enough to have me believe the lies, because there was always some truth in what he was saying. I stopped listening to my gut, because I wanted to stay devoted to him. I wanted to believe that things would get better. But once I started confronting him further on the lies, after I got documented proof that he could not ignore, he became extremely abusive, to the point where he almost killed me.

I am not saying that your situation is exactly like mine, but only telling you what I learned from my mistakes (not to say your mistakes are the same either, but after going to counseling and trauma therapy, I take responsibility for my part in it). I did not stay true to myself.

I remember one day listening to Dr. Laura on the radio, and she told a woman caller, "you knew what he was when you married him". I wish I had heard that before I married, rather than after my separation/divorce.

Step back and take a deep breath, and decide for yourself what you are able to live with. Decide what you will tolerate and what you can't live without. Don't concern yourself too much with what your friends or family might think. In my culture, a divorced woman is looked at like she has leprosy. I endured a lot from all kinds of stress from it because having my life is more important than what they think.

Remember that no one, other than God, will love you more than you love yourself. You have to love yourself first, before anyone else can. You (all of us) deserve to be loved, respected, protected, cherished and nurtured.

Good luck!
Scandalous I agree with your post. OP I say listen to your gut always. When I married years ago I closed my eyes to what my gut and my own women's intuition were telling me and it was disasterous. I came to find out after I had been married for 4 1/2 years that my husband had been cheating for 3 1/2 years and had gotten the woman pregnant. I knew something was wrong the entire time it was going on. I did confront him. He kept lying, I kept trusting him. Til the woman showed up at my door. She said she came to my house because she wanted him to leave me for her and she was angry because he told her he loved me and he didn't want to leave. She figured if she confronted me that I would kick him out and she could have him. Her words, not mine. She was also married and she had small children. In hindsight I should have let him go then and there! Anyway, stupidly I forgave him after much begging on his part. We stayed married, had children, blah, blah, blah. By the time our marriage ended many years later he had had so many affairs that I lost count.

I am not saying he is cheating but you need to use your women's intuition. Trust me you need to nip it in the bud if you want to have a happy life. You don't want to live with suspicion with someone who is supposed to love you and make you feel safe. You need to trust your gut and you need to talk to him. You probably could also use some counseling because there is probably some baggage too.

Good luck.
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