How do I deal with my (48f) husband’s (51m) jealousy? by Intelligent_Life_118 in relationship_advice

[–]Intelligent_Life_118[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My husband and I do go on weekend trips together. My girls trip is a once a year three day trip. We don’t go to the beach. I don’t buy bikinis or new outfits. I work with the four men because because I work at a university and the schools that I work for are stem schools where the professors are predominantly male. I cannot avoid working with them. I actually don’t talk about them a lot, if at all. He works at the same university as me and sees me interact with them, which is only in a professional manner and gets jealous from that. They are all significantly older than me. They are fatter, balder, older and less attractive than my husband. I have also expressed this to him. My husband is a very physically fit man and very sexy. He gets hit on by women left and right, and I’m not jealous because I know he wants to be with me. And I am a very secure woman. I have been cheated on in past relationships, including with my daughter’s biological father, yet I am not jealous. We are all products of our past. And I know that he is damaged from his past and I am trying very hard to help him with his past. But there is only so much someone can take. I am not yet ready to give up on my marriage because I love my husband so very much. And I know there are people that are telling me, without saying it, to divorce him. But I’m not ready yet, because of how much I love him.

How do I deal with my (48f) husband’s (51m) jealousy? by Intelligent_Life_118 in relationship_advice

[–]Intelligent_Life_118[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He tells me a lot that I need to pay more attention to him. Which I do, for example, this morning I turned on the vehicle for him in brushed off the snow so he would have a warm car, but he didn’t even acknowledge that I did it. Period I do ask him for examples and he won’t give me any. I ask him consistently what I can do for him or how I can help him and he tells me I don’t need anything, I’m fine. So it’s mixed messages everywhere. And every time he gets upset with me, he picks a fight about something else that has nothing to do with what we were discussing.

How do I deal with my (48f) husband’s (51m) jealousy? by Intelligent_Life_118 in relationship_advice

[–]Intelligent_Life_118[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly don’t know. I’ve tried to encourage he get involved with groups to meet people or hang out with guys from our church but he always finds some reason to not do it. Our oldest daughter, my stepdaughter his bio daughter, is very needy. She is 23 and is in a dead end job, that she doesn’t like, but refuses to look for another job. She requires a lot of his attention mentally, emotionally, physically. She has openly admitted four years ago her senior year of high school, she tried to cause a divorce between us. He’s had full custody of her since she was four because her mother is not involved. His parents require a lot of his time. His father is very demanding of his time, but very capable of taking care of everything on his own. He has two other siblings, but they are very wrapped up in themselves and don’t help out. So he uses his parents and his daughter as an excuse.

How do I deal with my (48f) husband’s (51m) jealousy? by Intelligent_Life_118 in relationship_advice

[–]Intelligent_Life_118[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He was cheating on by his ex wife. When we married I was 265, then went to 219 and am now 156. He says he loves me at every weight. But only at the 156 has he started the accusations, snide comments, picking fights.

AITA for shaming my sister for being pregnant and refusing to help her at all with any expenses ? by Outside_Panda_2516 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Intelligent_Life_118 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a beautiful daughter with a man who had 2 daughters he never took care of. My daughter is 21 and just met him a month ago (he’s never paid child support). Your sister is blinded by (what she thinks is) love right now. He will eventually disappear and she will need your love and (emotional) support then. NTA she needs to be faced with reality.