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RE: Amazing LTR of 4 years is moving away...do I go with her?
(03-03-2017 07:59 PM)Deadlifts Wrote: (03-02-2017 11:50 PM)Serious Sam Wrote: Quote:but her parents are literally forcing her to move back to South Carolina.
This part bothers me the most, and it's not consistent with what you say later (more on that in a bit). Out of the LTRs I've had, one had parents who weren't quite overbearing, but more involved than I liked. I love it when a woman is close to her family, but there is a limit, and this, to me, exceeds it.
It also doesn't sound like you all were working towards anything together. I get it. You were young when you started dating then all of a sudden four years had passed. If you weren't looking to marry her soon, then when were you considering it? Another year or two? A man who's ready to make that leap and start a family knows by at least year two. Graft mentions old school marriages above, but nothing about this situation sounds like an old school marriage. It sounds more like a modern day high school sweetheart situation where they grew comfortable but weren't really looking toward the future, just merely floating along within their comfort zone.
Quote:Her debt is not entirely from the accident, she got a house with 2 other girls who come to find out are just low lives that don't pay rent, she works crazy hours at work and pays for majority of the bills. She also covers the other two girls rent when they don't have the money yet. Now her car is totaled, she's in a really shitty situation and is stressed as hell over everything. This, and given the fact she's only 20 years old I don't blame her for wanting to run back to Mom and Dad who she hasn't seen in almost two years. I've never given her any money to pay off debt, but I do what I can to make her life less stressful (take her out, fuck her like a porn star, workout together, ect. ect.) She keeps telling me how much she wants to make this work between us, and she's done so much already. Feelsbadman
The bold part is what I found inconsistent. Is she running back or is she being forced back? Due to your inconsistency, I'm leaning more towards it being her choice, with a bit of parental control involved. Here's the tough pill to swallow: If she really wanted to continue building a life with you, she would find a way to make shit work in Michigan. But instead, she's running off to South Carolina. Sure, she's comfortable within your relationship now, but there is no stability for her (not from you, anyway), and she recognizes that.
If you were truly her rock and ready to enter into marriage, then she would work with you to work out her problems. But you aren't her rock; her mother and father are. Don't take this hard because you're still very young and have a lot of life to live, but based on what I've read, you aren't prepared to take this relationship any further than it's current conclusion. You two have been comfortable together for four years. She's familiar and you're familiar. But now shit has gotten real for her, and you, at this point, aren't strong enough to wade her through rocky waters. That's why she's moving home. She probably wants you to come, but most likely due to your familiarity and not because you provide the strong support she needs.
This is the reality of the situation. I would take a hard, long look in the mirror and ask yourself if you're truly prepared to be the leader of a family. Be honest with yourself. It's okay if the answer is no. I answered no when I was a few years older than you, and that's why I broke it off with a girl I truly cared about. If the answer is no (and I have a strong feeling it is), then I'd stay where you are. There's no use in uprooting your life for a relationship that won't be built into a marriage and family.
To further illustrate my point, I'm going to add what I've seen from some successful marriages. When I have talked to wives within good marriages, I have found consistency in their answers for what they like most about their husbands (and this can be hard to come by with women). The main thing I hear is something along the lines of "he's dependable" "he's reliable" "he makes me feel safe." Even so-called "strong and independent" women are terrified, weak little creatures who, deep down, know they have no chance once a true threat comes their way. This is why I say that she needs to see you as a rock. She can lean on you within any situation and you never buckle.
An ex of mine and I were driving through a snow storm. She was behind the wheel and I was passed out in the passenger seat after skiing all day. I wake up because she's freaking out. It's a fucking blizzard, the road is all white, you can't see any lanes, and you can barely see two feet in front of you. I tried to get her to pull off, but she wouldn't because you could barely tell the road from a potential snow bank. So I calmly talked her through it. I kept my eyes peeled, kept her calm, and walked her through what to do. We made it home safe. She later told me how much she admired my calmness through the whole situation. The fact was, I was terrified, but I didn't let it show. This is a part of frame maintenance that is rarely talked about: when you're overwhelmed, but make her believe you've got it.
Your girlfriend is in a shitty situation. If she's turning to her parents for guidance instead of you, then she doesn't see you as that calming force to help her weather the storm. This is why moving to SC, in my opinion, is pointless. You aren't ready to take this relationship to the next level. It's merely a comfortable situation for you both since you've been together so long, but it's probably not going anywhere. If she truly saw you as dependable and reliable, then she would have handled the problem with you.
What a fantastic response. This makes a lot of sense, thank you. Reading through your post made me realize my faults in this relationship, I've always been afraid of getting too attached to a woman and because of this have probably failed more comfort tests than passed. I feel as though she definitely wants me to move with her, she's asked me to come. Her parents and I are on good terms. In fact a detail I left out was I had already lived with her and her parents for almost a year when they lived in Florida (I didn't want to make the original post too long and ranting) My question is, is it too late to salvage a successful relationship with her? What if I decide I do want to be her rock, her leader and consider the option of marriage with her? What would be the best route to take in your opinion? I'm assuming I should talk to her about all of this first?
(03-05-2017 10:51 AM)The Beast1 Wrote: (03-04-2017 10:34 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: (03-04-2017 10:19 AM)The Beast1 Wrote: (03-02-2017 03:53 PM)rudebwoy Wrote: ^He is 22 WTF
My wife's parents got married at that exact age in the early 80s.
I have friends from my fly over town that got married at the same time.
It isn't as far fetch'd as one might thing. Not to mention 4 years of a solid LTR is more than enough time to make the jump to a long term relationship especially if his girl was a virgin.
This whole "you're young, go out and bang broads" is complete hogwash. If you found a good girl at a young age and everything checks out why not marry her?
Going out and indiscriminately banging sluts isn't healthy as most of us have attested here.
Important question. Were these friends hesitant when they married? Did the man in these relationships still long to sow his wild oats?
Nope, they just did it and it was sort of a surprise when I heard the news. This was the guy's second relationship. It was the girl's first.
(03-05-2017 12:55 AM)kaotic Wrote: (03-04-2017 10:19 AM)The Beast1 Wrote: My wife's parents got married at that exact age in the early 80s.
This isn't the 80's - that's 30+ years ago.
Are you willing to say things are the same when it comes to relationships and marriage ?
Honestly, outside of the big cities: yes it is. Go to a city that has under 100,000 people. The ones that don't run off to the big city are the ones that got married young.
Go live in fly over country for a while. It's a whole different world out there.
(03-05-2017 12:55 AM)kaotic Wrote: Quote:This whole "you're young, go out and bang broads" is complete hogwash. If you found a good girl at a young age and everything checks out why not marry her?
Going out and indiscriminately banging sluts isn't healthy as most of us have attested here.
I don't believe going out and exploring women to find out what you truly like is hogwash.
I do believe that some men aren't built for the player lifestyle, they just want to be happy with 1 woman and build a family around that, which is absolutely respectable.
BUT this day and age they need to be a man armed to the teeth when it comes to handling women, relationships, and masculinity.
This isn't your Gramps 60+ year marriage in the good ol' days.
There are ways to arm men with the knowledge of what bad women look like without encouraging one to go out and take a sampling. The only reason we had to go out and do the sampling was because of the destruction of such knowledge by the left. The constant "red pilling" going on out there is quickly forcing this knowledge back into the public's psyche.
If anything, the advice of, "Go out and see what you like" is helping contribute to the decline of good women in the world.
I'll repeat it again: if you're young (under 22) and you've found a women that respects you, cooks for you, wants to run a home, wants children, and is a virgin you've hit the lottery. You will rarely be able to find a girl like that again.
Most men aren't going to have the skills to bang 18 year old virgins as an older man. The men who claim that they can are the exception, not the rule.
Women are water and their experiences are the glass. The earlier you get them, the sooner you can mold them into what you want. The knowledge we posses here can restore the old dating customs of the past.
If we want to avoid this dystopian future for our children, it's time we start encouraging people to stay for good in healthy and functional relationships as young as possible.
That sounds great regarding keeping great girls but i venture to guess likely does not apply to the Original Post. The OP is so light on detail, so obviously pedestal-izing, and so tailored to please the red pill reader that I doubt it is a true and correct analysis of the girl. Not saying that OP is lying, rather that he is describing her in a she has these ideal bullet points type of way. The whole and real girl may technically have these bullet points but there are 1. the missing "rest" of the description and 2. the actions show disloyalty.
This is a divorce, but OP does not see it because there aren't any papers to sign.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/...off-limits
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