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BUT, in our culture, a woman with experience/history is out of the question for marriage. You can call it insecurity, but I'll call it my culture/religon/the way I was brought up.
However, that's not an excuse to cuss me out and threaten to punch me. What's that going to do? It's not like if she does that she's going to go back in time and replay the situation so we didn't get caught.
So if your culture is so strict, are her actions not entirely understandable?
I believe you were being highly inconsiderate in this particular scenario. Her reaction was a mix of emotion and desperation, it wasn't exactly coming from a place of reason.
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Just the other day she starts following him on Instagram. No. If she doesn't fix this when we talk this weekend I am definitely walking away.
Speaking of ultimatums..
Anyway, fix what? There's 2 possible scenarios here.
First, this guy is just a friend and you're being paranoid, in which case you're obligating her to cut someone out of her life for no good reason.
Second, he really is trying to sabotage, and she doesn't care for your relationship enough to protect it.
So either there is a problem, or there isn't. And if there is, your force intervention will not actually solve it. It will simply postpone it.
OP the thing is, a conservative culture is not exactly a type of environment in which a relationship can flourish. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I am saying that you have a plenitude of inherited external obstacles to overcome. I mean look at the reason you fought.
Your relationship doesn't seem to be handling them very well. I mean you said it yourself, it's a constant up and down roller-coaster ride.
Do you actually see it going anywhere?
Yeah I do. That's how every middle eastern is. Girl is a virgin and guy is usually not. Your actually not suppose to date and just get married. Kinda blind sided and old fashioned for me, but hey, lots of people do it.
The guy was trying to sabotage our relationship b/c he told her I was with another girl when we were in this confusion state. (Long story short the guys older brother thought I was trying to fuck him over with his girlfriend at the time, fast forward a few years now I know he's telling his younger brother to fuck things over with my girlfriend or w/e you wanna call it) IDK it was weird there weren't set boundaries at the time so yeah I went out with another hottie. As of now we aren't in a relationship but we're not seeing other people... it's complicated I know.
But with this guy there definitely is a problem. I have cutoff girls who she thought may try to get at me or w/e, and I know for a fact that this guy tried sabotaging us. So IDK if it's an ultimatum. But I don't want to be with a girl who's friends with my "enemies", and on top of that I don't want to be with a girl who says she is going to slowly cut it off with my "enemy" and then stonewall him on WinterBreak b/c they share classes.. but yet I come to find when she's upset she follows him on IG. Her fixing it would be to not follow him on IG right away, b/c she recently did that, and I'll give her until the start of WinterBreak (Tuesday) to permanently delete him from all social media. That's what we had agreed on. I won't word it exactly like "pick me or him" cuz that's an ultimatum. I'm going to word it like "Look you said this... but I saw you add him on Instagram. What's up with that?" And if she makes excuses or w/e I will tell her exactly this "I'm not going to talk to a girl who lies to me" and then walk away without looking back.
EDIT: Before I do that though... I am going to sympathize with her on the situation the other day that started this fight. But do I really need to apologize for it? For what exactly? Not sitting in the car when she said so and hiding in the bathroom instead?
EDIT2: How do you handle a situation with your girl when her reaction is a mix of emotion/desperation???