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Struggling to Trust

My boyfriend and I have been together for a year and a half. When we first started dating he was in a garage band. Then he got into a new band that started touring. It was hard to have him gone for so long but I was doing everything in my power to be supportive. After him being on the road for a month he decided to break up with me so he could pursue the "rockstar life" aka sleep with other women. He came home after 4 months of touring and begged for me back. I know all the dirty details of what he did and have full access to his social network info. We worked through all the crap and came out stronger from it until he was accepted into another new band. His new band is very well known and comes with a very large following of fans. It has been very difficult for me to ignore the amount of attention he is getting now and all the groupies throwing themselves at him. He does not have anything showing that he is in a relationship because people started harrassing me when they knew I was his girlfriend. It bothers me that to the world he looks single and nobody even knows I exist now. He swears that he will be faithful to me but I need to accept that there will be very pretty girls out there and he will possibly be friends with them or hang out with them. How do I trust him again after what he did on the first tour? How do I not let me jealousy and insecurities get the best of me? Or am I an idiot for thinking he is going to be faithful?

Posted by ashley on 04/09/2013 02:49 PM | edit | delete

 

I don't think you should not trust him! Look at it this way: he broke up with you do go do what he wanted to do, when he could have had you AND cheated on you, which he did not do. As stupid and immature as it seems to us, for someone to break up with their gf to go live the "rockstar life" it does show that the relationship did mean something, in a weird way. Also, he came back and begged for you back, so he DID realize the mistake me made and made a major effort to correct it. If he still wanted to live that life, he wouldn't have asked for you back. I don't see a reason to not trust that he is not cheating, when he surely could have and made the conscious effort not to. So I definitely don't think you are an idiot for thinking he will be faithful, when he never cheated in the first place! As for not letting jealousy and insecurities get the best of you, that is a major personal struggle. But it is YOUR problem, and NOT HIS problem, that's what you need to remember. Again, a way to think of things: you know this secret: he doesn't really like them and he likes you more than any of them, no matter how much they think they are getting attention from him and no matter how much they think he likes them, you KNOW that you are liked more so just laugh at all the skanky fangirls who he is just nice to to further his career. He has a choice to be with you, and he is choosing to be. He doesn't really have a choice but to be nice to the people paying him to be nice to them, essentially...

 

make sense? Hope this helps!

posted by Sterling on 04/09/2013 07:25 PM | edit | delete

That totally makes sense. I appreciate the brutal honesty. I know that it is my own inner struggle and I need to give him more trust. I understand how the business works and I'm not an idiot thinking he is never going to look at another girl in a sexual way. We are human and find people attractive and have urges. That is not what really bothers me, what does bother me is the lying and sneaking around and spending time with girls one on one without telling me, even if it is just a friend. He was innappropriate with other women while we were together but swears he didn't actually sleep with any of them until after we broke up. My biggest issue with him is trying to get him to tell the truth or not hide things from me. He even addmitted last night that he would rather lie to me about something that he thinks will upset me than deal with me being angry. He hasn't given me an opportunity to prove him wrong cuz he keeps being shady. I even found out that he is meeting a new girl tonight to go to the movies that he met online. When I confronted him about it he said he knew my feelings would be hurt so he didn't want to tell me. I'm trying VERY hard to trust that he wouldn't do anything with these other girls but it bothers me that he lies about it and sneaks behind my back. He leaves on Friday for a month and a half and it scares me that if he is so willing to spend time with other women and lie to me while he is home, then how is it going to be when he's on the road again and I'm not around?

posted by ashley on 04/10/2013 12:58 PM | edit | delete

 
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