Relationship Help Forum: Stop-Start Relationship
This Relationship blog runs a regular relationship help forum. The story below is a true one (with all identifiable details edited) taken from the forum run elsewhere. In today's story *Martha (not her real name) is experiencing an extreme case of a stop-start relationship. I know we've all been there. Here's Martha's battle, and the advice I gave her. You can see the other relationship forum stories here.
Relationship help forum: stop-start relationship
Dear Anne, My break up is a bit complicated.
I ran away from home when I was a teenager to be with my ex. Things didn’t go very well
because we were young and I felt guilty about running away. We were always
fighting (I have a very bad temper – more so because I was racked with guilt). I
went back home a year later because he broke up with me.
Then a month later,
he decided he wanted me back. I took him back despite my parents saying I
shouldn’t. Things got very difficult for me at home so I decided to move out
and move back in with him again. My parents don’t talk to me anymore. After
that it just went downhill from there. Mind you, we had a lot of very good
memories, but when we fought it was bad. On our second breakup, I decided to
relocate because he was moving out and leaving me with a large apartment I couldn’t
afford.
