Boyfriend/Roommate Interaction

Nov 03, 2009 - Maybe I'm being irrational, but I'd like to submit for everyone a problem I have with my boyfriend. I don't need to, but I'll start by saying he's a great guy... tells me every day he loves me, is always very respectful and appreciative for the things I do for him. However, we are at different levels of comfort with roommate situations. - 10 Comments

I'm having trouble getting over the past!

Sep 11, 2009 - I've been in an on-again, off-again relationship with my boyfriend for about four years now.  when we got together, we were young, and he was my first real boyfriend.  We were really serious very early in our relationship, and I was really emotionally attached to him.  After two years of being together, he had become very distant towards me, and he seemed to not care if we were together or not.  After trying time and time again to get him to show interest in us, I had become fed up and ultimately decided to end the relationship, even though it broke my heart to do so.  During this time, he began talking to me everyday like he had used to, and although we were technically broken up, we were still very much attached to eachother.  After a month of being broken up, I felt that he was ready to be back in a relationship with me, only to be proven wrong.  All of a sudden, he just stopped calling me, and when my birthday came, he did not call then either.  I was very heartbroken, but I was encouraged by my friends to talk to this other guy who cared about me a lot.  I had felt an emptiness that only my estranged boyfriend could fill, but I talked to the other guy just to keep from becoming completely depressed.             Merely weeks later, I saw my boyfriend (at the time, my ex) at a party, and he acted like a complete jerk.  I tried to talk to him afterward, but he found out that I was talking to another guy and he blew me off!  I was very hurt because after all that time I had wanted to be with him.  I didn't even want to break up in the first place, but I didn't want to be his doormat.  Well, the next month, he sent me a text saying that he wanted to see me and wanted to talk to me.  I agreed, and I went to see him.  He didn't seem to have changed, but of course I was still in love w/ him, and I decided to get back w/ him.  It was worse than it was before.  We wouldn't speak for weeks at a time, because he was "busy".  We never had conversations and when I would see him, he would treat me like some random chick he'd just met on the street!  This really hurt me, because I didn't understand what I had done to deserve it.  After a while, I decided that enough was enough, and I ended the relationship again.             I had started back talking to the same guy that I was seeing previously.  My boyfriend (ex at the time) was trying to come back into my life.  I kept refusing to take him back, but now (obviously) we're back together.  Well, this is my problem: I'd had sex w/ the other guy I was involved w/ and I told my boyfriend the truth before we decided to get back together again.  He was upset about it and kept saying how he "couldnt believe it" and would make me feel bad about it.  Of course, I asked him if he'd done ANYTHING w/ this girl he had been involved w/, and he denied any and everything regarding her.  I believed him, only to find out from the girl herself that it was a COMPLETE LIE!  He'd done just about everything w/ her, and when I confronted him, he finally confessed.  I was so shocked and hurt.  Then just a month later, he confessed that he'd had sex w/ another girl that he'd met at the party we'd seen eachother at!  It's been a year since, and I don't trust him.  The fact that he lied about things that happened when we were not together gives me reason to believe that he would DEFINITELY lie about something while we are together.  He tells me to just get over it, but I can't, and I don't know what I should do.  This is really an issue because it is still being brought up and I don't act the same in our relationship.  Recently, he'd talked to and spent time w/ his ex girlfriend, who he was w/ before me.  We had gotten into a HUGE altercation because of it, mainly because of him lying about the other girls and the fact that I believe he had done something w/ his ex.  We argue so much and he's hurt me so much, and I know that I made the choice to be w/ him, but it's because I'm in love.  He constantly tells me that he made mistakes and he didn't know what he wanted at the time and that he was childish, but that I should trust him now because he'll never lie to me again.  I just really need to know if I should just "get over it" and move on, or do a have a right to feel this way??? - 20 Comments

My boyfriend's female friend - long but hilarious, and worth the read.

Aug 14, 2009 - My boyfriend has a female friend that he's known since he was a teenager. This chick is your basic nightmare. She's charming, beautiful, really funny, but she has a really wicked sense of humor. - 13 Comments

Am I just another jealous insecure gf? ...and if so, Help!

Jul 29, 2009 - So my bf has this female friend (I'll call her Amy) that lives a couple states away. I have been perfectly fine with them being friends, talking, w/e up to this point. But now I have an issue with it b/c of something that happened, and I need some advice from you girls. - 21 Comments

can't take it anymore

Jul 23, 2009 - So.. I don't know what to do anymore about my house and dealing with my mother and half brother. I don't know whether I'm asking for advice or simply ranting. - 5 Comments

Boston Globe cutting nearly 20% of staff over 3 months

Jan 17, 2009 - Boston Globe cutting nearly 20% of staff over 3 months January 16, 2009 by Ethan Kendrick Filed under HP_Featured, News & Politics Leave a comment Less than a month after Pew Research published its finding that Americans now get more of their news online than from newspapers, the Boston Globe has announced further staff cuts. The slashing of up to 50 jobs from the current full-time staff of 379 will be the fifth major staff reduction for the paper since 2001. The last round came in November of last year when 42 layoffs were announced meaning there has been a 20% reduction in staff over only 3 months. - 2 Comments

bizarre love triangle...at work

Jun 12, 2008 - Prepare yourself, this is a long one: A new guy started working in my department in january and by february i was smitten. I noticed one of my friends at work acting a little strangely around him as well. Then I heard through a friend that she had been speculating about me so I decided to confront her about it. - 13 Comments