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Old 08-21-2005, 09:37 AM   #1
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boyfriend on vacation with friend

I've been dating this guy about 10 months. We are both almost 50 and neither of us has been married. Although he has some good relationship skills, he hasn't been in a romatic relationship for 20 years. He moved back in with his mother after college and has been there since. Now he has to take care of her because she has a broken hip.

His main activities has been hanging around a bunch of guys camping, watching sports, drinking beer and sometimes smoking pot. His friends are mostly married. One of his friend is a woman who is married. She's a foul mouthed heavy pot smoker with 2 kids. He's been hanging around with her since high school. He goes over there every week and has watched their kids grow up and vacation at the beach every year. I met twice and both times she didn't say a much to me even though she wanted to meet me. She has been angry at him because he no longer spends as much time when them.

This week he's at the beach with her and her husband and kids and I think another guy and his kid. I'm trying to be ok about it but I'm not. I'm not really happy that it bothers me and don't really understand why. I'd like to say he could go again next year but I don't think I'd be able to stay with him if he did and I'm not even sure why I feel that way. He often goes places with his friends and sometimes it seems like I am second fiddle to his friends though when he is at my house we don't do much and I get sick of him being around. Do you think it's a sign of another problem or am I just being silly.

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Re: boyfriend on vacation with friend

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His main activities has been hanging around a bunch of guys camping, watching sports, drinking beer and sometimes smoking pot. He often goes places with his friends and sometimes it seems like I am second fiddle to his friends though when he is at my house we don't do much and I get sick of him being around. Do you think it's a sign of another problem or am I just being silly.
I think that if you feel like a second fiddle and get sick of him being around you those are two valid reasons to reevaluate your relationship. After 10 months of dating.....I think you should know whether hanging out with a man who drinks beer, smokes pot, and makes you feel this way is worth hanging around with any longer. Signs of a problem YES are you silly NO.

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Old 08-21-2005, 12:03 PM   #3
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Re: boyfriend on vacation with friend

Well, my question is WHY??????

Why would you want to be in a relationship with a man who does nothing but smoke pot and drink beer at the age 50? He can't really have many brain cells left!!!

Don't you think you deserve better? You must because you are not vacationing with all the drunks and druggies!!! Sorry to sound harsh, but WHY?????

 
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Re: boyfriend on vacation with friend

I guess I always make it sound worse than it is. He has very nice qualities, a good job, makes dinner for me, gives me back massages all the time, likes being around me, very responsible, always calls and does what he says he's going to do etc....

It's just on his free time he does hang around guys watching sports and drinking beer though he doesn't get drunk and doesn't even like drinking just likes being around the guys watching the football games. He did smoke pot when he is younger and still does sometimes. He did play golf but doesn't now and works around the house and has to cook and clean for his mother. When he does go out it's with the guys and he does smoke pot sometimes.

I've dated alcoholics and I know he's not one but maybe it feels the same. All his friends are married and have kids and jobs. One of his friends kids just got accepted to harvard etc. It's not that they are all drunks but maybe because of my past that's how it feels. Now his woman friend, that's another story. She does smoke pot every day but also has a good job. I guess I like her the least especially since she seems to be the most screwed up.

We do have a good time most of the time but he lives over an hour away and spends the whole weekend with me. It's a small apartment and I think it gets to me sometimes. I think because he hasn't been in many relationships he's hard to talk to but he's generally a nice guy. He's more domistic than I am, always does the dishes and cleans my apartment sometimes when I'm teaching a class on Saturday.

I just wish he had done more with himself besides having his buddies. They do act like kids when they get together. The other guys have wives and families all these years, he just has them.

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Re: boyfriend on vacation with friend

Did he ask you to go on vacation with them? I think I would feel second too if my boyfriend went on vacation and didn't ask me to go, unless he had a really good excuse for it. Feeling second fiddle is no fun.

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