jophil28 said:
Indeed. This is not about male insecurity (as much as women's magazines would like to preach) This issue is all about HER (un)willingness to make your relationship with her a priority over her adolescent need to bask in the ego glow from the fawning attention she is getting from those other chumps. They are not seeking pure "friendship", they are waiting for their moment to jump on her..like circling buzzards. She knows that and she loves the inner glow that she gets from knowing what they want.
One of the requirements of a successful LTR is that the parties relinquish their freedom to see other members of the opposite sex in a one on one setting.
So I ask the OP, is she willing to make that deal ?
It goes without saying that women who deserve your committment also need to show a willingness to make sacrifices and adjustments to their relationships with other guys.
How do you enforce this ? By SUBTLY and indirectly sending her the message that your committment needs to be earned though her behavior.
You cannot ever debate or negotiate with a woman about her other relationships. Women do NOT want to make one tiny change to these because they bring pleasure and emotional security. By getting angry you are telling her that you NEED her to change to suit you. Your position may be absolutely correct, but trying to negotiate with women like this is never going to bring you the outcome you want.. She will just agree with you to shut you up, and then meet with the other guys in secret and lie to you .
So, what do you do? You do a "disconnect".
Firstly slowly withdraw your affection and attention without explanation. Be harder to get and unavailable.
Secondly, take up a hobby, join a club. or start up in a recreation which does not include her. Try Salsa classes (lots of hotties there). Go on some 'hang out' dates with other women.
Thirdly, when SHE then comments that you are pulling away say NOTHING.
If you can get this far you have 90% of the frame back in your grasp.
There is one more step that I will leave for another post at time.
We had a converstation about what happened and that I don't like her being with other male guys, I explained her that it's not normal to have male companies, (she couldn't argue that I have female ones, cause I don't, I don't like having female friends) I explained her that when someone is in a LTR it's rather strange to go out and drink/dance with someone of the opposite sex, even friends! I explained her that if she had true friends, they wouldn't matter and they would understand that she is in a LTR now!
We went out with my father, all the three of us, so that they will meet each other and we started saying little things for fun like, George is being a little overreacting and staff like that, so I said to my father, which I think is a pretty logical person and educated about that matter with her friends, he told her that NO there is no friendship between a woman and a man only in a false state! Even he explained her what I was telling her and it was a bit funny, he told me not to overreact though and staff...
The conclusion was this,
She told me that I am right and hadn't really thought of it...
She told me that she can't cut off her friends entirely but she has cut them a lot since we've been together (which is true as I wrote when I started the post, she doesn't go out for drinks or nightclubs when her friends invite her) but she will try to please me even more and decrease it cause she just wants to be with me...
The reason I am not giving up on her and just break up is that when we met she had many disadvantages, like going to nightclubs, stay out late, talk on the phone while being with me, act immature in front of me, asking me to be all the time with her instead of being with my friends and now, after 5 months she is a completely different person! I changed her and I really like that I made her what she is now, a LTR material! She doesn't do ANYTHING of what she was doing! The only thing left is her f*cking male friends! That annoys me ! Yes it does!
I'll just wait and see her response on this matter after the conversation we had... I gave her a chance, I'll just wait for now...
Thanks for the replies, helped me a lot on what to say...