Sweetie , I am sorry you are upset... and what I am about to say likely won't make you feel much better. The chances of him stopping something he enjoys, see's nothing wrong with and doesn't feel is cheating you are pretty slim. The chances of him instead going out of his way to hide this behavior from you to avoid confrontation in the future is high.
The fact he was able to do this all even 2 weeks before asking you to marry him shows he's able to seperate (in his mind) this from you and see's it seperate , doesn't imagine why you should concern yourself with it. But I do. I understand why it hurts you -- even if its 'only' fantasy and 'only' online... and that you are what he wants in real life... none of that makes a girl feel any better when she's hurt by this behavior.
There is a good chance that this may be an ever present force in your relationship with this man, a good chance of that, actually. Even if he stops for a time, he'll default to it, he'll forget to hide sometimes and you'll discover and fight and he'll swear to stop and lather rinse repeat. Its generally the nature of what happens when a guy is in this deep with online sex stuff.
If it means anything, he likely doesn't prefer it to you -- he just see's it seperate from you, and is probably hard-pressed to even fathom why it would bother you as he has no point of reference of which to compare it to. He probably can't imagine you being interested in something similiar so he just can't put the shoe on the other foot and see it from your eyes. Also he would probably admit to not minding if you wanted to look at porn etc...
But my guess is he'd have a huge problem with you wanting to sending out naughty pics of yourself to random men online, to engage them in fantasy talk etc... he would probably react very strongly againt that idea.
At this point you have to weigh the pro's VS con's of this relationship without factoring in this habit. If you didn't see what you did , would you think anything is wrong in your relationship? Is he affectionate and sexual enough for you? Do you get as much sex from him on a routine basis as you desire? Do you ever feel disrepected by him or does he always make you feel special?
If your relationship had problems before you saw all this... then you can see this may be a contributing factor to your problems, if he can see that too... he may at least alter his behavior so that he can be what you need and focus a little less on his self time.
But if your relationship had NO problems and your needs were being met, you are going to have a hard sell as to why he shouldn't do something he likes... when it has no impact other than 'making you feel bad'.
Granted, as a woman... if I knew something made my man feel bad I'd stop it, no doubt. But we are emotional creatures by nature and interconnect things differently than most men do. So while in a perfect world, something hurting your feelings would be enough to make someone change a behavior... it generally isn't.
People won't stop doing something they don't see a problem with until they do. And even then can remain in denial of the problem it could potentially be causing if its an enjoyable enough thing they don't want to let go of.
Its like as if you were skinny and your husband feared you'd get fat so he didn't want you eating cookies... "just in case" but you've been eating cookies since before you met him, and all the while you were with him and never gained a pound! But now he's found your cookie stash and says , no more... you might get fat! Well... you might say okay, if you really don't want me to I'll stop. But when you want a cookie, you'll have that cookie... because you believe in your heart that cookies never caused a problem before and won't now, and think he's being silly.
Will you tell him when you have the cookies? probably not. If he finds the cookie crumbs in the bed, he may be upset and you'll talk him down... lather rinse repeat. People do what they want, and people don't change a behavior unless they see a need to change it, themselves.




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