My girlfriend (let's call her Freya) has just gone on a cruise. Her ex-boyfriend (let's call him Sam) also happens to be on the same cruise. Freya and Sam dated for a while after meeting on a previous cruise (NOTE it was a long distance relationship). They both planned out the this summer's cruise together. Sam has a strange view on relationships believing that "sex is needed for a good healthy relationship" and according to Freya has said that next time they meet Sam would have condoms. (NOTE Freya was not happy with this) Their relationship ended after an argument I believe. Sam then managed to get onto Freya's social media accounts (Snapchat, Instagram and a few others) and locked her out of them. Freya since has been scared of Sam and before the cruise was in tears about the possibility of meeting him again. After convincing her that talking to him may solve her issues, Freya seemed to be a lot calmer about the cruise. Freya and Sam agreed that if they...

Hello everyone! This is my first post on Reddit so I apologize if I'm doing it wrong. Plus my native language is really, really different from English so I tend to do some mistakes here and there, I'm sorry in advance. Sadly, I need to give the full back story about our relationship. The thing is, I think it's my fault because I turned out the way I am and I want to see if you can see it too or I'm just naive. We started our relationship two years ago and he was really possessive. We had to be together 24/7 and I wasn't really allowed to go out with friends of mine at the start of the relationship. He had to check my phone every day. I gave it of course, I had nothing to hide. I didn't want his, but when I did out of anger to show him it isn't nice getting doubted most of the time he always handed it to me. I was pretty silent on the matter. I saw that there was no point in trying to talk to him normally because when I did it was turned against me, making...

I will try to keep this as short as I can, but I also would like to get all the vital details about my situation. So my ex and I have sort of been on and off for about the past 5 or so years. We were I guess, high school sweethearts, tried long distance in college but it didn't work. At the time she said she couldn't do long distance, then proceeded to do even longer distance with an ex of hers. Over the past five years, when she's not in a relationship; she constantly leads me on until she gets bored, hits on my friends (actively tried to sleep with two of them and sent them nude pictures), or goes crawling back to a different ex. She recently came back into my life after another break up (as she always does) with the claim that she's a different person, things have changed, for the first time actually apologized for everything she did, and then told me that she wants me back. See, I had transferred to a different college, in part to get away from her, also becaus...

So I [M18] met this girl [F18] at band earlier this summer and we hit it off immediately. She even showed a little interest and gave me her number, but she didnt mention she had a boyfriend until a month later, and even when she did she immediately moved on from that topic. We've hung out a few times over the summer and she is definitely showing signs that shes into me. She laughs at everything I say, keeps her eyes glued on me, constantly has her arm or something brushed up against me, and compliments me often; things like I'm cute, amazing, awesome, etc.. When we hang out it's always just the two of us and she rarely mentions her boyfriend. When she does, she says either how they are going through a difficult time or she moves on very quickly. About hanging out, we always do things that reflect dates. We've gone out and looked at the stars, went to a parade together, and then dinner with her family where we ended up hanging in my car and holding hands for a few sec...

Hi reddit, I'm here because I could use some advice. I think that couples counseling might be best for us in the next few months when I am able to take some time off of work, but in the meantime thought I would seek advice until that happens. This is a bit long so I truly appreciate whoever took the time to read through. My spouse has a tendency to over exaggerate when he tells stories. We have been married for 4 years so to tell you the truth I'm not sure why I'm only noticing this now. It could be that he never told stories in front of me in the past that I was there for so I never noticed that his stories were over exaggerated. Regardless of why, I do notice it now and it drives me crazy. I'll describe a few scenarios when he over exaggerated to try to explain why this bothers me. For the sake of this post, let's call me Martha (this is not my real name). We were living in Hawaii during the false missile alert. We called the police to ask if it was real and t...

Ive been contemplating posting this because I'm already a broken sobbing mess and he also goes on reddit but here goes. We've been together 5 years, had alot of downs than ups, and went to go couples therapy (it was free at the time) around the middle of year 4. Around that time he took a job to go army and well we couldn't really stand the thought of being apart for 6 years so we had to come to an agreement to get married. During this he had doubts of marriage and i decided to discuss our expectations and wants and needs (basically pre marital counseling questions) and we pretty much agreed on everything and there wasn't really anything wrong. He finally came around to the idea of marrying me and was super happy about it. We planned it together (its super small only a dozen people would come) and we got tons of help from my family and his dad. Everything was okay, even the day before the wedding, we saw each other and hung out. The next morning he wanted to talk an...

I don't know if this is the right sub, if it isn't, direct me where I should go. I just needed to get this out. Maybe one of you fine internet strangers have been through something like this and have tips for me and my family. I apologize for typos or mistakes of any sort. I'm pretty worked up. There's definitely more details to this issue but will try to give the most concise version of events. Backstory: My dad (57) used to be a good person, kind heart, loved Jesus, was empathic, just all around good guy. He has done a complete 180 in regards to his behaviour. My first big red flag was really weird stuff being posted to his social media. Especially his IG, the pics were just so strange and gave me a bad feeling. He came to visit me (36f) this past November with my step mom. (I live in a different province.) He was just plain weird. Loud. Seemed unaware of personal space. We were swimming with my daughter at the pool and he wanted to talk to me in the hot tub. He...