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    Marco

    Been with my girl for about 3 months and things have been great. She has been understanding and patient. We don’t spend a whole lot of time together. About every two weeks. Only because I have my 1 year old son every other weekend and whenever it’s the weekend I don’t have him we are together having a blast. She is patient with that. I want to spend more time but during the week it’s hard because of work schedules. I’ve done wrong to her toward the beginning but she forgave me and I’ve been making it up to her. Skip to today the last time I saw her was week before last and we were suppose to see each other today but I had a last minute thing with work I had to handle. I was running around trying to get things done. I forgot to give her a call to give her some updates on what was going on. Hours later she ends up texting me “We can do another time, since you’re busy” I completely flipped out and projected onto her. She called me and I was rude to her when I first picked up the phone. I was out still doing things for people at work so I was annoyed. I knew she was just being considerate and meant no harm. Out of anger I said to her “everything we do together only benefits you” the change in her voice almost killed me but I didn’t notice until the phone call ended. She was literally so excited for us to go see a few Christmas lights and go to my house and make gingerbread houses, eat and watch Christmas movies. She bought the food and everything we needed even matching pjs. It was something so small she wanted to do with me. Everything we do is so much fun and I love it. She comes up with the ideas for dates because I just can’t think of a lot. I’ve been single for a long long time so I’m adjusting. Once again her patience is awesome. So me saying that to her hurt her and mad her feel like I don’t really want to do what she wants. I’ve tried to tell her sorry. She just says that she will not tell me anything else she wants to do she will let me decide, she will allow me to communicate how I chose and she will just adjust to me all aspects. I feel like crap. Out date tonight was canceled due to my attitude and me taking my work anger completely out on her. I was very disrespectful on that phone call. She is hurt and really means she won’t mention a date she wants ever and that she will let me pick and how ever long it take me to take her on one. I’m sorry this is so long but I’m bothered that I hurt her. Advice on what I should do.

    #939808 Reply
    Ewa

    why do you get angry so easily? 3 months is not long enough, she is still a stranger, so this is not even about her it is more about you and how you react to certain situations. You practically said something out of anger to a stranger and that surely is an attitude issue.
    I would just leave her alone right now and sort out your attitude .

    #939813 Reply
    Raven

    How to apologize genuinely:

    Acknowledge the offense. Take responsibility for the offense, and confirm that your behavior was not acceptable.

    – Explain what happened.
    – Express remorse.
    – Offer to make amends.

    #939814 Reply
    Tallspicy

    And send her flowers.

    #939815 Reply
    Maddie

    Apologies mean nothing though if you keep repeating the behavior, only to apologize again. Doing so destroys trust over time. So while Raven and Tallspicy’s suggestions are a start, Ewa makes the most important point. What are you going to do for yourself to work on your anger management so you do not take frustrations out on her? For her to be so patient because you’ve done her wrong already before this, and she forgave you, now this next issue is happening, starting a bad pattern after only 3 months… it will become an extremely unhealthy and unhappy dynamic is you’re treating her unfairly and she’s forgiving you and accepting treatment that is less than she deserves because you apologize before doing it again. If you care about her, please nip this in the bud for yourself and do not rely on her patience. Be accountable to yourself and show up as the best partner you can be instead of using the excuse that you haven’t dated in a long time and still need to adjust… actually do the work you need to do on your side. After you figure that out and apologize, tell her your plan for yourself going forward, and let her see you follow through on taking action steps so she knows you’re serious.

    #939828 Reply
    Nellie

    Let her go, you don’t deserve her.

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