What do you do when you lose the PASSION?

Friday, June 12th, 2009 at 1:47pm UTC

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Q. I’ve been with my boyfriend for almost 4 years. I always thought he was my soul mate, even though he’s told me he doesn’t think I’m his, but that he loves me. I want to get married and have a baby, he use to want it to, but now he’s more interested in smoking pot – which he knows i hate..Lately I’ve been so bored I’ve been reading the Twilight Saga, I’m up to the last book (Breaking Dawn) and I’m honestly in love with them. The love story and emotion in the stories makes me so, so sad that I have nothing like that. That I don’t have a guy that loves me more than I love him. I feel like I’ve lost hope in our relationship, I feel dead inside. I want someone like Edward who would love me like I feel I deserve to be loved. I don’t know what to do, it seems like a big deal to break up with someone over a book, right?

Help!

A. The feeling of love will change over time. It is completely normal. Once the newness of the relationship finally wear off then you are left to reevaluate what’s left. Ideally you are both left with respect, friendship, trust, and all those things that build a firm foundation for a relationship. That newness gets replaced by something not as extreme but very solid and secure.

Keep in mind that the closeness you see in the book is 1 fiction and 2 created by a lot of drama. For a long lasting relationship you want stability over drama any day.

I’m sure him smoking pot doesn’t help the whole problem though. Smoking pot tends to make people not care about what’s going on around them. It could affect his mood which in turn could affect the way he treats you.

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  1. It seems to me that the pot-smoking has taken a priority in his life and now the relationship and the direction it is going not important to him anymore.

    I think that you should talk to him and tell him that he has changed and that the pot-smoking (that you hate) is really putting a damper on the relationship and if things don’t change, you are going to have to call it quits.

    You are unhappy with your situation and that is why you have found yourself drawn to the fictional love story in Twilight and wish for a love like that.

    You have probably lost all hope in your relationship, not because of reading the book, but because of his smoking habit and how it’s changed his outlook on the relationship.

    Hope things work out!

    June 18th at 2:10pm UTC

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