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Anonymous asked in Family & RelationshipsMarriage & Divorce · 9 years ago

Can a marriage survive without trust?

Can marriage survive without trust?

I am obviously reaching out here, for the purpose that I do love and trust my wife, and I do want our marriage to work, BUT I cannot continue to live within our relationship with the total lack of trust. Let me start at the beginning…. We met about 12 years ago, lived together for a couple of years and then got married. I feel that she has never truly trusted me, and not to help the situation, a while into our relationship and long before we were married, she caught me looking at porn on the computer. I am not proud of this, but it happened. She clearly expressed how much this bothered her, and I respected that. We got married, and had a son who is now 9. Things seemed to go well in our marriage and family for a couple of years, when we bumped into one of her old friends, who happened to be very much into cocaine. We fell into the trap, big time, and after a 2 year run of parties and false hopes based on being stoned, our marriage completely collapsed. We both had concerns about custody of our son based on the prior drug use, and ended up going to court for a couple of years. During all this time we basically shared custody, and the boy went back and forth between her and I without too much problem. However, during that time, she was constantly accuse me of still using cocaine, and would tell me over and over “You better not have your whores around my son” and that type of comment. All in all though, we kept the peace, and I missed our relationship the entire time we were apart. I felt like we had really failed, both ourselves and our son.

We were separated for almost 4 years, and finally reconciled our marriage about 2 years ago. Neither of us has used hard drugs in a very long time, and we have no desire to either. However, she continues to not trust anything that I do, like anything, she always assumes the very worst and voices it to me in a very negative time, everytime.

For example: I am at work, and she sends me an instant message online or phones me on the phone. If I don’t reply basically immediately, she sends me a message to the effect of “You are obviously chatting with your girlfriend, later!” Or “Let me know when you are done surfing porn”. Or if I get a text message or email on by phone, she asks who it was, and I tell her, and she will still say “Ya ok, I am not an idiot”. If I decide to go for a beer after work once in a while, that is always an issue to, and pretty much every week on my pay day she will text message me “Make sure you spend your pay cheque at the bar like always”, and that is just not the case. But she will go to the bar for a beer as she pleases, or anywhere she pleases, often without feeling the need to tell me where. I don’t push the issue, because she is an adult and I choose to trust her as I cannot tolerate our relationship otherwise. She always assumes the total worst of me, regardless, in her mind I am cheating, chatting with some other woman, surfing porn, ….. I just never ends, and this occurs almost everyday now.

I do not surf porn. I have been 100% faithful to her. And my actions reflect that. I go to work, I come home, if I go anywhere else I let her know in advance, and I always feel on pins and needles when I do so I don’t bother very much, because I just know what her reaction will be, to accuse me of being full of crap.

The end result is I resent her at this point. I feel that her doing and saying these things to me , accusing me of things I do not do, over and over IS SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF ME. I don’t talk to most of my lifetime friends in fear that she will take it the wrong way, and I don’t feel like I am really living my life to its potential because of the lack of trust in my marriage. I have talked to her about it 1000 times, and it goes nowhere, she won’t acknowledge it, and she pretty much puts across the message that she believes she is right, that I MUST be doing something wrong.

I am a good guy, I give my marriage its all, but I feel at my total wits end and at this point I am ready to walk out on my marriage because of the lack of trust.

What should I do?

Helpless.

Update:

I actually have had moments where I have thought she must be doing something herself, as otherwise why would she see me like that all the time? It has made me think the worst from time to time lately about where she is, or what she is doing, and that is not my nature at all. I have found myself in the past month or 2 wanting to look over her shoulder, to see who she is texting (Because she texts 24-7, to who most of time I have no idea), and I despise feeling this way. She got me to go into her email one day for her, and I found emails from a guy that she calls a "friend", for the time being I'll refer to him as "Joe the Grinder", who I found out through her email she had a relationship with him while we were separated. I really don't care who she seen when we were apart, its not my business really, but she has had "joe" at our house several times and he always seems to show up when we have a fight, and she has actually taken off for a night to

Update 2:

his place during yet another fight between us that came out of nowhere and made no sense. I asked her a while back if they ever had a "thing", before seeing her amail , and she lied to me and said no. I confronted her on it when I seen the email, and guess what.... Joe the Grinder has not returned. All along she has told me over the years that the guy is along time family friend, just a friend, ladadadada, and it was lies.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    No marriage can survive without trust. See a divorce lawyer right away. You will feel an immense sense of relief as soon as you have done so.

  • jestis
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    No Trust In Marriage

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Ah yes, dear. Welcome to the Virtual world. They said it would be great! The dear Internet. Man's NEW best friend. Sex at their fingertips. No messes, no way to say they were cheating, can't say they ever touched another woman, and no proof they committed adultry---yet--- the divorce courts will have to make some new cases and update the laws because this thing is here to stay. You are not alone. The Internet cyber sex scene has exploded. And some people do want to see what its all about, and explore it. And some have explored it very , very well. If he loves you, really, and YOU know if he does or not, then try to ease up a bit. Because its there, and many will succomb to it if anything, just out of sheer curiosity. I would not end a marriage over it just yet. marriages are very important, and need to be coddled, loved, and protected from the "outsiders" or the evil Sex Cyber land. Help your husband see he may lose this marriage if he ever does this again. You throw the word "trust" out there like a whip. Its HURT you are afraid of. You dont want to ever discover something like this again, because it HURT like hell. That is what he needs to understand. You don't want to HURT ever again. And finding phone numbers written down to a prostitute, that had to hurt.

  • 5 years ago

    Call your dog's name (once) and treat him when he looks at you. After awhile, praise most of the time and treat occasionally. Learn here https://tr.im/eNoWU

    Start inside, then work your way outside on the leash. Let him sniff around and call his name when he seems focused on something else. Treat and praise if he looks at you, take him inside if he doesn't. Keep doing this ( for weeks/months - real training takes time) and work your way off leash. Eventually your dog will stop what he's doing an focus on you when you want him to.

    The problem that most people have with teaching a recall (come) is that they only try to do it when the dog is doing something far more fun than performing the command. You have to teach the dog that coming to you when you call is the very most fun thing he could do. Go outside with a friend and a big bag of treats split between you. Go about 10 feet from eachother, then take turns saying the word "come" once and making a HUGE deal of praising him with each step he takes towards you, then treat and praise even more when he gets there. As he gets better, work your way further apart. When he's mastered that, include other distractions like other dogs or noisy toys. Keep making a HUGE deal of praising him when he does it right, and he will learn a flawless recall.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    she obviously does these things because that is the only way she knows to keep tabs on you and what you are doing. You said yourself that you have felt taht she has never trusted you. so this is not a small issue. it has been going on for the longest time. ok, so she oes not trust you, possibly meaning that she belives that humans including you can be manipulated and fall into temptatino of various sorts, lke drugs, and sex, etc. she is ofcourse correct. human are suscepile to all kinds of egative things. and part of the solution is to make the negatives clearly to be seen as negatives instead of positives. another part of the solution is to unerstand how to get out of an adictio /obsession/fixation on any one or a number of these temptations. to understand it and apply it to one's life. She has to understand that what she is doing is a problem also. you have tokld her so. ok. you tell her once maybe twice. then nxt you follow throuh with being who you are, and she has to adapt to it. and if se doesnot ok, she does not, and if it means separarting ok. now if you wat to what you can do is to pepare yourself to answer her back pronto, becaue she has lgitemate reasons for texting you. so be pepared t answer her every 15 mnutesor so if need be. pronto. then these texts will eventually slow down and become much less frequent. depending on how fast you repnd to them. you have to text her back fast so tahat she uderstand that yourhands are free, and you are able to text her back. thus easing her mind. there is much more that can be done. forexample she has to learn to live without accusing you always. that is not a life. you know that. anyhow. hre is th solution to being fixatyed on pon if you are interested. Alright, so I want to tell you that its helpful for you to recognize when you come across potentially phenomenal information, so you don't overlook empowering knowledge. You are lucky to get this info. Many people are hurting silently, so mention the true Nature of the Problem (below) & the Website (Mentioned after my answer, includes numerous Youtube videos to be watched in order). I used to be intensely into watching porn, and I overcame it. If I can, anyone can overcome it. Nature of Problem: Manipulation of the mind through trickery: Various sexual presentations expose the viewer to numerous impactful mind altering manipulations. The viewer having little to no chance to defend themselves is virtually powerless against these intrusions. The viewer is delivered a powerful mental high, which is experienced as a powerful sexual high. The book a) Reveals the Manipulations, b) Explaining How the Mind Works, 3) Details How to Nullify the Tricks & Free the Mind from these cunning deceptions.

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Sometimes, letting go seems like the easiest thing to do. But think about this: you've invested so much of your time and energy into another person; you've made a solemn promise; and you still know there's love, even if it's hiding underneath the surface. This website will show you how to save a marriage and avoid divorce, even if you're the only one trying https://tr.im/VtHvK

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Lifes all about the experience so move on. Pay your support and re-invent yourself. Life is too short. You can get a roomate anytime to help with the bills. Pack your stuff and move out while shes gone and then for the hell of it get a restraining order. Been there and done that. Im happy now and dating /variety all the time.

    Source(s): Lifes experiences at 49.
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Couples therapy. You REALLY need it. A relationship cannot thrive without trust, and there is no way for you to get that if she won't even aknowledge the problem. So bring in a trained thrid party who can drag it out into the open.

    Sidenote: There is nothing wrong with watching porn. I do it. My girlfriend does it. It's just a bit of fantasy and release.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    ok...1: no trust is no relationship is no marriage....2: my grandma always said "guilty dog barks first" which has been proven to me over and over again in the past. seems like you keep beating your head into the ceiling...maybe you should treat her the same way.sometimes people just dont get what they are doing until the get a dose of their own medicine so to speak...if that doesnt work, then i would say maybe it uis time to move on. not only is it hurting you, but i gurantee you, that 9 yr old knows what is going on..and he is suffering for it. good luck

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Hey,

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    A good online resource with a lot of tips about how to save your marriage: http://www.downloadita.it/r/rd.asp?gid=417.

    Check it out, it helped.

    Bye Bye

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