Iint regret your engagement to your partner?

Last year I proposed to my girlfriend. We had been together for three years and everything was going relatively well. We were on a long roadtrip together to go visit a friend. Thing is that the friend was also my gfs previous ex. I had bought the ring months prior and was waiting for the perfect moment to propose...and I blew it but not in the sense that she said no. She said yes. The thing is though, that I proposed at that time out of jealousy and to kind of make sure that the ex knew he would never get her back.

Fast forward to now, a year later. I've noticed that I tend to get angry easily with her and can't stand being around her for too long.
Should I talk to her? Should I brake up with her, thus calling off the engagement? I do care for her but I feel like we're just friends that live together. We havent been intimate in over two years and haven't kissed in the past three months (it doesnt help that she never brushes her teeth or showers so she's constantly stinky).

Please someone, I need advice.

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  • dirtybirdy

    Just one more thing...if you do end up breaking up with her, she will do her same old thing of calling herself stupid and apologize and all that, but it's all just manipulation. Its trying to guilt you, so just think with your head, not with your heart. Because emotions often take over logic.

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    • litelander8

      Wasn’t proposing in order to mark his territory manipulation?

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      • dirtybirdy

        Yes, and my first comment said how that was messed up, but overall, this person seems to really be dedicated to this piece of...person, and hes realizes that now. He shitvos way worse than his. Just my opinion

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  • Boojum

    Jeez... Where to start with this...

    First, I think that dirtybirdy's replies to you are very sensible and you'd be wise to take what she says onboard.

    It's always hard to understand the dynamics of a relationship when all you have is one side of the story, and that's limited to just a few lines of text.

    However, everything you say in your OP and in your responses to dirtybirdy makes it pretty clear that this is a very unhealthy relationship for you because you're being used. Perhaps this is due to deliberate manipulation on the part of your fiancée (and possibly her mother), or maybe you're in this situation because you're someone who has security and self-respect issues and so needs to feel needed. Whatever the reasons behind you finding yourself where you are today, you're clearly not happy. This isn't surprising since it doesn't sound like you're being treated with respect, never mind with any degree of affection or appreciation.

    How you describe the situation around you asking the woman to marry you strongly suggests to me that you're basically insecure and you have doubts about your worth and attractiveness. On the plus side, it seems you do have enough self-awareness to now recognise that your motivation for asking her to marry you wasn't positive or healthy in the sense that you knew this was the woman you wanted to spend the rest of your life with, but was instead based on negative reasons. Given your situation now, surely you must see that becoming legally entangled with this woman (and her mother) would not be a positive step for you.

    It's normal for relationships to change and become much less exciting or even kinda boring over time, but I do find it odd how you seem to be suggesting that the woman was wonderful a year ago, but she's since turned into a total slob, waster and user. People can change a little over time, but unless there's a psychological or drug abuse issue at play, it's not normal for people to change drastically in the space of a few months. So it seems to me far more likely that what's altered is your perception of her, and you now can see that she's not someone you want to spend the rest of your life with. One thing you can be sure of is that it would be extremely foolish of you to believe for a second that there's a chance in hell that she's ever going to transform into a person you can be happier with than you are right now. That's not how people work, and the fact that she apparently refuses to even listen when you try to talk to her about your dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs indicates very clearly that she has no interest in even trying to alter her behaviour.

    I find it interesting how you've maintained your own apartment while you've been living with the woman. You say that this is purely for practical reasons, but I have to wonder if some sensible part of you always suspected that the relationship wouldn't work out, and so you've been careful to maintain an escape route.

    I fully understand your reluctance to break a commitment you've made and your sympathy for the woman and her mother is laudable on the face of it (although it sounds completely unjustified and the dynamic is perhaps even pathological), but the bottom line is that you bear no legal or moral responsibility for their happiness or physical well-being. You are, however, responsible for your own happiness and your own physical and mental well-being. It's pretty clear that some impulse has been making you give this a lower priority than any reasonable person would expect you to do.

    Life doesn't have do-overs. You now understand that this relationship isn't good for you. You also know what living with the woman is like, and you can see no signs that the relationship or your living conditions are heading in a positive direction. It's your choice how you spend the limited time you have this world and who you spend that time with. If you feel that, on balance, the positive feelings you get from helping the woman and her mother cope with life are more important than your own happiness, then you're free to sacrifice yourself on that altar. But if you have enough self-respect to believe that you deserve more than to be used and abused, then you need to find the strength to tell the woman that you can't go on, pack up your things and head out the door.

    Finally, if the thought of abandoning the woman and her mother to their fate is really too terrible for you to even contemplate, you might want to consider that there's at least some possibility that you removing the crutch that you've become might motivate them to take a long, hard look at their life and begin to take some positive action to sort it out.

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  • RoseIsabella

    You shouldn't propose to anyone unless you want to get married, and truly want to spend the rest of you life with that person. It's unwise to propose to someone for the sake of your ego, jealousy and to make a point.

    Also what do you mean when you say, "Iint"?

    Brake is when you put your foot on the brake in an automobile in order to stop moving, and break is when you break something apart as in the breakup of a relationship.

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  • Mammal-lover

    My bf has great dental hygiene I love it. I say leave her

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  • litelander8

    Sucks to suck.

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  • dirtybirdy

    Ummmmm.... this is all sorts of messed up. Regretting it is the only normalish part of this wonky tale of woe.

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    • What's so messed up about it?

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      • dirtybirdy

        You proposed out of jealousy on a silly whim, no intimacy for 2 years, you dont even kiss anymore.....

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        • I was going to propose eventually. But yeah, looking back on it I feel as if I just wanted to show the ex that she was my partner and that he would never get her back.
          Intimacy has never been a big thing for either of us, we've been together for nearly four years now and have only done it maybe four times.

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          • dirtybirdy

            Whoa....what keeps you together?

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            • I'm not sure. It's really difficult to explain so I'm sorry if this is too long.
              My gf works a part time job and she lives with her mother. Her mother hasnt worked in four years so I am currently living with them to support them. Most of my paycheck goes towards stuff around the house (I buy all the groceries and other household needs). All of her paycheck goes to her phone and car. I also don't officially live with them, I have an apartment that I still pay for that has all of my belongings other then a few clothes that I have at the house they have. I would have moved in completely but she has so much stuff there's no room for my stuff. In the bedroom we share I have a small area that I keep my clothes but the rest of the room has her stuff everywhere.
              They also don't clean up, so any time something needs to be cleaned I am the one who needs to do it.
              My gf and her mother are both really lazy and prefer to block out the real world by playing video games.
              I don't know why I stay. Put of pity perhaps? I know that without me they wouldn't have any food or items that they need. But also by doing this I'm bleeding myself dry. Paying for my apartment and for them is making me broke.

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  • hauntedbysandwiches

    Are the issues something you can talk through with each other? I think you should try that first because sometimes that's all it takes but if that doesn't work out, it's okay to call it quits and walk away. Sometimes three years is too early to propose to someone and see if you're compatible.

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  • Tommythecaty

    Wait you proposed to her a year ago but haven’t been intimate in over two years?

    So you stopped sleeping with each other and then you decided to propose more than a year later? 😂

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