Is it normal for my boyfriend to be talking to other girls?
I have been dating my boyfriend for a year and a half and the past month I have been really worried because he has been talking to four or five other girls who are interested in dating him. This has always been a minor problem but I have ignored it. The past month I read texts with him flirting with other girls and I found him talking about having sex sometime with a girl he barely knew from facebook. They were describing it and everything. My boyfriend always has the perfect excuse for things like when girls talk about "makeout sessions" he says no thats what they want to do with him. He says he loves me and only me but I find him lying all the time about these girls texting him and he gets very defensive about it. I tell him it bothers me and he says he will stop but I just keep finding them on his phone. He even told all of these girls he was trying to break up with me. I even showed him the texts and he denied it and turned off his phone and took it away from me. He always hides his phone from me. He says he loves me and only me but its hard to trust him. He says he feels the same way and wants to marry me and that we are soulmates. I feel so depressed when he's not around. Im almost obsessed with figuring out where he is and what he's doing and who he's talking to because of this. I check his phone whenever I can and I always find texts from other girls even if its just a long conversation. I don't care if he talks to friends that are girls, I just don't want him to lie about it and talk to the ones that he flirts with. Im constantly worried that hes going to be flirting with someone else. I love him very much and I do believe that he is the only one for me which is why I put up with this stuff. I just don't want this to keep happening how can I prevent it or get him to stop? All I want is the truth from him. We decided to take a week off because he feels like he isn't happy with himself and wants to figure out what he wants to do in life but we have talked every day and he says he is still being true to me. I feel like I can't enjoy anything without him because I love him so much. I don't have any other friends because I spend all my time with him. We don't have any problems at all other than this. He is my best friend. I feel like im never happy when we are not with each other. I just feel like I am going crazy because of all of this. I want to know how to get things back to normal and have him stop talking to the girls that he flirts with. I would never break up with him because I love him more than anything and I couldn't live without him.