Is it normal that i am obsessed with my husband?

I got married to my boyfriend of 6 years in January 2008. We had come to our home country for a short while and I wanted to get married. He was not keen and wanted a big wedding. My family always helped him in every way possible and they went out of their way to support him. He wanted to get a visa for UK and my family helped him. My father wanted was us to get married as we had been living in for 3 years. I told him to let his parents know that we can have a court marriage or a civil wedding so my parents would be at peace. He denied it and I was getting very disappointed in him as me and my family were doing all we could to help him and he was not reciprocating. He finally agreed but he said that he cannot let his parents know and that our marriage will be a secret till we have an actual wedding. I agreed as I had no choice then.

We got married, he got a visa and we returned to the UK, we lived together until may 2009 and then we returned to our home country. Since then, a lot has happened in my personal life, my sister got pregnant before marriage, it brought back a lot of childhood memories of when my dad cheated on my mom with my mom's younger sister. My husband supported me throughout that but he was with me for a week after which he went to live with his parents.

He has been living with his parents since and did come to visit me once for 1 month in August. We kept having arguments, fights, etc. about why he cannot live with me and he kept saying it isn't possible without a social marriage. He cannot start living with me unless his entire family attends our social wedding.

I lived over 500 kms away from him so he could not come to meet me very often, I relocated to a house 29 kms away from his. It was an absolutely empty house when I got here, I spent over 2 months setting everything right. He still does not come to see me very often. I don't see him for 10 days in a row at times. He just would not live with me. I have nothing against a social marriage. I would do it today if I could but I need to lose a lot of weight before I can publicly stand in front of so many of his relatives and mine. I am getting treatment for severe acne and stress related patches all over my body so even that will take a while and I cannot look like a loser at my wedding as I have dreamt of having a good wedding all my life. It was terrible in January and I dont want it to be terrible once more. Also, he has been looking for a job for 2 years and he cannot find one due to recession so he is extremely depressed about that.

We have a fight everyday. I get an urge to hug him all the time. I need to be with him and I miss him terribly. I fight with them and ask him to come and live with me all the time but he would not and we fight and fight. We talk about leaving each other, we talk about divorce. Who is right? Who is wrong? What do I do? Is there a solution?

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  • I am a lady, I married an even keeled calm loving eager to please hottie who I am totally obsessed with. IF I found one- you can too. Go now! Go find your dream man.

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  • your biggest mistake is to love him more than he does...
    Can't find a job for 2 years? it's ridiculous

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  • Get couples counseling. You are really confused.

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  • I don't see how that's being obsessed with him. You simply just love your husband.

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  • Some of these comments are out there. My wife is rather obsessed with me and i don't reciprocate that well as I had a different upbringing everyone I was raised with is very well guarded lets say. I guess I have some redeeming qualities and I do seem to want to spend a lot of time with her as I do prefer her company to pretty much everyone else. We also have been married for 10 years and we both are no quitters. Sounds like you may be in for it if he will not commit under such efforts possibly consider the future sorry to say. Especially if he isn't western and I don't mean the music you might be best to take this horrible loss and find someone who wil love you for you and at least be open your love and appreciation to. I feel for ya even though I'm a bloke and yank still but you might be "beating a dead horse". When a man marries he leaves his family and cleaves to his wife and ya that's from the good book. I wish you the best and there is someone out there for you other than this current guy who sounds shady at best if ya catch my drift. Best of luck.

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  • Just listening to you babble is enough to make the reader want to kill himself...imagine what your husband must feel. Take a pill.

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  • It seems that this marriage is purely one sided. You are desperate to see your husband, to live with him, and thats understandable. For him to refuse to do this all because you havent had a big wedding with all your family there, i think this is ridiculous, i dont mean to cause offense but you're his wife for pitty sake. The day he married you he promised to love and protect you, how can he do that when he wont even sleep under the same house as you. You are trying to become happy with yourself, and look nice for your wedding day which any woman would want, but how can you feel completely happy with yourself when all you do is fight with your husband because he won't grant you your wish and come live with you. I think its stupid and selfish of him. And for him to move back to his parents a week after your sister getting pregnant, knowing you are't in the best of states, it seems all he thinks about is himself, and you need to tell him to start showing you the love and respect you deserve otherwise you wont stick around to be made a fool of.

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  • Just take a look at this video.... maybe send it to him as well.... :)

    http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/trial/marriage-and-men

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  • Let me guess. He's from the middle east. Dump him.

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