In the meantime, enjoy the Dear Therapist archive and send Lori your questions, big and small, at dear. Eventually he apologized and explained that he had been afraid of losing me, and I forgave him. He would promise to do a specific task at a certain time but then continuously forget to do it. Eventually he agreed to keep her away after I got a therapist to help us. In the meantime, we were otherwise incredibly happy and in love with each other and set up a lot of important building blocks for our future together. Now that the divorce is surely going to be concluded in the coming six months, I am flooded with feelings of doubt about the relationship because it feels like we never really healed from that initial breach of trust, and I am afraid of what all the subsequent broken promises might reveal about our compatibility. He has asked me to give him a second chance and shown much remorse. I wish I knew how to heal from a betrayal of trust in a relationship. There are several ways to look at this situation, and I want to help you consider a couple of them so that you can see these events differently. This version of the story could play out in various ways, but most likely it will keep you locked in place.
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