"He's been uninterested, careless, selfish, disrespectful, and just completely emotionally unavailable.Honestly, I feel like this started a little while after we had our child (seven years ago). I have always communicated with him how this makes me feel and told him what he needed to do to fix it. Sometimes he'd change for a week and it was great. Other times, it was like he never even heard me."
"This man also has to report for a nearly 10-year prison sentence in five days. He says he really wants to "hang out" with me before he goes. I know that all he wants is to have sex, no strings attached, which is something I wouldn't mind. I find him very attractive and I kind of really want to have sex with him, but I won't cheat on my partner."
An eight-year relationship and co-parenting arrangement has deteriorated over four to five years because the partner is emotionally unavailable, careless, disrespectful, and selfish. Repeated communication about these problems produced only brief, inconsistent change, and threats to leave have been issued multiple times without follow-through until now. The narrator met an attractive man who must begin a nearly ten-year prison sentence in five days and who seeks a casual sexual encounter. The narrator feels strong temptation but refuses to cheat and is torn between leaving the long-term relationship or suppressing the lust and staying.
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