Stay with my nice, fun, controlling girlfriend or call it quits?

Dave: SA here. I cut and pasted your pros and cons here for comment. I can't change the font or bold so look at my comments in [BRACKETS]. Sorry for the CAPS - only way I can make it easy to read.

Pro:
Caring [IN WHAT WAY?]
Fun to spend time with [ASK YOURSELF: WHAT PERCENTAGE IS SHE FUN/WHAT PERCENTAGE IS SHE ABUSIVE]
Likes traveling
I get along well with her family
Attractive
Doesn't drink/smoke/do drugs/etc. [GOOD]
No kids & never been married
Organized (she does a great job keeping our apartment clean)
Has plenty of money in savings and no debt of any kind [GOOD]
Honest - she would tell me anything and everything she thinks [GOOD TO A POINT]
Great at planning activities like birthday parties or special events

Con:
Controlling (she limits my time spent with friends/family or on my own tasks) [IS THIS SOMETHING YOU WANT TO LIVE WITH THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?]
She gets frustrated with me & calls me names like "dumb", "stupid", etc. (I have attention deficit and am not organized, she is VERY organized) [THIS IS EMOTIONAL ABUSE AND NO ONE DESERVES TO BE CALLED NAMES]
She just recently quit her job due to a boss that was difficult to work with
Good at pointing out negative qualities of friends/family/co-workers in my life [THIS IS A METHOD OF ISOLATING YOU. IS SHE WORTH KEEPING IF YOUR FAMILY/FRIENDS/COWORKERS ALIENATE YOU BECAUSE OF HER BEHAVIOR]
6 years older than me (her biological clock is ticking)
Talks a lot in group situations (she tends to take over conversations to prevent any risk of silence, which makes her feel uncomfortable)

If you look at your pros and cons what do you see? The pros are pretty "surface" qualities whereas the cons are derived from a deeper level. Those are harder to change and she has to WANT to change them. For your own health and sanity, I think you have 2 options:
1. End it for good and move on (there really are other wonderful women out there!)
2. Separate (she needs to move out) and say you will reconsider in x amount of months if she does the following and list what it is she needs to change. If she doesn't change - you're done. If she "changes" then takes on the same behavior again, you're done.

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