Are you in a dead-end relationship?

Question

How is it bad? Why do you stay?

Answer 1

I am in a great marriage now.

My first started out good but after a few years soured.  I stuck it out for a total of 17 years hoping things would get better but they never did, just got worse until we ended it.

Answer 2

was just left but it not easy you get this feeling of fearing being single

Answer 3

No, thanks i'm not a m*******t, I enjoy being happy

Answer 4

Yes, watching the man I love, love me less and less each day and being powerless to stop it.  Living in the hope I will oneday be enough, his world, as I once was.

Answer 5

If you are in a dead-end relationship, there is only two things you can do.

1.  End it

2. Try to make it better

If it is that bad, the first option is usually the best.  "There is no use beating a dead horse"as some people say.  If you feel there is hope, try to find a solution to make it better.  Don't just sit around and hope things change, because they never will.  Action is the only way to produce change.

Answer 6

Yeah, I'm in it 'til one of us is dead.

It's only as bad as I choose to make it.

I made a promise (the last promise I ever made!)

Answer 7

I'm not sure. You might check out my question to find out.

I stay because I think it can improve, but I need to know that it will...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 8

LOL, there are so many ways I could answer this question, and the answer varies day to day.

He has his girlfriend living with him in my spare room..that is particularly hard to work a family around, but we seem to be managing. The kids still aren't really aware of the extent of their relationship, they just figure there is yet another person living with us. (our home is like a half way house to relatives and friends).

Because of the history leading up to him getting a girlfriend (ie a home invasion, where if it weren't for police arriving at the scene I would more than likely be dead), I still hold out a glimmer of hope that he will see the light and get her out and come back to me...sad, pathetic really, but with all that is happening in our lives thanks to the court case surrounding the home invasion, and my son's condition, I really need him around at the moment, in what ever capacity he can manage. I keep telling myself "well at least we aren't fighting", but it is still hard thinking about how and when the kids find out that mum and dad aren't gonna make it. (BTW for all the people over thinking this...no I do not sleep with him in any form, and will not until the other women is gone).

I stay for the kids (they need their dad right now), and my sanity (I need their dad's physical support right now)

Sorry about the epic story, but thanks for the vent!

Answer 9

Ha, I have felt like that many times... and I always stay for the wrong reasons... just never see it that way at the time.

Answer 10

Recently left a bad relationship and am getting a divorce.

Stayed for the kids.  

Women when they divorce lose approximately 74% of their budget, and men gain 45% more.  The biggest losers are the kids.  Women usually take the kids, then need to raise them with much less money then they used to, while he has more and moves on with his new honey.

Not fair at all.

He was abusive and I bought into his lies.  I was stupid for believing him.  But I thought that it didn't affect the kids, that was so wrong.