I need advice confused

Gria2004

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Let me start off by give some back story. I meet this couple online last summer we talked a little bit then my ex wanted to see if things would work better this time. The guy stepped away. After that didn't working out we talked and started dating since January 15. He lives a hour away and just got a new job work 10 hours day all the time for the time being. My schedule since we were looking and just hired someone was working five on one off five on one off with maybe two off in a row once a month. I work nights they work days. Making this harder. There are nights he gets done 3 hours early but he never knows when to it happened. So with me working nights and having a hour drive was hard. About two weeks ago he end it saying he feels bad because I deserve better but with him working 10 hours to they hire someone else and my schedule it wasn't working out. It was hard because he wanted this relationship to be me coming there 50% and them coming down here. I could spend more time with his girl but only a few hours with him here before he sleeps so he can go back to work and seeing him maybe hour to hour and half before work in the morning was not fare to me and stressing him out. He needes the hours and I didn't want to ask him to work less just to see me. He just glad he got a job after what he went thought. After working all those hours I'm sure the last thing he wants to do is come home to have sex. I know he's tired after those hours so we don't do much. I Did ask at one time before break up you looking for are you looking for a Triad and he was yes if things work out like they havee been.

Well two weeks past and he messaged me wanting to see me again. He misses me and wants to see me. He said we be friends to we sit down and talk about some things face to face. I don't know what to do. I always wanted him. That short time he meant more to me then any relationship I had before. I have not stopped thinking about him since we broke up. I wanted this to work out because didn't want to find anyone else they were it for me. I told him how I felt and his response was so you want to be a old married couple with us or like sister wives. He said to think about that's and that's a conversation for another time face to face and he wants to see me soon to talk. Then he left for bed so he could work another 10 hours.

I'm so confused because those three months were hard with our schedule but it won't always be this way. I still feel for him deeply. But who's to say he won't end it again because it gets harder. I don't really know what he means by sister wives? Is that the same thing as a traid or is that different? I just don't know. I really don't want to start dating again it sucks. I just want to call them mine and have him call me his women again.
 
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I am sorry you are struggling.

I could be wrong, but I think you are best leaving it alone. Stop talking about a married triad where you are married to both or sister wives who are married to him only. These at best are future dreams. Instead could keep it in the HERE AND NOW.

You guys like each other, but neither of you likes the dating conditions with the hour drive and the work schedules not lining up. Maybe it won't be forever, but that IS how it is now. And it isn't changing soon.

So to go back to that situation at this point in time is just you going back to miserable.

I know breaking up also feels yucky, but it does have an end to the miserable. In time you heal and can move on. Time has a way of doing that -- but only if you LET it.

If you guys keep meeting up to spin fantasies about being together? All that does is postpone healing. For him and for you. Because actually, you CANNOT be together right now in a happy way with the distance and work schedules. It's the bargaining stage of the stages of grief maybe.

I think it's better to accept the current reality. If/when something changes with his work schedule, he can look you up. But in the meanwhile? Don't put your own healing or your own life on hold. Don't keep starting the grief process over by snooze tagging it-- just get through it.

Let yourself heal, and eventually move on to date compatible local people so there isn't the distance and work schedules to contend with.

Galagirl
 
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Sister wives are more like a V shape - you are with him as a shared partner, but the wives don't date each other. A triad is an equal relationship between all 3 people - you would be dating both him and his wife.

I agree with GalaGirl - let this go. It doesn't meet your needs at this time and will just make more misery. Maybe if things change in the future, he can contact you then. Right now you'll be free to date others who may meet your needs much more effectively.
 
To the both of you

Thank you for your responds. A friend said to me we forget that relationship are hard, a hour away relationship are even harder, ones with your schedules and hour distance are impossible. It's not that your wrong for each other, toxic for each other. No, you maybe very good together but this the universe telling you it's not your time . It won't be fare to any party involved with that said when things change you guys can come back maybe live happily ever after but not right now. The universe is telling you it's not your time. Also don't forget you don't own anyone A reason why this didn't work out. And explaining it to them doesn't mean you're making excuses. Because now days we are too quick to say that everything we try to explain is making an excuse. It's just the universe telling you it's not your time
 
Hi Gria2004,

So sorry things cannot work out with this man in this couple right now. Who knows, maybe in the future the circumstances will improve. You'll live closer to each other and/or have better working hours that match up. In the meantime you can decide if and when you want to try dating some others.

Sincerely,
Kevin T.
 
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