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Hard times, advice wanted please?
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Am I being unreasonable?

So, I want to get straight to the point. Me and my boyfriend are having a rough time right now. I am having a very hard time trusting him with just about anything anymore.

Recently he broke a contractiual agreement with me, quite litterally making my life harder. It was nothing more but seperating our phone bills. However, we made the arrangement so it would be a cheaper bill for the both of us. This month I am having a hard time because my job is not going so well. To put it shortly, I am needing assistance and getting it from the state at the moment. However I thought I may not be able to pay the bill. He was afraid of getting his phone shut off. (Reasonable.) So he took his phone off of my plan, leaving me to now pay more money and putting me deeper in a hole. (And he knew all of this before doing so.) All without looking for other options. (I handled it, it's getting paid and my phone will not be shut off.)

That's the straw that has broken the camel's back but is just the tip of the iceburg.

He has broken promises and broken his word on multiple occassions. Most of the time I can just let it slide, they aren't big things... but when it's a ton of little things that add up they turn into a big thing.

*He does not make the effort to communicate. I don't really ask for too much, maybe a phone call from time to time. Talk to me over messenger or skype/face time once in awhile. Hold a conversation over text. Just something. It has not happened.

(We live in different counties and he lives about 35 minutes away. We only get 1 day a week to spend time with eachother.)

*He has broken agreements for spending time together. Let me be honest, I have canceled too. But I have canceled for medical reasons. He canceled because he had plans with his other partner. (I am okay with this, especially if it's a family event as he has a son. I am not okay when it's used against me at a later time.)

*Breaking other agreements like going to the gym or some simple task he was suppose to do for one reason or another.

After awhile I just feel like he is lying to me. And after what happened the other day I am feeling not only lied to but I have this feeling of being abandoned.

There are other issues, like his other partner in which is my ex and I honestly want nothing to do with her. (It does make it hard, but we have been seperated for quite some time with no contact what so ever.) Sometimes I feel like I am literally fighting for his time, which I am just SO not down for.

So I am coming to the boiling point in which I really don't know what to do. I love him and I think he is a good guy. Just, we have had this discussion before. I even got him a fitbit watch to help him with his goals and to help him with reminders. It has helped to some extent. But it is hard to carry on this way, especially with the way I feel.

He suggested a counselor. I am willing to go, but I am not sure it will help with this feeling of abandonment.

Do you guys have any advice? I would rather not hear the "Break up with him shpeal." I would like something productive.

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