QUOTE(JA Tam @ Mar 5 2008, 11:25 PM)

QUOTE(Marlita @ Mar 5 2008, 10:18 PM)

Ok Ladies, its my turn...I need advice.
So Evan has been voicing his concern about me not giving him enough affection and attention and time, and how i don't show him i need him and love him or basically just say affectionate things to him. I think that I do do all these things. But obviously not as much as he would like. We get into major arguments about this cause I sometimes feel like he is only noticing when I Don't do something, vs noticing when I DO. I understand the need to want your partner to tell you you love them and miss them and comment, say say they look good or send them little "sweet" notes, but my issue with this is, that if i am not doing it to his liking or then he begins to think that I am thinking the EXACT opposite of those things, like....I don't love him, or miss him, or I'm too busy for him, or don't think he's attractive enough on, and on, and on. I think that is completely unfair. What do you think? I don't know if he is having major issues with the seperation or if he is insecure or if he just needs more affirmation than most men I have been involved with and I just need to adjust. Do your men have these complaints?
And on a side note, I speak to him EVERYDAY. I send him texts, I usually have him call me back since he has a better phone plan than me, but I send him letters in the mail, email, and he still says that I am not showing him enough or being there for him when he needs me. Its stressing me out, literally cause I feel like I can't be sad or lonely and missing him, cause he's complaining about it enough for the both of us. Is there something I should be or could be doing to ease his mind or is he just tripping?
Lita, this sounds to me like separation anxiety. It is truly not easy being in a long distance relationship and it is certainly not helped with the stress that this immigration process puts us under. My husband didn't have those complaints, though he would get mighty upset when I didn't call on time and such when we were separated. It will be
different when Evan gets here.
Ditto...Mine didn't have these complaints either, but I'm not sure if it's separation anxiety cause they've been apart for some time, he should be adjusting to the separation, then I'm think she did just come from JA so it could very well be missing her fi true and needing some reassurance, maybe the wait is getting, to him. Marilta remeba how you were when you'd just goten back(misseriable

lol)....IMO, you are doing a heck of a lot more than I was doin during our separation and he just very well be trippin like you mentioned.
For me it seems worse when he got here.