Women who need more self-respect

@sissy15 (12269)
United States
August 15, 2019 1:13am CST
Do you ever see women who you just want to say "have some self respect" to? I see these women taking back men who repeatedly dump them and they swear they'll never take them back and then do over and over and they never learn. I am sure there are men who do this too but I see it more among women. I see it so much. They are head over heels over these men and I literally can't understand why. These guys will cheat on them and leave them for other women and these women will take them right back. I just don't understand it but I keep my mouth shut because it is their life to live and no matter what you say to them they will just do it anyway. My sister is sort of like this with her husband. I am not sure why she stays with him. He has attempted to cheat on her I say attempt because no one really wants him and when he was making money he wasn't giving any of it to her he'd blow it on stuff and it's part of why they lost their kids because they couldn't give them a stable environment because they couldn't keep a place to live because when he does work he refuses to help pay for things. All of his money is his and she has to use whatever she makes for bills if she has any. He didn't care to see their kids half of the time and didn't really do anything ever. They fight way more than they got along and the only time he expressed interest in being with her was when she started to move on after they broke up. He tells her she can sleep with men for money. I don't understand this. Why do you want to be with someone like that? He doesn't like me because I told her to do what is best for her and while I think that would be dumping him I didn't actually tell her that. She has to make her own mistakes. He doesn't physically abuse her but he definitely isn't helping her. I see so many women like this not just my sister. It blows my mind how these women keep taking back men who would leave them the second someone else turns their head. My husband isn't perfect but he makes me feel loved and he works hard to help support us. He put me through a lot for a while but when he said he was going to change he changed. I was ready to walk away and had he not changed I would have. I understand loving someone and wanting to be there for them. My husband is my best friend and has been since we first got together which is why I stuck by him but when I threatened to leave he was terrified and he actually got it together. When a man is willing to change and see where he has gone wrong they are worth giving another chance but when they are continually doing the same stuff and refuse to get their act together they aren't worth it especially when you give them chance after chance. People mess up and they can be stupid but if they refuse to learn from it they aren't going to change. We need to learn our worth and not settle. My husband isn't the same man he was ten years ago or even five years ago he continues to grow and change and become a better person but I see so many women settling for men who continually cheat on them and make their women feel worthless and I don't understand how these women stay with them and cry over them and want them back. When I see women fighting over a man who clearly isn't worth it, it blows my mind. Why do you want him if he's sleeping with some other woman? Why do you want him when all he does is use you? Why do you want him when he does nothing but insults you? I don't understand. As much as I want to tell these women to get some self-respect I know it does no good. They need to be ready to see these guys for who they are before they'll ever consider leaving them. This goes for some men as well but as I said I see it way more with women. When they figure out they deserve better only then will they really move on.
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@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
15 Aug 19
That is true. I see more women who in that situation. I can see some men do that too but very rare that women are the ones that become the one that leaves their men. I think women has more sentimentality over many things that men do not have. They tend to be more clingy to their partners that when separation comes in the picture they could not easily accept the situation that they are being dumped by guys.
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
15 Aug 19
I agree I think women love these men despite the men not loving them. A lot of the time these men will leave them for women they actually love and treat better than they ever treated who they were with. Women are more emotional and have an emotional connection and it's harder to break. I have met a handful of men like that but not many. My husband is probably more emotional than I am. He was afraid of me leaving him. I don't know many men like him. He is the exception to most men. I would have left him if I had to but I'm glad I didn't have to.
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@rsa101 (37952)
• Philippines
15 Aug 19
@sissy15 Oh that made me think too. I do not know what to do when I see someone I like better than my wife. That has not happened to me yet and I do not want to know. As for now, I am happy with her around and so far my attention to others is not that strong yet.
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
15 Aug 19
@rsa101 My husband could have left me a few times over if he wanted to but hasn't. I am not going to lie and say I've never been attracted to other men or haven't found men more attractive than my husband but I've no desire to cheat on him or leave him. I feel like if you really love someone you wouldn't want to leave them especially for someone who you only find physically attractive. When you love someone you love them for who they are not just their looks and most women you see in passing you aren't going to know on a more personal level. You only know what they allow you to see. When you are with someone for years you know them in a way you don't know someone you've only talked to here and there. It's so easy to like someone when you don't see them flaws and all the way you do the person you have been with for years. I love my husband despite his flaws that drive me crazy and he loves me despite mine. The things that drive us crazy about each other don't compare to the things we love about each other. Love isn't something that really fades it should grow. There's a big difference between love and lust. Love is what is left when all of the lust is gone. Lust is more primal and physical while love is more friendship and caring and all of those things that keep your marriage going years later. I feel like those that leave their spouses for someone else don't really even know the people they leave them for and will only end up leaving those women too when they see someone better come along. I have known men like this. If they aren't happy with one woman they won't be happy with another. That's not love that's infatuation.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
15 Aug 19
I knew someone who considered remarrying her bullying ex because she said it was "better than being alone", Thankfully she didn't and we managed to talk her out of it but he was awful to her. I never understood how she could even have considered it.
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
15 Aug 19
I'm glad you talked her out of it. I have found talking to most people like this does nothing they end up hating you and staying with their men so now I just keep my mouth shut unless they are being physically abused. My husband lost a friend because he called CPS due to this woman's husband constantly making threats at their children. She wouldn't talk to him after that. She stayed with him despite him being violent towards her and their children. The guy ended up killing himself in jail and sadly all I can think is that that was the best thing he ever did for his family. There are few people I think that about but he was one of them. Most of these guys are users and you can't tell women they're wrong they have to realize it themselves. There is only so much you can do. I've always told my friends to do what is best for them unless I know they are being physically abused. I will try to say something if I feel they are being mentally or verbally abused and sort of work from the outside but do it in a way that won't have them turning on me. If the woman is being used and keeps taking them back there is only so much you can do and you have to let them learn the hard way more often than not.
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
15 Aug 19
@sprite1950 I agree, I understand some women stay because they have nowhere else to go. I know women who have husbands that support them but also cheat on them but don't physically abuse them so they stay because they can't make it on their own for one reason or another that I can almost understand or at least staying until they can figure out how to financially support themselves but women who stay with men who use them I don't get. If they are supporting both of them why on earth would you stay with someone like that? If they contribute nothing to the relationship but pain why would you want to stay with them? It makes no sense. My husband used to make me do everything when it came to raising our son and never really helped and wasn't making much so he wasn't really supporting us and I got fed up and told him to leave since I was basically a single mother at that point. I loved him because he wasn't all bad but I couldn't do it all anymore and I told him to either get it together or get out and he begged me not to leave and swore to change and he did. He helped more he worked harder and he has been super supportive ever since. I would have left him if I had to but I'm glad I didn't have to. I stayed with him because he was kind and caring on some levels but not on all levels at least not at the time and I told him I would give him another chance and I haven't regretted it but he's the exception so many men don't change. It's too bad your friend's other relationship didn't last but she shouldn't settle that's the mistake too many women make.
@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
15 Aug 19
@sissy15 With my friend she met someone who was good to her (although it didn't last) and now she is on her own, a strong independent woman. I was lucky in that I never attracted men like that but some women seem to keep going for men that abuse them. It's almost as if they enjoy being the victim.
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
15 Aug 19
I don't know such women.
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
15 Aug 19
That's a good thing.
@sophie09 (34246)
• Indonesia
15 Aug 19
i couldnt agree more :)
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