Woman's Weekly (UK)

He thinks I’ll cheat on him

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Q

I was very fortunate to meet a man I fell head over heels in love with after a difficult marriage. He feels the same about me but he’s becoming possessive. He says he’s frightened I might cheat on him – his last wife did – or leave him. This behaviour will drive a wedge between us, though, if I don’t have any space. Name and address withheld

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Most relationsh­ips start with an amazing and exciting chemistry: it’s a well-documented first stage of love. It then slowly moves into a comfortabl­e attraction (the second stage), and then a deep emotional attachment (stage three). If it didn’t move from wild passion to something else, we would be burnt out and nothing would get done! It sounds like your relationsh­ip has moved to a more mature phase, which is generally more comfortabl­e, but not in this case. I think you would benefit from some couples counsellin­g, where this can be discussed, and he can express his concerns and understand where you are in your relationsh­ip.

✣ Keren welcomes your letters, emails and texts, but she cannot reply to individual cases and will select correspond­ence at random for publicatio­n.

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