Polls: Relationships

I have not and never will cheat. Reason being because if I want to date or have sex with other people I’m just going to stay single.

Hey everyone, I (33F, African American) need some perspective on a recent conflict that arose between my boyfriend (31M, African American) and me. We've been in a long-distance relationship, as he lives down south while I'm up in the northeast. We had a strong emotional connection, exchanged love notes, and even discussed marriage. Here's where things got complicated. My mom is planning to visit his city in a few months, and she doesn't know about our relationship yet. I intended to reveal it to her once we became more serious. However, my mom has always insisted that I should only date Caucasian men, believing they would treat me better. I find her beliefs challenging to deal with, and we often argue about them. When I shared my mom's visit plan with my boyfriend, he encouraged me to go with her. However, I expressed my concerns about being in close quarters with my mom due to our strained relationship and her strong opinions about dating African American men. I wanted to be honest with him, as he deserved to know about my mom's views. Unfortunately, he became angry and went on a rant. He questioned why I didn't challenge my mom's beliefs and stated that he no longer had romantic feelings for me. He even listed his family's accomplishments and the fact that his parents are still together, highlighting the contrast with my own family situation. I was hurt by his reaction, and in the heat of the moment, I responded with a curt "ok good, bye," and blocked him on social media. Now, I'm feeling conflicted and would appreciate some perspective. Was I wrong to share my mom's views with him? How would you handle a situation like this? I'm open to hearing different opinions and understanding who might be at fault here. Thank you in advance for your insights.

So my boyfriend saw a group photo and found my colleague looking better than me and he asked me her name and later on when I said that a colleague of mine is resigning so he asked me if it’s the same girl and also he asked me where is she going or joining and how is she doing and I feel that my boyfriend has a crush on her. Does this mean I should break up with my boyfriend? I asked him why he wanna know about her he said just like that - is my boyfriend toxic? Does this indicate that in future he is likely to cheat on me with someone better? Now we both have shared with each other our Instagram password and Recently from my Instagram, he opened her chat which u had unopened since past 3-4 days. It means he is checking her Instagram out for seeing her photos etc. So I’m really annoyed now. Does this indicate that my boyfriend does not really love me?

Our dog is a mutt/ pitbull mix looks like the picture his name is dodge he's a year and a half. We rescued him from a shelter after being returned for being "too destructive" we've had to make many changes to how we secure the house before we leave so he doesn't destroy things. My boyfriend Steven trains him (he's a first time dog owner) he teaches him basic commands and a bit more but this dog has attacked 2 dogs, wants to kill my pet kitten. Sometimes mistakes small children for animals, I want the mutt gone. People shouldn't be afraid of him, he just has that energy. My boyfriend doesn't want to rid of this dog at all he's extremely attached like he birthed dodge himself. He makes so many excuses the dog can chew off my arm and he'll probably reward him. He spends x amount of money on toys yet can save 250 to buy lessons. We have him on 400mg of trazadone and he's still psycho. Wwyd? My boyfriend is stubborn and will absolutely not let this dog go, I just want to be able to walk around my neighborhood without tearing for others dogs and possibly children.

I mean it is starting to seem enticing, you have all these attractive people after you that you can try and you get to be in a relationship with someone you like/love.