I have a strong relationship with my partner; we work together, we love each other and we were friends for a long time before we fell in love. The problem I have is that the way our relationship started was awful. He was in a long-term but flawed relationship with a friend of mine. He couldn’t tell her for a long time and I was not able to force him to do so. I did ask but not enough. So I witnessed him lying to her for so long and I can’t forget this.
Now I realise I just can’t trust him. I love him deeply and I want this relationship to last but I’m so afraid he’ll do the same to me. I think this in the long run will affect our relationship. I don’t know how to change this and I’m constantly thinking that I should run away and give him no chance of betraying me as he did with her. Talking to him is not easy: he’s the overly successful and very busy character, the kind of man who finds talking about emotions difficult (like many others I’ve met). What should I do?
