Reason Enough
I have been with Ed, my domestic partner for six years. He has many wonderful qualities and is an excellent provider. He is also a complete flirt and makes me feel diminished when we are around other women.Ed has a habit, when we are out, of staring at other women as they walk by, either smiling at them or licking his lips. I am talking about complete strangers.
He is inappropriate in other ways. For instance, early in our relationship he went to a funeral without me. The funeral was for the sister of an ex-girlfriend. He ended up making out with the ex-girlfriend at the funeral.
Recently Ed developed a crush on a student teacher at the school where he teaches. He gave her special privileges against school rules, and she is not even his student teacher. I am genuinely concerned he will lose his job.
I have no problem with him talking to other women. He has lunch almost every day with women, which is fine with me. We are both in a choir together. The choir consists of both men and women, so you see I have no problem with him being around women.
The love, affection and attention I give him never seem to be enough. Apparently this was the issue his ex-wife had with him. I am just now learning it caused their divorce.
He says I am jealous. I say he doesn’t respect my feelings. I am at the end of the line. I am not willing to wait around and see if one of his crushes takes.
Cami

Cami, there are three good reasons not to stay with him, one internal, one external and one factual.
The essence of love is that someone’s attraction for us is unique. On an almost daily basis you see that is not true.
Second, Ed’s actions are so over-the-top it discredits him in the eyes of others. Staying with him also disgraces you in their eyes, though they won’t tell you that. Because you stay with him, they think less of you.
Finally, he could abandon you at any time. Any one of these reasons is reason enough to leave.
Wayne &Tamara