Dear Angel,

My girlfriend is pregnant, and she broke up with me about two months ago. I still love her so much and I want to get back with her. When I ask if we could, she says she needs time. I can understand that, but she is really good friends with her ex-boyfriend and they are always talking and going off together.

She says there is nothing going on between them, and I think there is, how could I find out if she is just stringing me along or if I even have hope of getting back with her. Please write back with some kind of answer.

Still in Love

Dear Still in Love,

You have one more important consideration involved here. There is a child on the way. I am not a fortune teller and have no way of knowing where her mind is. I do know that you both have some very important decisions to make.

How involved do you intend to be in your child's life? Whether or not you do intend to be involved, you have a legal obligation to support the child.

You and her need to sit down and have a serious discussion about your futures and the future of your child. If you can't come to some type of agreement, you may want to check with an attorney in your state to see exactly what your rights and responsibilities are.

Dear Angel,

I was told by my fiancée that she has been seeing someone else. We have been planning to get married but now everything is messed up. I don't think I can forgive her.

Should I give her a chance to talk her way out of this? I do love her more than anything, I am just so confused right now.

Really Confused

Dear Confused,

If you love her that much you should try to talk it out with her. In any relationship, there must be open and honest communication. If you leave things hanging you will always wonder what might have happened.

You both need to get everything out in the open. If it works out for you, that's good, but if it doesn't, at least you will know for sure.

So many times in this situation the people split up without talking and then spend years wondering if they could have done something to make things right. Don't let that happen to you. My advice is take her somewhere quiet and have a long talk and try to figure out what happened to make her turn to someone else. Good luck to you.

Dear Angel,

My husband thinks that I am a liar, a cheater and all the other words that I will not put down here. I do not lie or cheat or anything else. We fight all the time and mostly over nothing.

How can I get him to understand that I am doing nothing wrong and that I really do love him? I have tried to be as nice as I possibly can, but, day after day I am accused of many wrong doings and I just can't take the abuse anymore. I am not allowed to go shopping, or anything else. I can't even talk on the phone without being questioned on who it is and what do they want.

In need of help.

Dear Help,

He sounds like an obsessive, demanding person. You haven't said whether or not he has always been this way. I can only suggest professional counselling. If he will not agree to go, you need to go for yourself, and as soon as possible.

You need to find out why your self-esteem is so low that you tolerate that type of behaviour from him. In most cases, mental abuse is devastating, whether you are a wife, husband, parent, child or any recipient of this type of behaviour. It is unacceptable and needn't be tolerated by anyone.

Please seek help immediately, and if he should turn physically abusive, there are many shelters available to protect you from him. Don't let him talk you out of this - you need to do it for yourself. If he won't go, don't let him drag you down any further.

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