What if I start to fall out of love with my workaholic boyfriend who has no time for us?

My third ex was not always a work-a-holic, but became one when he stopped smoking cigarettes AND became disabled. He re-trained to work with computers, and that was when he changed.

I discovered that work-a-holics are essentially abusing their partners through extreme neglect. They have chosen something...but it's not you.

Time to leave.

4meAndyou · F

@sugarpie Yes. I let him have the house and the furniture. I felt lucky just to be free of him.

4meAndyou · F

@sugarpie Ah. He was VERY handsome at one time, and a bad boy and a party animal. He was a little bit dangerous and nothing I had ever experienced before, and a LOT of fun. It was as though I built the solid stone castle of my life and dreams on shifting sand. All of that changed. He became physically disabled for about 5 years, with a weird disease that caused his hands and feet to swell up. He could no longer work at physical labor, in construction, and he often said that he was no longer a man.

It was as though he died, and what was left was no longer him. He retrained after 5 years of constant self pity and bad temper, but that was when the workaholic was born.