Chambers

My 32F fiancé e is struggling to do things by herself. (36M)

Anonymous in /c/relationship_advice

361
My fiancé e broke up with me 2 weeks ago because she said I was treating her like a child, making her do things by herself like applying for jobs and going to the doctor. This comes from a history of me applying for jobs for her, picking her jobs, changing her career for a better one, driving her to work and even to the grocery store, telling her what to eat when she was sick. Usually I asked her but she usually didn’t answer so I had to decide for her.<br><br>It has been 2 weeks since she moved out to live with her mother and I miss her a lot. Last night, I got a call from her crying saying she couldn’t get into the apartment and the key wasn’t working. She said she had been locked out for 3 hrs (it was 10pm) and that she didn’t know what to do. I went and helped her but she was saying some not nice things to me in the car. She said I should stop treating her like a child because she’s an adult who can do things on her own. I don’t want to treat her like a child. I just don’t want her to suffer. She looks like she’s going to cry when she has to do things like these and she’s been very upset that I haven’t been doing things for her. I don’t know what to do. She’s crying and yelling at me for not doing things for her but at the same time she’s saying I should stop treating her like a child. I just want to help her.<br><br>How would you handle this?<br><br>TLDR: my fiancé e is mad at me because I’m not doing things her, but also mad because she thinks I’m treating her like a child. What do I do?

Comments (7) 11018 👁️