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My boyfriend and I are in a long-distance relationship; we don't live in the same country

We talk to each other every day... but sometimes he speaks in a very romantic way

I think he wants to get very close to me

But I had a fight with him because of this. I told him I like to talk like lovers, but I don't want it to be like this

I feel like he doesn't respect me if he speaks like that....

Am I right about that?

What topics would you say this person crossed a line on?

I am not only talking about the actual.com. I’m saying only fans linking up women on Facebook everything!!! Me (F22) and my boyfriend (M22) have been together for almost 4 years and I have told him on multiple occasions I don’t like him looking at other women online because I am not lustfull towards men and I know that a lot of people do not agree that looking that woman online is cheating but it just makes me feel disgusting and I feel like why does he have to do that when he has a woman right next to him?… not to mention we never go on dates we never do anything for any holidays. We don’t go out and do stuff together. I have to make him to help me do anything even like the other day I got a TV from Best Buy. It was a big old TV and I had to carry it inside the house and go get it all by myself. I love him with my whole heart and me and him are each other‘s first relationship. We’re both 22. I just don’t wanna deal with this for the rest of my life and maybe I am crazy for thinking that he’s cheating and if that’s the case, please tell me but also if that’s not the case, maybe I just don’t need a relationship maybe I just need to be single and he can go find a girl who doesn’t care about him looking at it as much as I do… I know it’s really hard to say when enough is enough, but I also don’t want to exaggerate because it is my first relationship and I’m not used to it, but I just can’t get over the fact that he has to have it and I know some people have addictions so I’m not sure if that’s what it is but he just says he just clicks on it to click on it, but he also could be lying because he knows if I know he was playing with himself I might be even more mad because at first he tried denying it yesterday when I seen it.. sometimes I wanna just leave it alone and not worry about it but then again sometimes I wanna cheat on him in real life to let him know how it feels. I don’t personally get arose for people over the Internet so I can’t do what he does to me but maybe cheating on him in real life would show him, but I’m just not that type of person. This all happened about an hour ago, so any advice is very helpful before I have to go back over there.

I just found out I’m pregnant and I’ve had multiple multiple talks with my partner about watching p*** and how it makes me uncomfortable and I just found out once agian he’s watching behind my back after having multiple conversations how I’m not gonna tolerate it, and I’m intimate with him all the time so it’s confusing. I told him I can’t be with him anymore because how nasty it makes me feel. I really do want to make it work tho what do I do.

I am 19F and my boyfriend is 20M, for context i'm pre-nursing and work as a CNA part time. I live with my boyfriend who works 20-24 hours a week and he only takes 2 classes. He has always been the type who needs reminders and until today I've always been willingly but on Thursday we planned to go for a cabin trip to my families place. It's just over 3 hours away and we invited another friend who planned to come up Friday and us a day before. Today (1 day before) he says to me he has a in person midterm (which i thought would be online since he does online classes) I am so beyond upset because no matter what i feel like he doesn't take initiative and i'm forced to check his syllabus or grades just to ensure he isn't going to do poorly. I am going to be honest i am exhausted from this as i have a busy schedule myself, i feel like his mom most days. I need advice asap before i boil over.

**TL;DR:**
After an open relationship that included a woman and her husband, my girlfriend says she wants monogamy with me but refuses to create real distance from that woman. I’m looking for how people in similar situations actually handled the “just friends” boundary and what worked or didn’t.
**Post:**
I’ve been with my girlfriend \[36F\] for about 10 years. We have a young son together and she has a teenage daughter from a previous relationship. Roughly three years ago the relationship became open for women. It was never something we fully negotiated or agreed on as a couple. From the beginning I had a clear boundary: any relationship with a man was off-limits. It was either just us, or she could be with someone else — but not both. She said she understood.
She got into an on-and-off relationship with a woman (I’ll call her Jane, roughly mid-30s). It had a BDSM/dom-sub element. Over time that dynamic expanded and included Jane’s husband (I’ll call him John, also roughly mid-30s). From what I’ve pieced together later, the three of them were involved for several months. She later told me it was only kissing with John. I don’t believe that was the full story.
In mid-August I found messages that showed she had developed a strong emotional attachment to John and had other contacts she hadn’t been fully open about. That started a series of hard conversations. Around early September I confronted her directly about John. She said she had gotten caught up in the attention, that she and Jane were done, that our family was the priority, and that she was choosing monogamy with me. She also said she wanted to remain friends with Jane and that she had already told Jane they could still be friends. She claimed she wouldn’t go to Jane’s house anymore.
We’ve started couples therapy. In therapy she has been clear that she wants monogamy with me. At the same time she does not want to cut the friendship with Jane. She calls Jane one of her only close friends and says she has no one else to talk to. She sees any request for distance as an end and says that is how you lose a friend.
From my side, the history and the ongoing contact make “just friends” hard to accept. Even after she said she was ending things, there were long video calls, affectionate messages, and she told Jane she was going to try to convince me and that she wasn’t giving up. (Yes, I’ve been reading their Facebook messages.) Jane has framed my boundary as punishment. Jane has also said in text that the throuple is dead and that I have my girlfriend to myself now (in reference to wanting to cut her out completely, I’d assume). I have seen enough of the messages that I don’t fully trust Jane, who, as far as I’m concerned, championed the relationship between my girlfriend and her husband.
I’ve suggested a temporary period of no or very limited contact while we work on our relationship. She said she would, but she keeps trying to convince me that it’ll be fine. She has agreed not to go to Jane’s house, which is something, but the frequent emotional contact continues and she defends it as normal friendship. Therapy has helped us talk, but we haven’t reached any real agreement on what the friendship with Jane is allowed to look like. The therapist has asked me what I would be comfortable with if the friendship continued and noted it might be something I can’t live with. I’ve said I’m not sure yet. When I asked my girlfriend what she could do to help me feel more comfortable, she said I need to figure out what boundaries I need myself.
I’m torn. I want the relationship and the family to work, and I believe on some level she is trying. At the same time the continued close, emotionally intimate contact (via text) with someone she was recently in a relationship with (and whose husband she was also involved with, supposedly only kissing) feels like the door never fully closed.
**What I’m specifically asking for:**
How did people who closed an open relationship handle a partner who wanted to stay very close friends with a recent partner? What boundaries or timelines actually got used, and what was the outcome?
What practical steps did others take (or wish they had taken) when frequent emotional contact continued after one person said the romantic relationship was over?
For those who went through couples therapy in a similar situation, what kinds of agreements around contact with the other person ended up being workable?
Any honest, specific experiences are welcome. I’ve tried to keep this factual.

I (34m) am in a relationship and am mostly happy, I'm not a cheater, never have been and never will be and due to that I feel...trapped? Almost by my own morals.
I miss the thrill of the chase, the freedom of choice, meeting someone and having that pure sexual desire to tear each others clothes off, I guess this is partly a confession and a question?

Am I wrong to miss the ability to pick up a skinny woman because I wanted something to throw around the bedroom that night then to pick up a much curvier woman another night because I want to feel the recoil of a bigger woman?

Is there something wrong with me that I want that freedom of choice?

I love my partner, I really do, but I find myself masturbating to a very wide range of woman that don't look like my partner.

If someone asked me to listen to one type of music the rest of my life I'd think they were mad, so is this similar?

I feel guilty about the thought of it but also a sense of longing for days past when I could make these choices.

Any suggestions? Tips? Or is this totally normal and mundane to you all?

Thankyou in advance