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Monday, July 6, 2009 12:00 AM

My boyfriend criticizes everything!

He thinks I'm supposed to be perfect and seizes on my tiniest mistakes
By Cary Tennis

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  • Sunday, July 5, 2009 07:02 PM

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    My friend married one of these. Total disaster. Kids, real estate and her trashed self image later, she finally left.

    As Cary said in a column awhile back -- in one of his greater moments of wisdom -- back slowly away from the hope. This guy is not going to change. Ultimately, his criticisms are not really about you. They are just a way of blaming you for his unhappiness. If you would just fix "x," then he would be happy right?

    He's not the man you imagine him to be, and you are not the cause or solution to his state of happiness.

    Collect what is left of your self esteem and leave now. Seriously.

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