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Dear Prudence,

My boyfriend and I have been together for eight years. We also have a child together. For about four or five years now, our relationship hasn’t really been that great. He’s been uninterested, careless, selfish, disrespectful, and just completely emotionally unavailable.

Honestly, I feel like this started a little while after we had our child (seven years ago). I have always communicated with him how this makes me feel and told him what he needed to do to fix it. Sometimes he’d change for a week and it was great. Other times, it was like he never even heard me. Because of this, I’ve been seriously thinking abo

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