DEAR HARRIETTE: My fiance and I dated for a little while in high school and rekindled after college. About a year ago, he proposed to me, and I said yes.

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I was living with my parents but eventually I moved in with my fiance. It wasn’t planned, but I am the oldest of a family of seven children, so I had been spending a lot of time at his place.

After I moved in, he became a lot more vocal about his expectations of me as a wife. He’s no longer the sweet, romantic guy I dated over the years.

His idea of chivalry is telling me that I have no need for male friends because he’s the only man I need. His idea of romance is reminding me that I am his “forever and always.” He has become so strict that I’m shocked.

There’s no room for me back at my parents’, and honestly, I’m a

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