when to give up on a cancer

This topic was created in the Cancer forum by mnemini on Saturday, November 30, 2013 and has 1 replies.
i'll admit i've learned so much about cancer men on this website, and yet at times i still feel beyond lost. i have been seeing a cancer man for about a year and a half on and off. every off has been at his whim. he has not seen any other women. he simply runs from me. the first time he did this, when he came back, he wanted to ask me to marry him. it was too much too soon for me after his disappearance and i think that it hurt him badly. he never actually asked, but told me later he had wanted to but could tell i was not in it the same place.
we got back together, but it was incredibly rocky, and unhappy. He has a child and we have an age difference and a long distance issue (i study in his country, but only half the year). he left me again, but came back. i told him i didnt want to keep doing the back and forth and we fought and didnt speak for a month. i got really sick he came and took care of me, we started seeing each other again. casually. going out, or him coming over. but he was always attentive when we were together. i know that he has a lot of outside stress from his job and his kid. so i was not upset when it would sometimes be a week between seeing him.
basically he will get drunk and become much like his old self. intensely loving. forcefully so. talking about how ive changed his life and how everything is different and how strongly he feels. telling my friends how in love he is. but just normal can be very reserved. though at times he will be extremely romantic. he'll go through periods of being attentive to me. seeing me often, and then ignore me for days, sometimes a week. I do not push or pressure. an occasion text to check in. often it is hours before i get a vague response. sometimes i dont at all.
and now, once again. he's pushed me away completely. however. i am heading home again in about a month. i will be home for at least four months. if not almost seven. the first time he ever left me was this exact same time last year. as i was headed home again. we live an ocean away from each other. could this have any factoring? and is it worth trying to push for us. im in love with him. we have both felt that our relationship is very different and special for us. but i do not know if he will ever come around. he has a lot of baggage from his childhood and past relationships, that i don't know i can ever get through to him.
also i am positive there is no other women. he has a daughter who gets his weekend time, and he works 60

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