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If you had been lied to, over small things and big things, consistently for a few years, completely physically rejected (including affection) unless your SO initiated it, and left at home while your SO was out who knows where, getting drunk, lying about it, and coming home whenever they pleased (while you stayed at home with very young children)....how long would you tolerate it? There was lots of other nasty and intentionally cruel treatment, but I'll try and condense it. (isolation from friends/family, not much access to money, never supported, many double standards, flat out told to get lost when I would try and show affection)  
 
So if you finally left, moved out and said it was over, but then the other person had a life 'changing' experience, and swore it opened their eyes and they genuinely wanted to live up to all of their promises, and treat you well, and admitted they had been awful.....  
Would you give them a second chance? A chance to be who you thought they were in the beginning of the relationship?  
If you did consider giving them another chance, what would the terms be?  
 
Edited by workinonit, 2010-07-07 15:39:19