Dear Miss Emily:

Hello, my girlfriend of nearly four years has been breaking up with me, four times in the last month, then getting back together. The core of this issue is that she doesn't trust me completely. About 2 years ago, I had two ex girlfriends' claim that I cheated on her with them, which was false. From that point on, my girlfriend has not trusted me, no matter what I did or said. We initially worked things out until recently. It seemed like she exploded with emotions and said she could not go on anymore with fully trusting me. She also divulged that she witnessed her father being unfaithful to her mother at a young age, which she thinks affected her ability to truly trust me. Our longest separation lasted about three weeks. She contacted me and said she was miserable without me, depressed and wanted me to be in her life. We got back together for about a week. She then broke it off claiming she still had trust issues, but still loves me very much and really didn't know what to do. What do I do?

-----------------------------------------------Miss Emily's advice--------------------------------------

I am confused as to why two ex-girlfriends' would lie and say you cheated when you didn't. Can you shed some light on that for me? If I don't hear back from you, I don't think there's much you can do but say, "Fine. I'm tired of defending myself. I have done everything I can to earn your trust, and it isn't working. There's nothing left to do but let you go." (She needs to be able to separate you from daddy!) Be firm about it, until she decides she's capable of putting the past behind her and move forward with a positive attitude -- and this issue of trust is put to rest. You two have developed a type of dependency on each other, and it's coming from the wrong place. Four years, together, trust issues, and breaking up and getting back together (on her whim) is getting old, fast. Sit her down, cobble out a plan to move forward, free of this constant recrimination of being untrustworthy, or end it. That's the way I see it!