As you can see I only registered today and to be honest it is actually my first encounter to "post" my most deepest thoughts on the World Wide Web ... I will try to be straight to the point, but please take time to give me some real thought through advice ... because I am very vulnerable at the mo, which can influence my "options" very easily.
Okay, I am an South-African guy (26) married to a Dutch lady (26) for nearly a year and a half, which provides us with an multicultural confrontration. Well we have been dating for about four years and a half before tying the knot. I met her in South-Africa and we fell inlove ... She use to be this quiet, insecure and intriging women, I use to think it was because she was living in Africa far from her own surroundings. But the more I got to know her the more I fell inlove with her, but soon I realized that she had some undealt issues (child abuse, even family incest by the grandfather and brother). At first I wanted to help and support her but later I realized that her character was so formed by events. The very things which attracted me to her later came between us ...
Later I moved to the Netherlands, giving up my family and friends, my security and my beloved country. In this process I needed to learn and accept a new culture. These things were very hard for me and looking back this experience took its toll on my personality. Soon I also realized that my then girlfriend was still very attached to her family and basically the negotaitor between her divorced parents. And neither did she try to understand my cultural intergration process nor did she make it any easier for me. The weight or balance were so uneven and I felt so betrayed, but like I said, I still choosed to marry her. Eventhough I saw the signs a year and a half ago I still tried to be committed to her. I am a person that like to look for the challenges in life....
I hope that this is enough background ... Well a year and a half has past now and eventhough we are happy, I also don't know how long this will last neither do I know if this is what I want. The once secure and confident man that left his country in search for new horizons, the man that helped and supported everyone ... are now paralyzed by his situation with his wife. The problem is that I don't see any future for us together or have lost hope. My wife on the other hand refused to believe it, but she still don't see the complications and strain that her family life and childhood has on our marriage. Everything always use to be "my" problem, because me wife simply don't want to be confronted with the problem, which makes evrything eventually my problem.
We tried to see several counsellors in the last four years, but it is always I that need to change. But we never bring up the situation in her family and the childhood stuff mainly because it is such an sensitive issue, but this at the end puts me on the "correctional seat". And I am sick of it ...All my wife's sisters went for counselling in the past, but she is the only that never saw the importance of it. I feel that she is living in denial and that she always tried to stuff it down under, like it usuallly happens in her family. Now that we are married I am carrying this burdon with her, but it is uncarriable ...
I want to get a divorce, but don't even know want to do or I don't even know if I am selfish or if my feelings are just ... lets me just say that I don't know what to do anymore. When I will make my decision I will be confronted with so many things, but I feel so young and incompotent to make it .. yet I am already married. I feel like my whole world is coming down on me.
As I have vented now for a moment, please try to capture the nucleus of my story and help to give my objective answers or questions. I appreciate you taking time to help me/ us. Also remember our multicultural situation .. Greetings from a lonely African boy in the hard West.
Pee-Jay