I love her with all my heart but I'm starting to crumble

[Randomguy4558]

I've been in a relationship with my great girlfriend, but I fear I can't win this battle and I'm starting to lose hope when I don't want to. We've been together for almost a year, she is older than me. I'm 24 she is 36. She has 2 kids which I absolutely love dearly. My girlfriend is always has depression, always tired of life. At first she has never shown this side of her, but lately it's been getting to me. I've had a rough upbringing, things that most people experience later in life. I'm mature beyond my age. She has had it rough as well. This is my problem....she doesn't know how to show affection, always depressed with life. I'm finding that she is apathetic towards relationships due to her past. I treat her as any wonderful woman should be, GREAT! She does not know how to take that because she has never been treated so well. I'm beginning to break, I know she loves me and I know she wants us. I am understanding, give her her space, always listen to her when she needs my ear. I mean I do it right. I found my one, I can honestly say that. Yes I'm young but I've been around to know. I am fighting for her, to break through to her that not all is what she has lived in those days. I support her, she lives with me, I love and support her kids as well. I am fighting a uphill battle and I'm losing my will. I've talked with her and she says she just doesn't know how to take this. She is scared and jaded from her past. In my heart Im fighting and I feel I can't go on no more. Them the other half of my heart I don't quit. I've never known how to give in. And this is something I don't want to give in to. Our relationship is wonderful other than this. Should I give in or should I continue my battle and with time hope it pays off.

[RiceaRoni]

Has she been able to recieve any professional help at all?

Any medications to help her?

 

what is about the past she's so caught up in?

She was treated poorly by past loves?

 

you should try reassuring her that it's obviously you aren't like that. You treat her very well and care and love her dearly, that whatever happened in her past, was her past and doesn't interfere no longer with the present life she lives today.