Wow. As i read your story kneedown, i'm having serious flashbacks from my own relationship (except for the reverse situtation). Funny txt messages to my boyfriend... him goign out on weekend nights and me not knowing where the heck he was (and we have been a couple for 3 years!).
A lot of crap happened in easter of 2004, then again half a year later (exact same crap---the houdini dissapearing acts....coming home at strange hours with a felt-pen mark on his arm?? or parking tickets from downtown putting him in a time/place that made no sense (ie-said he was somewhere else that night)) back in november. We are still together, mainly i guess like big-tymer says, we are in a comfort zone (for various reasons). Things are goign well now, but do you know HOW MANY TIMES i still think about where the hell he went on those nights? That every once and a while i still check his cell phone? Yeah, even though we're together now and everythign is fine, the damage is done and there are days where i either wished i had broken up with him back then, or I am waiting for an excuse to break up with him now. Or if for some reason i can't get a hold of him at night it sends me into a panick attack.
Yes i know it's a f*cked up situation that i'm in and i need to seriously get my own sh*t together. But reading your post gave me that sinking feeling in my gut...the same one that i got a couple times already from my own relationship and 6months...one year later.... i STILL think about it and it's still having it's repercussions.
I guess my point is, if you can live the way i'm living (always second guessing) then stay. Otherwise, coming from the perspective of someone who HAS stuck it out.... i would actually advise to get out before it destroys you.
And just for the record, I have called my girlfriends before at 1am due to emergency,. so that's not an IMPOSSIBLE theory. Although i would say in this situation, definitely improbable.