This is going to sound a bit barmy. I posted an add on Gumtree a few months back advertising an item connected to my hobby for sale. I was contacted through the app thing by someone to say they had this particular item but did I have any other variations for sale. I responded to say I didn't have anything else at the minute but would probably have finished with something similar in a couple of months so I would bare them in mind.
They replied to say something along the lines of its unusual to find a female who is interested in this kind of thing and that he is usually left chatting to other men about it and that his wife hates his hobby but he's trying to encourage his daughter to take it up.
I respond to say my Oh doesn't get it either so I feel his pain. All fine. Nothing more comes of it.
A couple of days later he texts me on whattsapp sending through a picture of his newest purchase. I say it looks great etc etc
few days after that he texts to see if i can help him out with a missing part, which as it happens I can. I get his address and post it.
We chat on and off over the next few months, all hobby related, heads up on good deals etc. I didn't think much of it.
Have now been contacted by his wife to say I need to stop my affair with her husband. Have I been totally out of line? Full disclosure he would sometimes say things like oh I need to meet a woman like you, but always seemed in a sort of banter context, and as he was married with children I didn't think anything of it.
I didn't know that gumtree was some kind of tinder equivalent, have I just been naive?
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PureLife4 · 06/02/2018 09:58
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