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Should I leave this relationship?

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mutin · 17/12/2023 09:26

Both fifties, both divorced and work full time. My teens are with me full time. We see each other each weekend, normally sat evening till sun am.
He works and lives 90 mins away.
We are both free each weekend except for every second saturday which he spends with his daughter.
The issue is that while he lives 90 mins away, he goes to his parents every weekend in another part of the country.
He has no life where he lives and work. He rents there in a house share. He doesn't have any hobbies or pastimes in general but literally works and sleep in one part of the country .. (thinkEdinburgh and then at weekends goes to Glasgow. I'm in between both places.)
I don't go to his generally as it's a house share and don't go to his parents either for same reasons.
He comes to mine, we eat, sleep and have breakfast and then he is gone again. I'm not really feeling it anymore but he is lovely company mostly.
He doesn't own his own home and spends masses of time with his family. He also doesn't really socialise but I do.
It feels dead in the water. Having no home of his own , going back to his parents and family every weekend is kind of giving me the ick. He has no ambition or intention to change for the foreseeable future.
He will not !3 moving in with me as I don't want that for myself and my kids.
Sex is amazing though.

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zingally · 17/12/2023 10:59

Hard "nah" from me.

He's using you as free lodgings and a weekly screw. A 50yo man, lurching his way between house-shares and his parents, is hardly an attractive prospect.

I'd say it's playing fast and lose with the term "relationship", when you see each other once a week, for about 12 hours, and most of that time is spent sleeping. He's a friend with benefits at best.

mutin · 17/12/2023 10:58

I think I'm delaying it because I know he is going to be very difficult and will bombard my kids and family to try to change my mind. I think his laziness is due to having nothing to aim for.. he has his family home to go to, house share for peanuts and my home for weekend overnights. Everyone does everything for him. I enabled that. He is bone lazy also.
I know I can do su much better but not necessarily right now. Writing it out helps me to get my thoughts in order and posters opinions and thoughts help me to think of others opinion on it.

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schmuzz · 17/12/2023 10:51

I mean you barely see him so what's the point. It's just a Saturday night shag. End it and move on.

Olika · 17/12/2023 10:49

Oh god please end it. Sounds boring, there must be men out there who can offer you more exciting time together. And in case you don't end up ending it, please don't let him move in as you won't get rid of him as you already noticed.

mutin · 17/12/2023 10:40

I feel guilty for feeling so shallow but the truth is , he has nothing to offer me.
I feel like a provide a service for him.. a place to stay, food, Netflix and sex. I shouldnt feel like this, should I ?

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shininglight16 · 17/12/2023 10:25

Like the others have said, what does he give you other than great sex? He seems to lack maturity, responsibility, self-respect, ambition and the ability to be independent. Living for free at his friend's, at the age of 50, gives me the ick too. Going to his family every weekend and having no other life, gives me the ick too. DUMP him before it gets more serious.

BornIn78 · 17/12/2023 10:20

How exactly is he lovely company, apart from the sex?

He sounds deathly dull.

That’s before I get started on a man in his 50’s who has apparently spent several years scrounging free lodgings by essentially spare room bed hopping between friends, family and you.

Ugh.

mutin · 17/12/2023 10:15

Any other opinions please?
He'll never own his own home and that puts me in a danger zone as he is well able to make himself at home and be hard to move once he gets his feet under the table as I found out when he stayed her uninvited for two weeks as he was too Ill to go back to his house share. He had a cold.

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mutin · 17/12/2023 09:51

He was staying with a friend who didn't want rent.

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Dacadactyl · 17/12/2023 09:50

@mutin why was he not paying rent?

mutin · 17/12/2023 09:45

I'd be happy to have and look forward to a more committed relationship but not until kids have left for uni. The house share is a disaster and he has not had to pay rent up until recently for nearly two years so his outgoings have been minimal so I can't understand why he is in a house share?
Making no life for himself in that city and running home every weekend to his parents and extended family isn't exactly attractive to me either.
I'm getting bored I think

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GabriellaMontez · 17/12/2023 09:31

Is it holding you back from something better?

Or is it enough that you have great sex? Especially as you don't even want someone moving in?

Dacadactyl · 17/12/2023 09:28

I'd end it, because a man in his 50s living in a houseshare would not be doing it for me AT ALL.

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