Is it weird to WhatsApp guy I met in park

Not at all, I know multiple dads who I text. The difference is, I didn't meet them and then message them for no reason except that I fancied them. She's taken a friendly chat at the playground and tried to turn it into a private chat between two adults that more resembles dating. After mooning over the bloke for a week. The message would be inappropriate enough, hearing here about her daydreaming over him is very sad.

Yes, this is weird.

Unless you have something to say about home schooling I would leave him alone.

I think it makes a difference that you're expats, and most posters aren't considering that aspect.

I don't think them being expats makes it okay for her to still be thinking about her brief chat with this guy over a week later.

If this thread was from a woman saying her DH had swapped numbers with a stranger in the park and had been thinking about her all week, I doubt the replies would be so understanding.

It’s fine that you sent the message. Having lived in an expat community myself, I would see this as even more normal than if you were living in the uk for example.

We moved back home before I had dd. A couple of female friends and I became friendly with a dad (SAHD) and hung around a few times with him and his ds. Idk if I even told my dh. It was so obvious to me I / we didn’t fancy him. We also met his wife / partner.

I think it makes a difference that you're expats, and most posters aren't considering that aspect.

I think your text was fine, not pointless as it was finishing swapping numbers. When I was an expat, there was one man who was main carer for the child while his wife worked. His experience was that it was harder to meet people to hang out with because they were mostly mothers (or nannies) and they tended to treat him slightly differently. I think that's understandable, but what I mean is that he probably won't assume you fancy him but might well be happy to have made another contact.

So you asked for a man's number and your both not single 🤔 sorry but that's weird I'd be annoyed if it was my dh who gave his number out

Step away from messaging!

Whenever I meet someone new, male or female & we exchange messages for the first time it feels thrilling in a way. It reminds me a bit of internet dating where it’s sort of exciting & new. This is regardless of whether I fancy them or not it’s just the novelty of adding someone new to your social circle.

No, don't message. Wait until school starts and organise a group park visit. I'd be fuming if my DH swapped numbers with another woman! Maybe that's just me.

I find it a bit strange that you're still thinking about your conversations with him a week later. I'm not sure I'd like if it DH got a random woman's number and was thinking about their conversations this much a week down the line, I have to say.

I also think if he was really interested in swapping numbers, he'd have put yours in his phone at the time.

Just message him. Say lovely to meet him and unfortunately you didn't make it back to the park again this week.
Say it would be great to get the girls together again soon

I've known enough men to know how many of them think any woman who is so much as polite to them fancies them.

Shag* not share

I think the reason you're second guessing it is because of opinions like those of pp's on this thread who think because you're a woman and he's a man you MUST only be talking because you wanna share each other. And your partners both won't like it because they must be as possessive as the pp's. I know loads of women who meet at parks and swap numbers for the kids to play. It's not a big deal.

Ah. I see you messaged.

Tbh, a better message would have been inviting him and his wife round to yours for a coffee with you and your husband while the children played.

Yours was one of those texting for no reason texts iyswim. If anything is going to make it seem to him like you're maybe sniffing around, it's that sort of thing.

Not imo.
He's a random you met once in your life. I wouldn't give it a second thought.

I would text and ask would he and/or his wife like to bring their daughter over for a playdate since they got on so well. Or meet at the park again. Otherwise just leave it.

I would. But I'd set very clear boundaries from the outset. Just say Hi it's @Saturdaymorningsinthenineties . We met in the park the other week. Our girls got on and I really enjoyed talking to you. Wondered if your family fancied coming over to ours for Sunday lunch sometime, or meeting up for a picnic together in the park. It would be nice for the girls to see each other again and to meet your other half, if you'd all be up for that.

I think when you get on with people it's good to make a gesture of friendship. Brits are so uptight about this but many other cultures aren't.

Message him as you suggested above. It's a bit unbalanced to have his number and he not have yours, so messaging will even that up.Keep it cool and matter of fact.

Has he replied?

It isn't the m/w friendship that most posters are commenting on its the intensity of the op wanting to contact a random man/parent she doesn't know and the overthinking that she's upset a random she met at the park.

It's very sad that so many people here can't imagine a man and woman having a friendship. I have plenty of male friends, some are single, some are in relationships. My partner also has plenty of female friends, again some single others in relationships. Sometimes I catch up with friends one to one, sometimes as a couple, sometimes in a group. I've never met a new friend and automatically assumed they fancy me just because we agree to keep in touch.

I might be wrong, but I've never exchanged numbers with a mum at a park either.
I'm just thinking what I'd think if the roles were reversed and a Dad asked for my number at a park.

Hopefully he doesn't think like me!

Not shameless in my book. Sensible starts with the same letter though.

Wow, that's shameless! Might as well have just said you can't stop thinking about him, random texts about nothing add up to the same message.

You've confessed you have a husband, why are you sniffing round after this bloke? Either fix whatever's wrong with your relationship, or separate, work on a new relationship only after you've ended the old one.

I think that you should leave him alone. He didn't ask for your number did he?