What is the wankiest thing you’ve seen your ex do?

@SunshineOnIslington would you mind me asking what the team was? My football-loving autistic son has been reading this thread and is desperate to know! No probs if you'd rather not.

😆😆 what on earth was he on 😆

This paints an absolute picture 😂

There are some awful stories on here but some very entertaining ones too. It’s the best thread I have read in a long time.

Argued to win custody of our cat through our divorce lawyers. Added a couple of grand ££ to the bill. He won (I decided it was not worth fighting over), then the next day he gave the cat to Battersea shelter.

I never thought anyone could be such a low life but there you have it…

I love this thread!

Mine: had a baby with his first partner in the UK, then started an online relationship with an Australian, and abandoned his partner and baby to go and live in Aus with the online woman (he lied about this when I met him).

During Covid, the Australian dumped him, so he moved back to the UK, which is where I met him. After two years, he told me and his now-teenage daughter that he was moving to live in the same town as his daughter.

What he actually did was move to Thailand to live with another woman he’d met online. When his parents found out where he was, his mother emailed me to tell me the truth about the Australian. Her words: “he’s got real issues and you’re better off without him.” His mother was lovely :(

I feel so awful for his daughter. Her view of men is going to be so screwed up.

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Friend 1: she left him as he was an abusive alcoholic. She moved out of the family home and into a flat with their son. After three months, he told her he was moving in with someone else and wouldn’t be paying the mortgage on their house anymore. She went round the following day and he’d put all the furniture in the garden. It had obviously been there for weeks and was all ruined.

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Friend 2: they’d been married for years with two kids under ten. He left her out of the blue, taking one small bag of clothes with him, and she was shell-shocked and very depressed.

Two weeks later, he called her and said he’d made a mistake and that he was coming home. She was thrilled and SO relieved.

The day after he came home, they sat down to sort out finances. She left him logged into all the bank accounts and went out with the kids for a couple of hours. When she came back, he’d emptied their accounts and the kids’ savings accounts, cleared out his wardrobe and taken all the cash and portable electronics.

He hid all his money during the divorce and she obviously couldn’t afford a good finance person to find it. Twenty years later she’s still dealing with the financial repercussions: she’s 63 and working two jobs, he’s living mortgage free in a five bed house.

I love my ex DH, I really do (he's a brilliant co-parent), but he does tend towards the wanky end of the spectrum on occasion.

He has become a shaman, and now stands under a tree in the field at the back of his housing estate, praying out loud to whoever/whatever it is shamans pray to, whilst our DS has to walk past him with his mates on his way to school. (Thankfully DS has both a robust sense of self and understanding friends!)

The ex I'm thinking of was a musician and convinced he was destined to be a famous rock star. Not an awful person but a real manchild. Everything was about his "work" (music, he never got paid for it as far as I'm aware). He was astonished when I left him for a proper grown up.

We stayed indirectly in touch as we had uni friends in common.

He married a nice woman. When they were expecting their first child his parents (who had eventually become concerned about his manchild tendencies) thought he ought to learn to drive so he could take his wife to hospital etc. They gave him money for a course of driving lessons. He spent it on singing lessons to hone his rock star voice.

Drop my 11yr daughter off and leave her outside the house in January without a house key knowing I was not home and an hour away, so he could go to the gym.

I still cringe about this. ExH who had told me that he would not pay me anything for our DD because I was spoilt and would only spend it on food for both DD and I, sent her a cheque for her 2nd birthday signed LORD SURNAME. He had bought one of those wanky Lord of The Manor titles

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don’t have my own story to tell but just wanted to thank @Magpiesinthegarden for an inspired OP and thank everyone for sharing / congratulate on surviving!

Mine took his new GF to all the places we used to go to. He stayed in the same hotels, ate in the same restaurants, the same cafes, the same spas. It still makes me laugh! Oh and he spent £450 on candles for her in one month… she must stink?? 🤣

Maybe embezzling money from your job, buying a great big camper van and parking it in your Mums drive. For 2 years.

Maybe embezzling money from your job, buying a great big camper van and parking it in your Mums drive. For 2 years.

My ex told our daughter he purposefully leaves his flies open so women will look and so it makes them feel uncomfortable. 🤮🤬