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Should partner leave his club over sexual messages

57 replies

Rachibe · 24/07/2026 20:55

Name changed but long time poster on here.

Long story short, I’ve caught DP out sending inappropriate messages to another woman, who he tells me he met at the club where he plays padel tennis. She got his details from the group chat and they’ve been messaging since. He swears nothing has happened (I do believe this) and that he has made a stupid mistake which he regrets.

I am struggling to see past this though.

Example messages - DP sent her a photo cropped from instagram that she was in, posted from a social event at their club. She is sat down, he sent the photo and said ‘I wish I was that chair’.

There’s another one about how sweaty it was playing, DP sends an innuendo. The same night, he’s on about her having great stamina and says it’s good they’ve never been on the same team as he would need to buy bigger shorts.

I am feeling awfully upset and don’t know if I can get past this. Do you think there is any coming back from these comments and is it wrong of me to ask him to no longer go to that club?

OP posts:
summerday25 · Today 11:35

I’d leave him. My ex-husband started like this and eventually it progressed to physical affairs. If I’d left when it first started I wouldn’t have spent the following five years in a high state of alert, eventually justified by his actions. Get out of it, he’s shown you who he is now - don’t waste any more of your years on him, we only have so many.

Disturbia81 · Today 11:40

No way would I get past this. This is who he is

SnowflakeSmasher86 · Today 11:52

I’d leave him if he sent those messages to ME let alone anyone else. Just gross. 🤢

Apart from his cringey shit attempts at flirting, he clearly doesn’t respect your relationship so fuck him off and do some work to try and understand why you’re willing to work on a relationship with such an absolute loser.

Newname29 · Today 11:53

The comment re: the chair is so creepy. You deserve better

CamillaMcCauley · Today 11:56

Oh god, I’d have to leave him for his cringeworthy messages alone. “Buy bigger shorts” ew ew ew ew ew what a knob! If a man sent me that I’d die of secondhand embarrassment.

parkintrouble · Today 11:56

Why are you staying with him?

It sounds like he must have felt very confident those messages would be well received so it begs the question what else went on

Plus the messages alone are so grim

bluebeck · Today 11:58

Him leaving the club would be irrelevant to me as the relationship would be over.

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