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Confusedlady21 · 31/01/2019 16:08

Hi all,
Very new here but wanted some thoughts of people who aren’t close to me.
I’m a single mum and have been single for the last 4 years. I have had some very bad experiences in relationships which is why I closed myself off for so long.
I recently went on Plenty Of Fish. (Terrible I know!) I wasn’t expecting anything but started chatting to someone and we really got on!! We were ‘dating’ for about a month and were sleeping together (not like me so soon).
As things were progressing in that way I didn’t really want to carry on like that if he was still looking for others on POF. I hid my profile a week after we started chatting, as that’s just my way. I don’t for a second expect that off someone else, however, as we were sleeping together I didn’t love the thought of him maybe still looking else where. So....I brought this up with him asking if he still went on POF and he said yes, but just to answer messages off the people who were sending them to him asking what he’d been up to etc. I was a bit upset, I didn’t show this, I just went a bit quiet and when he asked if we were seeing each other again I said ‘yeah ok’ and he said ‘well we don’t have to!’.
I had been over to his as he didn’t feel well so took him some food, drinks, pain killers etc, we slept together, and then this happened at the end of the evening. I left at the end of the evening, obviously a little upset, and haven’t heard from him since :-( This was a week ago and I’m really upset about it actually as I really started to like him and it’s the first time I’ve got close to someone in a long time.

My question is....should I text him? I don’t think I’m going to hear from him again and I’m kind of blaming myself for that for the way I reacted.

Please be kind! What are your views?
Thanks

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PinkHeart5914 · 31/01/2019 16:18

No don’t text, delete him number so you can’t!

You were shagging him and you didn’t want him chatting/looking for others and I think that is perfectly ok but he wants to see you and talk to others so you are not suited.

Honestly you don’t have to accept even early on in dating that you don’t want to.

Remember also some men are just players and wankers, every hole is a goal and all that....

Confusedlady21 · 31/01/2019 16:27

Thanks.
I know I would be saying the same to anyone I know! I just keep putting it back on to it being my fault the way I went quiet. He told me very early on that if anyone ‘fks him off then they are gone’
I guess I have fallen into that group!
I’m just gutted as he would also say stuff like ‘we can go there one day’ etc etc, but I did feel that everything was kind of just sex orientated. When I said to him that I was ‘more than that’ he would say things like ‘yeah course, that’s just a bonus’ or ‘if I didn’t want to f
k you you would think I didn’t like you anymore’ etc.

I just feel a bit gutted that he hasn’t even text me :-( But again, I’m blaming myself (something that I’ve been programmed to do for many years with ex partners).

Sorry if I’m sounding pathetic!! Just didn’t want to throw something away because of my reaction x

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PinkHeart5914 · 31/01/2019 16:34

You don’t sound pathetic I think a lot of women struggle with this, we are programmed to think it’s always our fault.

I don’t think you are in the wrong here, I wouldn’t be sleeping with someone that was still chatting away and let’s face it probably meeting others.

Hopefully your have better luck next time

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Confusedlady21 · 31/01/2019 16:35

I’m just dying to text him!!! Lol!!
X

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