I run with a club. Running is my thing, I do it pretty much everyday and most of my social life is tied up with running and runners. I've done it for decades, it's got me through some tough times and given me some really good times and some good friends.
Currently I'm training for a long endurance race and there's a man at the club training for a similar event, so we're running together a lot. We've spent a lot of time together, both training and entering events, but I've never done anything else with him, it's just about the running.
He's recently separated from his wife after a very long marriage. This is one of the reasons he'sentered the event, to give himself something to distract himself. We get on as training partners, but he's never given me any reason to think he's interested in anything else from me and I'd be very wary of such a recently separated man, even if he did.
Anyway, photos from the events often find their way onto FB and show the two of us enjoying ourselves. I've started getting messages from both his wife and his son accusing me of being the reason for the break up.
We didn't even start training together until after the split, when he entered the long event to give himself a focus/distraction.
I don't need the drama, I do need a training partner, I haven't told him yet.