to google my ex-boyfriends?

[Wuldric]

This sounds a little odd. Well, more than a little odd. But here goes.

I bumped into an old boyfriend at a restaurant in London today. Was utterly odd, as you can imagine. 'Let me introduce you to my wife' 'Pleased to meet you. Let me introduce you to my husband'. You get the scenario. It was fun though, and he hasn't changed a bit and his wife seems lovely and his kids seem jolly (and got on with mine) and we did the whole 'isn't it a small world' thing.

So when I got slightly tipsily home, I decided that the thing to do was google my ex-boyfriends.

This has worked out very oddly.

One of them is apparently tipped to win the next Nobel prize in his field (I am NOT joking) in a field which I will not divulge because it would therefore out him and me. How utterly delightful!

One of them has just declared himself bankrupt. The notice was in the London Gazette. This has had me in tears. I left him because he was utterly feckless. Gorgeous but feckless.

I'm not googling any more.

For one of my exes There's a few newspaper articles with his quotes in and some photography shots. I have aged a lot better than he has!

'The one that got away' has just gone across North America on a trek and is still absolutely gorgeous

I Googled myself, theres only one quote directly from me on a news site, no pictures. If an ex Googled me it would look like I don't exist online after 2003.

My first two boyfriends were from completely different parts of the country, some 300 miles apart. They now both work at the same place and live in the same town.

I did this a while ago. I thought it was a bit weird, but I guess it's no different really from my mum running into an ex from school and telling me about or my dad periodically googling me and dh.

None of mine are interesting but they seem well traveled.

One is working in exactly the field he trained for at university.

One has come out and has worked for a spell as a chef in Lanzarotte, or somewhere similar.

One still has the dodgy tash, but has gained a few stone and is runnign a business that appears to be limping, rather than flourishing. His online CV is full of more typos than this post and is probably not doing him any favours.

Just had a google...

One is a published novelist (it was always his ambition, glad he achieved it, after 15 years of working in a corner shop!)

One appears to be single and has moved back in with his parents, aged 35. (Always was a loser)

One has committed suicide :-(

One is a born again Christian.

One keeps posting dreadful clips of himself on Youtube singing.

I feel so much contempt towards the last one, I refuse to google him...

Er. I have just googled my exh and he is registered on 192 with my postcode! Well the first part (you can't see the rest without paying). I know he has never lived in this postcode, there's no way he's doing some kind of scam on my address is there?? I wouldn't put it past him!

One of my ex's has a wikipedia page about him and a dead cool job. Made me feel very jealous and inadequate for months with my ordinary mundane job as we did the same degree.
Another has had a fairly decent career in music (drum and bass), not really famous but known in music circles. He's also on wikipedia or at least his band is.

Stopped looking after that especially as I had lots of exes to choose from being a bit of a slapper fickle in my youth

Argh I hate you for giving me the idea of doing this!

viperslast do you think it would be worth paying to see the entire postcode, so you'll know for sure whether he's using your postcode or just one in your area? I would, for peace of mind, but then again I'm extremely nosy curious.

I'm not sure, just wondering if there is a better way. If I'm going to spend money it may as well be helpful lol. Can you do a credit check on a house or something?

Something I do when bored... One is a born again Christian with an ascetic sect. Another, arrogant and promiscuous, rose high in a huge company but his health has been ruined by a breakdown. A third, a real home boy when young, became an aid worker in Zimbabwe. Glad that none of them is in my life now. Can't imagine them Googling me.

My 'first love' is now a newsreader/presenter on Radio 1 so I could listen to his dulcet tones everyday if I wished, however I prefer Radio 4! Another, the only other real one, is now a professor of Physics studying Black Hole theory in an office overlooking Copacabana beach In Rio. I am a single mom with 3 kids in Norn Iron ... funny how things turn out!!?

One of mine is about to be the next Doctor Who! LOL. (lie out loud)

Viperslast I've been led to believe when I queried this with a credit reference agency that you can only do a credit check on an individual, not a house. Otherwise, say for example the previous occupier at your property ran up a debt, it could reflect badly on you, which is clearly unfair.

Hmm that's not great news. I think I'll ring my house insurance legal wotsit on Monday and ask them, there must be a procedure for this!