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Am I being unreasonable to post my friend's photo on Facebook?

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Adventuress1 · 20/09/2014 18:51

My friend was my boyfriend 25 years ago and we have remained friends ever since. I have never wanted to rekindle any sexual relationship. Since then he has been married and brought up 2 kids and is now living with a partner, though the relationship is over as far as he's concerned but they're buying the house together, so it's difficult to part. Meanwhile, he met someone in August who he thinks is the 'most wonderful woman ever' and they intend to get married. I see him once or twice a year - we live quite a distance away from each other. I was never allowed near either his marital home nor the current home. When I saw him I had to camp a mile from town while he would pretend to his partner that he was off on a job all day. I've met him twice in a town halfway between us. Last time was a couple of weeks ago. He'd had plenty of opportunity to tell his new girlfriend that he was meeting me, but chickened out. When I told him to tell her that evening where he'd been that day, he said he couldn't because he was scared he would lose her. (He had in fact altered the day we met in case she wanted to see him the following day, but she saw a male friend instead). I took a photo of him in a restaurant we ate in, and said I was going to post it on Facebook, which I did. He was worried about that, even though the new woman doesn't do Facebook. But I was absolutely fed up with the deception he'd been practising concerning me: the other women knew I was his ex, and had been his friend ever since, and they knew he wrote to me and texted me regularly. But phone calls and meeting were not allowed. (He usually sat in a car park at night to phone me). I decided this time I wasn't going to go along with this nonsense, so posted his picture on Facebook. Since then he has de-activated his Facebook account, though he denies that this is why he's done it.

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Fairenuff · 20/09/2014 20:35

I'm just wondering OP because, if it's a 20 year or 25 year mortgage, he can't be expecting to marry someone else anytime soon can he.

SaucyJack · 20/09/2014 20:35

Well. I'm assuming it's a minimum of twelve inches to be worth all this bother (!)

MsVestibule · 20/09/2014 20:46

Fairenuff, if the OP's friend wanted to marry his latest woman, he would do whatever he could to extricate himself from his current situation. A 20 year mortgage doesn't mean you're committed to somebody for 20 years; if the girlfriend had the means and the inclination to buy him out, he would be free to marry in about two months. But that would be far too simple for this drama llama.

Adventuress sorry you've been I'll for 8 months. Any hope you'll be recovered soon?

Fairenuff · 20/09/2014 20:48

But he won't leave until the mortgage is paid off (which could be another 15 years) so I don't understand how he can be planning to marry someone else when he won't leave the woman he is already living with Confused

Momagain1 · 20/09/2014 21:03

Oh. I have never heard of making payments on a mortgage referred to as buying the house.

So, their marriage is crap, but they are both hoping the other will leave first so they can claim the housr? Bullsh*t. It is joint property, unless one of them can buy the other out, it is sold and the proceeds split, end of story. If there are kids, that may be different, but you dont mention any and I certainly hope he isnt putting children through this.

Evidently they are staying together because they prefer the misery they are in to the unknowns of moving on. His bit in the side probably believes the house story too. But obviously, he prefers blazing rows with his wife, and meals with you kept secret from both of them, over her.

Really, there is nothing here that is reasonable at all.

Fairenuff · 20/09/2014 21:09

I wouldn't believe a word he says.

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