I am a long term MNetter, around four years at least. I have name changed because I don't want this to follow me around the boards and I know some MNetters in RL 
I am have fairly recently split from a H, have children. I can be attractive-ish, scrub up well, dog rough on the school run and most days in fact, so I am not blowing my own trumpet here.
Since the news got out that I am single, I have received regularly - at least fortnightly - messages from various men I have known over my life time, through work, school, in my social circle etc all of them checking up on me and wanting to find out how I am and how they thought they would just drop me a line to see where life has taken me. Nice enough. Without fail though within a matter of a few weeks/messages these men have tried to push the messages/contact to become inappropriate. This almost always begins in the form of offering me a massage whenever I express that I have been busy or am tired. It is literally like ticking a bingo card, so much so that I have purposely said it and sure enough within a few messages the massage offer comes - it is seemingly the approach of choice for middle aged married men, one that they can push on with if I show interest or stop in its tracks if I tell them its inappropriate i.e. I am being touchy and reading too much into their kind offer or they are joking 
. More often than not once challenged, they become huffy and borderline aggressive, with one even insulting me and telling me to fuck off. This was a man who had repeatedly offered to call in while going to meetings in my area despite zero interest or acknowledgement from me. If I don't challenge them the messages tend to become more and more suggestive in tone with some actually really shocking ones sometimes - usually late at night.
So what I am wondering is, who are these men? Here on MN there seem to be a lot of women claiming to be happily married or with lovely men and that the majority of men are decent sorts. On FB the same men that are messaging me are splashed all over it with posting about holidays they are on, meals they are going out for, how happy they are etc, photos of them smiling and hugging their wives etc. In RL my married friends also claim the same, when some of THEIR husbands have been the ones who are messaging me! One is even married to a relative.....
So if most men are decent and almost ALL of you and my friends in RL are married to decent, faithful ones, who are these men messaging me in this way?
AIBU?
To wonder who this men are then?
LovelyLilacWisteria · 22/05/2016 17:33
Apologies, that was an awful autocorrect.
I didn't do a dick pick..... I received a dick pic 
Take screenshots of every message and pass onto the police.
Really?
Are these men actually that nice in their public lives? The ones that I've had come on to me at inappropriate times and who were partnered up when I looked at them through my now non-rose tinted glasses they weren't actually that nice.
I agree. You can spot them a mile off once you have experienced the type. They all follow a similar pattern in the way they speak and interact with you. Their tactics must work though, someone must be falling for it, otherwise they wouldn't all do the same thing, which is rather depressing.
I find they move on rather quickly so it's certainly not some kind of actual affection 
Despite all the #whataboutthewomen posts, I am absolutely prepared to say that more men are arseholes in this respect than women.
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AND one I had held a massive candle for contacted me desperate to meet then two weeks later announced he and his DP were expecting.
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