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AIBU?

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To not want DP ex to stay here with us?

237 replies

Lydia393 · 17/07/2017 15:39

Quite a complex story so bare with me.

Me and DP have been with each other for 2 years. In December last year, a girl my DP has slept with on a few occasions approached him and said he was the father to her one year old daughter. He took a DNA test which came back he was the father and vowed to support his daughter and be in her life. I obviously was heartbroken that he had another child with another women (despite us not being together when it occurred) but I had spent a year of my life with this man by that point so we decided to work through it.

Since the mother of his child has came in to his life, she has been nothing but hard work. I am sure she has some sort of feelings for him deep down and resents that he is with me. She causes issues (lies about her daughter being sick to get the attention on her etc) attempts to start arguments with me over social media (which I never react to) Accuses DP of loving me more than he does his daughter, just petty things like that.

His DD comes round every weekend and she will not allow me to meet his daughter, so I have to stay at my mums when she comes over for the weekend else she won't let DP have her.

I live with him although its his house that he owns, I have no legal rights to it but I do contribute towards the bills etc from my own wages. She plays on this, tells him I have "no right" being in his house and that his daughter has more of a right to be there than I do so if she wants to come over, I must leave.

Now another drama filled situation has come up. Her tenancy has ended on her house and the landlords want to sell so she has to move out. She has sorted a new property to move in to but this wont be ready until the 18th of August and she has to leave her current property by Friday so she will be effectively homeless until then. She does have family close by (mum, dad, sister) but has told DP that she has fallen out with them and they've said she can't stay with them.

She is expecting DP to put both her and her DD up until they're able to move in to their new property. DP told her that DD is welcome to stay but she is not, she has kicked up a fuss saying she has more right to be there than I do because she is the mother of his child and owes her a duty of care as her daughters mother (we have no children). She has told him she is putting me before his daughter and the mother of his daughter.

He is now reconsidering letting her stay because they have a conversation and he said he felt sorry for her because "she sounded like she genuinely didn't have anywhere to go" The thing is, if they do stay I will probably have to leave (if I don't, she will use her daughter against DP) so I will have to stay with my mum for a month, if not then I don't really want to share the house with such a volatile person who causes problems and who clearly does not like me.

She enjoys pushing me out of his and his families life's and feel like her daughter is a ticket to do so. Such as I was invited to his sisters wedding a few months ago but I could not go in the end because she decided she would not let her DD go to the wedding UNLESS she was also coming, so his sister had to invite her too so her niece could be there (then she refused to come if I was invited so I was asked not to come!)

AIBU if I tell DP I don't want her to stay? It's his house and I don't want to control what he does I just feel its a bit cheeky, if she was a nice person and behaved like a mother opposed to a jealous trouble maker, I would have less of an issue.

It hurts me that he has fathered a child by another women (even though we wasn't together) but the fact she is such a horrible person just makes it worse.

She doesn't work, she supports herself entirely off the money he gives her in child support (over £1000 a month) so I see no reason she can't put herself up in a b&b

OP posts:
GlitterGlassEye · 18/07/2017 17:34

It's not just another 18 years though is it? She is his daughter for life. With the mother influencing the dds opinion of the op, it could go on for decades.

MusicToMyEars800 · 18/07/2017 17:52

Wow, I have red the full thread and all I can say is RUN!! do you really want this to carry on for the rest of your life, just sit and run scenarios through your head, eg: Birthday's, holiday's, Christmas, Halloween, easter, Family events.... Your ready to just exclude yourself and stay with a man who won't stand up for you and won't sort this out properly! Don't you think you deserve better? Also it wouldn't surprise me if he's had sex with her.

ElspethFlashman · 18/07/2017 17:59

Maybe he has Jedi Mind Powers?

IN HIS PENIS.

TearsOnTheGround · 19/07/2017 14:06

I would stay with him until the baby is born then get him to take a DNA test, mainly to shut the ex up. If it comes back he isn't the father the ex will be proved a liar. If it comes back he is the father then you can safely run for the hills and never look back.

In the mean time I would be sitting him down and saying on no uncertain terms is she moving in and I would be telling him I'm not moving out at weekends. If he isn't the father when the baby is born I would be telling him he needs to get a court order for access to his dd and possibly a restraining order for the ex. If he refuses any of this I would be running for the hills anyway and be making it clear that's what will happen if this all carries on.

I think if you leave now you will always wonder if he was/wasn't the father.

AnyFucker · 19/07/2017 15:57

Christ almighty, who cares if this dick is the baby daddy or not

Op needs to leave anyway

Hortonlovesahoo · 19/07/2017 16:14

@lydia393: come back!

Feelingiabu · 19/07/2017 16:31

Don't let hating the idea of her winning cloud your judgement.

He's a waste of your time, simple trip to a solicitor would sort out access and beyond that she has no control unless he wants her too.

Is he a great bloke? Is he worth this?

Questioningeverything · 19/07/2017 16:39

Wow op run run run!

ItWentInMyEye · 19/07/2017 16:46

Good lord. I'd stick round till the DNA test but wouldn't be leaving every weekend and certainly not for a month!

WhereYouLeftIt · 19/07/2017 18:34

Yes she wants to split you up.

No, this should play no part in your decision as to whether you wish to continue the relationship with this man. It shouldn't push you to ditch him, but nor should it glue you together just to spite her.

In your shoes - I would let her move in, but only on the absolute agreement that YOU ARE NOT MOVING OUT WHILST SHE IS THERE. He owes his daughter, not her. It is your home, and she can swivel. And so can he, frankly, for allowing this ridiculous situation where you move to your mum's when ever his daughter is there.

And then I'd grit my teeth and be fucking charm itself. I would smile sweetly, knowing that this would totally enrage her. And I would watch carefully, to see if he's playing you both, or she's batshit.

And when she moved to her own place, THEN I would decide whether this man is worth my time. Based on how he behaved in the previous month. Is he had shown himself to be spineless, then frankly she would be welcome to him. Life dictated by someone else's dramas is no life at all Sad.

kazillionaire · 19/07/2017 19:27

Get yourself gone she sounds like a bunny boiler and he sounds like a jelly fish

ItsNachoCheese · 19/07/2017 19:43

Hes refusing a dna test and she has shown you proof hes refused, why would he refuse if the baby wasnt his? You would want to prove the baby isnt yours. My ex refused a dna test for our son but he and i both knew our son was his he just didnt want to admit it

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