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Hurt & depressed about texting another girl AIBU?

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HLHV · 19/07/2018 12:10

I am stuck in a pitt of depression that I can’t seem to lift long enough to focus on moving forward in any way from this..

My fiancé (father to our children) has been texting another girl from work on and off for a couple of months. She is a very complicated person and attention seeking often messaging him all her issues with her ex boyfriend and how depressed she is and what she might do etc etc.. he has been there for her and been messaging her back with his issues about OUR relationship, ones that he doesn’t talk to me about and she even made comments to him referring to him telling her we sleep in seperate bedrooms (WE DONT) and how unhappy he is in the relationship and that I wouldn’t even care if he went home with another girl one night (I WOULD). The messages at the start were friendly, and then they crossed the point of sexual for about a week, and then went back to just friendly again.. just as I found out I was pregnant with our 3rd child!!!

I don’t know if he stopped speaking to her like that because I’m pregnant or because he realized it was wrong, BUT he still carried on talking to her every now and then even though he knew I wouldn’t like it. He also deletes all the messages they ever send each other and had her conversation on mute so that I didn’t see it appear on his phone.

She is young, no children, goes out with people from their work, gives him all the attention he was craving. she is bisexual and mentioned to him about being interested in women at the moment although she said often how she wanted her ex boyfriend back anyway. I don’t believe he loves her and nothing physical happened, but they did keep arranging to meet up late at night but she told me she kept cancelling on him. He says he cancelled on her.

The way he spoke to her turned my stomach, the betrayal has almost killed me and I can’t concerntrate on anything other than this. He spoke to her about how he wanted to sleep with her previously and even when I found out about all this he messaged her that morning saying how I knew everything and he shouldn’t have said it in the first place to her, but still added in the comments “it’s not my fault I wanted to sleep with you” and “I’m getting all this Abuse off her for nothing we never even did anything I didn’t at least even get a shag out of it or a new girlfriend” to which she started flirting back, this was when I already found out!!!

He has told her he won’t speak to her again and she has said she’s not speaking to him again because she doesn’t want to cause trouble between us and our family.

They still work together and I’m petrified every time he goes to work that they’re laughing behind my back. Even if nothing else is going on the friendship makes me feel sick and betrayed like I wasn’t enough.

He blames the ego boost and the attention and the fact that she was responding back flirting and he said she at first drew him in with her depression, but now I’m left with the depression and it feels unbearable.

We have a home and soon to be 3 children, he hasn’t spoken to her all week now as far as I am aware, but it still worries me that as soon as we hit a bad spell that she’ll be back on the cards.

I also am now very paranoid about him going to the pub with his friends because it turned out sometimes she’d be there and that he insisted on walking her home one night. Also I saw texts when I had been asking him to come home because I was unwell and he was saying no to me Because he couldn’t get a taxi but then to her telling her to get a taxi into town to meet him and that he’d pay.

There’s so many different parts to their conversations I don’t understand them myself, but the gist of it is they were friends that flirted and were there for each other but he also wanted it to be sexual at a time and she was willing but they never went through with it. He said to her that he stopped speaking to her because he didn’t want to feel feelings that he shouldn’t because I was pregnant, does that mean he has feelings for her? Or was just worried because he could feel the possibility they would develop??

Help me Sad

OP posts:
mumky2013 · 19/07/2018 22:01

You shouldn't have to get over this. He made the mistake that's what I didn't realise. I felt bad because I felt like I was the reason he did it. But honestly, he did it because he was bored or fed up. And if he is going to do that when the going gets tough he isn't worth it.
I stayed with mine, now I'm pregnant again and he has told me, he doesn't want another baby with me because he doesn't want a project and doesn't want to be with me. I'm having this baby with or without him. And me and my DC's will be just fine.
Please don't let him make you doubt yourself. Be strong. It's him that needs to change.

MissionItsPossible · 19/07/2018 22:28

Don’t do anything that will get you in serious trouble though you sound like you won’t but of course you don’t have to justify your anger at both parties OP.

Mumky, hope you’re ok Flowers

Anonymumm · 19/07/2018 23:07

AlphaBravo - I think with comments like that, you need to "Foxtrot Oscar" to another thread, that you may actually add some form of valuable insight too - TTFN - Over and Out!

RavenLG · 19/07/2018 23:17

He also deletes all the messages they ever send each other

he hasn’t messaged her inappropriately since finding that out

Or, you know he has and he’s been deleting them. OP no one will make you realise this bloke is a waste of space, but you’ll see one day after you’ve been hurt time and time again. He’s a pig, and a cheat and no one deserve the way he’s been treating you

RavenLG · 19/07/2018 23:21

but she doesn't owe you anything or any kind of loyalty just because you both have a vagina

She might not owe her anything just because “she had a vagina” but Maybe she owes her something being a human with a heart and a moral compas? Obviously he’s a massive twat but what kind of person knowingly sexts / flirts with someone who has a partner? Wrong ‘uns!

Kattyy · 19/07/2018 23:28

He's cheating on you clearly. That's the fact. Now you can decide to put up with it or not....

LagunaBubbles · 20/07/2018 00:03

He's clearly cheating and will continue to do so. That's not being a good Father. Wake up from your little denial bubble OP.

theOtherPamAyres · 20/07/2018 02:10

A decent, loving partner does not talk to another woman about his feelings, desires and hopes. Those are the things that he shares with his life partner and the mother of his child.

He has another woman to confide in and share private thoughts with. He has her attention and she makes him feel special.

He may not be having an affair with her, but they are very close and connected. As long as they have this special bond. you will continue to be sidelined and your relationship will continue to deteriorate.

Been there.

Coyoacan · 20/07/2018 17:59

I'm not as censorious as most mumsnetters about affairs, but what would kill my love stone dead is if my partner said the things about me that your partner said about you, that and leaving you ill with two small children while he went off to see the OW.

Popc0rn · 20/07/2018 18:31

"She was single but she fully knew he was in a long term committed relationship with children"

"he has been there for her and been messaging her back with his issues about OUR relationship, ones that he doesn’t talk to me about and she even made comments to him referring to him telling her we sleep in seperate bedrooms (WE DONT) and how unhappy he is in the relationship and that I wouldn’t even care if he went home with another girl one night (I WOULD)."

Sorry to point this out but you can't blame her totally; he's made out like you AREN'T in a fully committed relationship. He's made her believe you are more like housemates than in a relationship. He's lied to you both.

Lifeisabeach09 · 20/07/2018 18:36

Why do we, as women, put up with this crap?!
Is it wise having a third child with this man?

outofmydepth45 · 20/07/2018 23:03

Lifeisabeach09 an odd question, no point in shutting the stable door once the horse is bolted.

Or should the women always abort if she finds out her partner is a prick / crossed a line ?

Everydayimsnugglin · 20/07/2018 23:16

It’s an awful situation you’re in.

Here’s the thing... you’ve posted this looking for support and opinions but the fact is that YOU are in a committed relationship and he is not. He is not committed to your relationship at all. He has continued a (let’s go with friendship) with this woman even after you’ve caught him out... you aren’t going to get much of a response from The forgive and forget crowd given the explanation of events you’ve given.

It doesn’t matter that you’re married, it doesn’t matter that you have children, it doesn’t matter that you’re pregnant... none of this matters to him.

I have a young child and a happy marriage but if I was ever to find out that my husband had started sniffing around another woman he’d be out the door like a shot.

In my eyes sexual conversations and texting is cheating... he doesn’t have to get his end away for him to have cheated on you.

You deserve better

Everydayimsnugglin · 20/07/2018 23:22

that should say engaged, not married sorry

Kingkiller · 20/07/2018 23:29

OP, it is perfectly clear from his "We didn't even do anything wrong. I didn't get a shag or a new girlfriend" (wtf?!) comments that he is absolutely taking you for a mug and would very likely do the same thing again and again, since he doesn't think there is anything wrong with his behaviour. He's a cheating, disrespectful arsehole. Of course you still love him - feelings don't just switch off. But if you are foolish enough to forgive him, you'll be going through the same thing again before long.

LagunaBubbles · 21/07/2018 00:26

Lifeisabeach09 an odd question, no point in shutting the stable door once the horse is bolted

No its odd an odd question, it's a perfectly natural one that some posters here always seem to object to. You see it time after time, awful relationships, awful men and yet the poster goes on to bring innocent children into the mess.

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