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DP too friendly with clients

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Harrysmamabear · 14/01/2020 22:09

First post, please be kind. DP is a domestic builder. Been together 5 years (I was a client when we first met, maybe this is relevant...) I think he is too friendly with his clients. 90% of the time he deals with the lady of the house, most of whom are well off and well groomed women due to the areas he works in. Two years ago, I discovered him having an affair (the wife of a cousin of his ex wife). In a nutshell he begged for forgiveness, and we tried again. But I am increasingly p**d off by the amount of texting that goes on late into the evening with some of his female customers. Is it reasonable for them to be texting so regularly and until almost midnight? He’s their builder, not their best friend or agony aunt! And I found out that he’s been secretly doing free jobs for one of them, a much younger woman. He lied about where he was going when he went there (usually Sunday’s and evenings) and even about who she was (saying she was an existing clients daughter). He swears nothing is going on and thinks I am being unreasonable when I said I don’t want him working for her anymore. He said he works with these ladies in their homes and becomes friends with them, so he sees nothing wrong in them chatting by WhatsApp even after the jobs have finished. I’m 48 years old, so maybe I’m out of touch with how things are now....is it normal/reasonable to have call these friendly chats with your clients during evenings and weekends? And no, they’re not work related texts

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SaintGarbo · 15/01/2020 07:49

I would have switched him when he had the first affair. Why did you put up with that?

What makes this guy so special that you allow him to repeatedly treat you like shit ?

Fucking hell, get rid of him.

KatherineJaneway · 15/01/2020 07:54

Piss off is he doing "free building work" for her. He's shagging her and you know it. He said that to cover his tracks the dirty dog.

This ^^

Sorry OP Flowers

Betterbegoing · 15/01/2020 07:54

Good grief, he’s making a complete mockery of you OP. Strangely you seem willing to excuse his cheating, but in case you change your mind and get him gone, you’d be so much better off for it. He sounds sleazy as.

Insideimsprinting · 15/01/2020 07:58

No it's not normal, similar type set up for hubby. He's a mechanic and has a large customer base built up over 30yrs, it is normal to a point where customers do latch on a bit thinking he's their mate just because he's fixed their car for years. It's even normal for people to think it's OK to ring or text at unearthly hours for advice on cars and expect a response.
I do not think it's normal however to actually allow things to develop oast the normal professional boundaries. You will always get what I described above but they're not your friends their clients and their should be boundaries si he is being unreasonable by getting that involved.

We often joke on that once he puts his tools down and he can't fix cars or doesn't how many would stick around, he's semi retired now and hey ho half have latched on to someobe else now. So even in an innocent sense it would be very odd.

Jeds55 · 15/01/2020 08:02

He can still cheat with ED, all the emotional stuff is still cheating imo. He is taking the piss and has no respect for you. Please leave if possible

GiveHerHellFromUs · 15/01/2020 08:18

I hate having builders or any type of workmen about. I avoid talking to them as much as a possible (other than being polite, offering a cup of tea etc) and I'd find it weird as fuck if they wanted to be texting once they'd finished the job.

Your husband is a creep.

CrotchetyQuaver · 15/01/2020 08:35

Can you be absolutely sure he's not buying viagra over the counter? I think I'd be wanting to read these texts. A leopard doesn't change its spots...

Harrysmamabear · 21/01/2020 21:55

Update:
I thought maybe I was being unreasonable, she’s a 35 year old single mum of 2, and a teacher, and he’s a 64 year old grandad. Did it really matter if he put up a playhouse for her daughter whilst telling me he was “out at b&q picking up supplies”
Put my detective hat on though. They’re still contacting each other even after I asked him not to. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. One affair, numerous dating sites, Whatsfuck, Guaranteed Hook Ups, Incest porn, numerous messages to wives of clients inviting them to his bungalow, Sexting, herbal medicine for ED, Dogging Sites, 100s of searches for “cheap hotels in Essex” and 100s of searches (and visits) to prostitutes. If you knew him in RL you would not believe any of this. He is still out there, offering a sympathetic shoulder to bored/pissed off with their husbands housewives
Can’t believe I was duped like that

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WaggleWiggle · 21/01/2020 21:57

Christ alive. What an utterly sleazy scumbag. Sorry OP Flowers

WineAndTiramisu · 21/01/2020 22:01

What a scumbag. Sorry you've had to find all this out, I assume you've kicked him out?

Lilmissmissy · 21/01/2020 22:06

Walk away! Not worth it

MamaWeGotThis · 21/01/2020 22:06

Oh OP what a sleaze he is, you don't deserve to be treated like that Thanks

GabriellaMontez · 21/01/2020 22:11

Ewwwww

Chickychoccyegg · 21/01/2020 22:20

omg!
i assume you've dumped him? he sounds disgusting, what a creep.
you'll be so much better off without him Flowers

PurpleFlower1983 · 21/01/2020 22:24

Get rid! No need to put up with that crap!

Soffy · 21/01/2020 22:28

Blimey op. Shock

LemonPrism · 21/01/2020 22:30

No very weird. We have a builder who regularly helps with our roof and I'd be very weirded out if he texted me or tried to have more than surface chatter.

I'm 24 so it's not your age

Sunsetandmoonlight · 21/01/2020 22:33

Please say you’re not with him any more.

LemonPrism · 21/01/2020 22:34

OMG sorry didn't see the update Jesus Christ!!

Harrysmamabear · 21/01/2020 23:24

Oh there’s more....he found a ‘lady’ on Secret Mature Flirts website who lives in America and was waiting for her inheritance. ‘She’ wanted to fly here to start their new life together, but got stuck at the airport as her money was ‘held’. He sent her £6k. Surprisingly she never showed up! He sent her a further £2.5k before realising he’d been duped by a big hairy man in an Internet cafe. ‘She’ then persuaded him into money laundering and his bank (quite rightly) closed his account. He also swore on his grandchildren’s lives that he wasn’t lying to me.
The first was stupidity, I think the second was unforgivable

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champagneandfromage50 · 22/01/2020 07:06

Wonder how long it will take for this to be deleted

Harrysmamabear · 22/01/2020 09:25

champagne andfromage50 I won’t be deleting it, does it break any MN rules?

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Harrysmamabear · 22/01/2020 09:29

Mumsnetters thanks for your support, I won’t be staying with him, and luckily we don’t live together so I don’t have to kick him out. I feel sorry for his next victim though, he should have a bloody warning stamped on his forehead

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TheHumansAreDefinitelyDead · 22/01/2020 09:33

People who “swear on someone’s life” are always lying

No normal person talks like that

Good riddance OP!

Cryingoverspilttea · 22/01/2020 09:51

OP come on... He's shagging around at every opportunity he can get his hands on. Wake up and get some self respect.