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Man followed me home 2 ish years ago-annoyed again now!

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Thatbliddywoman · 12/04/2021 09:15

Approx two years ago my ex had left and I was living alone. My routine at the time was often to walk my dog of an evening, calling in at the local pub for an hour or so,and then walk home.
One night I'd done this,and got chatting to a man who seemed friendly enough,id not seen him before but he knew people in there (village, most people in there were regulars) we chatted about dogs for a bit,all normal.

Later on, went outside briefly to let my dog have some water,he was there again, spoke to me for a couple of minutes. I'm sure I let it slip that I was living alone as my ex dp had left(silly, I know but everyone in the pub knows me and her anyway and I didn't believe any reason to lie).

Anyway as I go to leave he says he'll walk me home. It's about 3 minutes. I say no thank you, I'm fine to walk home on my own. He persists and I keep saying no. Eventually I set off home and I walk very fast but he pants along behind me still talking. When I get to my door he catches up, barging in behind me saying he just wants to talk,can he come in for a drink etc.

Eventually I get some senses and say I don't want him here, I'm a lesbian and have no interest in him, and order him a taxi to the nearby town he's told me he's from.

He gets annoyed because apparently I've rang the most expensive taxi firm. I say I'm sorry but he needs to leave, and usher him out.

There is a bit more to it in terms of my trying to get him out of my house and I should have been a lot more assertive, in hindsight.

He was a large man, tall/broad and I'm 5'2 and small and it was all quite scary.

When I next went back in the pub I told people.
About a week later he was in the pub of a weekend and came and apologised to me. I told him he knew I was gay so why?!

Fast forward to last week-with restrictions lifted I've got my male 'pub friend' in my garden for drinks/crisps. I'd told friend about this encounter and it comes up in conversation. He tells me that their friendship group all had a go at the guy for this, and threatened to tell his wife.

I'd never known he was married and I am even more annoyed now.

I thought he had done something bad to me,I didn't realise he was also betraying someone.

Would you be annoyed? Would you feel like trying to find a way to tell her? I feel he'll do it again if he hasn't already. I wish I'd have known at the time. It's too late now isn't it?
They may have even broken up now.

YANBU-long time ago now, leave it
YABU-try tell her, she should know.

OP posts:
joysexreno · 12/04/2021 09:18

Stay away from him. He sounds unstable and dangerous. I'm shocked by your entire story, to be honest!

AWamBamBoom · 12/04/2021 09:18

Horrible thing for you to go through but I wouldn't be courting trouble, I wouldn't want anything to do with him

ittakes2 · 12/04/2021 09:21

You need to leave this alone for your own sake. He sounds a psycho - he knows where you live don't poke the embers! Lots of people know - more of these are closer to you than to her - there is a chance someone has already told her. Your consencience should be clear.

skirk64 · 12/04/2021 09:21

Leave it. She probably knows what she's dealing with, if she chooses to stay with him that's her call.

Thatbliddywoman · 12/04/2021 09:22

Okay thank you.

It was horrible, and this has got me thinking...I only ever had a couple of glasses of wine but,

what if he does it to a woman who's drunk? and less able to figure out what to do?

What if id have been (even) less assertive? What if I'd have said something that annoyed him? He did seem pretty annoyed at my making him leave..

I hear you though, I should protect myself here.

Thank you.Smile

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Thatbliddywoman · 12/04/2021 09:23

@ittakes2

You need to leave this alone for your own sake. He sounds a psycho - he knows where you live don't poke the embers! Lots of people know - more of these are closer to you than to her - there is a chance someone has already told her. Your consencience should be clear.
I've moved house now but true.
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B33Fr33 · 12/04/2021 09:24

That's a very disturbing account. If people who know him also know what happened and his wife I'd leave it. But I'd make it clear to those you can trust it still troubles you. Sometimes the bare facts need passing on. Hopefully his wife will get wind as he sounds dangerous.

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 12/04/2021 09:28

Men like this who won't hear 'no' and continue pushing to this extent are very worrying. Read Gavin de Becker's The Gift of Fear: it's the first (and most serious) warning sign he flags up and it's very important to listen to your gut in these circumstances.

Glad to hear you've moved. I would stay well away.

Thatbliddywoman · 12/04/2021 09:50

@MarieIVanArkleStinks

Men like this who won't hear 'no' and continue pushing to this extent are very worrying. Read Gavin de Becker's The Gift of Fear: it's the first (and most serious) warning sign he flags up and it's very important to listen to your gut in these circumstances.

Glad to hear you've moved. I would stay well away.

Ive not heard of that. I don't live alone now so unlikely to be in this same scenario-i try not to be a misandrist but sometimes its difficult! I have a lot of reading to do already but it is definitely on my list.
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MarieIVanArkleStinks · 12/04/2021 12:17

i try not to be a misandrist but sometimes its difficult!

I think that's actually part of the problem. Women are conditioned to feel we should be polite and always be 'nice' to men, regardless of whether said men are making completely unacceptable impositions on our boundaries. Women are not a physical threat to men in the same way men are to women. IME, we are also far more likely to take heed of a firm but polite 'no'. I think, in our interactions with people we barely know, it's sensible to take these facts - and they are facts; statistically provable - into account.

It starts with a disregard of boundaries. A friend will always accept these in any healthy, reciprocal relationship. What you experienced wasn't healthy, it wasn't reciprocal, and extreme pressure was exerted on you to try to make it reciprocal, whether this chimed with your own wishes or not. Recognising this fact isn't misandry, but simple self-preservation.

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Naunet · 12/04/2021 13:04

Jesus OP, that sounds terrifying, what a creepy man. I wonder if you could report it, not to have anything happen, but just so that it’s on record? I don’t know if that’s even possible though.

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