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To be upset by this?

37 replies

honeymaple · 18/11/2022 01:35

I have been seeing my ex again recently. In the past week I have seen him four or five times and sleeping together. We haven't had a conversation about 'what' we are or our relationship status.

On Tuesday we had made plans (he had asked me if I was up for doing something) and he cancelled saying that he had a lot of work to do and the gym.

He turned up to my house today with scratches on his back, he said that they were from scratching his back but I was suspicious. To be fair to him, I have seen him scratch his own back in the past and leave red scratch marks like the one today.

I had a gut feeling he had slept with someone else on Tuesday when we were meant to meet and I asked him, he denied it. I said it was his last opportunity to tell the truth and he admitted he had slept with someone on Tuesday.

He said he knows how it looks but that he doesn't see me as second best or choose me over her, and that he had cancelled on her twice before to see me and she wasn't free for the rest of the week.

I got upset and politely asked if he would leave as I didn't feel like spending time together anymore. There was no argument or anything like that, all very calm.

He has messaged me apologising again and saying it isn't how it seems.

We aren't together and haven't had that conversation yet.

So AIBU to be upset?

OP posts:
Outtasteamandluck · 18/11/2022 06:07

He was an ex for a reason.

Why go back?

Surely the sex can't be that great.

girlmom21 · 18/11/2022 06:11

He cancelled on you to have sex with somebody else. He has zero respect for you. That's all there is to it.

MsDogLady · 18/11/2022 19:01

…saying it isn’t how it seems. Yes, it very much is.

Honeymaple, hooking up with this other woman was more important to him than keeping his date with you. He clearly had no problem with robbing your consent/choice before you rumbled his lies. If her ‘passion scratches’ hadn’t been on display, you’d have never known.

Kudos for asserting your boundaries and sending him away.

MissyB1 · 18/11/2022 19:09

MayThe4th · 18/11/2022 04:07

I don’t get this need to have an exclusivity talk.

Do people really think that it’s perfectly reasonable to shag whoever you like as long as the word “exclusive” hasn’t been mentioned? Seriously where are people’s standards?

It’s not unreasonable to expect monogamy from the moment you start sleeping with someone. In fact it’s open relationships which need to be agreed exclusivity should be a given.

OP yanbu. Get rid.

Yes absolutely this!! What the hell is this “exclusivity” chat? Who the hell sleeps with multiple people at the same time??!

Hankunamatata · 18/11/2022 19:15

Urgh I hate the 'we are not exclusive or dating'. If he had any respect for you or wanted a future he wouldn't be sleeping with anyone else - he would be all about you.

Onlyforcake · 18/11/2022 19:18

NEVER go back. Best life lesson I've gone through.

EBearhug · 18/11/2022 19:19

I assumed exclusivity was about not going on dates with other people, and I assumed it was before having sex with others. Not that I've got to that point with any date.

Either way, I hate being lied to, and for me, that's worse than sleeping with someone else. I can decide whether to forgive or not if I know about something, but if I don't know, I have no choice in it.

OrigamiOwls · 18/11/2022 19:20

it isn't how it seems

Wrong, it's exactly how it seems. Throw this one back OP.

PurpleFlower1983 · 18/11/2022 19:26

Don’t go back. He’s just added another reason as to why he’s an ex!

RosieLemonadeAndSugar · 18/11/2022 19:26

And that's why he's an ex.

Get rid, you deserve better. Exclusive or not.

Suzi888 · 18/11/2022 19:44

Get shot. He’s shown he’s a liar.

LovingTheAbbreviations · 24/12/2022 14:30

Poor you lovely, he is a shit for cancelling on you and lying to you whether you were exclusive or not. He’s an ex for a reason. Glad ur ok. He sounds like STI-bothering scum. You’re better off without him. X

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