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To be annoyed about a woman staying at DPs house overnight

197 replies

Shoulda · 02/12/2022 11:36

woman From work who he’s good friends with. He’s stayed at hers before(in her bed which I told him I wasn’t happy about) but now she’s staying at his house tonight. He lives at his mums at the moment so she will be there too. She will be staying in the spare room. I’ve brought it up with him before and he knows it doesn’t sit right with me. I trust him but it just feels disrespectful. We have a baby who lives with me and I stay at his house 2-3 nights per week or he comes to my house.
Do I bring this up again or just stay quiet?

OP posts:
RaRaRaspoutine · 02/12/2022 12:14

Shoulda · 02/12/2022 12:01

@sheepdogdelight yes you’re right. It’s a relationship of convenience at the moment and I’m pretty sure he isn’t going to be my forever. I don’t want to be with anyone! I’m happy in my own little bubble with my kids

I feel sorry for the kids with this level of maturity in the relationship :/ "My forever"? A relationship of convenience? Wtf.

Ellessdee · 02/12/2022 12:15

All depends on how much you trust this person. I have a friend who I've known since I was in uni. We used to share a bed all the time but never been any feelings of intimacy between us. He stays at mine regularly now and did when I had a partner. He comes over, we have dinner and long chats, bottle of wine and he sleeps in my son's room (if son is with me he sleeps with me in my bed). There's no norm when it comes to situations like this, all depends on your set up. Do you think they have feelings for each other? Are you worried they'll have sex? I know if I reached a point in my relationship where I was worried about my partner having an intimate relationship with another woman it would be over, as trust isn't there.

KirstenBlest · 02/12/2022 12:15

I'm sure I've seen this before.
Even so, it's got red flags all over it.

AffIt · 02/12/2022 12:16

Shoulda · 02/12/2022 12:01

@sheepdogdelight yes you’re right. It’s a relationship of convenience at the moment and I’m pretty sure he isn’t going to be my forever. I don’t want to be with anyone! I’m happy in my own little bubble with my kids

Well, there you go: get regular maintenance payments sorted and leave the bloke alone.

He's in his mid-20s and wants to live a normal mid-20s life, you're considerably older and you don't seem to actually want a relationship anyway?

Everybody wins (apart from the unfortunate kid who's caught in the middle of this weird set-up).

Newmum0322 · 02/12/2022 12:17

Shoulda · 02/12/2022 11:41

I’m all honesty, I really can’t be arsed to bring it up with him again. I was made to look like I didn’t trust him-which I do. Probably is my relevant, but he’s 13 years younger than me and I think it’s more ‘acceptable’ to do this if you’re if that age group??

Unless that age group is early teens then I’m afraid not!

I think we’re conditioned to believe what we want sometimes, and convince ourselves something might be normal when we know what’s really going on deep down.

Unfortunately OP this man is almost certainly cheating, or hoping to cheat and, at the very least, is openly disrespecting you. It’s nothing to do with his age. I hope that in time you can see the woods for the trees and find yourself in a loving committed relationship.

kingtamponthefurred · 02/12/2022 12:19

You have chosen not to have a conventional set-up, so you do not get to control what he does when he is not with you.

StrawberryWater · 02/12/2022 12:19

He’s playing at being a grown up and taking you for a mug.

You want a mature relationship but you’re dating a man child.

Move on.

Blossomtoes · 02/12/2022 12:21

He’s not a DP, he’s a shag buddy.

Tmor · 02/12/2022 12:22

He is not your partner, just occasional fuck buddy.

DixonD · 02/12/2022 12:22

He’s way too young for you OP. If he were 35 and you 48 at least he’d have some more maturity. He’s barely out of being a kid himself. Why would you get involved with someone that much younger (maturity wise) than you?

DarkShade · 02/12/2022 12:22

You don't actually want to be with him, it sounds like you just like the occasional childcare? So break up with him, let him have fun and enjoy his time with women who do like him, make sure he pays for and sees child. Job done.

Tmor · 02/12/2022 12:22

Blossomtoes · 02/12/2022 12:21

He’s not a DP, he’s a shag buddy.

😂sorry you posted just before me

StrawberryWater · 02/12/2022 12:23

kingtamponthefurred · 02/12/2022 12:19

You have chosen not to have a conventional set-up, so you do not get to control what he does when he is not with you.

Actually this is a very valid point.

Op you claim you like independence, say you don’t ever want to live with him, that you don’t even want to be with him and he’s not even that involved in either your life, your children’s lives nor the child you have together.

So a) why are you with him, b) why do you care what he gets up to and c) why is it any of your business? You’re really nothing more than fuck buddy’s who had an oops baby.

Move on. Dear god.

TinFoilHatty · 02/12/2022 12:24

MolliciousIntent · 02/12/2022 11:58

How can he be, he doesn't live there! For all intents and purposes your child is having the same experience as any other child from a broken home

WTF, 'broken home'. Stop it, you ninny. Broken home is a useless, stigmatising phrase uttered by people who think themselves superior.

OP's home is not broken, she lives with her children, and her boyf stays over occasionally.

VanCleefArpels · 02/12/2022 12:24

How do you know she”s heterosexual

LaLuz7 · 02/12/2022 12:29

TinFoilHatty · 02/12/2022 12:24

WTF, 'broken home'. Stop it, you ninny. Broken home is a useless, stigmatising phrase uttered by people who think themselves superior.

OP's home is not broken, she lives with her children, and her boyf stays over occasionally.

It very much is broken. Two baby daddies, one half-assing it...

Not a healthy setup for kids. Far from ideal.

Sure, homes are often broken through no fault of the woman, but to plan it out that way and decide to plop another baby with a young broke irresponsible boyfriend of the season is stupid. Plain stupid.

Shoulda · 02/12/2022 12:30

She has a boyfriend

OP posts:
Beefcurtains79 · 02/12/2022 12:31

What does his mum think about this? Can’t his ‘mate’ afford a hotel? How fucking weird.

oddsocksmatchifsamethickness · 02/12/2022 12:32

Shoulda · 02/12/2022 11:41

I’m all honesty, I really can’t be arsed to bring it up with him again. I was made to look like I didn’t trust him-which I do. Probably is my relevant, but he’s 13 years younger than me and I think it’s more ‘acceptable’ to do this if you’re if that age group??

No, it's not.

I'd just tell him it's time to end the romantic relationship and ignore him in that regard and carry on co-parenting and find someone who respects me or just be alone.

TinFoilHatty · 02/12/2022 12:32

I understand that you feel that non-two parent homes are broken. It seems out of step with modern ways of living, but there you go.

Shoulda · 02/12/2022 12:35

The DC home is definitely not ‘broken’. I was married to my ex for 10 years and had 2 DC. We co parent very well now and get on well

OP posts:
Soakitup37 · 02/12/2022 12:36

LaLuz7 · 02/12/2022 12:08

This...

One is a mistake, two is a pattern.

You'd think a grown woman with kids, pushing 40 would know to put fireproof contraception in place when dating a loser dude 13 years her junior.

Poor kids...

Woah judgement much!!! 2 is not a pattern.

In my experience- sometimes the disaster of the relationship isn’t transparently clear; I was married for nearly 10 years with every intention of it lasting forever. We were very happily together for most of it.

second child was the product of a faulty coil. The kids aren’t “poor” because of circumstances, but your judgment is.

SideEyeSally · 02/12/2022 12:38

Shoulda · 02/12/2022 11:48

@RewildingAmbridge im more than happy with the arrangement we have now re living situation. I’m very independent and don’t want to share mine and my DCs hole with a partner again

That last sentence is about the most unfortunate typo I've ever seen.

Summerfun54321 · 02/12/2022 12:39

So you don’t want to live with him but you were happy to have his baby and are happy to dictate which guests he has in his house? You’re either in or out.

emmathedilemma · 02/12/2022 12:42

WhatTheHellIsAQuasar · 02/12/2022 12:05

In what way is he a partner?

He's not, I think the term is more "friends with benefits". Except this one seems entitled to more benefits than most.