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Ex seeing someone new

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Honeymonster2 · 09/09/2024 11:25

Before I start - I'm aware this is toxic from both of us.

Me and partner split start of this year because I found he'd messaged a prostitute but didn't go through with it. He's an alcoholic and he promised to get help. We've been back and forth constantly, still sleeping together, then saying i can't do this, he can't do this and then going back in a circle. I think both of us just desperately want to be loved and we don't handle things well.

I'm planning on moving quite far away to be closer to my family, as without him, I'm isolated - no friends or family and he doesn't want to come even though I asked him to. We last slept together 2 weeks ago, in that time he's met someone else and has told me, and he wants to introduce the kids sooner rather than later in case they dont gel well, which obviously broke my heart. Then after spending a few hours together on sunday, we slept together again.

Now when he says he's met someone, my understanding was they had met for a coffee at a soft play and was like 10 minutes. It turns out they have shared kisses and sent nude pictures to each other, so much further in to it than I thought.

Am I wrong for being so upset that he's kissed someone else, and then come and slept with me? It's 10 years of our lives shared, I never thought he'd be intimate with someone so soon, let alone then come back to me. Or should I accept it as we're technically broken up and he did say he'd met someone. Was I being naive? I'm so heartbroken every day and it isn't getting better.

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Honeymonster2 · 09/09/2024 13:41

SaffronsMadAboutMe · 09/09/2024 13:10

Didn't he move out to his mum's before and then you asked him to come back?

Get him to move out again and put the kids first this time.

He's been kicked out by his mum and now is sofa surfing and living in his car. I feel massive guilt over that and he says its a massive factor why he started talking to new people and how he met this lady

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Honeymonster2 · 09/09/2024 13:44

Didimum · 09/09/2024 13:22

I sympathise with having to deal with a really unstable person with kids in the equation, but, OP, you are making some seriously fucked up decisions here – stop sleeping with him – like, now. Just stop it. What is wrong with you?

I'm desperately lonely. He was my first boyfriend and I have a really low self esteem to be honest.

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TheCultureHusks · 09/09/2024 13:46

Of course he bloody went through with it!!

they all say that!

Didimum · 09/09/2024 13:49

Honeymonster2 · 09/09/2024 13:44

I'm desperately lonely. He was my first boyfriend and I have a really low self esteem to be honest.

You have children. They come before your low self esteem.

StormingNorman · 09/09/2024 13:53

YABU. He told you he’d met someone new and you still went back there. You demoted yourself from partner to side chick. You need to give your head a good wobble and crack on with your plans to move.

You two living close by isn’t working for you.

Honeymonster2 · 09/09/2024 13:55

TheCultureHusks · 09/09/2024 13:46

Of course he bloody went through with it!!

they all say that!

In this exact instance I believe him as I saw the messages the same day, but whether he'd done it before or after I would never know

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GaryLurcher19 · 09/09/2024 13:59

Honeymonster2 · 09/09/2024 13:44

I'm desperately lonely. He was my first boyfriend and I have a really low self esteem to be honest.

I do feel for you, OP. See handling this break up in the interests of your children as a challenge from which you will eventually draw some self esteem. Making good decisions, putting children first, avoiding repeating past mistakes are all things that a mother can be legitimately proud of herself for. And it doesn't require anyone else's acknowledgement. Get free of this disfunctional man and you can start to feel better about yourself.

KreedKafer · 09/09/2024 14:12

He told you he’d met someone, and your response to that was to sleep with him. I’m not sure why you interpreted ‘met’ as ‘had a coffee’ - that’s certainly not how I’d have interpreted it. He didn’t lie to you.

He is clearly an arsehole who cheats on everyone, but you do have some agency here. You chose to sleep with him.

Honeymonster2 · 09/09/2024 14:21

KreedKafer · 09/09/2024 14:12

He told you he’d met someone, and your response to that was to sleep with him. I’m not sure why you interpreted ‘met’ as ‘had a coffee’ - that’s certainly not how I’d have interpreted it. He didn’t lie to you.

He is clearly an arsehole who cheats on everyone, but you do have some agency here. You chose to sleep with him.

He told me he'd met someone, I asked in real life? He said yes for a 10 minute coffee at a soft play because she couldn't get a babysitter for her daughter... I didn't interpret, it's what he told me

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DavidBeckhamsrightfoot · 09/09/2024 15:22

Honeymonster2 · 09/09/2024 13:41

He's been kicked out by his mum and now is sofa surfing and living in his car. I feel massive guilt over that and he says its a massive factor why he started talking to new people and how he met this lady

How are multiple women after this man?!

Dreamcatchergirl · 09/09/2024 15:36

Girl if I was you I’d be overjoyed some other sucker was seeing him. Think you need to give your head a massive wobble for your own self but more importantly your kids. Makes me cringe as to why you’d even want to touch him. What kind or role model are you to your kids?

Pull yourself together woman!!

SaffronsMadAboutMe · 09/09/2024 15:38

You seem to be very reluctant to stop and think about your children here.

How many do you have? How old are they?

And most importantly, how is all this affecting them?

Are SS involved? If so, could they help you move?

Merseymum1980 · 02/09/2025 12:31

I think you would benefit from a book called women who love too much. Im not sure if your parents were addicts or dysfunctional (I could be very wrong here).
Also there is a great service for family's for addicts and co dependents all free and have helplines amd forums.

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