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DH lied about trustee

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SheSellsSeaShellz · 07/11/2024 23:16

DH is chair of a board of trustees for a charity. I’ve found out that he’s lied over the past few years about how much time he’s been spending with one of the female trustees. It’s dinners, lunches etc with her alone, and he’d be implying he’s been with a group of people, lying about train problems while he’s been chatting for hours with her. I found out he’d invited her to a black tie dinner, asked him directly and he denied it, when I said I had found out, he says she’d been busy and hadn’t gone with him, so it’s apparently not a lie.

I don’t think it’s a physical affair, she sees him as a mentor for her career apparently, but I feel heartbroken to be lied to so persistently. He’s been quite panicky and saying I can’t tell anyone as he’d have to stand down in his role as chair of trustees. I don’t want him to work with her anymore , but he says she’s a good trustee and he wants to continue working with her, that I shouldn’t rock the boat.

We have four DC, two young adult, two are young teens. If it wasn’t for the children I’d leave.

I would like to make his untrustworthiness known to the board. AIBU?

OP posts:
Silvers11 · 11/11/2024 11:03

@SheSellsSeaShellz Just read your update. Divorce would be the only option for me too. I could never trust someone who had cheated and lied to me. Especially in the circumstances you detailed.

Hope things improve for you, once you are shot of him, but it'll be hard for you while it's all being worked out. Stay strong

IsawwhatIsaw · 11/11/2024 11:16

He lied repeatedly to you. Sounds like trust has gone.

Maurepas · 11/11/2024 12:08

Charities eh? You have to love them. Only personally give to Salvation Army, MSF and Battersea Dogs and Cats.

Adelle79360 · 04/07/2025 21:50

SheSellsSeaShellz · 11/11/2024 10:25

A small update. She is leaving as a trustee and he is no longer her mentor. He says they spoke at the weekend and she was planning on leaving as a trustee anyway. My first reaction is to feel sorry for her, the man gets away with his and the woman, who I don’t think did anything wrong (they are his marriage vows, it was his board of trustees she was invited onto) gets ditched to save his face.

He seems to think it’s all fine now and we can just move on, but I’ve seen from this thread that it’s badly broken the trust I had in him. He won’t leave, but I’m going to divorce him and at some stage he’ll have to move out.

So he’s accepted he’s been inappropriate with this woman, told her you’ve found out, and she’s stepping down?

He’s an arsehole. Good for you for remaining strong.

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