I know it’s none of my business, and I try and keep my mouth shut, but I read so often on here about men who keep a woman around until he finds ‘the one’ and then he’s off in a flash.
She’s 38 and has been off and on with the same man for around 15 years. During this time, he’s slept with other women and she has had affairs, ONS and brief relationships with other men, so I’m by no means saying she’s been hanging around waiting.
For much of the time they’ve been good friends who often slept together. She was very clearly in love with him, and he continuously rejected her. He went on a date with another woman a few years ago and she came to me very upset, and I advised her to finish it and find someone better. She did finish it, but of course he came crawling back.
She met a (I thought) lovely bloke a few years ago, and finished things with the other man and I was so pleased she was being treated as I think she should be. But after a few months she’d left him and went back to the other man.
Since then they’ve been faithful to each other, she says anyway. I’ve been for lunch with her today and they are now ‘official’.
She doesn’t ever see his family. She’s never met them. He’s going on holiday with them next week and she’s not invited. For years he’s messed her around and repeatedly told her he doesn’t want her.
AIBU to think that he will drop her like a brick when someone he really falls for comes along and she will have entirely wasted her time and find herself heartbroken and alone? I really struggled not to tell her what I thought today. She is an attractive and intelligent woman!