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to be desperately upset over this or am i just over reacting?

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notsurewhattobelieve · 30/07/2009 13:19

ok im a reg who's namechanged. some of you will probably guess its me but Dp knows my sign in so didn't want him finding this.

ok, been with DP almost 10 months but we met some 6 months before and had chatted building up to actually taking the step into a relationship from then.

I love him to bits and have been blissfully happy. my kdis adore him and he practically lives here. He tells me he loves me constantly and has never given me any reason to doubt that he does.

here's the bit thats torn my world apart. I have an old friend that found me on facebook. he is a computer hacker as a bit of a hobby and whilst we were joking about and he was teasing me for being so loved up (very out of character) he bascially hacked into Dp's facebook account to try and freak me out with loads of silly details about him. sort of "yeah i know, his birthday is in xx and he drives a xx" sort of thing.
all a bit funny (but yes even though it was meant as a joke i fully appreciate how very wrong this was and said friend and I have already had words)
anyway, joking about was fine but he then stopped and was very serious and told me i needed to speak to Dp about a few things. he wouldn't go into details at first he just said thatthere was something about his recebnt trip abroad ( a stag weekend) that i should know.

After me threatening him with violance he finally told me that there were messages from DP to some woman who lived where teh sdtag do went and he had arranged to meet up with her.

I wasn't sure whether to believe him or not and had decided to just ask Dp if there was anything i should know about the stag.

But the more i thought about it the more it niggled me.

Old friend had always had a bit of a crush on me so (as big headed as it sounds) i thought maybe he was doing thsi to try and split us up?
I managed to send a text to dp by mistake so he got the gist of our conversation and offered up his sign in deatils anyway.

I resisted the urge to look for ages but eventually i did the worst and looked.

I sooo wish i hadn't.

There was indeed a conversation with the woman and he had arranged to meet her when they were away. then another when he got home apologising for not getting the chance to see her. lots of "im so gutted i missed you" "don't worry i'll get back out again soon enough" " i want you to sing for me again"

Ok so he didn't actually meet her but he wanted to and was gutted he didn't.

His side is that she is an old school friend (further checks reveal this to be true) who has lived over there for years so obvioulsy when he went over he wanted to trya nd meet up. fair enough. but why wouldn't he tell me about it first? I know given this thread it'll be hard to believe but i truely am not at all jealous. its just not part of my make up. if he had told me i wouldn't have worried a single bit.

I believe that people only keep something a secret if they know its wrong.

Anyway, next i find a load of messages from an old work colleague. very chatting semi flirty..nothing too out of the ordinary. Until i get to one where she adds an X to the end of a message. he replies " is that big kiss all for me? when do i get it "
her reply is whenever you want it "right now would be good. it's been ages though so i might take the top of your head off"

WE'd been together 6 months at the date of this message and we have the best sex life of anyone i know!!!

more reading and she menations seeing a photo of us together at NYE. she basically implies that im no supermodel and he giggles along. then admits that he "did shag her that night though" and makes out like i was just a one night stand!

He says that it was just office banter and he didn't want them all knowing about me so he didnt tell them anything.
it was all innocent as they both worked with her partner and it was all just a bullshit game of who can go the furthest.

but why deny i exist? why make me out to be some cheap one nighter? why allow her to take the piss out of me like that?

But here's the bit i am most devestated by.

a month or so before we finally got together but we were speaking constantly on the phone, we chatted for literally HOURS every day and texted constantly.
It was clear we both liked each other.

there was a conversation with one of his friends. they were chatting about going up to meet up with some girl freinds they knew for a weekend or coming down to where i live to meet back up with me and my friends again (we met them all on holiday)

anyway, conversation is typical lad stuff nothing that i'd want my mum reading but nothing that worries me too much until we get to the very last message.
they were discussing the fgact that some girl he was trying his luck wth had blown him out. he goes on to say that this is why he doesn't really bother chasing women anymore as its too much hassle.
and that
"at this rate i'll end up with Gigantaur xx from xx" ME!

so he has settled with me. the joke freaky bird they all laugh about. he couldn't get anyone else so i'll do until he does?

he says that it was pride and machismo. he didnt want to say thathe liked me in case it didnt work out and he'd look a fool.
So why mention me at all? and why be so fucking horrid?

I love him sooo much and most of me believes him about the first two incidents but the last set of messages have just totally devesated me.
i feel humiliated.

So please. MN jury. am i over reacting or is he actually scum?

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theressomethingaboutmarie · 30/07/2009 14:01

So his ex-wife cheated on him? That doesn't give him the right to be so damn rude and disparaging towards you. What a prick he is; he's trying to weedle his way out of it now with a love bomb. Get rid; he sounds immature and disrespectful.

junglist1 · 30/07/2009 14:06

and Oh my God this is terrible. Less of the DP he's a bastard who doesn't deserve you

Pikelit · 30/07/2009 14:07

Facebook = pure evil if you hack into other people's private bits of it! But given what you've discovered and what your dp has admitted to, unless you have unlimited tolerance then I don't see your relationship going much further. I could probably (just) cope with the less than convincing explanation for what he was doing on the stag weekend but I couldn't ever live with knowing I'd been the butt of horrid jokes.

giveloveachance · 30/07/2009 14:07

it was childish at best and cruel at worst of him to refer to you in those terms and to discuss on facebook! your relationship.

so it seems you are in a relationship with someone childish or cruel?!

You need to talk to him rather than text.

Sounds a bit doomed I'm afraid - I think the hurtful comments will be very hard to live with.

Have you met many of his friends - do you socialize with them?

Stretch · 30/07/2009 14:08

Mmmm, IME, men will say anything to impress a woman.
They will also say laddish things to other lads/friends!
But they will also say anything to makeup for/get out of sticky situations!

You have no need to feel self-conscious though. It's his loss if you decide to chuck him!

BitOfFun · 30/07/2009 14:10

He sounds like he was being an immature dickhead pratting around with his mates trying to look hard. If he genuinely seems devastated, then I'd say that hopefully he has put that kind of twattishness behind him since you've got together and fallen for each other. I can see how upsetting it is though - he should be doing some serious grovelling.

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notsurewhattobelieve · 30/07/2009 14:12

I met most of his friends at the same time i met him. I have yet to re-meet them. but i was supposed to have attended a wedding last saturday where i would have.

I just keep thinking how glad i am i didn't go. i can imagine them sniggering at me behind my back.

It's doomed isn't it.

For those who know who i am thank you for not outing me.

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BitOfFun · 30/07/2009 14:12
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notsurewhattobelieve · 30/07/2009 14:13

BitofFun - you've met him.

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BitOfFun · 30/07/2009 14:15

Oh twats, I was so hoping this wasn't you. I just texted you

BroodyChook · 30/07/2009 14:16

God, that's awful. You are not over reacting at all. I'm afraid this would be a deal breaker for me. You deserve to be with a man who thinks you're marvellous, not someone to make horrible, nasty jokes about. I couldn't be with someone this immature.

TotalChaos · 30/07/2009 14:19

yanbu. all these incidents taken together don't paint a good picture, do they... I think you should ditch him.

whoisasking · 30/07/2009 14:26

Oh this is so awful.

I don't want to say "leave him" but I'm going to I think.

You make it very clear in your posts how very deeply in love with him you are, but, in all honesty, I think you may have fallen for someone who doesn't exist. I don't think he's cheating necessarily; I don't think that's the issue really is it? It's the STUFF he's said. The casual cruelty is appalling, and would be setting lots of bells ringing and flags waving.

I'm so sorry

BitOfFun · 30/07/2009 14:28

But they are all things from ages ago. Presumably if he has treated you like a queen ever since you got together and fell in love there must be some hope of him grovelling his way out of this?

It sounds like he needs to include you in his life more though, rather than piggybacking yours all the time. Maybe you need to get to the bottom of what his issues are around this?

notsurewhattobelieve · 30/07/2009 14:32

he does treat me like a queen. he even calls me princess. yeah i know,

this will undoubtedly out me to the few that haven't figured it out, Im 6'1 he's 5'7. the gigantaur thing could be seen as a bit of a funny snipe at the pair of us seeing as we make such an odd couple.

In some contexts i'd laugh it off.

Its just the way it was implied that he would have to "end up" with me.

like i was the last fatty in a bar and he was pissed. i wouldn't mind but he persued me! it had never even crossed my mind to have a relationship with him, we were just a couple of mates.

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BitOfFun · 30/07/2009 14:37

Oh love, you need to get him round and have him wail and gnash his teeth a bit and apologize and SHOW YOU he's proud of you. Or I will kick him in the cock. Fact.

MissSunny · 30/07/2009 14:39

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GetOrfMoiLand · 30/07/2009 14:41

I don't think I would be able to move on from the Gigantaur comments either. When you first meet someone, you don't take the piss out of them with your mates. That whole meeting up with someone and 'jokey flirts' would ring alarm bells as well.

I would seriously cuut my losses on this one. You sound like a nice, reasonable person, I am suer you deserve someone who emphatically does NOT take the piss out of a potential girlfriend. He sounds like a prize twat.

At least you have found out what he is like now rather than years down the line. Not much of a consolation i know, you must be so dejected. But he is two faced and (by the sounds of it) extremely immature, and he probably won't change, the prat.

Poor you, though.

notsurewhattobelieve · 30/07/2009 14:43

well he's SOOOO not cvoming saturday now.

think i'll just bend your ears till we're both bored of the subject.

he did come over last night but i couldn't speak to him. i didn't know what i wanted to say. i told him how upset i was and WHy it had uspet me.
he did the im so sorry, it was all rubbish stuff.

I believe he is sorry. i beleive it was before we were together.
I looked on there for any refferences to me more recently adn the only one i found was one to another friend i have never met who asked who i was and said i was hot (yay for gigantaur) he replied with "she's 6'1 and lovely and loads of fun. oh and has massive charlies" hardly a commital of everlasting adoration but i was no longer gigantaur.

maybe its just a bloke thing. maybe its not the done thing to speak of a prospective girlfriend in such gushing terms and instead point out any flaws so you can do the whol;e "well i didn't like her that much anyway"

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GetOrfMoiLand · 30/07/2009 14:44

FWIW I am 6 foot, and I found out that my XP's best friend used to call me 'lurch'. Nice. Thankfully I didn't find this out until after XP and I split up (and they are both short, fat twats anyway). But at the time it made me feel ultra paranoid and I wondered how many people were laughing at me and taking the piss. Not good.

beanieb · 30/07/2009 14:45

I'd dump him and I would dump the 'friend' who hacked into your boyfriend's account. That bit I find rather scary. Presumably he has hacked into yours too.

AnyFucker · 30/07/2009 14:48

I think maybe one of those twatty things he has said/done could be put down to dicking around/showing off (immature but not not a crime I suppose...)

but the whole thing together doesn't paint a pretty picture I'm afraid

you obviously don't know him as well as you thought

if you decide to give him another chance please take things more slowly

I know I am an old stick-in-the-mud, but it is often these very quick professions of undying love and wanting to spend the rest of their life together that turn sour (and I am implicating you in this too, OP )

for every relationship that developed so quickly and is still going strong 25 yrs later, there are many more that come to a juddering halt when one partner 's true character comes to light (and it always does)

ok, sermon over

and I do know who you are

GetOrfMoiLand · 30/07/2009 14:48

Tbh I don't get that whole 'it's blokes' thing. I know that my DP, for all his faults (and there are legion) would emphatically not slag me pff to his friends in this way. And I would be gutted if he did.

It's such a shame, you must be so hurt.

Bloody Facebook is the root of all evil.

beanieb · 30/07/2009 14:50

Facebook isn't actually the root of all evil. People hacking into private accounts may well be though!

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