hmmmm, I would dispute who looks tragic.
Just posting my opinion, but as usual if it doesn't fit with the majority it isn't liked.
It seems ok for you to belittle belle over her life whenever you want to, repeatedly telling her to take your advice and dump the man she likes, but not for anyone to comment on your life!
Surely MN is here for us all to have an opinion and state it? That's what internet forums are for.
I don't need to know anything about your 'life' to know you have 3 children who wake up to find another man has slept with mummy in their house, and they knew him for all of a couple of hours beforehand. Hardly an example for your daughter is it. But eh, maybe this is the one....again! Like the one who went to thai, and the rich one who you were going to move in with last year?
Lou, learn by other people's mistakes, mine included. Men don't constantly chat you up and fall all over you because they all find you irresistable, most of the time it's whatever is easy for them - any woman knows this.
IMO any man wanting to sleep in my house with my kids who he doesn't even know isn't worth his salt anyway. But each to their own.