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Relationship starting to look like a no-go

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Shirly80 · 24/02/2011 09:32

I started seeing someone around June last year. He was a single dad with a 10 year old son. He seemed great, we met up for coffee, enjoyed each other's company and it gradually got more and more serious. I met his son who was a typical 10 year old lad and he met my typical 10 year old lad. It all seemed "too" perfect. Which means it probably was, I know. I'm a full time nurse and he is a market trader. This means he more or less chooses when he works but obviously I can't be quite so flexible so he's started comming out with little snipey comments about my work. "Don't you find it restrictive? working set hours let that?" "we never get any time together, you're always working" "if swine flu goes around again, we'll all get it because you'll bring it home from work" Hmm I live in a 3 bedroomed house and he lives in a two. Therefore when there was talk of co-habiting it made sense for it to be my house that we all lived in. So he and his son started spending more time around here, sleeping over the odd night/weekend etc and this experience in mind, I think I'd be mad to move them in. His son literally sits glued to Nickolodean all day or Grand Theft Auto, my son then asks why he's not allowed to play on 18 games. DP says I'm too strict and should relax a little. DP thought it would be a laugh to put a used condom on my pillow one night because I'd refused to dispose of it for him. Yesterday the pair of them walked mud all through the house and he never even offered to clean it up. If he makes a cup of tea, he just leaves the tea-bag on the work surface instead of putting it in the bin etc etc

Thing is its not just the moving in thing I'm having second thoughts on, its the whole relationship. At the moment DS and I are finantially stable, have a nice house and live a comfortable life. I can just see all this going tits up if I get any further involved with this man and his son.

Im not being too picky, am I??

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givemesomespace · 24/02/2011 09:37

No

davidtennantsmistress · 24/02/2011 09:39

no.

ninah · 24/02/2011 09:40

no! sounds like he's passed through the 6 month 'best behaviour' barrier and you are seeing the real him ...

CheerfulMe · 24/02/2011 09:40

No, I don't think you're being too picky. But if wouldn't matter much if you were; if you're unhappy, you're unhappy. Sounds nightmarish to me, he shouldn't be picking at little things in that way, nor being so ungrateful. Especially not at the start. I don't know why you decided to blend your respective families so early on, but I would consider at least un-blending them (i.e stopping living together) and see how you get on. How your DP reacts to that choice might tell you all you need to know about the relationship.

Anniegetyourgun · 24/02/2011 09:42

Certainly not. The condom thing is seriously gross IMO. The rest of it's not very respectful either, is it? If you're otherwise having a great time I'd pull him up on it and see whether he's capable of mending his ways, but you'd have to be very very sure he had taken it on board before letting them move in. Sometimes it's not a question of right and wrong, but of different standards, which will eventually drive one or both of you crazy unless a fair compromise is possible. I don't count you cleaning up after a man and a boy, because you care about the mud and they don't, as a compromise.

Sounds like, expense aside, keeping separate houses is the only way you're going to continue enjoying being with this oik man.

PeterAndreForPM · 24/02/2011 09:42

no

knock it on the head now

you have seen how your life would be now, you would be very foolish to settle for it

find a nicer bloke than this

ivykaty44 · 24/02/2011 09:46

I would get ride like a shot, certainly not moving in, do you really want to wash this man's underpants and socks?

I think his snidey comments are a reflection on him, he is a market trader and you are a nurse with a career and prospects, whilst there is nothing at all wrong with being a market trader (it was how Geoff Pierce started)it is not full of prospects and times are hard right now. I think there is some of the green eyed monster behind these comments.

I would unblend quickly and see how you and your son feel about not having them staying over etc - you may find it an instant relief

Mymblesson · 24/02/2011 13:30

No, blimey, you are not being picky. What kind of bloke doesn't get rid of his own used condom for a start?

Sarsaparilllla · 24/02/2011 13:36

If you're not happy with him and you're not liking the idea of them moving in then you don't need to have any more reasons to end it.

You're not being picky, you just deserve to have your expectations met in a relationship and it doesn't sound like he's the person to do it.

Plus sounds like you've got very different parenting views which is only going to cause more issues in the long run, especially with the kids being the same age

Sunflower38 · 24/02/2011 14:39

Yuck.

No way in hell would I let him move in if I was you.

He sounds really lazy and inconsiderate... he hasnt moved in and you are already miserable.

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