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7 replies

Notrealname · 29/05/2011 16:02

Complicated story but the short version is that I had a short relationship with someone from work, I'd recently split from my partner and he then left his girlfriend.

However, it turns out he (48years old) had left her (aged 30) for me as I was the one he wanted for the rest of his life. He's now changed his mind which is fine with me as I'd been trying to end it for weeks but he kept begging, and he wants to win her back.

The trouble is, he has told me how many women he's cheated on whilst being with her, one of them is her friend and I sort of feel she has a right to know before deciding whether to take him back. I know that doing this would ruin any friendship that I have with him but frankly he's an arrogant pratt and I don't want to be friends with him. If I was his ex-gf I'd want to know but if she's not going to take him back then it will cause her unnecessary hurt.

I keep trying to forget it but I keep thinking that if someone knew that about someone that had left me once and I was considering taking back, I'd bloody well want that person to tell me.

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malibustac · 29/05/2011 16:05

Does she know he left her for you? She does have a right to know but remember people usually shoot the messenger.

buzzsore · 29/05/2011 16:07

Hmm, do you really think that this desire to tell all is coming from having her best interests at heart? After all, you didn't give much of a shit about her when you were the OW, did you?

Also, do you think she'd believe you?

I don't think you're the right messenger for this message, even if it is a valid one. Leave her alone.

Notrealname · 29/05/2011 16:08

yes, he told her that he felt more for me already than he'd ever felt for her even though we were only friends. She's not a friend of mine, different social circle etc so unless she literally shoots me which is an option I suppose I wouldn't lose anything.

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Notrealname · 29/05/2011 16:09

I wasn't the willingly the OW!! We worked together and I had no idea of how he felt until he'd left her.

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LilQueenie · 29/05/2011 18:09

if he lied so much in the past how do you know he really did leave her first?

maras2 · 29/05/2011 18:14

Which bit of MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS didn't you understand on the other thread ?

strawberryjelly · 29/05/2011 18:17

yes, he told her that he felt more for me already than he'd ever felt for her even though we were only friends.

well he would tell you that wouldn't he? Anything to get into your knickers maybe?

It is not your role to protect her from her ex. I am sure she is a big girl.

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