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Bipolar manic depression & sex

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EverSoHumble · 12/10/2012 21:25

Can anyone help me with this topic?
I am a man, and my ex (who I still care deeply about) has taken up with a man who is diagnosed as bipolar manic depressive, and has been treated for it for many years.
I looked up the symptoms and treatments on the internet, and both are quite scary. I sort of assumed that serious medication of many sorts made men impotent.
But I know the man's wife, and she says a problem that they had in their marriage was that he was often sexually voracious (can't remember her exact expression) particularly when he was high (sorry, again I don't know the technical expression) and that his constant and inappropriate demands were hard for her to satisfy.
I am worried that my ex does not know what she has got herself in for. Are such men likely to use coercion or be roughfor example?

OP posts:
scentednappyhag · 16/10/2012 11:15

Yes Penny, we are calling all men arrogant and controlling, because MNers hate men Hmm

tiredofwaitingforitalltochange · 16/10/2012 15:23

I don't buy the OP's recent post. Does anyone? He is trying to justify himself and reclaim the moral high ground.

Rapist and 'sexually voracious, can't remember her exact expression)' are hardly the same are they?

Why make MH the focus if the guy's a rapist? And why be coy about previous rape? Surely THAT would be the big issue?

The OP was speculating about his ex's new bloke in his original post. Asking IF his illness might make him coercive. I just don't think you'd do this if you knew someone had raped someone. So what's the point of the original post? To find out if an established rapist did this because of illness? What would that matter? Why would he ask about impotence if he knew the guy had raped? It doesn't make a tiny bit of sense does it?

The OP is saying this because he's been keel-hauled, not for being a man but because he's exhibiting stalking behaviour and making offensive assumptions. His last post is post-justification and so inconsistent with other things he has said. I'm not buying, sorry.

And he asks advice from a mostly female pool of people then dismisses any that is critical, disregarding their views, calling them trolls based on their gender.

His ex is well rid.

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