Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Relationships

Mumsnet has not checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. If you need help urgently or expert advice, please see our domestic violence webguide and/or relationships webguide. Many Mumsnetters experiencing domestic abuse have found this thread helpful: Listen up, everybody

Dp used prostitutes

52 replies

Snailonthewhale · 01/08/2013 00:17

I have been with dp for 18 months. About 3 months into the relationship he admitted that he had used prostitutes before we got together. There was a 4 year gap between him splitting up with his ex wife and us getting together and he says he used hookers approx 5 times during this period. This does not include 'happy endings' he had during massages in Asia, as apparently they don't count. I suspect it was far more than 5 times.

When he told me all this I felt sick at the thought of it but as everything was perfect back then in the honeymoon period, I decided to overlook it. My own sexual past has been fairly colourful and while I've never been involved in prostitution, I have had threesomes and been quite promiscuous. He says that there is no difference between my past and his past, and that he finds mine hard to accept.

I haven't even thought about it for ages but this evening it came up in conversation again. We were talking about age gaps and he admitted tat the youngest person he had slept with was 'about' 15 years younger than him. He then admitted it was one of the times he paid for it. This brought back all the feelings I had initially about his past but even more so as it would have meant that he was using hookers that were barely out of their teens. I feel like he exploited these girls as its unlikely they were mature enough to be making rational decisions about what they were doing.

Am I being a hypocrite and overreacting? I can't seem to let go of these feelings.

OP posts:
MerrieMelodies · 01/08/2013 16:45

OP, it is very easy to overlook things in a partner because you are concerned that your own behaviours put you in a position of hypocrisy. Don't do it. Your issues are your own and not to be bargained for something worse.

On another tack, I was once with a man who had, I was told by his ex, slept with a prostitute. He told me he'd cheated on her but not about it being a prostitute.

He too is a respected, well paid, successful, good looking and charming bloke. Everyone likes him.

But the problem is he thinks he can buy anything he wants, including sex, including people. We never had a proper relationship, and tbh I am glad as I am disliking him more and more now...the attitude that just because he has that power, the woman was his to do what he liked to - it's sick.

When we were involved the way he treated me was very strange too.

MerrieMelodies · 01/08/2013 16:46

And yes he has given you a ticket, a get out of jail free card, in that he says he is uncomfortable with your past.

Call him on it. Tell him, you are leaving him to find someone he is comfortable with. You are doing him a favour. He can't complain about that.

Whatever you decide to do, I would not be staying in a relationship with this slimeball. That's just my thoughts.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page