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Would This Dent Your Trust?

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FairytaleOfNY · 15/01/2014 11:50

Dh has had an ongoing and imo inappropriate 'relationship' with an OW. He says that I don't trust him and that is my problem. I think I don't trust him because he has acted like a twat so to summarise the points that have dented my trust in him:

*when I had ds he told everyone he was taking paternity leave but actually spent the time in his office with his PA (other staff are based elsewhere so it literally was just him and his PA), leaving me at home on my own with ds most of the time

  • his PA would send texts at odd times eg when she was out on Sat nights to say she was thinking of him, etc

  • after his PA left the company, she still kept in touch with him, sending texts and calling.

  • he would never say he'd been in touch with her but since I sometimes use his phone for work too, I'd see her name in recent contacts, then if I commented on that, he would explain why she'd been in touch but always that it was her instigating it Hmm

  • it's almost 4 yrs since she worked with him but she still texts on occasion. Her last text was about a dream she'd had about him - very 50 Shades of Grey

He says that he doesn't encourage her because he doesn't text back and indeed for the last 4 months or so his bills are online and I can see he hasn't called her. However, I think he should have put a stop to all this long ago and since he hasn't then I don't trust him. He says he still talks to all his former staff (yeah but they aren't sending texts saying they dreamt about being Ana to your Mr Grey!)

You don't need to tell me to LTB as this is just one example in a long line of shitty behaviour and I have already decided to LTB but I just wanted some independent perspectives on this 'trust' issue.

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LovesPeace · 15/01/2014 19:51

Fairy tale - I left him. It was all my fault, of course, and he's miserable in his new life (the women all dropped him like a hot brick as soon as he was available).

I'm still trusting, but less so. And I don't have time to waste on working out whether I do trust a partner - if I have the slightest doubt, they get what my mum calls 'the heave-ho'.

I fucking rock, and I know my own value.

JoinYourPlayfellows · 15/01/2014 22:10

You would be crazy to trust him.

Just after you had your son he spend all his time on his own with her instead of with his brand new family.

That should have been the end of it.

ParsleyTheLioness · 16/01/2014 16:48

I second the thing about being too trusting. My XH was on a very long leash. I naively thought if you loved someone, the relationship would be better for me not crowding him. Lots of little things that in and of themselves may not have been a worry, but too many to have been a coincidence. Wedding ring off because he was doing a job in the shed and didn't want to damage it (didn't know how long it had been off). Extra phones cos it was a 'cheap one to take on holiday'...always with a sim and never actually saw them used on holiday, unexplained short periods of time that would have given him time to meet up with and Online Date....Yes, when I stopped being quite so trusting I discovered his OD habit....

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