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Found him messaging other women again..... advice needed!

40 replies

Hurtandconfused6537 · 09/09/2016 18:40

I actually dont know where to start.

Been together 4 and a half years. At first it was truly amazing, he was the best partner and I actually felt like the luckiest person alive.
I discovered early on that he dabbled in cocaine when out with the lads and I didnt really like this, I admit I was full on at wanting him to stop and gave him a lot of aggro about it. He developed a cocaine addiction and started using daily and this continued for over a year (lies/arguements/money problems) and he decided to leave me fathers day 2015.

He had a crazy summer of sleeping around, doing drugs and general partying before he hit rock bottom and came of the drugs and I am so proud of him for doing so. We were in contact and I was heartbroken and eventually he came back.

Since we have been back together I have found out numerous times he has been joining tinder and messaging other girls or messaging girls on social media. He left me for one of the girls but came back 3 weeks later, Id love to go into full details but the post would be too long.

Everytime I find out I am in floods of tears and he says he does it because of many reasons.. he craves the excitement, I dont talk to him properly, I am not there emotionally and he is bored.

I really try to be there, we are both skint so cant get out much and I think this is a problem. Sex used to be great but he calls me fat in virtually every argument and now its affecting me, the other day I had to stop him after 5 minutes because I was so panicked about my belly being out. I do wonder if my weight is the reason why he cheats and texts these other girls but when we arent arguing he says its not and he loves and fancies me.

We had an amazing day last sunday and then I found out he that when i was asleep he was texting 2 girls at 3am, he will lay on all compliments to them and say hes single, it really makes me feel sick. He promised never again but then yesterday I came home and asked to use his phone to make a call and he started being all cagey with it. Obviously then I wanted to see it more and a hge row followed where he blamed me and said i never show no trust and I was like a smack head wanting his phone. I knew then he had messaged someone so I persisted and finally he admitted he had downloaded tinder while i was out and exchanged numbers with a girl. Apparently he needs someone to talk to and he wont
meet with them because he truly loves and want me.

I just wanted to see if there was anyone who had been through a similar situation with any advise? I know its hard for him at the minute, we are skint and living on my income only and hes very down because he is out of work, he had an interview the other day and was rejected which must be soul destroying but this is killing me too. I really love him and cling to those early first years.

I wish i could understand fully why he does this. He seems to blame me all the time although he admits what he does is wrong.

OP posts:
MudCity · 09/09/2016 19:56

Oh OP, my heart goes out to you but there isn't a positive outcome to be had here. He will continue to throw you a few crumbs here and there, a nice day out or an evening when he will 'convince' you that he cares about you. The rest of the time he will treat you appallingly. Truth is he only cares about himself.

Please do not makes excuses for him. You will be so much better off by yourself. Please don't let him use you like this. You can, and will, do so much better. Unless you want the rest of your life to be spent feeling how you are feeling now then please tell him to go. Don't waste a minute more of your life with this man.

BadTasteFlump · 09/09/2016 19:59

op you say you are clinging to those early days when things were good - but you've only been together a few years; it still is the 'early days' Sad. If he's not managed to treat you half decently in all that time, he never will...

I agree that you need to have a serious think about why you don't feel angry at being treated so badly, and why you don't think you deserve so much better. Flowers

CrazyOldBagLady · 09/09/2016 20:08

There's no ambiguity with your story OP, your partner is playing you for a fool before he finds someone 'better'. It's nothing to do with your weight. He will tell you anything, ANYTHING, to make you not dump his sorry arse, he will even make you believe you are the problem when it is clearly him.

He is lying behind your back and lying to your face, you have caught him out time and time again and he gets away with it. You are denying yourself real happiness, and eroding your self confidence putting up with this nonsense. Please don't waste any more of your years on this scum bag.

smilingeyes11 · 09/09/2016 20:44

An abusive, unfaithful, drug taking cocklodger - why on earth would you think this is all you deserve?

helenatroy · 09/09/2016 20:49

It's not you its him. We've all had an abusive relationship in our past. So that's where he belongs, set the asshole free. Men like that chip away at the essence of us every time they cheat, flirt, insult or undermine us. Get rid of him and don't take him back.

Muddlingthroughtoo · 09/09/2016 20:54

Oh good god woman! If you were reading that as someone else, what would you say?
He DOES NOT love you, if he did he wouldn't do any of what you said he does. Stop making excuses for him and wake up!

HuckfromScandal · 09/09/2016 21:02

He doesn't love you
He is never going to love you
He treats you like shit because he can
He will never stop treating you like shit because he can
Pull your self esteem out of the garbage and start making plans to get out

Please please please

HuckfromScandal · 09/09/2016 21:02

He doesn't love you
He is never going to love you
He treats you like shit because he can
He will never stop treating you like shit because he can
Pull your self esteem out of the garbage and start making plans to get out

Please please please

Luvjubs · 09/09/2016 21:04

I wonder, if most women stopped putting up with this bollocks, would men be less likely to treat women like mugs, as they feel they wouldn't get away with it so much. I'm not saying they wouldn't ever cheat or be arsed...but...this blatant utter disrespect and contempt shown...why do women put up with it? The amount of posts about utter fuckwits...why are you putting up with this? Find your self respect and self worth and find someone better. Sorry if it sounds harsh. As a female, I find it infuriating that women ALLOW this shit. It just reinforces their behaviour. Walk away for Gods sake

Luvjubs · 09/09/2016 21:05

Arse's not arsed, doh!

blinkowl · 09/09/2016 21:08

I keep saying he must still love me otherwise why is he here

He's here because he is using you, and you are letting him.

This will not change.

You could be super slim and made up by your own in-house professional make up artist every morning - he'd still treat you like shit if you let him.

There is one person you need to change here, and it's not him.

Fuck him, you should be angry about what he's doing to you, but it sounds like somewhere along the line (before you met him, probably) you've been conditioned to see the good in others, put them first and and not think badly of them, and to think love can conquer all. This strategy is dangerous to you !

You need to change yourself, to protect yourself better and see the truth of what is going on. Give up the idea of a relationship with this man, it is damaging to you. Just because he says he loves you and sounds like he means it, doesn't mean he does. His actions are more telling then his words. He is a user, and he is using you.

But, he knows how to manipulate you, he's got you feeling sorry for him.

Do you have any RL friends you can talk to?

ElspethFlashman · 09/09/2016 21:13

I keep saying he must still love me otherwise why is he here

Because you're paying for everything? Because he has nowhere else to go? Cos it'll be years at this rate before he can afford a deposit for himself?

Because you're the most grateful woman he's ever been with?

Because all he has to do is bean at you and spout some brief platitude about love and you bask in his glory and have the best day ever?

Because you'll never ever leave him no matter how much he whores around so he gets to have the respectable veneer of domesticity whilst doing whatever he wants?

There are a dozen reasons. None of them are worth this.

NoFanJoe · 09/09/2016 22:00

You deserve someone who loves you.
That isn't him and he's not worth your tears.
You'll find the strength to see things for what they are, that's a first step.

mydietstartsmonday · 09/09/2016 22:05

I am so sorry but you need to get a grip and get out.

Was1969 · 09/09/2016 22:08

I don't want to be harsh but you must leave him. You didn't even get through the first year without him causing issues with drugs, then womanising. You deserve better, get out, you can be happy without him X

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