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I don't know where my boyfriend gets his money from??

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mummytotwo2 · 16/02/2017 15:41

Hi, i have been seeing a guy i met from instagram for 3 months now, everything has been great with this guy we became like best friends in an instant. He has met my kids and I've met his. He was friends with my sister but we had never met before until we started talking on IG. (he added me on there as he had my sister on there already)

One thing i'm curious about with him is that he NEVER goes into any detail about his life/background and he doesn't have a job but always seem to have money to take me out. He buys me gifts out of the blue sometimes if he's passing a shop where he sees something i'd mentioned i like but can't afford he just buys it me and gives it to me next time i see him. He bought my eldest daughter a new coat for school, he is always buying himself new things too, the other day he had two new tattoos done and i know they weren't cheap i asked him how much he paid for the latest big piece he had done he just said "does it matter".

all he says to me is that he's looking for a job but needs to be motivated to do a job otherwise he gets bored too quickly. Anything around money/income/job he just sort of brushes it off and laughs, like i went to pay for a cab we took into town last week and he said it doesn't matter he will pay and then i jokingly said to him "Oh you're loaded aren't you so it doesn't matter" but again he just laughs and says something like "well it's better to have money than not isn't it"

He very rarely tells me anything about his family outside of his children. He always keeps saying how life is stressful and how he gets depressed but i can't help him much because i just can't see what he is depressed about! he won't open up at all.

the reason i am interested about this is because i have basically opened up to him about every single personal and private thing i have been through and he's been so understanding and supportive and has never judged me for any of it, yet he himself hardly tells me anything about his life or about his current circumstances (plans for the future, etc)

am i just being overly nosey here or is it normal for a man to be this reserved about himself?

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angieloumc · 22/02/2017 22:11

Yorick you are hilarious 😂
OP you are a complete idiot, really you are. Going round Primark talking about Jesus, you're funny.

DragonNoodleCake · 22/02/2017 22:14

What sexy ghost thread??

ExplodedCloud · 22/02/2017 22:14

Ooh you criminal mastermind Hollie.

mummytotwo2 · 22/02/2017 22:15

Well he's told me he's broke two times now when the topic of money and stuff came up but every single time we've been out he's paid for everything including cabs, meals, drinks, entry fees to watch bands etc (unless i've insisted that this time i will pay and treat him) he just hands the cash over at the bar or whatever and he's also always buying clothes and toys and clothes for his kids. I still owe him 50 quid that i borrowed off him and he's never once asked for it back. If he was broke then wouldn't he need it back? It seems like he's not completely poor but just has these savings he was on about?

I haven't been to the GP with him about his depression because the times we've talked about that he just says something like "lifes hard i'll live with it" "I can take the weight that's on my shoulders" and then he brushes it off and changes the subject...

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tripette · 22/02/2017 22:15

LadyOfTheCanyon "Spunkle", omg - legit weeping with laughter here. Grand day out at Primark for the kidz and Spunkle Wentworth!

Hatemylifenow · 22/02/2017 22:16

It just gets better and better.

ExplodedCloud · 22/02/2017 22:17

Oooh he's a martyr too.
or perhaps not actually depressed
This thread's cheered me right up :)

IrenetheQuaint · 22/02/2017 22:19

"I can take the weight that's on my shoulders"

It's so hard being a jobless waster Sad

tripette · 22/02/2017 22:20

He doesn't exist-and he's not depressed.

Holly3434 · 22/02/2017 22:21

He's probably crying all depressed in his Armani tracckie bottoms cultivating his plants as we speak prepping for his shopping spree tommrow. Treat him for his birthday to some new scales, sports direct bag, little plastic bags and he'll propose. The wedding will be a prisoner cell block h theme got it made OP

tripette · 22/02/2017 22:21

"the weight that's on my shoulders" - yeah, a head full of complete shite must be pretty heavy...

MommaGee · 22/02/2017 22:23

I can take the weight that's on my shoulders

except he can't can he cos if he could he'd man up and look for work.

can someone please link me into the sexy ghost thread and tell me how to highlight the op's posts

LadyOfTheCanyon · 22/02/2017 22:25

Dragon - get yourself over to chat. But I'll warn you; there's a tense queue for Patrick Swayze and Kurt Cobain...

LadyOfTheCanyon · 22/02/2017 22:28

Tripette Spunkle Wentworth!
Actually can't breathe for laughing. Grin

mummytotwo2 · 22/02/2017 22:29

Holly, he's not really bought me one single very extravagant item, it's more the little things like a random time if we go shopping he'll take me in Victoria Secret and let me pick out a few items from there or he'll come with me in Ann Summers and pick something out with me that we both like together. He even came dress shopping with me! I enjoy those moments and prefer them than him just splashing out on some random item that he thinks i might like to surprise me. He likes to do it together with me and he shows interest in my interests. Usually if he's surprised me it's with something i've already shown him or made him aware of that i liked before.

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DesertSky · 22/02/2017 22:30

Why don't you say its about it time in the relationship I come over to your place? How do you even know he still lives with his mother? It could be all fictional???

DesertSky · 22/02/2017 22:31

*it's about time - sorry I'm getting tired 😴

SittingAround1 · 22/02/2017 22:31

OP where do you think he gets his money from? Does it matter to you?

ChampagneTastes · 22/02/2017 22:33

God is this still going? Good oh.

So OP, what have I missed? Is he a tortured artist with the unwelcome weight of wealth hanging round his neck?

Or is he just a massive twat?

SittingAround1 · 22/02/2017 22:34

Mmmm I wonder why he's interested in your interest in Victoria's secret & Ann summers

UnbornMortificado · 22/02/2017 22:36

I'm well jell.

The only thing DH has bought me today is thrush cream. The bastard didn't even shell out for caneston it was boots own brand Sad

MommaGee · 22/02/2017 22:38
  • SittingAround1 Wed 22-Feb-17 22:31:55

OP where do you think he gets his money from? Does it matter to you?*

i can answer for her, i've been here so long haha.

No she doesnt care cos you know you can't judge people can you, it's wrong to jusge people for doing illegal stuff! and he buys her stuff. but only in cash cos the banks are part of the conspiracy

tripette · 22/02/2017 22:39

I shall be gutted if this thread has disappeared by tomorrow morning...

MommaGee · 22/02/2017 22:39

Unborn i hope the thrush wasn't his fault?

UnbornMortificado · 22/02/2017 22:40

We all need to stop with the jealousy and the judgement and maybe just maybe one day we can find a man like dear spunkle 😍

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