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Shall I tell my new partner the truth?

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Zoila15 · 16/05/2017 10:28

Hi all. Really need an advice from you as I have thinking and worrying a lot about what I should do. I am in my 40s. I met an amazing man a few months ago. We hit it off straight away and developed strong feelings for each other. When we became intimate and he asked me how many partners I had had before him, I lied and said that I only had one (my ex husband ). The truth is that I had two partners before him- my ex husband and I had a very brief relationship with somebody else. As I didn't tell my new partner the truth straight away, I found it more and more difficult to tell him all this later on. He thinks the world of me and I don't want to spoil anything or hurt him. The past is in the past and it all happened before him. At the same time, it bothers me that I lied to him about the number of sexual partners I had in the past. What do you think I should do? Tell him, get it off my chest and hope for the best? Or leave it as it was all in the past and doesn't really have any bearing on the present? Thank you for thoughts in advance.

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Jux · 19/05/2017 16:18

Lucky escape, though hurtful.

Don't tell yourself that he was hurt by your lie. He really really wasn't. It gave him the tool he needed to control you, and as time wentby he'd have found others.

You are now supposed to be a good little people-pleaser and contact him begging for forgiveness. He will hold out until you are abject and then he will, oh so benevolently, allow you back in. You will be overcome with gratitude at his kindness and will be in a nice little box, ready to do whatever he wants, ready to grant his every whim, forever after.

Make sure that's just his fantasy.

Beware flying monkeys - do you have friends/acquaintances in common?
Beware sudden serious or potentially serious medical conditions.
Beware promises, hearts and flowers.

Please do check out the Freedom Programme.

AnyFucker · 19/05/2017 16:23

Bullet dodged

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