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Partner slept with mum’s friend

170 replies

Shoulditellher1 · 06/01/2018 12:12

We’ve been together a year. Started casually but it’s grown steadily and we’re thinking about moving in together.

Very early on, he told me that he’d been having an affair with his mum’s friend but ended it soon after meeting me.

Apparently she was very upset but said she understood him wanting to be with someone more his age.

She’d been trying to put him off me before then, whispering in his ear that I wasn’t good enough for him, that I wouldn’t make him happy.

His mum has no idea. The friend made him promise not to tell her. But I feel uncomfortable knowing this secret. And it makes my blood boil every time she talks about her friend, what an angel she is and how kind she was to my partner when he was down in the dumps after losing his job.

Yeah, she was a fucking angel alright! Angry

For context she’s 46, 16 years older than my partner.

Whenever I see her she gives me the cold shoulder and makes pointed references to in-jokes that I am not part of. But always smiles and hugs me in front of others which drives me mad. They don’t see what a manipulative cow she really is.

The number of times I’ve had to bite my tongue whenever his Mum sings her praises, I have come so close to blurting it out. I know that if his mum ever knew, she’d be very upset.

WWYD?

OP posts:
expatinscotland · 06/01/2018 13:21

I'd leave 'em both to it. Your BF is a sleeze. I've had a lot of bad times in my adulthood. Never thought to boink one of my parent's friends. He's making you lie. That makes me wonder what else he lies about. I'd let him go. He sounds untrustworthy.

Shoulditellher1 · 06/01/2018 13:21

Thanks Freddie. Appreciate you understanding what I’m trying to express and sort out in my head.

rothbury, you appear to have had an empathy bypass. But I don’t think any less of you Smile

OP posts:
LipstickHandbagCoffee · 06/01/2018 13:21

This woman isn’t a predator, she was adult who had consensual sex with younger man
Portraying her as the wanton woman who preyed on him, it’s naive and diminishes his actions
And you know what she suffered a break up,she’s going to feel raw too.and there is animosity because you’re the woman he moved on with
What do you want to happen?do you think yiur relationship will survive this

eggsandwich · 06/01/2018 13:24

What happens if you get married and obviously don’t won’t her at your wedding and your partner wants her friend there, these things will need to be ironed out before hand, your partner can’t expect you to be in her company after this, and does the women know that you know about her and your partner having been together.

Chocolaterainbows · 06/01/2018 13:27

Personally, I couldn't be with someone whose response to being in a "bad place" is to fall into a vagina

Love this. Made me smileGrin

SpringTown46 · 06/01/2018 13:29

Does she know that you know though? If she thinks you are in the dark, then perhaps that is the reason she can afford to risk making you uncomfortable. If she is aware you know, then she is playing a dangerous game assuming she still doesn't want bf mother to know... you could very easily make her aware that you have the power here.

Peanutbuttercheese · 06/01/2018 13:30

I wonder if deep down you wonder if not for the age gap they would be together still.

It adds a level of insecurity.

Arkangel · 06/01/2018 13:32

Personally, I couldn't be with someone whose response to being in a "bad place" is to fall into a vagina

Ugh, how very sickeningly pious.

DownTownAbbey · 06/01/2018 13:34

Unless I'm mistaken you say he finished with her after he met you? So there was an overlap? So in her mind he cheated on her with you?

If you're planning on making this relationship permanent I think you need to sort this out, even if only mentally. There's so much potential for drama. And if she still carries a torch your DP needs to speak to her about her attitude. TBH I think he's hardly covered himself in glory and would have the stress this causes in the 'against' column.

NurseButtercup · 06/01/2018 13:40

The award for the comedy input on the thread goes to

AnachronisticCorpse

With the comment:

*I'sn’t this one of the subplots in Fifty Shades?

Throw a drink over her.*

For unintentionally inciting the op into engaging in Coronation Street esque type drama Grin Grin

ALittleBitConfused1 · 06/01/2018 13:48

The fact that she slept with her friends partner doesn't make her bad friend, it's not as if he was a child, or even a young adult.
His sexual business is just that, not his mother's and you have no right to tell her. In fact if I was your partner and you did tell my mum, that would spell the end of any relationship, so think about betraying his confidence just to score points very carefully.
I'm not sure why you have such an issue with this, or her, unless your just jealous that he slept with her.
So she's being a bit of a bitch, ignore her and rise above it, she has as much right to be in his and his families life as you do. Just smile sweetly then give him a big hug that should put her in her place.
I'm assuming your dp
is of sound mind, so I'm not sure why sleeping with him makes her a predator. Although if that makes you feel better about the situation go ahead.

ALittleBitConfused1 · 06/01/2018 13:50

Sorry friends son.

ALittleBitConfused1 · 06/01/2018 13:51

Not friends partner- that would make her a terrible friend lol

serialcheat · 06/01/2018 13:51

Spend less time in her ' company ', take away her opportunity to wind you up......

Coyoacan · 06/01/2018 14:06

He cheated on her with you, OP. Of course she's not going to greet you with open arms.

expatinscotland · 06/01/2018 14:19

I wonder if deep down you wonder if not for the age gap they would be together still.

The point is that they are not. A lot of people keep trying to compare this to a man's being 46 and a woman 30, but you can't really because the fact is that a 46-year-old woman cannot have a family (bar donor eggs) whereas a 46-year-old man is still fertile, so gaps where the woman is that much older usually can't work out if the man wants to have children.

'He cheated on her with you, OP. Of course she's not going to greet you with open arms.'

How do you come to that conclusion? He was casual with the OP when they started and he was probably casual with this gal, too.

At any rate, he's a sleeze with form for lying, OP. If that's what you want in a relationship, that's what you get.

CupOfFrothyCoffee · 06/01/2018 14:37

She is a predator as far as I’m concerned

No she's not, the man's 30 for goodness sake.

If I were you OP I would just avoid being in her company from now on if she bothers you so much.

CountdowntoSanta · 06/01/2018 14:45

He's a grown man. Personally I would take the woman aside and tell her to wind her neck in with the smart arse comments.

Apols for derailing but thank you AF for saying 'falling into a vagina' to get over a hard time. Still laughing.

As you were ...

CountdowntoSanta · 06/01/2018 14:49

Nurse close call with AF.

MamaMotherMummy · 06/01/2018 14:55

I am shocked at people saying they did nothing wrong to be honest.

Wouldn't finding out that your best friend had been having sex with your grown son a bit... strange? I find it shocking and a huge betrayal of friendship to be honest.

In all honesty OP I don't know how I'd deal with the situation. I'd hate to see your DPs mum believing someone is a friend when she's clearly not a true friend. If I was the DPs mum and felt I had a close relationship with all three of you and then this came out, I would be devastated.

happypoobum · 06/01/2018 15:07

It's all a bit like when Ross finds out Chandler is sleeping with Monica in Friends - "My friend and my sister! Oh, my friend, and my sister Smile I certainly didn't react badly when one of my adult friends was sleeping with my adult brother and to me this is no different.

Most people surely would be pleased that two people that they loved and cared about were close. I wouldn't see it as a betrayal at all - a betrayal of what? Genuine question mama not meant snarkily at all, but why would you be "devastated?"

OP I think you should just avoid this woman if you are jealous of her.

Shoulditellher1 · 06/01/2018 15:08

Thanks MamaMother

What would you do in my shoes?

OP posts:
Arkangel · 06/01/2018 15:14

I'm amazed so many people care about who is having consensual sex with who and why it's such a big deal.

If only there were that few problems in life that it would be something worth worrying about.

Huskylover1 · 06/01/2018 15:15

Fucking hell, she's 46, not dead! She's younger than Kylie Minogue and Jennifer Lopez. Why do you presume she's a predator? I reckon he was as much into it, as she was. Us old craws do know what we are doing in the sack, you know. Confused

Gemini69 · 06/01/2018 15:16

OK.. I don't think your concerns are misplaced atall......

She believe's she has a 'Dirty Little Secret' that only She and your DP share... Hmm

I'd put money on her being Dropped like a 'Dirty piece of Coal' if your DP's Mum found out she was having Sex with her Son...

So... I'm make sure that she was told that you know.. and if she doesn't back off with her bitchy comments... then you'll be telling his Mum.. regardless of how he feels about it... Flowers