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I had a completely healthy interaction with my DP today and I want to celebrate it!

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MummySharkDooDooDooDoo · 16/12/2018 22:56

Just to start off by saying that I haven't previously had "unhealthy" interactions with him, but I did with my XH.

We were sitting up in bed and he was on his phone and I saw on his screen something from someone called "Anna Bumble" (not her real name). I know that when he was on online dating (where we met) that he saved people on his phone as "Name" and "where he met them". I also know that he was on Bumble. So my paranoia kicked in and I started to question why he was talking to a woman from a dating site. But within 5 minutes I asked him about it. I told him what I had seen and why it had concerned me. He smiled and told me to come with him. He opened up the screen, showed me that it was his work emails and that it was "Anna Rumble" (not her real name). He also said he had no idea who she was as it was just a mass email.

Not only was he not at all defensive, he was happy to reassure me, understood why I thought what I did and the whole thing was resolved within minutes. No annoyance.

I'm also pleased with myself that I approached this head on. With my ex, the reaction would have been annoyance that I didn't trust him, that he was having to prove himself etc etc. My DP didn't see it like that. I felt bad for questioning him, but he understood where the question came from and didn't see it as an issue with trust. Quite the opposite because I felt ok enough with him to ask him about it.

This is a huge milestone for me. Not only to approach it head on, but for the reaction not to be to put me down and make me feel awful.

This is worth celebrating.

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AnyFucker · 16/12/2018 22:59
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chuppyson · 16/12/2018 22:59

Amazing!

springydaff · 16/12/2018 23:55

Ah that's great. Bravo! Flowers

RagingWhoreBag · 17/12/2018 00:07

It’s just so pleasantly surprising when something like this happens isn’t it?! Well done Flowers

noego · 17/12/2018 11:46

Welcome to the world of maturity :)

Openness, honesty, loyalty, dignified, integrity, authenticity.

Simples isn't it?

The question is, had he reacted negatively would you have dumped him? The answer is yes BTW.

Ellisandra · 17/12/2018 12:23

Lovely to read! Well done you Grin

Whowouldathunkit · 17/12/2018 14:45

Sorry. But I would be furious if my partner questioned me about cheating every time they saw a name they didn't recognise on an email.

How many times a week do you accuse him of cheating?

He may be "mature" about this now, I doubt he will have the same reaction in a few years.

You're being abusive and you really need to stop. If he was cheating on you he would just do it. No amount of badgering or accusations will stop him. In fact, your behaviour will actually make it more likely.

Nesssie · 17/12/2018 14:47

You're being abusive and you really need to stop dear God.... Hmm

Branleuse · 17/12/2018 14:48

I think its nice that he reassured you when you were feeling a bit paranoid without any drama.

noego · 17/12/2018 16:17

You're being abusive and you really need to stop

Did you read the OP? Because of her XH she has doubts about relationships. Thank goodness she has found someone who can show her that relationship's can be a stable place to open yourself up without being criticized

MummySharkDooDooDooDoo · 17/12/2018 16:31

I didn't accuse him of cheating. I told him I had seen something that had unsettled me and explained why. I have never accused him of cheating or had reason to ask any questions like this before - we have been together for 10 months. He knows I am insecure and he understands why. He also knows that I'm seeing a counsellor to try to work on this as I know that this is my issue and not anything he has provoked in me.

If it was just a woman's name on his phone I wouldn't have cared. He has a lot of female friends, some of whom I know and some I don't. But it was the fact that I saw it as "Name Bumble" (which is the name of a dating site I knew he was on and in the format I know he used to save women's numbers). As it was, it was one letter out and it was the woman's surname. Even at the time that he pointed that out I said there was no need to explain any further, but he wanted to. It was a complete misunderstanding but if it hadn't have been cleared up I would have been thinking it meant something it didn't.

I don't think this constitutes abusive.

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ems137 · 17/12/2018 16:41

Oh yeah totally abusive 🙄

Good for you OP. I need out of my abusive relationship with a compulsive liar and I often worry about how I will ever trust a man again afterwards.

MummySharkDooDooDooDoo · 17/12/2018 16:54

ems I do find it hard to trust someone now. My XH was abusive and ultimately cheated on me and left me when my DD2 was 8 months old, I was suffering from PND, PTSD and was suicidal. If someone can treat me as badly as he did, then I think "why wouldn't someone else?" But it's instances like in my OP that makes me realise that my new partner is not the same as my XH. Not least because I'm apparently the abusive one now!

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