Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Relationships

Mumsnet has not checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. If you need help urgently or expert advice, please see our domestic violence webguide and/or relationships webguide. Many Mumsnetters experiencing domestic abuse have found this thread helpful: Listen up, everybody

Partner has been with a guy...

7 replies

Helz129 · 08/04/2019 09:11

So I've been on and off with a guy for a few years. Its been a big struggle during this time mainly because he is fighting an addiction and obviously with that has come many lies and manipulations.

I've since moved away and we're no longer official as such but we are in contact almost daily and see each other now and then. He tells me he see's me as a girlfriend etc and talks about marrying/having a baby in the near future. I've told him this is unlikely due to everything that has happened and the lack of trust i now have for him. But I still do very much like him and have never been so attracted to someone.

Aside from this, since we were together he would regularly meet up with a guy (who happens to be gay) and they would drink together. As time went on I started to get a bit wary of them two being together as my partner told me that the guy liked him and I'd told him that I wasn't comfortable with why he would intentionally go round a guys that liked him when i was his girlfriend. After this i found a photo on his phone sent from the guy which made me even more suspicious, but my partner continued to say that he only went round for drink and there was nothing between them. But...last night it came out that when he was drunk once (apparently years ago) this guy went down on him... and yes obviously proved my instincts were right. Also, the fact that he went round for drink only came out after we has split up...before so he would tell me him and this guy were good friends and that was the reason for going round, as obviously he was hiding the fact that he would drink.

After finding this out I feel extremely sick and quite numb to be honest. Whilst we were together he was constantly meeting this guy and I fail to believe that it was a one off occurrence that happened before we met (as he says) and even if so, why is he meeting a gay man who is quite obviously into him when he supposedly loves me. Obviously he can do what he wants now that we are not an official thing, I just feel sick that this was happening when we was together and I still have a lot of feelings for him so its hard to take in. He's convinced he's not bisexual and that is only happened because he was drunk, who knows.

As much as i know we will never be a thing, I dont know how to deal with this. He's lied about so much and it just gets worse. I know that I can't stay in contact with him, but in all honesty I feel so lost without him. We still act as though we are together and he is pretty much the only person I talk to other than a few other friends I speak to now and then. I've tried to stop contact before and I can't cope with the loneliness and end up going back to him, but even as 'friends' its clearly not going to work as I still have feelings and am still getting hurt. I just don't know how to move on from here and I dont really have anyone I can talk to about it. :\

OP posts:
Fannyhat · 08/04/2019 10:43

For your own sake, OP, bin him off and cut contact. You say you feel lonely without him but it's worse to feel lonely when you're still in contact with this person. You've moved away, make yourself a fresh start. He can do what he likes with who he likes but he's a loser regardless.

I speak from experience, 2 of my best friends are gay and through this I know plenty of 'straight' men's secrets...straight men with partners and children at home. They all get drunk around someone's house, take drugs and then start experimenting, it's almost never just once and it sometimes exceeds oral. These same men tend to be on hook up type websites on the sly looking for men as well. Absolutely do not believe it was just once and get yourself tested.

donquixotedelamancha · 08/04/2019 10:49

The issue is not that he is bi. The issue is that he's a git, who treats you badly. Have some self respect and dump him.

ukgift2016 · 08/04/2019 10:52

Um he is a cheat.

There is no future with this man. If you are only going back to him because you are lonely, you need to start looking for other outlets.

Join groups, start doing online dating...etc.

AverageMan · 08/04/2019 10:53

Move on and leave him behind. Also would be wise to get yourself screened for anything he may have passed into you.

Thingsdogetbetter · 08/04/2019 16:53

He's a manipulative, lying addict who gets so pissed he gets a blowjob off a man when he isn't attracted to men. Wow, he's a catch..... NOT.

You are always going to be lonely if you keep hanging on to this man. The emotional energy you are wasting on this fool could be put into loving yourself, finding friends and an actual loving relationship.

Babdoc · 08/04/2019 17:00

OP, you are clinging to a piece of floating wreckage from a failed relationship, instead of climbing into the lifeboat that will take you to a new and happier life.
The longer you waste time agonising about this chap and his many problems, the more time you waste that could be spent seeking much better friends and/or partners. Please cut free from him, and open yourself to new experiences and contacts. I mean this in the kindest possible way- “get a life”!

Boysey45 · 08/04/2019 19:36

Don't be having a baby with him Op leave him. It wont get better with him if he like men, he likes men it wont go away. He'll be shagging men continually now for the rest of his life I bet. Not many men I know go back to straight committed relationships with women after they have been shagging men. They just don't.He'll be on Grinder eveynight I bet.
Join some groups, nightclasses anything, just get rid of him.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page