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Rec0veringAcademic · 07/07/2020 15:18

Hello, been around for a while, not very actively - namechanged for this. Preliminary info: I'm not in the UK, no tight lockdown where I live.
I've been seeing a guy for a month now. Wasn't looking for a relationship when we met, have known him from an online forum on our favourite pets for quite a while.

I'm close to 40, he is 45-50. I've never been married (and have been single for a very long time), he is divorced, no kids. As I understand he and his ex were in very different stages of their lives when they married, and grew apart after a few years. He wanted children, she didn't, or at least not for longer - and this is where my problem is.

He is funny, very practical with a lot of common sense, considerate, easygoing. Not exactly my type physically (overweight) but I could look past that. He is not working or doing much in the way of out-of-the-home activity, he doesn't need to money-wise, but I confess this bother me more than the weight.

However, what actually makes me worried is the fact that he seems to be fixated on kids and pregnancy. Keeps dropping jokey hints at our long-term future, me moving in with him, and a few days ago actually creeped me out with something he said while cuddling. His head was lying on my belly and he said something like "If we had known each other for a LOT longer, my head would be this high (indicating bump with hands), then this high..."

I wonder how he couldn't hear the thousand alarm bells going off in my head. Shock I mean, at our ages, progressing a relationship a bit faster than usual is OK, but this was way too direct for my liking.

Should I end this now or wait how things develop?

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Bridget64 · 07/07/2020 17:13

Although early pregnancies aren't always a mistake .. talking as someone who got pregnant around seven weeks after meeting my now husband.... It wasn't planned and we are happy still almost 18 years later but it was stressful. I wouldn't recommend it. We were 20 as well....

SimonJT · 07/07/2020 17:19

Theres a big difference between letting someone know early on that you do/don’t want children and basically imagining your new partner is pregnant.

My boyfriend wants children, I want another, its something we discussed early on, but neither of us suggested that those children would happen with each other! Now over a year on it still isn’t assumed as its too early.

MrsMoastyToasty · 07/07/2020 17:29

I'm with @Crystalspider on this one. I would want to see evidence of his financial situation before committing. You could end up with a cocklodger who gets his feet under your table by saying what he thinks you and every woman (he thinks) wants to hear ie "have my baby and I'll look after it because I don't need to work" . This could translate as I'm a lady bastard who sponges off women as I have no "investments".

Rec0veringAcademic · 11/07/2020 15:00

Bit of a boring update: I ended it today, haven't seen him since Monday on purpose. Told him I couldn't feel for him the way he wanted me to, and couldn't force myself to, nor would I want to keep him dangling any longer.
He didn't take it very well, kept telling me I'm rushing into this decision and I should give "our relationship" more time, more of a chance. Needless to say, I didn't like this verdict over a decision I made based on my own feelings... nor the intimation that I somehow owed him a second chance because he felt I was the One.

He even told me his door is open and to call him if I changed my mind. Confused I couldn't have been more factual and to the point, btw.

He is not a bad man, I don't think. But his reluctance to take me at my word and accept that I meant what I said only served to cement my decision.

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TwentyViginti · 11/07/2020 15:24

Phew! you dodged a bullet there!

He'll have to find another womban Grin

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