I met my current partner 18 months ago and it was just lovely. He sold his home and moved in with me within six months. We were both madly in love.
i found out around the time he sold his home and was about to move down [lived 500 miles away] that he had lied to me about his age by some 8 years. He begged me to give him a second chance - i agreed to this. I then found out 3/4 months down the line that he used to be married. i found out rather than him telling me. He said he was embarrassed and did not want to talk about it.
He constantly tells me he is in love with me and lent me 10K to help me out with something......In xmas 2020 he asked to marry me. He then said i should choose a ring and send link etc but i never felt comfortable doing that so it lost momentum and never happened. He also used to talk about making me his next of kin etc because he wanted to make sure i would always be ok but that has never happened. The plan was i would sell my property and we would buy somewhere new together but now we are talking about him paying half of my property value and then i can pay off my mortgage but i am no longer sure.
We have argued a few times as it feels to me like he has shut down in terms of talking about his past relationships. I dont even want any details really but i just feel that his lies in the past have led me to question everything. Im not even sure of why i feel anxious anymore - probably that he has bullshitted me and never really explained why that is in a way that i understand. I feel like i will now keep picking at this scab until it finishes. I have tried to explain things and he says he will try but nothing changes.
he says he wants to grow old with me [well he is already 58 and me 49] and wants to go all in. There are red flags but then he did sell his home and leave everything familiar to him to come and live with me and start a new life. He is also now saying he will pay off my mortgage and we can look for somewhere bigger when the market is better etc
not sure if i am sabotaging something good or not.....