Met a guy on an app in early June. Divorced with one child with shared living arrangements with ex-wife. All good. He'd broken up with his ex (not ex-wife, he's been with this woman for about 6 years until she walked out last summer 2025. I'm the first person he's been seeing since then.
I'm divorced with one child and moved to a different part of the country after escaping an abusive marriage in 2017. This is the first relationship since for me too after concentrating on my child.
All going very well and happy until the ex turned up screaming and shouting and hammering on the door saying you're seeing someone else. Turns out she's been playing games for months with him until he told her it's over and the house is going on the market in May. We never introduced our children.
She was screaming, called me a slut and a common tart and to get out of her house. To be fair he told her to calm down and go home but the evening was wrecked.
She later broke in and cut some of his clothes up and caused some other damage.
She kept calling him crying and saying she wanted him back and she'd made a mistake. It came to a head last weekend when we had concert tickets and he cancelled because she'd shown up, going on about how she's changed.
He got back to me saying he didn't know what to do. I made the decision for him. She told him I wasn't the right sort of person to settle down with as I work part time and don't own my house. That's because of my marriage breakdown and its consequences.
I'm sure it'll all end in tears. I did meet his mother briefly who seemed nice and said the ex was selfish and controlling.
I've had a lucky escape haven't I? I know men lie about crazy exes but I've seen one in action and this one is genuine.