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Do I just need to accept that I was a Slut?

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cheekymonk · 01/03/2010 20:27

Evening All! I am happily married with one ds now but back in my uni days I was very promiscuous and did sleep with over 100 men roughly. I used to have to get really pissed to have the confidence to approach anyone (mainly due to being fat). I was lonely and although I had made some friends, I wanted a boyfriend too and in my warped mind sleeping with someone and being wanted for all of 30 mins or if I was lucky, the whole night was the next best thing.
I lived with 6 male housemates at the time who were appalled my behaviour. I did have threesomes/forsomes (and a fivesome too I think!) which was what pushed them into really despising me. One night I brought someone back, he went then I went back out and brought someone else back. It is shocking and I was out of control but those housemates were so vile.
I ended up recently sending a message to one of them on facebook. I wanted an apology but have today come home to this
"It has been a long time - 13 years in fact, which i why suddenly recieving this from you scares me that you have gone to the lengths to find me. Obviously some deep seated resentment there that you probably need to get off your chest/deal with through professional help. Either way - yes behaviour to you may not have been entirely appropriate, but my did you deserve it. Hoping to find brother figures? WHy on earth? I cannot imagine why you, a second year, felt the need to take a room with six male 4th year students. Most 2nd years got digs with friends they made in the 1st year...!!!! To refute some of your allegations about us. 2 of us had girlfriends, neither of them cheated on them. The rest of us, me included, enjoyed a significantly lower level of "single life" than you did - as you said it's what people do at uni...mainly with students met at the Student's Union", though, not with sailors they pick up in Joanna's night club. While I am all for enjoying the single life, both for men and women - you took it to such an extreme. 2 guys in one night I recall...one at about 1030 and then you going back out to bring another one back! Another stealing my bike from the hall! I hope my thoughts about the way YOU behaved are clear. I may have been a little immature back then and yes, 13 years is a long time. But do I have any regrets/would I behave differently to such a prolific enjoyment of the single life as yours now - I doubt it. I trust that I will not hear form you again."

I feel so gutted and worthless, just like I did then. I sincerely regret raking up the past. I am trying to understand now WHY I behaved so badly and try and reconcile the past but am having trouble.
Any thoughts? Do I just need to accept that i was a total slut back then??

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scottishmummy · 03/03/2010 19:36

op may i suggest you consider IAPT and perhaps get an initial assessment

DuelingFanjo · 03/03/2010 19:38

"When i moved in I had been allocated the box bedroom at the top which said alot I thought. I was the latecome who had to fit in. They were a tight knit buch."

sounds to me like you applied to rent a spare room in a house full of people who knew eachotehr. Tough luck that you got the smallest room - really what did you expect and why did you take the room if it really wasn't what you wanted?

Basically none of this is about what happened 13 years ago or about the OP's sexual behaviour. It's all about the rude way she contacted someone who had chosen not to keep in touch. The poor guy probably felt really pissed off that she used a social networking site to badger him about something he's long forgotten about.

AxisofEvil · 03/03/2010 19:40

The OP may wish to google Cluster B personality disorders as from her posts she appears to be showing some of those traits.

RealityIsABridezilla · 03/03/2010 19:47

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cheekymonk · 03/03/2010 19:51

I am looking at BPD and websites suggested. I have said all the things I think i can remember doing to housemates.
Yes Dittany I may well have been trying to say that I can do it too but who knows. I must admit I am a bit dazed and confused by it all myself and so its no wonder I am sounding contradictory. I know however, that I am not dramatic or histrionic or attention seeking. I do acknowledge though that the sending of the email is questionable behaviour.
I still say I'm not mad though! I am trying to move on to all of you who keep saying that! Thats the whole point!

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cheekymonk · 03/03/2010 20:05

scottishmummy I have just done a self referral. Thank you.

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scottishmummy · 03/03/2010 20:11

oh dear god enough with online diagnosis.put the icd-10 down

diagnosis can only accurately be undertaken face to face,seeing observable signs and reported symptoms

so all this tick tick diagnostic bingo is daft

cheekymonk · 03/03/2010 20:13

Bloody hell you are never happy are you? all I had to do was answer some questions then I will be contacted for a face to face. Back off! As I said before sm, you don't have to read/participate in this thread if I am so annoying and hateful!

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scottishmummy · 03/03/2010 20:15

op wasn't directly addressing you,do you always get so angry so quickly

actually it may be of benefit to you that there isnt online speculation about potential diagnosis

OrdinarySAHM · 04/03/2010 09:24

Cheekymonk, I've read most of this thread but haven't had time to read the last few pages, so I'm sorry if I write things that have been said already.

I think I can understand why you have revisited the past. If you don't like the person you used to be then this feels uncomfortable because you feel that person is part of who you are your whole life. It seems like you want to find a way to like that person who you were but you are finding this difficult.

It sounds like you were/are angry with people for judging you when they didn't know what it felt like to go through what you had been through previously and during what you did. Your self esteem was damaged by something/s and you were desperately seeking connections and a feeling of being wanted from people, just in an unwise way because you were young and didn't know better. I think this is forgivable. You made mistakes like everyone does and you were sometimes inconsiderate of other people, which you recognise, but this is normal when you are young and still learning about the world, and students often behave crazily, eg your housemates did as well.

I got the feeling that you were finding it hard to forgive yourself and your email to your ex housemate was a misguided way to tell him, but probably more to tell yourself subconsciously, that what you did wasn't so bad and who was he to judge you when his behaviour was also bad at times. It's like you are angry with the world for making you feel that you should hate yourself and judge yourself for things that you did (which you probably wouldn't have done if your self esteem hadn't been previously damaged). I see it as your way of lashing out at the world and the unfairness of why you had to feel as worthless as you did, which of course IS unfair. The world is often unfair. I think it is ok to be angry about it.

Could you accept that your behaviour back then was slutty, but that you had reasons for being like that, and you have done incredibly well since then in building your self esteem and building the life you want and recovering from whatever damaged you in the past. Everyone makes mistakes and has imperfections and I feel that yours are forgivable.

Kathyjelly · 04/03/2010 09:39

We all did daft stuff at college. Look at all the politicians having to admit to stuff.
I'd be amazed if you can find anyone who hasn't done something they are secretly still ashamed of.

It's ancient history and has no bearing on your life now. More to the point, are you happy now? Do you like yourself? If the answer to both is yes, then you have nothing to worry about.

He, incidentally, is still a patronising arrogant twit. And stupid too...for all he knows, you could be the interviewer at the next job he goes for.

Kathyjelly · 04/03/2010 09:41

We all did daft stuff at college. Look at all the politicians having to admit to stuff.
I'd be amazed if you can find anyone who hasn't done something they are secretly still ashamed of.

It's ancient history and has no bearing on your life now. More to the point, are you happy now? Do you like yourself? If the answer to both is yes, then you have nothing to worry about.

He, incidentally, is still a patronising arrogant twit. And stupid too...for all he knows, you could be the interviewer at the next job he goes for.

Kathyjelly · 04/03/2010 09:43

We all did daft stuff at college. Look at all the politicians having to admit to stuff.
I'd be amazed if you can find anyone who hasn't done something they are secretly still ashamed of.

It's ancient history and has no bearing on your life now. More to the point, are you happy now? Do you like yourself? If the answer to both is yes, then you have nothing to worry about.

He, incidentally, is still a patronising arrogant twit. And stupid too...for all he knows, you could be the interviewer at the next job he goes for.

Kathyjelly · 04/03/2010 09:43

We all did daft stuff at college. Look at all the politicians having to admit to stuff.
I'd be amazed if you can find anyone who hasn't done something they are secretly still ashamed of.

It's ancient history and has no bearing on your life now. More to the point, are you happy now? Do you like yourself? If the answer to both is yes, then you have nothing to worry about.

He, incidentally, is still a patronising arrogant twit. And stupid too...for all he knows, you could be the interviewer at the next job he goes for.

thesecondcoming · 04/03/2010 10:05

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annatw9 · 04/03/2010 10:12

i think the main issue out of all of this is - you need to just accept that you were out of control when you were younger, made some very bad choices and lived a difficult lifestyle. but you really need to leave that in the past, for the sake of yourself, husband and child. leave it where it belongs and focus on who you are now and who you will be in the future. no more contacting old ghosts hoping for a forgiveness/apology, that you probably dont really deserve.

Kathyjelly · 04/03/2010 10:14

Sorry, internet hiccups

mathanxiety · 04/03/2010 16:47

Do you consider yourself to be hateful? There's a significant difference between annoying and hateful.

cheekymonk · 04/03/2010 19:26

Hmm just having a quick catch up. No I don't think I am hateful at all. The only person in the whole world I come close to hating is the email receipient! I was a bit quick to come back at scottishmummy however and I am sorry I just felt under attack.
Thanks ordinarysahm for your comments, alot of what you say is spot on.
Just had a neighbour round for cups of tea, the usual then had her ds for tea and she gave me a big cuddle as a thanks so I don't think I am such a old witch!
I obviously sound a bit superiro about moaning about the boxroom. Its just an issue as I had it in my 3rd year too. I personally think that the smallest room should be on a rota basis if everyone pays equal rent...
Yes kerrymumbles, I am disclosing all of my behaviours. There can't be much worse than what I have already described, surely?

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dittany · 04/03/2010 19:35

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mathanxiety · 04/03/2010 20:33

I think the e-mail recipient may have had some sort of problem of his own, tbh. His reply was a bit intense for someone who had had no contact with CM, so no further provocation from her of any kind, for 13 years, long enough to gain a bit of perspective and maturity.

DuelingFanjo · 04/03/2010 22:32

"I personally think that the smallest room should be on a rota basis if everyone pays equal rent..."

really!? Wouldn't that just be an unecessary hassle for everyone?

I have lived in shared houses several times and we never had this kind of deal. At the most we drew straws and the accepted what we got like adults and we all paid the same rent.

You don't say if you were the last to move in or if all six of you chose the house together. Did you know them before you moved in?

scottishmummy · 04/03/2010 22:40

is fact that op was boxroom of any significance?how does room rented alter the impact of events?for all the ooohh and ahhh dont se this as sq m equation

DuelingFanjo · 04/03/2010 23:10

true, I'm getting sucked in by the pointless detail.

gremlindolphin · 05/03/2010 23:48

that was then this is now.

We have all done things then that we wouldn't have done now. The fact you can recognise the difference is a positive.

lots of love

xx