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Is my partner cheating on me?

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harrierhom · 09/06/2010 16:58

My partner and i have been together for 3 years, but has started acting oddly around me, being secretive, spliiting out ebay, paypal and shared facebook accounts (and deleting all her friends from it). This started a couple of months ago, before she started coming off anti depressants. She is currently on half a dose. Maybe that?s what?s causing it, don?t know, but last night she had a go at me in front of my son, for using facebook! And asked me why I started using it again now that she had set up her own. So I asked her why she needed to set up her own when we already had one, especially as I (still) only go on there occasionally. Then she had a another go because I had re friend requested some of her friends after she deleted everyone she knows from our original one. Her answer was that she needed her own space and a bit of privacy. That doesn?t sound like a ?couple? thing to me.

So from here it looks like I am not allowed to use facebook, and if I do I am not allowed to have her friends as my friends even though they are my friends. Again that doesn?t sound like a couple thing to me.

I also found out that she had been secretly texting a bloke for nearly 6 months, and previously arranged to meet him about a year ago.

She has also changed her passwords to some 14 character thing, when in the past we shared our passwords (she still knows all mine). That and all the above makes it look to me like she is hiding something and if I share her friends I get to see all her posts which it seems she doesn?t want me to see.

I found out last night that she has friend requested (and had acceped) an old boyfriend who in the past she texted and phoned quite regularly, I didn?t mind previously as she always said he was just her next door neighbour from a few years a go and that was who she got her old hamster from and he was only a friend. Her daughter let it slip a couple of months ago that they went out together for nearly a year and yet my partner initially denied it. So why lie?

So again its ok for her to have ex boyfriends on facebook and in her phone, to secretly text another bloke for 6 months and secretly arrange to meet him a year ago (although I did find out), yet she went bonkers when I friend requested a girl that used to live next door to me when I was a kid and last saw when I was about 15. And I did have nothing to do with her romantically or otherwise.

I dunno whats going on, we were going to set up a business tgether but she has also gone cold on that. So I am going to sort of look out for myself at the moment, and going to invest in my own business. If she doesn?t hurry up and make up her mind with the business, the money earmarked to set up will get spent on the photo stuff that I need to run my own business. She will have cut off her nose to spite her face, and tbh I am not so sure I want to invest in both of us right now. I love her to bits but this is really unsettling me, I don?t need it.

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RumourOfAHurricane · 17/06/2010 19:49

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Anniegetyourgun · 17/06/2010 20:06

But even the hand ain't listenin'.

AhLaVache · 17/06/2010 20:19

I think he's just trying to make sense of it all. And trying to cling on to the possibility he's got it all wrong.

Leave him be, he's getting good advice and hopefully it will all start to sink in.

Baffy · 17/06/2010 20:51

I agree, and I also think that sometimes on here, you ask for advice because you know that you need it.

But in reality, sometimes you're just not ready to hear it. Not ready to give up.

I've done it myself.

Hopefully the evidence will speak for itself...

AnyFucker · 17/06/2010 21:22

look, accusing someone of not listening in not being horrid

it is saying listen to the good advice you are getting and trying to shake someone out of a negative spiral

because, Good God, this man is spinning like a top...

Snorbs · 21/06/2010 14:47

So she said to this chap that she wants to get a bike license and do the Nurburgring, yes? I'll bet you a tenner that she said that after she found out that he's a biker and is planning just such a trip. Before she found that out she had probably never really considered getting a bike in her life.

As I said previously, she's mirroring back what people say to her. It's a very effective way to make people think that you were made for each other. It's all fakery. The real her is likely deeply insecure, emotionally crippled and completely self-centered.

"I don?t really want to be with someone who is selfish, 2 faced, lies about things, hides blokes and has double standards and be relegated to division 6 behind every one she knows."
You are with someone like that, and you know it really, don't you? Why is that not enough for you to decide that it's over? If these are behaviours that you find unacceptable, why are you accepting them?

A few years ago I was reading some self-help book and it mentioned that if a relationship wasn't working then one way of ending it was to simply say "I'm sorry but this relationship isn't working for me any more. I would like you to move out in two weeks" and I remember thinking wait, what? You can do that? You can just say that it's not working for you and end it, just like that? You can put your own feelings ahead of theirs? My reaction then spoke volumes about how messed up I was at the time.

You are in that relationship through choice. Being a martyr doesn't earn you brownie points, it just fucks with your head. Waiting and seeing for yet more proof she's treating you like crap doesn't get you a place in heaven, it just gets you in a place of despair and confusion.

Or, think about it another way. If you end this relationship tomorrow, what is it that you have today that will you lose? A close, loving relationship or the feeling that you're the willing victim of an emotionally abusive con-artist? If the only thing you would lose are dreams and hopes of what this relationship might become, then you're losing nothing real. But you would gain an awful lot of self-respect and calm.

WhenwillIfeelnormal · 21/06/2010 14:56

Great post Snorbs.

Baffy · 21/06/2010 14:59

Snorbs speaks a lot of sense

Are you ok harrierhom?

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