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How do u trust after this?

Okay so heres my situtation: I started dating this guy year and half ago. He left his wife not long after we reconnected. ( all hs friend) He said he was unhappy in his marriage and it had nothing to do with me. (kinda ironic though) About three or four months into us dating, I found out he used to go out to dinners and lunches with a female friend ( who he says he had feelings for when he was in hs but no longer did. He would vent to this friend about unhappy he was. he says it was totally innocent although he found out later she then had feelings for him.. I asked if his wife knew about these dinners and he said no. He also told the friend that his wife didn't know.. He said right before he met me the female friend had a break down because he didn't have feelings for her like he did in hs and because he was married.  I never knew that she was even texting him now and then until we were three months into our relationship and I happened to see a fb message on his phone from the friend's brother. My Bf told the brother he left his wife and the friends bro said are you gonna move in with my sister.. My bf said no i tried with her for so long. I have someone else now ( meaning me) I asked him and he said he didn't know what I would think of him so he didn't tell me. He then sent the friend a message that he is in a relationship and not to contact him any more.. I just can't get it out of my head though.. For years he was lying to his wife and going to eat with the "friend" who he swears he never did anything with.. How do i know what he would do to me?? He says i am not his wife and he loves me. he was unhappy. How do u trust after this? Also if i never found the FB message would they still be talking today?? Its stressful. what do u think  is this guy shady?

Re: How do u trust after this?

  • So basically you want to know how you can possibly trust a guy who may or may not have had an inappropriate relationship with another woman?

    How can you trust anyone in the world, when they may have had an inappropriate relationship at some point? After all, just because someone you meet says they haven't, doesn't mean they're telling the truth! You haven't been attached to their side their whole life, so who knows what they may have done!

    How do you trust after this? You don't. You stay single forever.
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  • he cheated on his wife with me as well. He did leave her a couple months after this began .. i just think its harder to trust because of that
  • edited September 2013
    My strong advice::

    Date no man who is fresh out of a relationship, either with the stbxYF or a long term SO.

    Those things never work. You are on shaky ground with him...and nobody wants to be a rebound girl. Very much doubt that you do.

    He also may not have been legally separated from her. If he was not --- and if a guy is not --- run like hell.

    And YUK to a guy who "dates" when he is still married and not legally separated.  This does not make her a "girlfriend" or a "date"....you know and I know what that makes her.

    Get your priorities straight: why the hell do you want to be with a married man????

    This is such a laugh -- he's cheating, he's got a harem full of gullible women who think they're his special "girlfriend" and he's getting plenty from all of them....

    And you want to know "is he shady".

    Well, does Miley Cyrus twerk?

    Think about it.

    Get rid of this shithead and do it posthaste.
  • GilliCGilliC member
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    edited September 2013
    he cheated on his wife with me as well. He did leave her a couple months after this began .. i just think its harder to trust because of that
    Ah. "Reconnected." So that's what they're calling it these days.

    Honestly, walk away from this mess. Trust issues aside, you overlapped with his marriage. Who's to say he's even into you specifically? The biggest draw at that point is simply the fact that you are not his spouse. While that doesn't bode well for a future as his spouse, it also doesn't bode well in general.

    Even if he's turning his ways around completely and becoming a better man, he needs time and experience to figure out what kind of person would actually be a good match for him. Rarely is that the first thing that comes along.
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  • GilliC said:
    he cheated on his wife with me as well. He did leave her a couple months after this began .. i just think its harder to trust because of that
    Ah. "Reconnected." So that's what they're calling it these days.

    This is a dumb made up word that is associated with social media.

    Honestly, walk away from this mess. Trust issues aside, you overlapped with his marriage. Who's to say he's even into you specifically? The biggest draw at that point is simply the fact that you are not his spouse. While that doesn't bode well for a future as his spouse, it also doesn't bode well in general.

    Even if he's turning his ways around completely and becoming a better man, he needs time and experience to figure out what kind of person would actually be a good match for him. Rarely is that the first thing that comes along.
    It's awfully funny how the OP expects this bum to make some sort of a funny little U turn and come out of the whole thing as a "better man." HOney, are you kidding??????
  • Its obvious from the doubt in your post that you currently don't trust him and feel like he is going to hurt you.  If you want to trust him you have to tell him how you feel.  Sitting around feeling insecure and waiting for him to do something wrong is going to eat you up and tear apart your relationship one way or another.  
    The past is the past.  Are you the same person who acted like a crazy highschooler? Probably not. You either choose to accept you cannot deal with his past choices or not.

    GL
  • So you slept with him knowing that he was married, and now you're blaming him for being untrustworthy?? You knew he was married and you chose to have sex with him. You can't blame this all on him. I don't know how trustworthy he is now, but I don't think starting a relationship with infidelity is a very good sign. Sorry. I hope you find someone who is single. Any man who would cheat on his wife is not a good catch.
  • So it's bad enough that this dude was married already when you met him, but he ALSO had a girl on the side (not including you)...that's 2 too many other women to worry about, and those are only the ones you actually know about.

    First off, the man is was married, and I don't see why he'd want to jump into another long term, monogamous relationship after a divorce. I'm sure those must take an emotional toll, no matter HOW unhappy the marriage was. If I were in your shoes, I'd get outta that situation before you get hurt. You can do better than deal with all this drama right off the bat. I mean, this is supposed to be the fun, romantic part...and you already have trust issues now. Imagine after the newness and infatuation wear off. Oh boy.
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  • The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, isn't it? 

    I'd be seriously doubting his character.
  • Sounds to me like he likes to always have a plan B. People like that don't tend to change. He does not sound like a good guy. I would break it off.
  • Huh, shocker, he cheated on his wife with you and now you think he might be a cheater? Gee, what tipped you off?

    Also,
    i·ro·ny1
    ˈīrənē,ˈiərnē/
    noun
    1.
    the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

    I'm not sure what you thought it meant, but it doesn't.
  • OP, if it makes you feel better, my XH is still with the girl he was seeing when we split up. And he was flirting with an intern before that. He's been with her for over two years now (plus the overlap with me). So there's some hope for you.

    Of course I have no idea if he's cheating on her or not, so YMMV.
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  • i met him in may and he left the wife in june. He said i made him see everything he was missing. His wife wouldn't go to sleep with him would stay up all night etc, She had a drinking problem that she was secretly keeping.  I wouldn't have continued if he was still married. Hes been divorced over a year. But what does bother me is that he would go to dinners with a woman "friend" for a year or so off and on ( every month or so) lie and tell the wife he was working. He swears nothing happened and he only talked to this woman ( she was a girl he used to like in highschool but lost feelings for)  I just wonder why he would lie if it was nothing?? Shady. He ended his marraige month after I met him, moved out. I found out he used to go out to eat with this other woman friend three months after us dating and he told her then he couldn't be friends with her anymore.  I know i wonder too does he need a plan B? Also what happens if I make him unhappy.. He says his wife let herself go.. idk is he superficial??
  • Even better that he left his wife in the throes of addiction.  Awesome.
  • There is no future here. No matter what happened his wife didn't deserve to be betrayed like that.
  • i agree.  what addiction do u mean? 
  • Addiction to alcohol
  • He said i made him see everything he was missing. His wife wouldn't go to sleep with him would stay up all night etc, She had a drinking problem that she was secretly keeping. ... He ended his marraige month after I met him, moved out.
     
    So hold on.... he cheats, he leaves, he lies, and his ex-wife is the bad guy?!?!  Yeah. I wouldn't believe the above one little bit.  He's a lying jerk.  Run and don't look back.
  • He's just a boyfriend.  Wouldn't you have a lot more fun dating a guy who is and always has been completely trustworthy?

    As an aside, all of this talk about liking this or that person in high school... exactly how long has it been since high school?
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  • Keep in mind you're hearing HIS description of his wife. Of course he's going to make her sound terrible, because it makes him feel better. And even if she was terrible, he should have divorced her, and THEN started sleeping with someone new. There's no excuse for cheating.
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