Now I'm Single, I Only Date Men In Open Relationships - Refinery29

Now I'm Single, I Only Date Men In Open Relationships  Refinery29

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FB relationship status after divorce…

I’m dating someone new for only two months now. (43/m and 40/f) He said he was divorced nearly 3 years ago and moved out of his marital home into a new one. They have joint custody of 2 teen boys and says they have a great co-parenting relationship.

Out of curiosity one day I looked at the “ex-wife’s” FB b/c they are still friends…her status still says “married since 2010”, she’s been recently active and all the wedding pics are still up. I mentioned that I thought the status was odd 2 weeks ago and if they were only separated. He said it was finalized, and today the status remains unchanged.

Is this a red flag?

TL/DR: New boyfriends ex wife still has her FB status set to married. Should I just ignore?

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Fleets target new suppliers as manufacturer relationships hit new low - Autocar

Fleets target new suppliers as manufacturer relationships hit new low  Autocar

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I (24F) made a friend (19M) online, who wants to talk everyday and all day long but I can’t offer them that constant level of communication.

We have been in constant communication for about 3 and a half months now and I find that our friendship is overall wholesome and supportive and we share a lot in common. These are traits that I am not able to fully find in my other friendships.

There are however limitations to our friendship which are that, we have never met, we live in different parts of the world and we are likely never going to meet each other. I have also never seen what he looks like and nor heard what he sounds like.

While I appreciate the friendship and the emotional support it offers, I am in general not comfortable spending my whole day talking to someone. At the beginning, I did allowed myself to indulge in lengthy conversations throughout the day but it was messing up my daily routine and sleep schedule. So, over the past couple of weeks, I have reeling this back to focus on myself.

Yesterday was a Saturday and I carved out an 1 hour in the morning to talk to him while I was in a coffee shop. When I was done at the coffee shop I let him know I was heading home and he told me to text him when I got home and I did exactly that, I texted him and let him know that I was going to charge my phone. Later in the evening he texted me something along line of “have you gone MIA again?” And that kinda pissed me off because it made me feel like he expects constant communication and if I am free I should be texting him. Which is annoying because sometimes I just wanna chill on my own.

I am looking for a second opinion on this.Am I being a shitty friend in this situation? How do kindly let him know that I don’t wanna talk everyday and all day, without sounding like a b*tch?

Tl;dr: my friend wants to talk everyday and all day but I can’t offer him that. He is starting to get annoying about it.

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I (21f) think my bf (27m) lied to me

When I first met my bf, I mentioned wanting to draw him. He said, "I tried to draw myself once! Wanna see?" And showed me a painting of himself.

Several months later, when he was moving stuff around, I found that painting face down. On the back, it had a note from his ex, saying she loved him, that the painting was for him. But I couldn't remember if he had said "this is a painting of me" or "I did this painting."

Well, I just now got the answer. I was going through our old texts because I miss him, and I found him saying "I did this painting".

I'm pretty upset at the idea that he would lie to me. I understand that maybe, if your ex is still a person you care about, you'd keep a really nice present they gave you. But why would he lie and say he painted it? It gives me a bad taste in my mouth.

Tldr: bf said he painted something but I figured out it was from his ex

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My(24M) GF’s (22F) younger brother calls her a Wh*re in front of her family.

So I have been with this really nice girl for about 7 months now. Let’s call her Blue.

Now Blue lives with her family. She has two brothers and parents. Her older brother(in his late 20’s) moved out very long ago. He’s married too. Let’s call him X. Her younger brother(16) lives with the family too. Let’s call him Y. Blue works in a cafe. The main reason that Blue still lives with her family is because Blue is not very financially independent. She’s doesn’t earns a lot and slightly depends on her family.

Now I knew about Blue’s family behaviour towards her. I knew they were really mean to her, they treat her so bad. And they really want her to move out of their house. Now I was in her place last week just went to pick her up and I ended up going to her house. Now Y just shouted at her for a small mistake she did and called her a dumb wh*re in front of her parents. Her mom just laughed and agreed with him.

This isn’t the only insult she gets. They call her really bad names and humiliate her so much. We talked about it earlier many times.

Now about me, I’m in my final year of college and I already got an internship at a very good tech company and the probability is very high that they would hire me permanently. So right now I’m getting paid well enough that I can get a place for us. It would be not that big but still she can move in with me.

I told her this news last week. She’s was really happy and excited about it. I mean she was literally jumping around. But idk what happened, just yesterday she called me and told that she can’t move in with me. Now I know how much she wants to move out from that house and suddenly out of nowhere she’s doesn’t want to.

I, of course asked her why but she is just ignoring my question. Now she’s a very nice and caring girl. She’s works very hard at her job and sacrifice many things for others. Now I’m thinking her parents must have said something to her about moving with me.

Now X is different than the family. He’s a nice guy and probably the only one in her family who actually cares about Blue. So I’m thinking of telling X what I just told you all and listen to him. I’m really positive he would be on my side. And if he agrees than it would be easy to convince Blue.

Now I don’t know how to feel about it. For some reason, I’m feeling a lot of guilt. I mean all she wanted earlier was to live together with me and now she don’t. About our relationship, it’s going very fine. I met her at the same cafe where she’s works. So I don’t think, she’s not moving with me because of our relationship.

(Apologies if there’s any mistake in my English. Not my first language)

TL;DR : My GF’s younger brother called her a wh*re infront of her parents and her mom just laugh about it. They call her many names and humiliate her. They want her to move out of their house. My GF is not financially independent, so she can’t move out. I got a good job offer coming who pays me well enough to buy us a place. She was excited at first but she declined later. I’m thinking it’s because of her family. What to do now?

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My (23F) boyfriend (23M) is putting his friends before me?

My (23F) boyfriend (23M) is putting his friends before me? Now, this might just be me exaggerating or something, but here’s the story, apologies for the bad formatting as this is being typed on my phone.

Today, my boyfriend tells me he has plans to go out with his friends on the weekend and that it’s for a friends birthday, he lets me know he will be drinking. This would be okay, if not for the other day him telling me he was not feeling well, as in coughing, nauseous, fatigued, not eating. He said he was feeling worse today, so I was a little suspicious as to why he wouldn’t stay in and rest?

Here’s why I was really ticked off: We don’t live very far, about a 2 hour drive as he is living near his college right now. The problem is he hasn’t been coming around, and I don’t mean as often, I mean at all. He doesn’t even call with me on the phone anymore, at all. We used to do this daily, however he blames this inconvenience on not wanting to “bother me if I’m busy”. I’ve told him nothing has changed and my schedule is still the same as it has always been, and this has been going on for about a month and a half.

Anyway, so on top of him already not feeling well, he hasn’t made time to even hear each others voices, but he’s willing to go out with his very, very, POS friends. Now we did have a conversation about this, or tried to but he kind of just kept missing the point, so I suggested we come back to it a little later, which I still plan to, I’m just not sure what I should say or if I should say anything at all.

tl;dr my boyfriend stopping calling or coming over, claiming it to be because we were so busy, even though his final exams are over and my schedule is the same as ever. He then tell me he’s so sick he can barely move, but he’s planning to go out and drink with his friends on the weekend. Now I’m not sure if he’s putting his friends above simply giving me a call every once in a while, or even staying in to get rest because he claims he is not feeling well, or if I am just being dramatic.

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