hi this is my first post so please excuse me if im not playing by the rules!
just some advise please!
I have been dating my partner for the last 7 months! firstly there is an age difference of 17 years! im 22 he is 39 but this has never bothered me but i think it bothers him!
anyway when i met him he was living with his ex partner! they were together 12 years and are still friends to a point! he had left her for 2years and came back to live in his house 2months prior to meeting me!
this is where the difficulty lies!
when he started seeing me he decided to ask her to leave. he told me he couldnt tell her was seeing anyone else because she would fight him for a stake in the house which i understand she is entitled too! he has offered her five grand to leave and she has accepted! he has a claim going through at the moment for an accident he had at work a few years ago and should be receiveing the money soon!
so she wont leave until she has the money!
even as i am writing this i feel a fool!
so i am with him i know him and her! only a couple of his friends know about us because most of the others are her cousins or brothers! so i feel like we are a lie!
we have nowhere to go i recently moved back in with family because i couldnt afford to keep up a fata i had! he wasnt happy but i was hoping it would push things along!
so our sex life has become non existent! we go out together all the time i work evenings in a pub but he comes in everynight i work! i see him most nights im not working (we drive out to wierd pubs) but there are the occasional nights when he says to her he is going up the pub and she asks if she can go with him! now his excuse is she doesnt think im seeing anyone so why would it be a problem!
but i hate it! i just want everyone to know im with him! we are arguing all the time lately because i hate being let down by him! but he cant understand it!
i always question whether he is still with her he tells me no and the circumstances seem that way! she thinks he is with someone else and has even started seeing someone herself but when i ask him to just tell her then he brings up the whole it will go to court and she will be there for ages!
anyway it has come to it now that he says im mad and keep hassling him but my only problem lies with him living with another woman! he is asking me to be patient surely he can put up with a bit of hassle until she is gone!
i feel like just finishing with him i said to him why dont we cool it off until you have everything sorted but he didnt want that i dont really i love being with him other than these arguments over her we get on really well. we have the same sense of humour we have talked about spending our lives together and kids etc.
i just dont know whether i am being taken for a fool
can i have your opinions please?