My ex
My ex boyfriend is 14 years older than I am. I didn't find this a problem but he did. I think his perception of the age difference was behind a lot of other problems.

He was the third and last of my long distance relationships. I live in London but my first bf lived in Glasgow. My second in South Wales (with his wife) and the third lived in Deal. Probably. We were "together" for three years but I never found out where he lived.

He lived, he said, with his ex. I have heard of this sort of arrangement before and wasn't bothered by it. His ex, it seemed, didn't like the idea of him seeing someone else and so I was kept quiet. I could never visit and never call. He kept his address secret from me.

This gets better ... His ex was also his boss. They lived in the same house and worked in the same business. He also looked after my guy's investments. If all of this was true, he had him by the balls.

That's the thing. To this day I don't know whether any of this was true. It is possible that it was. He was in his fifties when we broke up. Retirement was looming and he was feeling insecure about his future. The only way he could have stayed with me was to make a leap of faith and leave everything behind.

He couldn't do that and we broke up.

Of course, it could have been a load of old cods and he was only seeing me for sex. I will never know.
(BearWithLittleBrain, Sat 6 Dec 2008, 13:48, Reply)