I think most of you guys are married, but looking for some dating advice and thought I'd start a thread. Didn't see an old one surprisingly.
Recently met a woman 8 years my senior on Tinder (I'm in my mid 30s). She grew up in Uruguay, moved to America six years ago after getting a job as an exec with a major international company. The kind of job where she flies overseas to places like Taiwan or India for a week each month. Kind of blown away that she's even interested in me. Thing is.... She's married and has not told her husband she wants a divorce. She wants to take that slow to ease the transition for their 3 year old. But yeah just kind of wondering how big of a red flag it should be to me that she's already seeing me a little lol. She seems like she's a genuinely good person with a big heart, but yeah y'know?
Says she and her husband sleep in separate rooms, at his request. Today was their five year anniversary and he didn't say anything about it to her. She wanted to have multiple kids, which he agreed to before they married, but now he has taken that back and refuses to have more.
Seems like she's got everything else in her life figured out and is just sort of looking for that last piece of having good companionship. I hope that I'm right about that.
Not gonna read this whole thread (maybe some other time) so what's the TLDR? How'd this work out?
this, personally i would just nope out completely. unless all you want is sex. i wouldnt touch a woman that cheats on her husband. if she cheats on him, she will cheat on you. it also makes you just as shitty as her. dont do it.
Yeah, that's true.
I went through a similar situation to this back in the early 2010's. Met a cute but slightly overweight 25 year old Puerto Rican woman, she asked me out which is nice, and we ended up going on a really fun date. At the end of it she told me that she had a husband, but was trying to get out of the relationship and they'd been growing apart for a while.
All my red flags were raised, and it got even worse when I found out she'd dated a few other guys in the two months before she met me, and hadn't actually talked to her husband about separating yet. However she was gonna file for divorce soon one way or another and was no longer sleeping with him. According to her, he basically ignored/negged her all the time and spent most of his free time "working on his video game backlog". They hadn't been on a date in months and sex wasn't a thing. I'm not gonna chide anybody for playing lots of video games or fighting a backlog, but if it's at the cost of your health and neglecting a cute woman who agreed to marry you, then IDK, that sounds kind of shite.
Well, I went ahead and kept dating her since she said she'd break things off with the husband soon... and did. Within two weeks of our first date she'd moved out of his apartment and got her own place. She also started hitting the gym every morning and lost her marriage "don't care" weight, to the point that a couple months into us dating she was HOT. Like so much so that even nobody here would argue with me. She'd been so sexually inactive with her husband for a while that she also had a raging libido and wanted to bang multiple times a day (once before work, especially if she didn't have time for the gym, 1-2 times in the evening). So that was pleasant.
Her husband, who had also gotten lazy and overweight during the marriage, met with her a few times and begged her to take him back, which she didn't. I actually encouraged her to hear him out. I was never "all in" with her because I didn't respect the way she wasn't honest with her husband. She basically sprang "I'm leaving you" on him one day once she had other things to fall back on (i.e. once her and I were dating and she had her own place).
She actually moved her stuff out of his place while he was at work, then told him over text that she was done. Just totally avoided any kind of responsibility or confrontation, at least until he begged her enough that she met with him a couple times for coffee. She filed divorce papers soon after as well. Because I wasn't that keen on trusting her, and was enjoying bachelor life, I continued dating other people. Was totally honest with her about dating other people. She didn't like it but acted like she accepted it. I encouraged her to also date other people, so she did, then complained to me about how lame and beta they were.
After a few months she broke things off with me... over text message. Hilarious. Said she wanted to be exclusive with me but I wouldn't give her that so she was moving on. I think the last straw was when I spent like all of Christmas day having sex with my previous GF (who I was always on and off with). Post New Years she got distant / suddenly "busy" all the time, then within a couple weeks I got the breakup text. I'd never have run around being such a man-whore with a GF I felt loyal to, but I couldn't feel loyal with her after how she treated her husband. I really kept her at a yardstick-length emotionally. I actually trusted my previous GF a lot more than her and we were just occasional fuck-buddies.
Either way, untrustworthy chick was, again, super hot, and the most fun GF I think I've ever had. She also had lots of money, despite being like 5 years younger than me, and would take me on trips. Not gonna lie, I've missed her here and there and wondered if I made the right choice letting her take off. Never could trust her though. I'd respect it a hell of a lot more if she'd have ended things with the husband in an open and honest way, and done this
before spending several months going on dates with random guys behind his back. She only broke things off with him once she found a guy she actually liked (me).
I wish her the best and everything. No clue what she's up to now since she has like no social media presence besides a very barebones Facebook (which she blocked me on but a friend checked it out recently and said there isn't much on it from the past five years except that she got a motorcycle and spends a lot of time traveling alone). It looks outwardly like she is perpetually single and focused on making as much money as possible. She'd be about 34 now, still in shape. Probably has an Onlyfans.
A few years ago I went and looked at her ex-husband's social media just to see if they'd gotten back together or what. Ended up getting the other side of the story. Going back to that timeframe, he very publically talked about what happened, and what she told me about leaving and filing divorce papers all lined up time-wise. He wrote on Facebook about how totally caught off-guard he was and devastated after being with her for like 7 years. As in, he didn't even know she had an issue with the relationship, then one day, boom, all of her stuff is gone. He tried to patch things up and met with her a few times and didn't get anywhere, and it took him a while to trust anybody again.
Suffice to say: If she'll do that to someone else, she'll do it to you. Gonna repeat that for the people in the back:
If she'll do that to someone else, she'll do it to you.
One silver lining to all of this: After she dumped him, he noticed how fast she was getting in-shape and hotter, so he started working out and losing weight in an effort to win her back. It didn't work, but he discovered that he loved working out, and realized he was doing it for himself, not for her. So he ended up joining this olympic weightlifting gym and getting into ludicrously good shape, making friends (he referred to the gym as his "second family" and how they'd saved him when he was down) and just generally got extremely healthy. Like Brad Pitt in Fight Club shape. I'm gonna guess he had no problems getting anybody he wanted after that.
Guy probably has no idea who I am but I'm really glad he pulled through. I don't regret being a "part" of the situation because if it wasn't me, she would have left him for somebody else. She was 90% out the door already. If I'd stuck around, I dunno how long it would have lasted before she screwed me over as well. Probably well before now though.