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Overthinking ex

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February 2023

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Posted Mon February 13, 2023 9:38pmReport post

Has anyone ever had a 'gut feeling' before the knock on the door?



I'm a worried ex wife.



My children spend equal time between mine and my ex's house. At the moment I can't shake off a gut feeling that there will soon be a knock at his door.



He has a porn addiction, suffers with his mental health and has attempted numerous times to get in to my adult friends pants (this was both when we were together and now).

Now I'd been made aware of him messaging a friend's daughter who is 13. I knew at the present moment there was nothing sexual in the conversation, however some of the content I find worrying as I, as an adult wouldn't ask my friends children some of what he is asking them. On asking him if he had messaged the said teenager. He swore it wasn't him. The teenager has now blocked him.

I've read some of the previous threads and there appears to be a few that show their person has a history of watching porn and also goes looking for harder porn to satisfy there needs

I'm at my wit's end as I don't have evidence to go to the police myself but I really don't know what to do next so to speak.



Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Edited by moderator Tue February 14, 2023 10:38am

Somebodyhelpme

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November 2024

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Posted Sun November 17, 2024 9:22pmReport post

Hi, I know you wrote this a long time ago but did your gut feeling ever get resolved?!

Crushed

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July 2024

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Posted Mon November 18, 2024 7:25pmReport post

I had a strange feeling in the few months leading up to the knock. It was like a sense of impending doom and worrying about things that could possibly happen to my boys etc... I had never had anything like that before in my life and don't tend to struggle with anxiety.

Hope you're okay xx

Smile through tears

Member since
September 2021

2596 posts

Posted Tue November 19, 2024 3:24amReport post

I noticed one or two strange occurrences and wish now I'd have acted on them, but you never ever think a loved one could possible be involved in this world.

All I know at that time, my son was a very lonely and isolated man, although he lived 'normally' - no one had any idea he was heading in for trouble or what lay ahead .

He needed help - not the severe punishment he got.

Edited Tue November 19, 2024 3:25am

rainyday52

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April 2023

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Posted Tue November 19, 2024 10:23amReport post

We were worried about our son as he was dealing with a very difficult marriage which he has now been shown was coercive and controlling, but also he did 99% of the childcare including night time stuff when they were babies as well as holding down a good job. We often wondered if he would reach breaking point and I even said one day that I hoped he didn't find comfort in drugs or alcohol so I guess i did have a sense of foreboding - but never in a million years that it would be what it turned out to be.

Ocean

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September 2023

792 posts

Posted Tue November 19, 2024 8:00pmReport post

I had previously been worried about my son as I'd found out he had been communicating on line in a way which boardered on inappropriate in his late teens. When this came to light he accessed help through his GP and went through CBT. During Covid I became worried about his mental health again he was married by then with his own family, he was working from home and had no social life. It was during this time that he reverted to his old behaviour which resulted him offending in the way he did.