The curse of Friends Reunited
I joined Friends Reunited way back when... at a time when it cost £7 for 12 months of access to email addresses. At that same time, I was also married to a man I can only describe as an idiot - an alcoholic, violent, evil waste of space who also happened to be my boss at work.

Wandering through the profiles in Friends Reunited I spotted the profile of my first love... it turned out that we were both now living in the same town, far, far away from our hometown. Temptation set in, I paid the £7 and emailed him...

Within two weeks, the following happened:

We met.
We had sex. Frequently.
I was happy.
I quit my job.
I left my husband.
I found out that my ex had another love in his life: drugs.

I made my excuses and walked away with nothing.
(etak, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 10:01, 5 replies)

You definitely did not walk away with nothing.
Self respect is a priceless commodity :)
( Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 10:57, closed)

Oof.
Another one of life's lessons learned the hard way.

From here on in, the only was is up!

Til next time.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 11:07, closed)

I'm with Dixon on this one
Now you know, otherwise you'd have been unhappy AND wondering, and you can get on with finding the one you can be happy with.

Good luck :)
( Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 13:25, closed)

You walked away
without a violent scumbag husband and it sounds like you did at least have a good time with the other guy albeit for a short time :)
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 15 Sep 2008, 15:08, closed)

Top marks for not trying to change him..
But wasn't that a little pious.. assuming they were recreational, not hard stuff.. sounds like it would have been worth mentioning that you would prefer if he went clean if he wanted you to stick around. meh, I dunno.. I changed for mine, that's all!
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Thu 18 Sep 2008, 14:58, closed)