"subsidizes" his needs.? He is 52, never married. They were together for 15 years but he never married her and they remain friends, now I have just learned WITH BENEFITS. He says he doesn't sleep around to get his needs met, and stays disease-free. He still socializes with her. She "knows him best." He also has just broken up recently with a GF of 5 years b/c but he doesn't know why she left him. He did mention she had trouble with this ex relationship. I'm his first relationship since the last one and we've become exclusive, intimate and he dropped that FWB bombshell on me New Year's night! I know lots of people have open relationships, sleep with their exes...sigh. He has not called me since NYE when he revealed this. It has been 4 days since a call, or even a text. I am beside myself...feel like I am reeling and do not know what to make of this. Would appreciate anyone's insights into WTF just happened to me. Until that night, we were progressing nicely in our relationship. He also said he would stop having relations with the ex when he was in a new relationship, starting that night with me. We had an amazing night together; now nothing. My gut tells me he is a commitment phobe and that she is his security blanket and sexual outlet with no commitment. I also suspect that he still is romantically attached though he denies this. Your thoughts (serious only please...this is embarrassing)?
My new BF of 3 weeks has just confessed he sleeps with his ex-GF, who
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