How would you deal with this dating situation ?
I am 50f he’s 50m I’ve met him 3 weeks ago, he seems lovely, however talks frequently about his ex, when it is not even relevant, I’ve called him out on it a few times; it has nothing to do with jealousy but I am not there either to listen to his past history and stories and wanting to go out and have fun. I just wondered what other peoples thoughts on this was?
For example yesterday must’ve seen him three hours, during that time I had mentioned something to do with Home furnishing and asked him if he had these and then he related it back to his ex and that she has this at her house. He’s also said he left her, wasn’t in love.. blah blah I’ve taken my blinkers off and I’m not naive.
I recently split with someone but don’t drop them in the conversation 20 times during a date.
I’m just finding it a bit overwhelming and thoughtless, I mentioned I had a ex whose ex was massively involved and it caused issues and we split and said I don’t want a repeat of that.
I’ve just said please don’t keep bringing her up because I’m finding it a bit odd plus the fact I need to keep repeating that this person is irrelevant to me