u/Efficient-Taro7893

I separated from my husband in mid-2024. After the separation I started casually dating to cope. Last November I met this guy — similar cultural background to me and my ex. It started as lust — he’s attractive, kind, caring — but it’s grown into something deeper on both sides.
Here’s the thing. Early on, before things got serious, he said clearly he wouldn’t date a divorced woman. I didn’t correct him. I told myself it was casual and it didn’t matter. Now six months in, I have real feelings, and he does too. We’ve tried to break up because some part of us knows this is complicated, but we’re too comfortable with each other to actually do it.
I don’t want to tell him. I know how that sounds, but hear me out — a few things have happened that make me wonder if he already knows, or at least suspects:
• I once asked him “what if I were divorced?” — kind of casually, half-testing. He said he’d try to convince his parents.
• Another time, completely out of nowhere, he said his real fear isn’t divorce itself but ending up with someone who’s traumatized and can’t match his excitement about a future. That felt oddly specific.
• He’s said he’d consider staying unmarried because I don’t seem interested in marriage.
• His friend circle overlaps with mine from back home. We have mutuals. People know I was married.
Honestly? I’m okay with him finding out, or already knowing. I just don’t want to be the one to sit him down and say it. It feels too late, and I don’t want the drama of a big confession when he’s already mentioned his fear unprompted.
The honest part I’m not proud of: I’m still traumatized from my marriage. I can’t think about marriage right now. Sometimes I wonder if he’s a rebound, even though he feels like the husband I always wanted. I’m not even legally divorced yet.
My question: do you think he already knows? The hypotheticals, the specific fears about trauma, the mutual friends — am I reading into it, or is he giving me openings?
Has anyone been on either side of something like this? Did your partner already know before you “told” them?

I separated from my husband in mid-2024. After the separation I started casually dating to cope. Last November I met this guy — similar cultural background to me and my ex. It started as lust — he’s attractive, kind, caring — but it’s grown into something deeper on both sides.
Here’s the thing. Early on, before things got serious, he said clearly he wouldn’t date a divorced woman. I didn’t correct him. I told myself it was casual and it didn’t matter. Now six months in, I have real feelings, and he does too. We’ve tried to break up because some part of us knows this is complicated, but we’re too comfortable with each other to actually do it.
I don’t want to tell him. I know how that sounds, but hear me out — a few things have happened that make me wonder if he already knows, or at least suspects:
• I once asked him “what if I were divorced?” — kind of casually, half-testing. He said he’d try to convince his parents.
• Another time, completely out of nowhere, he said his real fear isn’t divorce itself but ending up with someone who’s traumatized and can’t match his excitement about a future. That felt oddly specific.
• He’s said he’d consider staying unmarried because I don’t seem interested in marriage.
• His friend circle overlaps with mine from back home. We have mutuals. People know I was married.
Honestly? I’m okay with him finding out, or already knowing. I just don’t want to be the one to sit him down and say it. It feels too late, and I don’t want the drama of a big confession when he’s already mentioned his fear unprompted.
The honest part I’m not proud of: I’m still traumatized from my marriage. I can’t think about marriage right now. Sometimes I wonder if he’s a rebound, even though he feels like the husband I always wanted. I’m not even legally divorced yet.

I separated from my husband in mid-2024. After the separation I started casually dating to cope. Last November I met this guy — similar cultural background to me and my ex. It started as lust — he’s attractive, kind, caring — but it’s grown into something deeper on both sides.
Here’s the thing. Early on, before things got serious, he said clearly he wouldn’t date a divorced woman. I didn’t correct him. I told myself it was casual and it didn’t matter. Now six months in, I have real feelings, and he does too. We’ve tried to break up because some part of us knows this is complicated, but we’re too comfortable with each other to actually do it.
I don’t want to tell him. I know how that sounds, but hear me out — a few things have happened that make me wonder if he already knows, or at least suspects:
• I once asked him “what if I were divorced?” — kind of casually, half-testing. He said he’d try to convince his parents.
• Another time, completely out of nowhere, he said his real fear isn’t divorce itself but ending up with someone who’s traumatized and can’t match his excitement about a future. That felt oddly specific.
• He’s said he’d consider staying unmarried because I don’t seem interested in marriage.
• His friend circle overlaps with mine from back home. We have mutuals. People know I was married.
Honestly? I’m okay with him finding out, or already knowing. I just don’t want to be the one to sit him down and say it. It feels too late, and I don’t want the drama of a big confession when he’s already mentioned his fear unprompted.
The honest part I’m not proud of: I’m still traumatized from my marriage. I can’t think about marriage right now. Sometimes I wonder if he’s a rebound, even though he feels like the husband I always wanted. I’m not even legally divorced yet.

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I’m into the arts but work in tech — so it’s AI this, AI that by day, and galleries by the weekend. I will talk your ear off, make you laugh, drag you out for coffee, and then want to come home and read next to you in silence. I’m equal parts cute and hot depending on the hour.

Looking for:
Nerdy, well-read, and cultured. Has opinions about books, films, tech, science the works.
5’9”+ (sorry, it’s a thing)
Lives downtown — I want post-walk coffees, not post-walk Ubers home
Believes in monogamy, “the one,” romance, all of it
Anxious attachment welcome (I get it)
Any ethnicity, 2026 is the year of the open heart
Long-term or nothing, basically

I do NOT do nonchalant. I want super-chalant. A yearner. Born to love. The guy who makes the moves, sends the good morning text, plans the date. If “playing it cool” is your brand, we won’t vibe.

Send me a cute intro, tell me what you’re reading, what your downtown coffee order is, something that makes me smile. And of course we can exchange pictures.

PS: Not looking for some community dick.
Please and thank you.