Porn over a relationship?

Hi, I'm new here and an NT. I am 99% sure my ex boyfriend is an aspie.

I'm not really sure what I'm looking to achieve on here, but I'm hoping it will help some of my confussion. I met my ex online around 19months ago, we had the same political views, and we both loved our pets. Quite quickly we were chatting every day (apart from the odd day or two where he was quiet, but I figured he was busy), but he'd send me pictures of his views from work every day, or pictures of my favourite animal if he saw one. We'd also wish each other goodnight. After a 2-3 months of chatting to him I felt like I'd fallen in love with him, I felt he was the one. He decided to book a hotel near where I lived and said he was going for a little holiday and I could meet him if I liked. Anyway, of course I wanted to meet him, and every morning on the lead up he'd send me a little clock as a countdown. I was so nervous to meet him. We met, and he didn't sound like I expected or behave like I'd thought, I put it down to my expectations being off, and I didn't care, I just really liked him.

On the first night we had dinner, and wine, the hotel was kinda falling apart but it was funny, and we laughed about it being like Fawlty Towers. That night he spooned me, and it was he said 'very natural'. I had to iniciate kissing him, I thought he was a gent and maybe shy because I was 12 years younger than him. We then went to makelove, but he made excuses and said he couldn't do it because he was too nervous. The whole weekend he'd constantly watch politics on his phone, or we;d have to watch sport on his computer. I felt that it was really important to him, and I just liked chilling with him. On the last morning of the weekend I iniciated sex again, but he couldnt do it. For the last few hours I thought he'd go home and never speak to me again, as he'd sit staring at his phone not saying much. I thought he wasn't keen on me, or embarrassed about not being able to do anything with me. He went home, and text me the whole time and we met 2 weeks later. My pet had died a few days before the next meet up, so I was upset. The same sort of thing happened again on this weekend, he could't have sex with me, and had to have the room completely pitch black to even try, so I thought he was be really self concious. On the second night he shouted at me, it came from nowhere. He said his dog hadn't been eating well, and I asked him if he'd ever looked up online what it could be (I thought maybe the brand of food or teeth), and he completely flipped, he shouted at me. As soon as the shouting arrived, it had passed. I was stunned. I'd just lost my pet, and no one had ever shouted at me like that before. He went to bed and slept facing the other way, no cuddle or anything. The next day before catching the train home he appologised, and I said it was okay. He said he'd be coming to mine for xmas. So 3 weeks later he came for xmas, and spent it with me and my family.He walked into my house on xmas eve and threw 2 books at me, and said they were my present. They werent wrapped or anything. I didn;t say anything though. My gift to him was a painting of his church that we both use to talk about. I gave him another drawing of mine he loved too, and painted 3 silly things for him, and some other gifts. When I have him his gifts on xmas eve he shouted at me and said he can't open them as it's not xmas. So I thought maybe he had another present for me on xmas day, but he didn't. He said he;d have to buy me something else. He went home a few days later, and went on a huge spending spree for himself, but never bought me anything, just showed it all off to me like it was for me.

Okay, this is going to be too long for everything, so I'll jump to it. We split up in May as he wouldn't replt to my texts, even though he was on Twitter chatting away. So I cried my eyes out for weeks. I then went onto his instagram that he;d made for his dog, and decided to see how they all were as I missed them. Then I noticed cam girls were liking and commenting on his pics. So I thought they were spammers, but they weren't. Then I noticed he was following and liking, and leaving comment on teenage girl accounts (Onlyfan and cam girl ones), they are legal, but they look arounf 15 in some pictures. So I messaged him in disgust about it. He unfollowed them. Then a few weeks later we started talking, and he moved my artwork onto a better place in his house. He;d send me pictures of them, and he'd show me the roses he;d bought because I told him to. We slowly started getting back together, and he was meant to come over before this xmas, but due to lockdown couldn't. So I noticed he was back following those teenage girls again, and commenting. I did further investiagting and it seems he is a financial contributor to them too. I've been heartbroken. He'd never send me any gifts or make love to me, but he would to some teenage girls in Russia. I feel so confused, and hurt. He's 49, so could have daughters their age. I told him I'd wanted a family with him etc. but it looks like he's chosen these girls he'll never meet.

I suppose I'd like to ask is watching cam girls and paying for them normal for aspies? Is it easier than a relationship or something? I just feel so hurt.

Parents
  • Older, single aspie blokes can be worth working with but you need to be aware of his history - if he's been damaged by previous relationships, he'll be hard work - you'll spend your lifetime undoing the defences he's built up to protect himself.   

    A big thing to know is if his parents are still together - that would mean his vision of normality is pair-bonding so he will want to commit to a compatible person.

    We get bullied for our multitude of nerdy/childish interests so if he has no hobbies, it's because he's been crushed by previous partners.    A way to connect to him more deeply is to explore what things he used to do - Lego, models, cars, planes, trains etc.and encourage him to indulge - things like visiting museums etc.     Let him know you understand and are comfortable with his hobbies.

    Think of him as a broken toy that needs to be restored - but keep an eye out for your own needs, wants and desires - just because he's ASD, it doesn't stop him being an a-hole.

    Also - if he's 50 and cannot do relationships, how will he interface to any children?   Will he run away?      Will he just become detached because of the stress of it all?

    Proceed with caution!   Smiley

  • Thank you for your reply :) He'd previously been married to a lady that had pretty bad mental health issues, which I think damaged him, so I was always sensitive with him as I didn't want to trigger anything. My ex's hobby was politics, so I'd always try to get into it deeper with him, but sometimes if I asked him questions to get him to chat to me about it, he'd sometimes reply sharply 'it's not rocket science', which use to sting, as all I wanted to do was get his thoughts on certain areas. He even argued with his neighbours children about politics once. I really do love him, and we;re not speaking anymore because I belittled him about those teenage girls sticking dildos into their bottoms. So thats that. It just hurts.

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  • Thank you for your reply :) He'd previously been married to a lady that had pretty bad mental health issues, which I think damaged him, so I was always sensitive with him as I didn't want to trigger anything. My ex's hobby was politics, so I'd always try to get into it deeper with him, but sometimes if I asked him questions to get him to chat to me about it, he'd sometimes reply sharply 'it's not rocket science', which use to sting, as all I wanted to do was get his thoughts on certain areas. He even argued with his neighbours children about politics once. I really do love him, and we;re not speaking anymore because I belittled him about those teenage girls sticking dildos into their bottoms. So thats that. It just hurts.

Children
  • Thank you. Yeah I know I must move on:) 

  • If he's making choices like sending money to a girl on the internet rather than investing it real life then I think he's firmly in the a-hole category.

    His issue is that there is zero stress from a cam girl - simple transaction - satisfaction guaranteed.    Real life is too much like hard work and nothing is guaranteed - and worse still, he may get stress and hassle from a real person - he's making a very logical choice - from his perspective.

    Sorry, but I think it's time to move on.

  • Politics has been his thing since he was 10 apparently, so I admired that. His other passion was music, he’d play romantic songs to me in the car, and I fell in love with him even more. Umm I guess you’re right about the cam girls being easier for him, but it hurt when I’d send him lingerie pics and he’d only send me a thumbs up emoji. And the fact that he sent them money (£70), when he wouldn’t even send me valentines flowers. Other men sent me flowers, and he didn’t think of sending me any, just said he was one of the many men that fancied me. I’m sad because he’s blocked me on twitter, so I don’t think he’ll speak to me again now. Plus the constant breadcrumbs has been torture for me, when all I wanted was love. 

  • I'd always steer clear of politics as a 'hobby' - it's all opinions so you're always going to end up in an argument - fact-based topics like cars and planes are much easier  Smiley

    As for the cam girls - blokes are lazy so are always looking for the easiest/most accessible outlet for their desires so women flaunting all their specialist sexual skills are easier to think about than trying to deal with the complexity of a real person.