A word of advise: Don't Google your ex! Having recently been reconnected with some old school friends online, my thoughts went to think about other people that have passed through my life... old work colleagues, ex-boyfriends, old dates. This made me turn to google and I tried to remember some names.

Obviously the more common names did not give much as it is like looking for needle in a haystack, but some of the more unusual names gave direct results. One of my exes was found very easy - there was a picture of him with his arm around a woman looking very cosy. I recognised her as the same woman that was with him when I bumped into him about a year after we went our separate ways. Well, that is ok I thought, they are obviously still together and happy. Good for them. Then I did the mistake of actually looking at the date of the picture... and realised that it was taken while we were still supposed to be a couple!!

Did I notice anything - no! Did I have any suspicions at the time - no! I was travelling a lot for work, and was even stationed abroad for a few months. We basically did really just have a long distance relationship at the time so how would I notice it? I remember him actually being very jealous while I was away, calling and sending text messages asking me if I had been seeing someone else while I was away. Of course I did not, but this jealousness was what really killed our relationship in my eyes. He seemed so possesive and trying to be controlling. I never realised he was acting like this just because he was the one having an affair(or at least I think so now that I have seen the pictures).

On another search, I remembered the name of one disastrous date many years ago that I had forgotten about. It was a blind date ok and those can be pretty horrific under normal circumstances. Anyway, this guy now seems to have predicted that the end of the world is near and have even published the date for it to happen. Made me laugh, and at the same time I made myself the promise to never google an ex (or even old blind date) again. I just don't want to know what lunatics I have been out with. I will however carefully google any future dates just to be on the safe side!