Neil Delamere's Sunday Best

Our agony aunt Niamh Fitzpatrick joined us this Sunday to give some advice to a listener dealing with a break-up. Her ex-partner ended the relationship due to trust issues, having been hurt in the past. Hi Neil and Niamh, I am a 41-year-old girl who recently broke up from a really good relationship. I had finally met someone 2 years ago who was kind, genuine, honest, trustworthy and was someone with similar values to me. We got on fantastically well, we were so compatible, everyone even said that we were so well suited. He is divorced and has self-esteem issues from his marriage break-up (his ex had been having affairs), but this wasn’t obvious at the start. He became very negative about us and said that we were ‘too good to last’… ‘how could a girl like me be with him’…. etc. The reasons he gave for the break up were pathetic excuses. He was looking for problems, making problems out of small things. He said he didn’t feel we had a future. He was upset. I told