Tina Maya
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85 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Tina Maya’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A friend of mine described it really well. She said, it's not like he's a catch me if you can type person. He actually lies to make himself as normal as possible. Just like your average bloke. And it's true. His facade was authenticity.
There's definitely an element of control. He can walk away, but he can remotely control the rest of your life.
So I was born in Iran, actually, before the revolution. We came here in 1978. And I grew up in southeast England, so... very green, leafy parts of the world.
I went to Australia and Thailand and India as well, a lot of places, Costa Rica, you know. I spent a lot of time sort of building my career and living life.
He was an incredible baby, and I really enjoyed becoming a mother. But her husband, on the other hand, struggled. He wasn't a very hands-on father. It was just me over me against the world for a while.
I was at a mom's drinks thing, and I remember having a conversation with one of the moms who had a lot of problems with the second child. She said to me, I'm like, you've got to write, like, one child. The dream.
He spends more time with friends. He goes to sleepovers. He's got a little bit more independence. I wasn't actively going out and dating or anything like that. I was so busy, I wasn't even thinking about dating. It wasn't on the radar.
He's a very charismatic person. He's a very good-looking person. I suppose he was a bit flirtatious.
And then one day he texted me, and I had just closed a very significant deal. So I was in a very good mood, and he said that he was in the area and asked me if I'd fancy going for a drink. That night, her son was at a sleepover.
We sat down and started talking. He was very... open, asked me about, you know, my life.
He told me that his ex-wife, they lived together in the U.S., and she had cheated on him, and she'd run off with his best friend.
She was very bitter about the fact that he couldn't give her children. And then he went on to tell me about the fact that he'd had cancer and a testicular cancer. So it was impossible.
He seemed almost a little bit vulnerable. Like, he had this sort of emotional vulnerability about him. The night was going well.
I didn't see it as being a long-term, serious relationship prospect. That was not where my head was. That's not the sort of time that I had. I wasn't interested in bringing anyone into my son's life. It was just letting my hair down and having a bit of fun, really. And Neil knew how to have a good time. He had that sort of cheeky, chappy, Jack the Lad kind of thing about him. It was fun.
At the end of their night together... He walked me home in the very early hours of the morning.
Before they slept together... I said to him that I wasn't on the pill. Does he have anything? He said, no, I'm really allergic to latex.
I was quite adamant about using withdrawal methods. And I'd asked him, did you withdraw in time? Because if I could have gone and got a Plan B... But he was like, no, absolutely.
He said that he went to the London School of Economics, which is sort of Harvard Business School level.
I didn't really question it too much. I wasn't thinking of him as, you know, husband material or something, so things weren't registering too much with me. Eventually, Neil's appeal started to wear off. There was just one too many things that just wasn't adding up or ringing true. Like, he would make a plan and then have some weird excuse. And like, it's starting to be less fun now.
A few weeks later, she didn't feel quite like herself. I was misplacing things. I was looking for my car keys all over the place and realized that I'd thrown them in the wheelie bin with my rubbish when I threw the rubbish out. This feeling was familiar. Funny thing, I normally only do things like that when I'm pregnant. I don't get morning sickness. I don't get cravings. But I get very forgetful.
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