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Over heard DH on the phone

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Misschananderlerbongg · 18/07/2024 21:18

I really am genuinely wondering if I’m being unreasonable.

Just overheard DH on the phone and it was clear at the other end his friend was talking about the fact his wife had just had a boob job. They’re not close friends.

DH then said ‘I can only dream, that would be amazing’.

Then ‘every Man I know that paid for it had said it was a great investment, money well spent, no one has regretted it’. He’s brought this up with me before.

Then ‘oh I know it’s a no go here, she wouldn’t go for it’ in a very sad voice.

‘It needs to be initiated by the woman, I can’t bring it up’. Then what a lucky guy you are type chat.

This has made me very upset for a few reasons:

  1. I have small boobs, but have breast fed 2 kids and think they’re in pretty good shape
  2. it’s major surgery and he’s seen me go through major medically required surgery
  3. HE has put on weight, I have not and I never comment on it and wouldn’t dream or commenting on it
  4. He never compliments me or makes me feel sexy, and now I know he doesn’t like my boobs.

But I’m tired and emotional and keen to understand if I’m in the wrong? It just feels like a betrayal to talk about my body like this 😔

OP posts:
TheHuntSyndicate · 18/07/2024 23:33

I wonder if he planned for you to overhear so that in his mind you would think 'Oh no! He's going to leave me unless I have a boob job!'

cheeseislifeyes · 18/07/2024 23:18

Misschananderlerbongg · 18/07/2024 23:15

Thanks so much to each and every one of you who has posted, it’s really helping.

He just came to apologise again and I remembered years ago he asked me if I wanted to get a boob job, he’d pay… he admitted that was a terrible thing to say. I’m no further forward though, still angry and no amount of apologising is changing that.

I know others may disagree but i would personally tell him that he should get a penis enlargement and some other major surgery that's the equivalent of a boob job. i just feel he deserves a taste of his own medicine. you deserve better. please remember that

Anele22 · 18/07/2024 23:17

mrsdineen2 · 18/07/2024 21:21

Eavesdroppers rarely hear good things.

Oh fuxk off

Misschananderlerbongg · 18/07/2024 23:15

Thanks so much to each and every one of you who has posted, it’s really helping.

He just came to apologise again and I remembered years ago he asked me if I wanted to get a boob job, he’d pay… he admitted that was a terrible thing to say. I’m no further forward though, still angry and no amount of apologising is changing that.

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MrsGhastlyCrumb · 18/07/2024 23:14

Does he want a human partner or a Stepford Wife? I'm sorry, that's a sickening thing to have heard. What your boobs are like are irrelevant really.

cheeseislifeyes · 18/07/2024 23:10

tell him to get penis enlargement

Towelmode · 18/07/2024 23:07

Ask him when he’s booked in for a penis enlargement as you are longing for some girth.

Lentilweaver · 18/07/2024 23:06

Oh and OP what happens when your "incredible body" goes the way of all bodies in your 40s or 50s?

Lentilweaver · 18/07/2024 23:05

I am also old and agree with you @shoutingoutloud.

Sleepydoor · 18/07/2024 23:05

Misschananderlerbongg · 18/07/2024 21:40

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the responses and it’s really making me see things clearly.

I think if he was complimentary about me and my body, this would affect me less. If I felt desired and if he hadn’t mentioned the boob thing before (but he has complimented boob jobs several times in the past).

I did bring it up with him, he was mortified. Said it wasn’t meant like that at all. He seems genuinely ashamed and says he’ll make it up to me, I’ve got an incredible body etc. but I can’t unhear what he said.

We’ve also been doing couples therapy and he’s been making zero bloody effort, so that came out too. I also rarely feel supported by him with my career… it all just came out. I read him the riot act, he says he’ll get better but I don’t know. I feel like I deserve better 😔

You do! I hope he steps up.

shoutingoutloud · 18/07/2024 23:03

This is so wrong. How did the world become like this?

Everyone's body is how it is. If you don't like someone else's body, don't form a close relationship with them. If you do like their body, and who they are, form a close relationship, love how they change as you age together. That is NORMAL.

I'm older than most of the people posting here and I can see how fucked up this is. When I was a young woman these buy-it-off-the-shelf bodily modifications were extremely rare amongst us plebs.

Now it's come for all of us, because we are numerous and a lucrative market. You are being preyed on by big medicine. If I were a young woman now, my absolute deal breaker would be:

  1. a man who watched (modern) porn which leads into the idea of body modification.
  2. a man who thought body modification (other than a tattoo) was acceptable.

Back in the 1980s when I was a young woman, the world was pretty horrific for women. But now without a doubt it's much worse.

SpilltheTea · 18/07/2024 23:02

Why is it always the fat bastards that run their mouths like this? You deserve and could do so much better.

MakeMeAirtight · 18/07/2024 23:02

Terrible shithousery from him. And as for regretting it, those thousands with the PIP implants fitted well into the 2000s definitely do regret it now they're getting carved up to have them removed.

ShinyPebble32 · 18/07/2024 23:01

As someone who is saving up for my own boob job, where are all these men who are happy to ‘invest’ in their wives surgery! Can his friend have a word with my DH!

Seriously though, what a total shitbag to have that conversation when you were in the house and there was a chance you could hear, that shows a massive lack of respect and consideration. We’ve all have chats with our best friends where we’ve said less than complimentary things about our partners, but I would never, ever do it with him in the house - it wouldn’t seem right, even if they were in the other room.

Dayoldbag · 18/07/2024 22:59

OP, honestly, he really is the most awful moron.
Has he no shame at all?
I would be mortified to find I was married to such a sleaze.
Forget about your boob's....which sound great by the way....and only nourished his two children....prick!

I think this is the moment you wake up to the fact that he actually isn't good enough for YOU.

I would have the Ick and I wouldn't so much as make him a cup of tea.
I would be so busy getting myself organised.
Don't hesitate to share what you heard him say. I would shame him and dump his ass.

This is all on him. What a moron.
Is he 12...... salivating over a boob job🤢🤮

Scentedjasmin · 18/07/2024 22:59

Why don't you book him in for a consultation for a liposuction, penis extension and ball wax? At the very least apply for all the brochures in his name. How dare he wish you to have surgery. Absolutely no need for you to feel self conscious. Just get angry. There is nothing wrong with you!

UpThereForThinkingDownThereForDancing · 18/07/2024 22:58

My respect for him would evaporate and with it any sexual attraction for him.

A man who thinks surgically altering his wife is a good investment. 🤢🙄
What about loving your wife and her body being the physical presence of a person he loves, being grateful if it is healthy and brings her joy, though dance or running or cuddling, or any number of ways a body can give you a fun life... if sensory pleasure can be enjoyed through it, and being grateful that he can be part of that.

What. A. Dick.

Fraaahnces · 18/07/2024 22:58

Gross behaviour… perhaps it’s time to leave ads for penis enlargement surgery and erection enhancement devices around the home.

ColinMyWifeBridgerton · 18/07/2024 22:56

I'd really struggle with this OP. There's something so dehumanising in that conversation. An investment, as if he's talking about buying an extra bit of gear for his domestic sex appliance.

Does this man who claims to love you really think that you should undergo actual surgery to make your body more sexually desirable to him? Why would he think that? You are a full person. Your body is your actual fucking body, that you, the person whose body it is, inhabit. It is yours, it isn't some toy for him to add to or stick random bits of plastic onto for his own gratification.

The way he talks about no man regretting the decision to spend the money makes it seem like he thinks that your body exists mainly to cater to his sexual appetites, so anything that makes you sexier to him is a good investment. Fuck that OP.

Amch · 18/07/2024 22:55

Tell him you want a boob job, get him to ‘front it’ but actually just cop the money and go on a nice holiday (joke)

Zebedee999 · 18/07/2024 22:54

Send him a load of pictures of actual boob jobs gone wrong. Natural size / shape is ALWAYS better than false except in the minds of very immature young men.

rubyroola · 18/07/2024 22:54

Many men make me feel physically sick. This is why.

JusWunderin · 18/07/2024 22:53

I would buy a sex doll with massive boobs, and some boobie stress relief novelty toys, leave them on the bed and leave. Then when he calls tell him to cry to his new rubbery wife because you’re about to go find a man who doesn’t mind sucking on your smell titties.

but that’s just me.

honeyfox · 18/07/2024 22:52

I'd be looking at upgrading HIM, to be honest.

Oh and tell your counsellor about this one.

labamba007 · 18/07/2024 22:52

Perhaps have a rather loud conversation with your friend about how you wish your husband's penis was bigger but sadly it is what it is.