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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 😔

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Whatthefuck3456 · 18/07/2024 22:14

Tell him you’ll get your boobs done (to be honest if your unhappy with yours I would defiantly get them done) but he needs to get a gastric band, Botox and teeth done and a facelift because your not happy how he looks!

CinnamonJellyBeans · 18/07/2024 22:12

Not only does your flabby partner think you're not good enough for him, his friends think that too.

Sorry, but your husbands sounds as thick as mince, not a "surgeon" equivalent, like you seem to think.

Here you are, trying to justify your own breasts on the internet, thanks to his disdain. You liked them before, but now because he doesn't like them, you no longer like them. What has he done to you?

Bin him while you still have a shred of self-esteem left.

Lentilweaver · 18/07/2024 22:11

Oh read your update. Stop making so much effort. He thinks of you as a an object, not a person. Watching talks! While he talks crap with his mates.

reallyworriedjobhunter · 18/07/2024 22:10

Grim.

Discussing women as objects and openly being regretful that they are able to control their own bodies and make their own choices not to surgically change their bodies, and that the husband isn't able to override this.

Just imagine what is going through his head that you don't know about.

Lentilweaver · 18/07/2024 22:09

This is truly disgusting. I would get a severe case of the ick. Objectifying your wife like that and talking about it with friends.
I;d have to leave lots of mags about with buff, half naked, well hung men.

DreamTheMoors · 18/07/2024 22:09

I really expected your DH to use the lame excuse that it was just “locker room talk,” like so many men say.
Or when Trump got caught saying “grab ‘em by the pussy” and Melania called it “boy talk.”
Personally, I think it’s insulting and crude and highly inappropriate to be discussing your own wife that way —but maybe that’s my mum talking.

MartyFunkhouser · 18/07/2024 22:09

Now you know what a basic bloke you’ve married. How tragic that he fantasises about fake tits. It says a lot about how he views you and women in general.

Throwwaway · 18/07/2024 22:07

Tell him to give you some of his tits.
I’d be upset too, you’re not unreasonable
but probably tell him you overheard and how it makes you feel.
I’ve had similar experiences and it really hurts

Misschananderlerbongg · 18/07/2024 22:07

newleafontheplantjohn · 18/07/2024 21:48

Very old-fashioned of him.

Small boobs are in at the moment.

But yeah, what a weird thing to say.

Doesn't even make any sense. Why would anybody like the idea of breast implants just purely because they are breast implants? They are just lumps of silicone.

Some women would look much better without.

Likewise breast implants work really well for some women.

But it seems weird to me to have what sounds like a festish for "fake boobs just for the sake of it.

Thanks for saying small boobs are in at the moment. I think they suit me.

I have low self esteem anyway from a terrible childhood (which he knows all about), and actually my body was one of the things I felt quite positive about.

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Mrsknowitall · 18/07/2024 22:05

Now get on the phone to your friend and tell her how you wish that your husband had a bigger cock! See how he likes it. That’s so nasty of him

Misschananderlerbongg · 18/07/2024 22:05

WalkingaroundJardine · 18/07/2024 22:02

That’s horrible. I don’t blame you for feeling so upset. As another poster said, it’s one thing to have a fantasy but another to be verbally running down both you and your body to a mate and in the same house too! He sounds a right fool.

That’s exactly how it feels! Talking crap behind my back about my body, which up until now I was quite happy with. Now his friends thinks my boobs are crap too, great. It’s the betrayal.

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WalkingaroundJardine · 18/07/2024 22:02

That’s horrible. I don’t blame you for feeling so upset. As another poster said, it’s one thing to have a fantasy but another to be verbally running down both you and your body to a mate and in the same house too! He sounds a right fool.

Misschananderlerbongg · 18/07/2024 22:00

I’ll be honest I didn’t realise how immature he was until tonight. We’ve been together 12 years and he’s usually loyal and quite measured. he’s got a very responsible job which certainly requires a level of maturity (along the lines of surgeon, people die if he doesn’t do his job properly).

We’ve been having marriage counselling because he’s not been making enough effort, is quite grumpy, and I felt taken for granted.
He’s slowly been making more effort, planning things, more physical touch etc)
. But with the therapy he’s refusing to see there’s anything wrong with him. Meanwhile I’ve been bending over backwards, reading books, watching talks about how my attachment style affects our marriage.
It’s not looking good is it.

Thanks for your thoughts everyone I feel so alone.

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outdamnedspots · 18/07/2024 21:59

mrsdineen2 · 18/07/2024 21:21

Eavesdroppers rarely hear good things.

Oh, bugger off. Do you really think that's the most important thing here??

CountFucula · 18/07/2024 21:58

He’s a misogynist. A true, pure un-fixable misogynist. He sees you and all women as fuck holes with tits that he should be able to get at the exact spec he desires.

I could never get past that.

WiddlinDiddlin · 18/07/2024 21:57

Oh I'd have let rip...

'Perhaps when you've been to fat camp and shifted all that poke and had surgery to increase that poke... I'd consider getting a boob upgrade... but really, it might be worth my while just getting the whole man upgraded...."

Maria1979 · 18/07/2024 21:56

Buy him an inflatable doll, put it at your side of the bed, take the children and stay at a friend's/family for a couple of days. Meantime order plenty of brochures on stomach surgery/abs workout programs/diet pills etc in his name...

Grandmasswagbag · 18/07/2024 21:56

I think if he were a lovely man and lovely husband with many attributes I would brush it off as trying to appear 'macho' and fit in with mates 🤢. But it sounds like he's nothing of the sort. The fact that he can reduce a life partner that has breastfed 2 children (his children I assume) to talking about your body parts is absolutely disgusting. The whole thing would be giving me the major ick! It's giving creepy,fat, sweaty, pervy old man vibes..sorry op.

GloriaSmornin · 18/07/2024 21:55

Sounds like a scene from The Stepford Wives, which is hands down one of the most chilling things I watched when I was growing up. I'm really sorry you're dealing with this OP.

5128gap · 18/07/2024 21:54

I can't even list all the types of wrong this is. I'm not surprised you're upset. You're married to a disloyal, immature half wit who appears to believe his wife's body is his possession and has the audacity to imagine he's entitled to 'improve' it to his standards. I'm not even sure where you go with this tbh because it's such a poor indication of his character on so many levels. I hope for your sake he has some beyond fantastic traits to balance it.

TheHuntSyndicate · 18/07/2024 21:54

It's one thing to fantasise about your wife having pneumatic breasts but to casually chat to someone else as if he's hard done by and you're a meanie for not agreeing to have a boob job is very disrespectful.

What a crude oaf he is. Give him a poke in the beer belly and ask him when he's going to join a gym?

DustyLee123 · 18/07/2024 21:54

Suggest he gets a penis enlargement first.

user1471538283 · 18/07/2024 21:54

Well he can undergo major surgery for you then. A gastric sleeve or something for his manhood?

Tell him tonight. See how he likes it.

Zone2NorthLondon · 18/07/2024 21:52

He wants a surgically enhanced wife with big chest aesthetic without regard to your opinion or your reticence to undergo unnecessary surgery
yes I’d let him know you’re unhappy and it’s an inappropriate topic for social chit chat with his mate

Oldseagull · 18/07/2024 21:50

I'd be calling up a friend within earshot and going on about how it would be so amazing to have a husband who had liposuction and penis enlarging surgery. Sadly proclaim yours would never do it, poor thing thinks he's fine. What wife would bother enlarging her breasts for that.

But I'm a bitch.