Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Partner in massive victim position giving me the 'ick

185 replies

robertaplant · 08/10/2024 23:06

My GF & I were looking at theatre tickets in London as something fun to do, but then she mentioned it was the local beer festival and things shifted. She got upset because she realised hadn’t been added to our friends' WhatsApp group, saying that our mutual friend always adds his partner into everything. Since he created the group, she made me feel terrible about it, even though it wasn’t something I controlled.
She then said she didn’t want to go to anyway and shut down the conversation.
She then wonders why she doesn't have any friends...For perspective she's 38 but feels a lot younger around stuff like this.
I know I should try to see things from her perspective, but it feels like getting punched in the gut repeatedly when she starts pulling this victim crap on me. I literally can't handle it and want to run, but prior to that i get really really angry and i don't understand it.

OP posts:
robertaplant · 08/10/2024 23:31

@Sixteenandfourteen789 I'm just freaking out because I feel like she's in a victim position and that it's actually ingrained as part of her personality. For example she'll say "I've got no friends" and then make herself invisible by refusing to attend a festival that she hasn't been personally invited to, but that everyone will want her there, but just invited me knowing i'll invite her.

OP posts:
robertaplant · 08/10/2024 23:30

@VWAirbag yes that's basically it. Mentioning theatre tickets is a distracting part of the story but was trying to say I was trying to plan us a nice/fun weekend

OP posts:
TheShellBeach · 08/10/2024 23:26

What have the theatre tickets got to do with the beer festival and the WhatsApp group?

TheShellBeach · 08/10/2024 23:24

I don't understand. Your OP is very unclear.

It sounds like you're impatient with her for something or other, but you haven't mentioned what it is.

Codlingmoths · 08/10/2024 23:22

It is very hard to tell who is being unreasonable here. She may be being petty and childish, or she may be systematically left out of your activities and plans while you gaslight her that she’s the problem. HTH.

Sundaymondaytuesdayetc · 08/10/2024 23:19

You sound as though you don't like her very much. Your comments about her are pretty unpleasant.
Perhaps you both might be better off finishing your relationship.

Sixteenandfourteen789 · 08/10/2024 23:19

You haven’t really asked us a proper question op? Can you elaborate a bit?

Are you saying that you are fed up with your gf for acting in an immature and insecure way even though she is nearly forty? And you can’t discuss it with her?

Fwiw it’s the “not being able to discuss” issue that is the killer. You can solve just about every problem if you can discuss it.

Are you asking whether it’s a justifiable reason to split up with her?

Dramatic · 08/10/2024 23:16

I'm struggling to understand what you mean, is she upset because other people's partners are in a group chat and she hasn't been added?

VWAirbag · 08/10/2024 23:13

It’s quite hard to understand what has happened but I think you’re saying she was upset because your friend has invited you to a beer festival via a WhatsApp group and she hasn’t been invited. I’m
not sure how the theatre tickets fit in.

robertaplant · 08/10/2024 23:06

bump

OP posts:
Swipe left for the next trending thread