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Is this just having a laugh or belittling?

59 replies

2w3ee32w · 18/11/2024 14:17

How would you feel if your partner 'quizzed' you on certain things that he knows you don't know the answer to - eg who sings this song/ wrote this poem/what's this flower etc.? Both in front of others and also alone. Made me feel stupid in front of his parents when I didn't know who sang a couple of songs on radio.

Maybe I'm being sensitive, I'd just be interested on opinions.

OP posts:
Lindjam · 18/11/2024 18:34

I would dump him, he sounds like a berk who enjoys belittling you.

coxesorangepippin · 18/11/2024 18:33

I'd do the teenage daughter response

Who gives a shit

ILikeItWhatIsIt · 18/11/2024 18:24

Hallllllllie · 18/11/2024 14:28

How would he know if you know the song or not?

Why would you feel stupid for not knowing a song?

It's neither belittling or having a laugh.

Christ, there's always one

Devilsmommy · 18/11/2024 14:30

He sounds like an absolute twat. I'd just ignore or as pp said ask him a question you know he won't know the answer to

Hallllllllie · 18/11/2024 14:28

How would he know if you know the song or not?

Why would you feel stupid for not knowing a song?

It's neither belittling or having a laugh.

JoanCollected · 18/11/2024 14:25

Him: What’s the name of this song?
Response: How many bones in the human foot?
Him: you seriously don’t know, ha ha
Response: I know how many bones are in a human foot. Come on, you can’t not know that! Seriously.

Gimmeabreak2025 · 18/11/2024 14:22

maudelovesharold · 18/11/2024 14:21

Mine doesn’t even have to speak. He’s perfected a look which says it all!

😂😂 she needs to channel her inner teenager!

maudelovesharold · 18/11/2024 14:21

Gimmeabreak2025 · 18/11/2024 14:19

You could try the tactic my teenage daughter uses which is to give the look and say I literally don’t care…. That would shut him up and make him look stupid for asking pointless questions

Mine doesn’t even have to speak. He’s perfected a look which says it all!

Gimmeabreak2025 · 18/11/2024 14:19

You could try the tactic my teenage daughter uses which is to give the look and say I literally don’t care…. That would shut him up and make him look stupid for asking pointless questions