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Finally snapped at Boyfriend’s crude comments

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PeachTea9 · 09/03/2025 17:55

I’m at my wits end with my boyfriend and need to vent!

For context, I’m 31 and he’s slightly younger at 28 and we’ve been together for just under a year.

He has started making increasingly crude comments and I am now getting the silent treatment for telling him to shut it and grow up earlier.

These only began a couple of months ago and started off fairly innocently by being a bit more ‘direct’ with compliments towards me which I didn’t mind to begin with.

This has now progressed to making comments publicly about people we either see out and about or people we know.

Examples:

-‘doesn’t she squash him when they have sex’ (a slightly larger lady compared to her partner - these are friends of mine)

-You could crack an egg with that (a woman we drove past walking home from the gym wearing flattering leggings)

-‘He must be hung like a horse as he’s a bit bloody dull isn’t he’ (after meeting a friend and her BF for the first time)

And the final straw which made me snap today, we drove past a lady on a horse and he said ‘I wouldn’t mind her riding me like that’ and I flipped.

I should have said something previously in hindsight as my anger was building up.

He said I need to lighten up and not be so prudish but for me, this has crossed a line. I said I’m a grown woman and this sort of talk just gives me the ick.

Do you think I overreacted?

OP posts:
Glitchymn1 · 09/03/2025 19:18

It’s not your fault, he thinks he’s safe now. You’ve introduced him to DD, he thinks it’s a done deal.

Presumably he has some redeeming qualities, maybe he will shut up now, if not time to get rid or keep the relationship at arms length.

Mrsknowitall · 09/03/2025 19:15

Oh throw this one back he sounds disgusting, he’s already showing you he has absolutely no respect for you imagine what it’d be like a few years down the line. Seriously you can do better

Ohdeardearme · 09/03/2025 19:15

I dread to think what this guy is like when he is out with his mates. It doesn't take much to imagine what they are like if he thinks this is the normal way to talk to his partner.
Unbelievable some pp actually think this is reasonable behaviour from an allegedly adult man.

choccytime · 09/03/2025 19:13

@SororitySister no its really not perfectly fine OP get rid

Isthisit22 · 09/03/2025 19:12

Oh god, surely you’re not going to settle for a man that you have to tell to behave like he’s another one of your children? Raise your bar and dump him

GiddyRobin · 09/03/2025 19:07

SororitySister · 09/03/2025 19:01

Don't get me wrong, misogyny is rife in society and we need to stamp it out where we can, but we're losing sight of the real problem if we keep pretending that finding other women, whether or not they say it aloud, is misogynistic. Are you really going to act like you've never thought about being railed by Aiden Turner or Regé-Jean Page... or some hot thing in Levi's and a tight tee in Tesco?

Don't be daft. There's nothing wrong with finding someone attractive, but it's the things he's said and the language he's used. It's objectifying and he thought it was perfectly alright to say aloud to his partner about her friends. You're focusing entirely on the comment about the woman on the horse, too.

His comments are repugnant, and he sounds vile.

Beeloux · 09/03/2025 19:05

DO NOT waste any more time with this man.

He’s testing the waters and seeing what you will let him get away with. I had an ex like that, he would deliberately make crude comments, which turned into sexually complimenting other woman on the tv and what not. Cheeky git took the hump when I used to completely ignore whatever he said (knew he wanted a reaction) and asked why I wasn’t jealous of him talking about other woman ? 🤔

Don’t try and think it’s just an age thing, I’m younger than your DP and find it fucking repulsive.

TheLovleyChebbyMcGee · 09/03/2025 19:04

Are you dating one of the inbetweeners? That's really unattractive in a partner so I'd be throwing that one back

SoundedCat · 09/03/2025 19:03

SororitySister · 09/03/2025 19:01

Don't get me wrong, misogyny is rife in society and we need to stamp it out where we can, but we're losing sight of the real problem if we keep pretending that finding other women, whether or not they say it aloud, is misogynistic. Are you really going to act like you've never thought about being railed by Aiden Turner or Regé-Jean Page... or some hot thing in Levi's and a tight tee in Tesco?

Which tesco do you shop in? 😈🤣

Bo1978 · 09/03/2025 19:02

PeachTea9 · 09/03/2025 18:42

We do usually have a laugh but I have to draw the line at him suggesting he wants another woman to ride him!

Yeah, absolutely - that’s just disrespectful.

SororitySister · 09/03/2025 19:01

GiddyRobin · 09/03/2025 18:54

What's the point in him improving his behaviour? He'll still be the same misogynistic pig, he just won't be saying it out loud. I'd be gone, he sounds rancid.

Don't get me wrong, misogyny is rife in society and we need to stamp it out where we can, but we're losing sight of the real problem if we keep pretending that finding other women, whether or not they say it aloud, is misogynistic. Are you really going to act like you've never thought about being railed by Aiden Turner or Regé-Jean Page... or some hot thing in Levi's and a tight tee in Tesco?

getdowwwwwn · 09/03/2025 18:58

He sounds like his sense of humour is about 40 years behind the times.

I find this repulsive!

HonoraBridge · 09/03/2025 18:55

He is immature, stupid or both.

GiddyRobin · 09/03/2025 18:54

PeachTea9 · 09/03/2025 18:42

We are meant to be going on our first holiday at the start of April…just my luck 😫

We aren’t seeing each other until Thursday this week, I’m going to send him a message to say that he needs to improve his behaviour or we are over. That will prove how serious he is about me.

What's the point in him improving his behaviour? He'll still be the same misogynistic pig, he just won't be saying it out loud. I'd be gone, he sounds rancid.

ItGhoul · 09/03/2025 18:53

I would have found comments 1 and 3 funny, as the people involved weren’t there to hear them and they’re probably the sort of thing a lot of people would think. But I wouldn’t be impressed at all if my boyfriend was pointing out other women and saying he wants them to ride him or commenting on what great bodies he thinks they have. Obviously I don’t expect my partner not to find other women attractive and I don’t really care who or what he looks at, but I would find it disrespectful if he kept telling me about it and YANBU at all to feel the way you do.

2025willbemytime · 09/03/2025 18:53

PeachTea9 · 09/03/2025 18:42

We do usually have a laugh but I have to draw the line at him suggesting he wants another woman to ride him!

I don't think that is what you should be focussing on.

Onlyvisiting · 09/03/2025 18:52

His comments are gross. But I would have to LTB, it's not (just) the casual crudeness of the expression that I'd find offensive, it's the attitude behind it. Judgmental, objectifying and just plain nasty, it wouldn't be any better if he is saying these things to his friends, do you want someone around you and your DD who is even THINKING that type of thing?

SoundedCat · 09/03/2025 18:50

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 09/03/2025 18:14

You think the other comments are clever and witty Confused

Yes. The well hung comment is the best one, closely followed by the egg one. They're not groundbreaking are they, I don't suggest that he should give up his day job.
But presumably they were off the cuff, so you can't really hold him to the standard of a professional comedian.

It's good to feel comfortable enough with another person to have a laugh with them without have to censor yourself and to know that your comments won't be taken in all seriousness. Life's about joy isn't it? Clearly this is not the case here, they don't sound well suited

SororitySister · 09/03/2025 18:48

Idontjetwashthefucker · 09/03/2025 18:42

It's only funny if both people are laughing...nothing this guy said is funny. If you think he's funny then you're as puerile and immature as him

Isn't that exactly what they said, except without the moralising!?

Scout2016 · 09/03/2025 18:48

You can ask him to stop, and he might stop. But you know he'll still be thinking like that and won't that bother you? For example you'll see a scenario you know he would have cracked a comment about and wonder what childish sex related thing he's thinking.

ACR7 · 09/03/2025 18:46

Idontjetwashthefucker · 09/03/2025 18:42

It's only funny if both people are laughing...nothing this guy said is funny. If you think he's funny then you're as puerile and immature as him

I’d rather be immature than rude and insulting to people on the internet. I don’t think he’s hilarious by any stretch and I wouldn’t be too happy with the riding comment but I was making the point that they clearly have different senses of humour and that’s not good so it’s not going to work in my opinion.

DisforDarkChocolate · 09/03/2025 18:44

Early on in my relationship with my lovely husband he occasionally do milder versions of these sort of comment. I told him he was talking to me not his mates and to pack it in.

Yours sounds like he's got far too comfortable with you, and that he no longer respects you. Yuck.

ACR7 · 09/03/2025 18:43

PeachTea9 · 09/03/2025 18:42

We do usually have a laugh but I have to draw the line at him suggesting he wants another woman to ride him!

Yeah in fairness that one wasn’t best!

PeachTea9 · 09/03/2025 18:42

ACR7 · 09/03/2025 18:37

You’re clearly just not well suited. I don’t think the comments are that bad (abit juvenile) and the one about the man being dull I thought was pretty funny. If you don’t have the same humour then this is just not going to work as laughing together is really important.

Edited

We do usually have a laugh but I have to draw the line at him suggesting he wants another woman to ride him!

OP posts:
Idontjetwashthefucker · 09/03/2025 18:42

ACR7 · 09/03/2025 18:37

You’re clearly just not well suited. I don’t think the comments are that bad (abit juvenile) and the one about the man being dull I thought was pretty funny. If you don’t have the same humour then this is just not going to work as laughing together is really important.

Edited

It's only funny if both people are laughing...nothing this guy said is funny. If you think he's funny then you're as puerile and immature as him