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Weird and offensive or I am overreacting?

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RememberThatGuy · 25/04/2025 07:35

Quick sense check here please - my husband just left for work and as usual he sends me a nice message from the car. today’s message was a bit weird and I have taken offence at it but am I over reacting? I have attached a screenshot but the message boils down to “have a nice day, I have made your lunch, remember you have a husband”

I admit I am on the defensive because yesterday he left without saying bye, then when I questioned it he pretended nothing was wrong. Then eventually admitted that he was a bit moody and apologised.

For context I do not have amnesia or dementia, I have never cheated or not returned home from work or in anyway at all forgotten that I am married.

Weird and offensive or I am overreacting?
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MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 25/04/2025 10:03

DevnDwellr · 25/04/2025 10:00

Tbf the OP’s posts since the initial one have totally changed the dynamic imo.

Exactly, there was a massive drip feed mid thread so it's not surprising people are reacting to the initial OP

WoahThreeAces · 25/04/2025 10:01

DrinkReprehensibly · 25/04/2025 07:53

I agree, that's strange. Almost implies you might be unfaithful today!

That's how I would take it too!

DevnDwellr · 25/04/2025 10:00

Chonk · 25/04/2025 08:36

OP, I'm sorry other posters have talked you into thinking you're the problem. I think the responses would have been very different if you'd included more context in the original post. Given that he makes your lunch so that you don't spend your lunch break with male colleagues, his message was 100% a dig. He thinks you're going to cheat.

Tbf the OP’s posts since the initial one have totally changed the dynamic imo.

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 25/04/2025 09:59

texts from the car, messages all day long. Honestly I think I am at work paid to do a job and I would like to get on with it. If I suggest I am busy he gets offended.

Ugh, see this is a bit of a drip feed!
YANBU here, that would be annoying and controlling.
I'd be worried he was going to send a barber shops quartet to your workplace or bring a picnic.
Which is never ok, unless maybe you're a park ranger.

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 25/04/2025 09:55

I was going to say YANBU and reply "Who d'is??" 😂

On reading the messages though and with context it just seems like a clumsily worded attempt at a bit of humour, as he's packed you a lunch up to take with you.
Trouble with texting is that it's not always easy to convey tone and can be taken the wrong way.

ItGhoul · 25/04/2025 09:54

If I got that message from my partner I'd just send a jokey message in response, or at the very most 'What does that mean? 😂' and then get on with my day. I wouldn't get all pissy and start analysing it for hours at a time.

Honestly, you sound a bit exhausting.

Pleaseshutthefuckup · 25/04/2025 09:52

Thisismetooaswell · 25/04/2025 09:47

You totally over reacted

No she did not.

Her senses are heightened, because I'll guess, he has form for being a total nightmare. This I will almost certainly say,is part of a long standing pattern of communication style from him.

ErickBroch · 25/04/2025 09:51

I thought it was really weird and your follow up posts confirm it.

TheignT · 25/04/2025 09:49

RememberThatGuy · 25/04/2025 09:39

It sounds so stupid - oh my husband is so awful he makes my lunch everyday. Most people would think I am nuts to complain about that.

Everyone thought I was nuts, he was such a lovely man etc. It was dragging me down and that wasn't lovely.

Hoppinggreen · 25/04/2025 09:48

Thisismetooaswell · 25/04/2025 09:47

You totally over reacted

No she didn't
If you check her subsequent posts her H is controlling and jealous in general

Namerchangee · 25/04/2025 09:47

I think all of this is weird.

Thisismetooaswell · 25/04/2025 09:47

You totally over reacted

TheignT · 25/04/2025 09:47

I have every sympathy, sounds like my ex. He was paranoid as I gained qualifications and promotions and got more and more clingy but also digs and eventually accusations.

One example was when I was studying for a professional qualification and got a fantastic result on a piece of work, I was so pleased as someone who left school at 15 with no qualifications and his putdown was "Did you have to sleep with him to get that?" I pointed out that it was a she not a he and he shrugged and said he didn't realise I was into women.

A few months later we had a massive row and he left me. I think he thought I'd beg him to come back but I didn't, then he said he was coming back and I said no, I was going to leave you when the kids left school but you've already put them through the upheaval so there's no going back. It was a good decision.

Good luck, think carefully about what you want.

CreationNat1on · 25/04/2025 09:46

I bet he is allowed have a teams call with female work colleagues without interruption.

CreationNat1on · 25/04/2025 09:45

You should have responded "remember you ve got a wife" 😆😆😆🕍

CraftyYankee · 25/04/2025 09:43

Namerequired · 25/04/2025 09:41

There’s a difference in my husband makes my lunch for me daily because he knows I don’t have time/can’t be bothered and I don’t like the canteen. Or my husband makes me lunch I don’t want just to stop me spending time with my work colleagues.

Who happen to be male.

He wouldn't care if it was Sally from accounting. But Sam is a different matter

Namerequired · 25/04/2025 09:41

RememberThatGuy · 25/04/2025 09:39

It sounds so stupid - oh my husband is so awful he makes my lunch everyday. Most people would think I am nuts to complain about that.

There’s a difference in my husband makes my lunch for me daily because he knows I don’t have time/can’t be bothered and I don’t like the canteen. Or my husband makes me lunch I don’t want just to stop me spending time with my work colleagues.

GiveMeWordGames · 25/04/2025 09:41

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Nanny0gg · 25/04/2025 09:41

RememberThatGuy · 25/04/2025 08:35

He has never actually said as much but that’s very much the impression I get. However I could be reading into it when the intent is innocent.

He hates me speaking to my male colleagues over teams and makes digs about which ever one he has the hump about this month.

Dear god!

Wake up!

I am right with the 'controlling' assessment.

Pleaseshutthefuckup · 25/04/2025 09:40

Argh, OP NOOOOO.

I implore you to ignore these ridiculous posts saying you're over reacting etc.

The message is incredibly, blindingly Passive Aggressive. It is appalling to me when people say so much yet say nothing to clarify. And then tell you you're being sensitive or over reacting.

OP, I assure you this is not ok.

Why can't he simply communicate with you how he feels? Why can't he tell you what he needs? Why that.

If you feel in your senses he's doing this regularly - I assure you, you are correct.

So you have to ask him. In person. What's going on husband? What's this about?

If he dares go down the you're over reacting/ what are you talking about line - you're in trouble with this guy.

TryingToBeHelpful267 · 25/04/2025 09:40

“Remember you have a husband” is condescending and makes it sound that you don’t appreciate him or that you might sleep with someone else by accident 🙄 at the bare minimum it’s passive aggressive as he’s saying you should appreciate me more and doing something nice for someone should be it’s own reward. Quite honestly he sounds exhausting.

Nanny0gg · 25/04/2025 09:40

RememberThatGuy · 25/04/2025 08:15

@ExtraOnions texts from the car, messages all day long. Honestly I think I am at work paid to do a job and I would like to get on with it. If I suggest I am busy he gets offended.

@GaspingGekko I have said many times that I can eat from the canteen but he likes to make my lunch so here we are. It would be very ungracious not to accept it. I am dieting too so I just end up bringing crisps and bars back and too, work home work home.

Well, if anyone sounds 'controlling' it's not @RememberThatGuy...

Namerequired · 25/04/2025 09:39

I voted yabu just from your first post. However reading your follow ups I change my mind. Only you know him and know his intentions. Trust your gut. And tell him to stop making lunch!! Or dump it and go to the canteen.

RunLikeTheWild · 25/04/2025 09:39

RememberThatGuy · 25/04/2025 09:26

I feel like he is always trying to catch me out or trip me up and it’s like a snowball effect, every dig or accusation adds to the ones before.

He thinks I over react to every small thing because he looks at everything separately. So to him that was a nothing comment.

To me it was here we go again!

No thats not why he thinks you overreact.

He is passive aggressive and when you openly challenge him he tries to backtrack and make our you're the one being unreasonable or sensitive.

It is very destabilising trying to deal with someone who is PA. They never say what they mean and you're left with a constant underlying anxiety.

You need to start taking him at his literal word, don't appear to second guess at any alternative meanings and force him to be more direct.

It's either a struggle for him to communicate directly or an intentional tactic to make you feel anxious.

RememberThatGuy · 25/04/2025 09:39

It sounds so stupid - oh my husband is so awful he makes my lunch everyday. Most people would think I am nuts to complain about that.

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