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DP and friend fall out - I’m in the middle and don’t know what to do

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SophRj · 09/06/2025 18:03

I’ve been a bit of an idiot I think - but feel a bit upset at how this has played out.

In the early days when DP and I were together, we’d swap stories about drunken escapades when we were younger - holiday flings, silly behaviour etc. On one occasion he told me a story to which I replied to say my friend ‘R’ had done similar.

I’ve never repeated any of his tales, they were told in private, and he’d never relayed any of mine…until the weekend.

We were out with R and her husband, for dinner and drinks. I got a message when arriving home from R to say she didn’t appreciate me telling my DP about X story (in far stronger terms than that).

Basically, when we were all very young on a girls holiday she had gone off with a couple of blokes from a group we met. When we were out, she apparently brushed past DP’s leg and made a joke of it as you do. DP said something like ‘I know you have form for introducing someone else but I am sure you’d draw the line at your mates man’ and laughed.

DP says it was my fault for telling me in the first place and that he assumed it was common knowledge.

Am I right in feeling like DP should have known to keep his mouth shut?!

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Coconutter24 · 09/06/2025 18:18

Am I right in feeling like DP should have known to keep his mouth shut?!

He should have kept it shut yes but so should you.

PullTheBricksDown · 09/06/2025 18:14

He really is an idiot if he thinks a story shared between partners privately is one you can repeat because it's 'common knowledge'. Which leads to the other possibility that he just wanted to embarrass your friend (and you) and make a dubious joke, and that is his weak excuse for doing it. That's the kind of bloke you're with, in case you were not aware.

What you do now: apologise to your friend. Tell your partner that you will never be sharing any info with him again now you can see he doesn't handle it well. And think to yourself whether he's really right for you.

NeedToChangeName · 09/06/2025 18:11

Obviously, he was out of order

But this isn't all on him. If you'd been sensible enough to not tell him the story in the first place, this would never have happened

I'm not sure if your friendship will recover, unfortunately. If you were my friend, I'd be very very upset with you

MrsTWH · 09/06/2025 18:09

Yes what your DP said was gross but you owe her a massive apology for spilling her secrets IMO.

Amba1998 · 09/06/2025 18:08

The issue is your partner choosing to speak to women in that way.

Yes he should have kept his mouth shut, but not because it was a secret or common knowledge but because it’s an inappropriate and vile way to speak to a woman / your friend

anytipswelcome · 09/06/2025 18:08

Your husband sounds gross tbh.

Redpeach · 09/06/2025 18:07

Your dh was completely out if order, blokes are terrible with sexual anecdotes of that nature

HousedInMySoul · 09/06/2025 18:06

Eww that's disgusting of him to say that to her. What an arsehole 🤮

Wowzel · 09/06/2025 18:04

He shouldn't have said that to her, it's grim.

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