Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To feel humiliated meeting DP’s best friend for the first time?

131 replies

Masiemaise · 21/09/2025 16:46

I have been with DP for nearly a year but only
met his best friend (and his wife) for the first time last night, as they live a few hours away and had a baby around the time I met DP so haven’t been free to meet up.

We went to a restaurant followed by a couple of bars in the city they are from, so were all a bit tipsy. DP’s friends wife works in the NHS and was talking about some of the strangest things she has seen.

She mentioned people turning up at A&E with items lodged in their bum. DP’s friend commented along the lines of he doesn’t know what would posses anyone to do that sort of thing.

DP then turned to me and said ‘you should see what she’s like when she gets home from bottomless brunch with her friends’ and burst out laughing.

I pulled him up on it last night and again today but he doesn’t see the issue. He has given a half apology but said he was joking and didn’t mean anything by it, and his friend/wife will know it was a joke.

Am I being a bit OTT with my reaction? It felt so unnecessary

OP posts:
GlastoNinja · 21/09/2025 16:55

Have you shoved stuff up your wrong’un after a bottomless brunch? That’s the only way this is something to feel embarrassed about.

WhisperGold · 21/09/2025 16:53

What he said doesn't even make sense, does it?

stayathomer · 21/09/2025 16:50

They had the tone set to zero, he made a joke that wasn’t that bad compared to what they were talking about but if I’m really honest it does say you’re very different humour wise as others would probably have laughed and elbowed him but it upset you

mumofoneAloneandwell · 21/09/2025 16:50

Maybe he was nervous, but that kind of thing is unbearable for me

I would literally cut someone off for making me the butt of their joke to impress their mates 🤢. My step dad used to do it to my dm, I honestly hate it

Is he otherwise a weak man?

If he has semi apologised, and it was just a one off, and you've made it clear that it has to be, maybe he wont do it again? I'd keep an eye on the dynamic between you when you're out and see whether it was nerves or who he is xx

Arlanymor · 21/09/2025 16:50

Crass, silly comment but that’s about it. If it had been me I would have laughed it off as I do think it was intended as a crude joke.

But if you’re upset enough to raise it last night and again today then there’s something else at play here isn’t there?

pictoosh · 21/09/2025 16:48

I don't think he meant it as anything other than a silly comment.

Only you will know if it's something to worry about. It sounds misplaced but benign enough to me.