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To tell best friend her DH has been discussing their sex life?

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Laurasdiary · 07/10/2025 12:53

I’ve been with my boyfriend about a year and we had a big row yesterday around our sex life. Basically, stuff he’d like us to do (which I’m sure most would think is nothing overly wild) which I’m not overly comfortable with or don’t think I’d enjoy.

In arguing about it, he said ‘well I know X and X do it so why don’t you just try’. I said I don’t care about what they get up to and that I hope he doesn’t speak about us with others either. He said my friends DH ‘makes her out to be a right filthy bitch’.

We do socialise with them quite a bit , usually my friend and I are present, but they were on a stag together last month so would have had opportunity to talk without us there.

My dilemma is whether to tell my friend what her husband has been saying or to keep my mouth shut?

OP posts:
Boomer55 · 07/10/2025 16:45

slightlyoverbaked · 07/10/2025 13:00

Women have talked about their sex lives with friends since the beginning of time. But when men do it, all of a sudden it’s a different matter

This. Double standards. 🙄

KawasakiBabe · 07/10/2025 16:41

BauhausOfEliott · 07/10/2025 14:01

Obviously not every woman in the world does, but plenty do. Especially when younger. When I was in my 20s I definitely knew all sorts of details about my friends’ shagging habits.

I don’t really talk to my friends about my sex life with my partner these days - although we certainly do talk about sex in general and we’ve definitely talked about the sex we’ve had with our exes.

It doesn’t really matter though as the problem here is the OP’s own unpleasant partner being coercive and gross, not her friend’s husband being a bit indiscreet with the sex chat on a stag weekend.

My point wasn’t that no woman does, but that we don’t all do it. I’ve talked in the past about sex in general but never the intimate details of any nan. Especially bragging about a serious relationship being filthy, any person man or woman who does that is a sorry excuse for a human, yuck!

OP, don’t be pressured into doing anything, I’d question that if you did your DH would tell your friends DH.

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 07/10/2025 16:35

I had a boyfriend say something like this to me once. We were 16 at the time. Surely you deserve more than this.

Didimum · 07/10/2025 16:33

Your bar is through the floor. Can't help you.

XWKD · 07/10/2025 16:28

If his sexual wants are leading to rows, and he's not respectfully accepting your choices, you need to get rid of him.

Franpie · 07/10/2025 16:26

Your BF is trying to coerce you into sexual acts he knows you are uncomfortable with. Why on earth are you still with him? Sort your own relationship out before you meddle in someone else’s. Your BF could be lying.

GAJLY · 07/10/2025 16:23

slightlyoverbaked · 07/10/2025 13:00

Women have talked about their sex lives with friends since the beginning of time. But when men do it, all of a sudden it’s a different matter

No I never have. Sex is private to me.

SkaterGrrrrl · 07/10/2025 16:23

LTB.

Theif · 07/10/2025 16:13

TryingToBeHelpful267 · 07/10/2025 13:27

Your bf sounds like a pig. He called your friend a filthy bitch because of what she gets up to in the bedroom. I imagine he speaks about you just as disgustingly when you’re not around.

My line for a no tends to be if I think my partner views something as "filthy". If they want to do something because it's fun then fine, but if someone suggested something because they viewed it in that way it instantly becomes a turn off for me.

I had an expensive that made a crude comment about oral sex once, and that was it. No longer enjoyable for me, because I knew how he viewed it.

Figcherry · 07/10/2025 16:08

JHound · 07/10/2025 15:34

Do we? I don’t. None of my female friends do. Are we not women?

I’ve never discussed mine and dh sex life with anyone. Surely it’s the one thing that’s private between couples.

ThisBadTimeIsTakingForever · 07/10/2025 16:01

KawasakiBabe · 07/10/2025 13:04

Do we? News to me.

and me!
I’m in my 50’s and have lots of different groups of friends, some I have know since I was 4 years old.

I have never know a single woman who had discussions about their sex life with their friends. I think it’s so disrespectful to the partner. It would be an absolute deal breaker to me, especially if I heard I’d been referred to as ‘a filthy bitch’.

Utterly Vile!

Op I would definitely tell her. Awful way for her partner to talk about her.

I’d also LBT if I were you, I’m no prude, but the coercion is bang out of order.

JHound · 07/10/2025 16:01

FieryA · 07/10/2025 15:51

Who said you are not? I said 'quite commonly'. This could be as jokes or seeking advice. As for everyone, different friend groups have different relationships. I don't talk about mine to all my female friends either. But that doesn't mean to say it does not happen at all. It might just not apply to you.

But your “logic” makes no sense. Why is what some other women do relevant?

Tiatha · 07/10/2025 15:58

slightlyoverbaked · 07/10/2025 13:00

Women have talked about their sex lives with friends since the beginning of time. But when men do it, all of a sudden it’s a different matter

I have never called any man a filthy bitch in my life.

Goditsmemargaret · 07/10/2025 15:57

Jesus fucking Christ do not tell your friend. How ridiculous.

outerspacepotato · 07/10/2025 15:54

You have a massive bf problem.

He's trying to coerce you into sex acts he knows you don't want to do. He's pushing your sexual boundaries and ignoring your no. I think that's such a gigantic red flag that I would dump him over that alone.

He's trying to use peer pressure for getting you to do what he wants. You don't know whether he's telling the truth about your friend's sex life or not. But he's using x does it, so why won't you. Fucking bullshit. Yes, you should tell your friend that your partner claims her partner tells all about his sex life.

He's misogynistic in calling your friend a filthy bitch because she allegedly does what he wants you to do during sex.

Given that he wants sex acts you don't want to do, you're sexually incompatible. Given that he doesn't listen to your no, he's sexually coercive and that doesn't fly in a healthy relationship.

FieryA · 07/10/2025 15:51

JHound · 07/10/2025 15:34

Do we? I don’t. None of my female friends do. Are we not women?

Who said you are not? I said 'quite commonly'. This could be as jokes or seeking advice. As for everyone, different friend groups have different relationships. I don't talk about mine to all my female friends either. But that doesn't mean to say it does not happen at all. It might just not apply to you.

BunnyMcDougall · 07/10/2025 15:50

JHound · 07/10/2025 15:34

Do we? I don’t. None of my female friends do. Are we not women?

I don’t either.

BunnyMcDougall · 07/10/2025 15:48

Laurasdiary · 07/10/2025 14:48

Eww no not on me, he means on him

This is not a “vanilla” sex act that “everyone else is doing”. And your BF calling your friend who does pegging, filthy and up for anything, is foul. Dump him. Yesterday, if not sooner.

curious79 · 07/10/2025 15:38

Laurasdiary · 07/10/2025 14:48

Eww no not on me, he means on him

Oh god he wants to be pegged!!
a friend’s DD is an escort and that’s what most of the men want apparently

JHound · 07/10/2025 15:36

Laurasdiary · 07/10/2025 13:19

Hopefully, as long as he drops this and accepts certain things (areas!) are off limit for me.

Sigh….

JHound · 07/10/2025 15:35

PauliesWalnuts · 07/10/2025 13:06

Same here! I’ve never talked about sex with my mates - even as teens.

I did when younger but never about serious partners. Now as older women none of my circle do.

JHound · 07/10/2025 15:34

FieryA · 07/10/2025 13:04

This is not a dilemma at all, you are creating one. Women share details of their sex life with other friends quite commonly. Why can't your husband and his friend do the same?

Do we? I don’t. None of my female friends do. Are we not women?

BoredZelda · 07/10/2025 15:32

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 07/10/2025 13:01

You have a DH problem.

This.

If my husband said this about any woman, let alone my friend, he’d be out the door. If he tried to pressure me to do anything I said no to, in or outside the bedroom, he’d be out the door.

I would tell the friend, she deserves to know, but that part is the least of your concerns here.

Guytheskiinstructor · 07/10/2025 15:25

FieryA · 07/10/2025 13:04

This is not a dilemma at all, you are creating one. Women share details of their sex life with other friends quite commonly. Why can't your husband and his friend do the same?

@FieryA there’s nothing in the tone, content or dynamics of this conversation between OP and partner that you find in any way concerning?

The attempt at coercion? The misogynistic language? No?

OP, your boyfriend sounds vile.

JustAboutHangingInThere · 07/10/2025 15:22

Your boyfriend does not respect your boundaries.
He does not respect his friends disclosure.
He does not respect your friend.

He’s not a keeper.