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Don't know what to do pregnant and my husband says unhappy with sex life

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amyLF24 · 20/09/2023 21:13

Hey everyone.

I recently found out I was pregnant, I'm only 6 weeks. For further info I am 32F and my husband and I have been trying for two years, I finally fell pregnant it was a shock. I was anxious at first but I've been starting to feel really happy about it.

The issue is my husband mentioned a few days after I found out I was pregnant and now this week that he is unhappy with our sex life. He thinks it is too vanilla and he wants excitement. I asked him what it was that he was looking for. He then started going on about having sex with other people, swinging, having threesomes. I said I'm sorry but I wouldn't be happy with that, but if there are things that the two of us could do to make it more exciting that I would consider them.

He then said I know you just have a different mindset from me and I don't want to upset you. He then said obviously I need to think about whether that's an issue not being able to have sex with others and what we could do just us two to mitigate that.

I'm sitting there thinking I'm 6 weeks pregnant and now I am feeling very anxious about our relationship. I have no idea what to do. I want him to be able to talk to me about it but equally I said to him it's not just about upsetting me it's about my life too, like I'm sitting here 6 weeks pregnant and now feeling very anxious when I was happy about being pregnant. Telling all my family.

What would you do if you were in my situation?

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VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 22/09/2023 23:40

I wouldn't want to date a man with that thought process. That you would and do, is the depressing thing.

I believe that women who will settle for shitty men like this are known as "pickmeishas".

AlfredaTheGrape · 23/09/2023 01:20

the reality is I don't earn enough to bring up a baby by myself

Neither did I, on paper, but I did it for several years anyway before I met someone else and we later formed a new family unit. Your husband is either horrible or ridiculous, all this talk of grown men who are married and trying for a baby suddenly 'freaking out' and this is given as a reason for what he has just said and done to you, his wife in the first stages of pregnancy. WTF?

AfraidToRun · 23/09/2023 08:08

I hope I'm wrong but I don't think he's as excited by this pregnancy as you think he is....

Why didn't he want IVF?

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