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DH and his creepy fingers!

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Changedforthis2025 · 31/12/2025 16:37

This is going to sound weird but it is seriously getting on my nerves and I don't really know what to do.

Let me just start by saying DH is great, works hard, shares the load (mostly), fantastic involved dad etc etc.

However, he does this one thing which is really pissing me off. When we are in bed asleep and he wants to touch me/put his arm around me/hug me etc (not for sex just for affection) he doesn't just put his hand on me, he sort of 'walks' his fingers over me to get where he wants to be and it creeps me out. I feel like he is some sort of sex pest trying to sneakily touch me instead of a loving husband. He only does it in the night and it's just weird. It makes me so angry. He did it this morning as he put his hand across my waist and I actually moved his hand away and said, 'Don't do the silly tickle thing..just put your hand there.' I think I have hurt his feelings now because I was pissed off and quite short.

It's such a daft thing but it makes me think of Jimmy Savile trying to touch up a young girl and now I've thought of that each time it gives me the ick and then if he does want to be intimate in the morning, I'm pissed off and icked but he doesn't understand why. I'm just not sure why he does it, if he thinks its all cute? But how do I have a conversation about something so daft?!

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WarmGreyHare · 01/01/2026 20:41

Changedforthis2025 · 01/01/2026 13:34

Thanks everyone. He isn't actually a sex pest! Let me make that clear. I think he is trying to be all gentle but I can't stand that. It's me that feels like it's weird and off putting. Do you know that teenage film trope where the young couple are at the cinema and the boy is trying to sneakily put his arm round her? It kind of feels like that.
Anyway, good news is, he put his arm round me very normally last night! He had had a few drinks and we were staying with friends so I hope it wasn't just a one off under unusual circumstances and my bluntness yesterday actually had an effect.

I think the reason I haven't brought it up before is that, because it happens in the night when we are both half asleep, it's not really the time to start a conversation and then, in the day time, I'm either not thinking about it or it just seems odd to bring it up randomly.

So if he does do it again, rather than waking you both up for an intense conversation, can you not just reach out, take his hand and pull his arm around you properly and say 'please don't creep your fingers like that, it tickles/creeps me out/makes me want to peel my skin off/hit you with a frying pan' or something?
It's not a grumpy rejection or big improvement conversation.

neleh87 · 01/01/2026 20:48

I understand why you might not have mentioned it before, sometimes it takes a while to figure out what it even is that's annoying you. I'm irritated on your behalf.

Anyway you've said something now. If he tries doing it again (out of habit?) just grab his hand and place it wherever. If it happens again,do the same but also remind him that you don't like it.

I know people on mumsnet get annoyed and question why nothing has been said before, but I really do understand. I have had to train myself to notice and speak up about things like this.

Changedforthis2025 · 09/01/2026 20:17

Update...we have had no creepy fingers since! So, either he took notice of my telling off or he has read this thread. Either way, it's all good and I'm not longer waking up pissed off!

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