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AIBU?

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Or is he? Making me feel uncomfortable.

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QuestionTime · 10/12/2011 17:53

A bit of context - I am 5 foot 3 and weigh about 9 stone 10, dress size 10/12.
Have always struggled with my dh making me feel fat. He has recently lost a lot of weight and if anything this has made it worse. Just things like him moving away from me if I am eating. Or just making little comments about me needing to eat all the time- I like breakfast lunch and dinner, he doesn't tend to eat until 3ish.
Anyway two things happened today. Lying in bed this morning stroking the cat who was lying on my chest. He kept taking pics of me on his phone as cos I was looking down and the camera was pointing up I had a huge double chin and looked minging! Anyway he kept showing me the pics over and over again even when I asked him to stop as it was upsetting me, saying "why, it's just what you look like."
Then I was cooking dinner at 5 and because I had been so busy I literally hadn't eaten anything yet and was starving!! It was just for me, but I cooked quite a lot - a big handful of pasta, a packet of bacon and 5 egg yolks for the carbonara (he didn't want any.)
I wasn't planning on eating all of the bacon anyway, but whilst I was cooking he went on and on incessantly about how much I was cooking. I kept asking him to stop and explaining that I hadn't eaten anything and I was hungry but he wouldn't.
About the zillionth time he ended with "and I bet you scoff a load of chocolates after as well."
At this point I lost pacience and said "oh fuck off" (I immediately apologised for swearing) and he stormed off.
He now says he will never comment on what I eat or cook again, but therefore I can never ask him how I look and he will never buy me any chocolate again.
Aibu or is he?
Thank you

OP posts:
SantaIsAnAnagramOfSatan · 15/12/2011 08:05

just to state the obvious:

lovely, supportive men do not bully
they do not control
they do not humiliate
they do not make out you are fat and disgusting and unworthy of sex.

wherever you picked up the ideas that behaviour like his is loving or supportive was a very fucked up place that has little in common with reality.

but if you're determined to live like this there is nothing we can do to help you. what was the point of starting your threads? genuine question.

PosiesofPoinsettia · 15/12/2011 11:16

OP I recommend you listen again to Jeremy Vine yesterday regarding emotional abuse. One lady spent 45 years with a controlling man, until he died, she now regrets all that time that she couldn't really be herself. Sad

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