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AIBU?

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Pretty sure IWNBU - 2 friends declare IABU - DP huffed off and not speaking to me over my choice -

239 replies

WelcomeToDumpsville · 04/01/2012 14:23

I was pretty sure I was not being unreasonable but now having spoken to 2 close friends who say I am - I'm now trying to wriggle off the hook by going for an appeal with the MN jury! nc in case they recognise me now!

Been seeing someone for almost 6 months now,early days, we're not living togther). We've had a couple of conversations about porn, lapdancing clubs, etc. we both work in an industry where it is still common for the men to take male clients out to Spearmint Rhino etc so in the context of that awful german news story we were both saying we wished they would clamp down on at that at work because removal of corp cc's has not done to much.

Anyway, he knows my views (ex porn user, read too much and learnt too much about the industry to continue wanking away to other people's misery etc) - I know his (he uses porn, I have no idea what, I have no interest in trying to lay down ultimatums, that's his choice just as I have mine,I don't think I'm anything fantastic but having used porn myself I know it doesn't have to be about betrayal and doesn't make me feel insecure so I treat it same as if one of my friends wasn't vegetarian and I was - choice of ethics)

Right so all that being said, am boxing up DVDs to donate to charity shop and he's laughing saying I'm trying to hide my porn stash from him (stupid joke, was just being silly). And I say oh I got rid of all that ages ago, he says well what do you use now? I say my imagination and my memories I suppose. So then he starts quizzing me on memories, what do I mean memories, and I said just that, you know great sex you've had in the past.

So then I can see he's getting huffy - and basically argument evolves he wants me to stop using memories of great sex I've had because this is a betrayal and means I am thinking about having sex with other people (even if i never intend on having sex with any of them EVER again!). His view is that porn is anonymous (he doesn't have any favourite pornstars apparently - he just looks for latest photos/movie clips on websites) and therefore it is obvious it is not a betrayal but that I am directly comparing him to other men I have actually had sex with in my head. I said there's no comparing, its just remembering but no, major sulk, why can't I use porn like I used to? (not as if that's going to delete my memories but by then i couldn't really point that out because not helpful).

so my thinking is that he's a great big twat who wants to attempt to police my thoughts (and my wanking habits) in a way in which I don't want to do to him despite my own objections to porn. He huffed off (didnt stay over as planned) and no contact today.

Met friends for lunch and had a moan/vent and apparently i AM the unreasonable one in all of this because I have hurt his ego apparently. WTAF? Am I REALLY the unreasonable one in all of this? I just can't see it.

(ps. You know I'm going to be the kind of OP that clings desperately to the one person who says IANBU don't you!)

OP posts:
AnyFuckerForAMincePie · 04/01/2012 15:30

Set one up, OP Smile

There will be more members than you think

neshnosher · 04/01/2012 15:30

Leave him..

carabos · 04/01/2012 15:31

How lovely to have a life where you have time and headspace to worry about what someone else may or may not be thinking about when they aren't having sex with you. Hmm

WelcomeToDumpsville · 04/01/2012 15:32

listzilla - he asked me though! if someone said to me imagination and memories i would not go digging! i'd put it in the little rational box where I put his use of porn and think to myself "I'll fecking give you some memories sunshine!" I never ever said I was thinking about other people DURING sex - why are people saying that I did?!

Yes AF I agree which made it all a very awkward conversation.

I once gave up alcohol for a year (i love a drink but was on migraine meds which did not mix).it reminds me of the way drunk people start going oh go on have a drink, one won't hurt will it, oh go on and it's just to make them feel better. Even when I told them i was on meds so I couldn't drink (so wasn't a judgement on them) they woudl still carry on as if me not drinking was affecting their enjoyment.

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dreamingbohemian · 04/01/2012 15:35

YANBU

As for double standards if my DH told me he thought about exes when wanking (and hey, maybe he does?) pfft, who cares? They're exes. He's never seeing them again.

Your DP is 40ish and can't handle the idea that you've had great sex before him, and might remember it now and then? That kind of thinking will probably manifest itself in lots of other annoying ways in future. Might be no great loss if he disappears.

There ARE men out there who don't use porn. Don't give up hope!

WorraLiberty · 04/01/2012 15:35

Interesting thread

This scenario has been lightly touched upon during the last 2 or 3 recent porn threads in a sort of 'what if' kind of way.

I'm sure that's complete coincidence though....

yellowraincoat · 04/01/2012 15:38

He sounds insecure. Fuck pandering to his ego. What did he want you to say? "When I'm wanking, I think exclusively about YOUUUUUU"?

Maybe he doesn't want to know the details, that's fair enough. But he needs to get over the fact that you have had other sexual partners and that the memory of them still turns you on.

OP, YANBU.

dreamingbohemian · 04/01/2012 15:38

Ooooh porn-free dating site ... not a bad idea!

A friend once showed me a dating site that was only for sea captains. You can really niche yourself in that biz.

WelcomeToDumpsville · 04/01/2012 15:38

And the advice was.....? Link me up please Worra

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AnyFuckerForAMincePie · 04/01/2012 15:40

sea captains ?

I bet that's a closed book Wink

WorraLiberty · 04/01/2012 15:42

I haven't a clue what the advice was OP

The thread turned into the usual bun fight with all the usual posters milking it and repeating themselves.

QuietNinjaLamp · 04/01/2012 15:43

What af and Shirley said. Fragile ego. Poor men. If he didn't want his ego bashed he shouldn't have asked. Though can't imagine my dh asking me about this and immcertainly not asking him what he wanks to. So don't want to know!

AnyFuckerForAMincePie · 04/01/2012 15:44

well, you must have been there if you remember it so well, WL Wink

ShirleyKnottage · 04/01/2012 15:45

It was in AIBU AF - of course Worra was there!

DharmaLovesDraco · 04/01/2012 15:45

YANBU at all - sounds like what he really wanted when he asked what you wank to if you don't need porn was for you to say 'you dear'

Knobber (him not you)

AnyFuckerForAMincePie · 04/01/2012 15:47

I have no recollection of it mayself, of course...

DharmaLovesDraco · 04/01/2012 15:48

not sure my post made 100% sense

Also I don't tell my DH what I fantasise about all the time, in fact I go out of my way to be evasive because a) it's none of his business and b) he might feel the need to act upon it Grin

WelcomeToDumpsville · 04/01/2012 15:53

ok Dharma - i think you've just explained it to me - I keep replaying the 'argument' over and over and i couldn't work out how it went from jokey jokey to angry so quickly and i felt like I'd missed something but maybe because it was all jokey I should have said "you dear" just as a joke and that would have been enough wouldn't it? Stopped the digging, i wouldn't have been lying (just joking) but he could have taken it as the truth. Fuck. I just never thought it was one rule for him and a different one for me,not from him anyway.

But yep, cba because he is obv more fragile than I ever thought - need to recalibrate twat radar - and he needs someone who is far more careful with his eogt han i am really doesn't he? Just dont have the time for this - thought it was all fun up until now!

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rhondajean · 04/01/2012 15:57

No comment on the topic but could you please enlighten me about th awful German story?

It's bypassed me...

WelcomeToDumpsville · 04/01/2012 16:02

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13454160

this was the one rhondajean

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HedleyLamarr · 04/01/2012 16:04

YANBU. It isn't your job to stroke his ego. Neither is it any of his business what's in your wank bank.

I was going to call him a tosser, but refrained. Grin

vixsatis · 04/01/2012 16:07

So you take your old porn to the charity shop? Did I understand that correctly?

WelcomeToDumpsville · 04/01/2012 16:11

ha ha noooooooo vixsatis - it did go into the recycling though when i did get rid!I was boxing up dvds (mostly DCs but some others - NOT porn!) for charity shop (god can you imagine their faces if i waltzed into oxfam with a big box of porn for resale Shock)

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Whatmeworry · 04/01/2012 16:11

But yep, cba because he is obv more fragile than I ever thought - need to recalibrate twat radar - and he needs someone who is far more careful with his eogt han i am really doesn't he? Just dont have the time for this - thought it was all fun up until now!

I think you will find the number of men with robust egos where sex is concerned is even smaller than those that have never wanked to porn.

rhondajean · 04/01/2012 16:12

It was not the usual,way of rewarding their employees!!!

Ffs. What about the women who worked there?

( sorry OP I'm lost in rite outs indignation, for what it's worth I think YANBU just more honest than many of us would have been!)