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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To think this is a massive overreaction?

335 replies

Justme23 · 18/08/2012 09:36

A friend of mine was in tears last night (at a bloody barbecue of all places) because she is having doubts about her almost one year marriage.

Basically her husband suggested recently that she ahem, trim her pubic hair and start taking care of herself a bit more.

She feels he is completely out of order for asking this, he has also said he is struggling to find her attractive any more, that she has completely let herself go since the wedding.

It is true, without sounding like a bitch, she has.
She has put on a lot of weight, no longer wears makeup unless it's a formal do, her hair is never styled and she does tend to live in polo shirts and the same pair of jeans and trainers. She admitted to me not long ago that she hasn't shaved her legs in months and we all could see yesterday that her armpits were well and truly neglected.

She used to be so well turned out and her husband used to be the first to say how beautiful she was and how proud he was to have her.

Their sex life used to be crazy but now is pretty non existent, she said he isn't interested any more.

Yesterday she (hysterically crying) told me she felt he was being disrespectful, nasty, cruel and evil and that she thinks she wants a divorce...

AIBU for thinking she is being very short sighted.

I certainly wouldn't be happy if DP married me and then turned Into a slob and after telling DP last night he agreed and said he could completely see her husbands point of view and would probably feel the same.

???

OP posts:
LineRunner · 18/08/2012 14:39

Nine months, a year, the lifetime of a mortage ... I mean, it's all the same, really, isn't it, when you're making it up as you go along.

sneezecakesmum · 18/08/2012 14:46

Confused at all the stupidity following this post.

The DH is human fgs and can be forgiven for finding an overweight, ungroomed, slobbily dressed woman unattractive. if it was reversed you'd all be condemming the husband!

Do you seriously think this woman can't look in a mirror and see how she's let herself go? Maybe you think she has body dysmorphia in reverse!

OP is quite right to be honest, or perhaps she should say she looks ravishing and the DH becomes totally disillusioned and has an affair

Justme23 · 18/08/2012 14:47

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Chubfuddler · 18/08/2012 14:48

I can't even begin to be bothered to deconstruct everything that is twatty about that post. I fucking weep for womankind, I really do.

FutTheShuckUp · 18/08/2012 14:50

Hello mr pot, meet my friend mr kettle...

Justme23 · 18/08/2012 14:50

Line runner a mortgage doesn't need to last a lifetime in any walk of life. What an ignorant and ridiculous thing to say.

A 38 yo career woman cannot pay off a mortgage.. Hah

OP posts:
LineRunner · 18/08/2012 14:50
Chubfuddler · 18/08/2012 14:50

Magnificent x post. I was replying to sneeze.

I rely on the Internet to put people down?

Me? Have you read your op?

Ha ha ha

FutTheShuckUp · 18/08/2012 14:51

That was aimed at Justme. A rather apt user name for someone who seems to be so inadequate in the friendship department

LineRunner · 18/08/2012 14:51

"The lifetime of a mortgage", OP.

Read the words.

Justme23 · 18/08/2012 14:52

I can't even begin to be bothered to deconstruct everything that is twatty about that post. I fucking weep for womankind, I really do.

I'm sure you do, because clearly you are all about the sisters doin it for themselves... Honestly.

OP posts:
Chubfuddler · 18/08/2012 14:53

I've no idea what that means. Wasn't that a song?

LineRunner · 18/08/2012 14:55

But if the sisters don't do it for themselves, who is going to do it for them?

Justme23 · 18/08/2012 14:56

It does not surprise me one bit that you have a lack of understanding.

OP posts:
FutTheShuckUp · 18/08/2012 14:56

Not their so called friends that's for sure...

LineRunner · 18/08/2012 14:57

Maybe you have to phone up men to come and do it.

FutTheShuckUp · 18/08/2012 14:58

But they will only do it of you are hairless and tarted up remember

Chubfuddler · 18/08/2012 14:59

Well no I don't understand a social group in which men confuse every detail of their bare back encounters with your family members, where wearing a polo shirt and no make up equates to becoming a slob, and a mother tells her unhappy daughter to sort herself out at risk of terrible, terrible fate of being dumped by a husband who sounds like a boy from jersey shore. But then I wouldn't really want to.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 18/08/2012 15:00

The 'tag team' seems a bit unnecessary, no?

Chubfuddler · 18/08/2012 15:00

*confide

Chubfuddler · 18/08/2012 15:01

Tag team? Is there a tag team? We're not on a hotline. There's no pms pinging here. Just some people who agree with one another.

FutTheShuckUp · 18/08/2012 15:01

Tag team? Does that mean more than one person responding at any given time? Confused

Justme23 · 18/08/2012 15:05

Lyingwitchinthewardrobe, playground tactics really show intellect.

Ironically less intelligent members of the animal kingdom tend to gather in herds...

OP posts:
LineRunner · 18/08/2012 15:05

It's all a load of crap, anyway, so it hardly matters.

TheCrackFox · 18/08/2012 15:06

You seem to move in quite a bizarre social circle Justme23.