to be upset by DH's comment, or am I just being too sensitive?

[ShannonNoah]

I have a older sister (there is only 18ish months between us) and we do look very alike.

Since about the age of 18 I have always been a size 12. Happy with that. My sister has probably been an 18/16 - she has lost a lot of weight by doing the Alternate Day Diet and is now probably a size 10/8.

Really happy for her because I know she wasn't happy before and she has so much more confidence and it's so lovely to see.

Anyway, we went out this evening - me, DH, my sister and a couple of other people.

The other people we were out with hadn't seen DS in a while so were giving her compliments and saying how lovely she looked etc. When my DH said "I know, looks like I married the wrong sister"

It just made me feel quite low ... and I don't see why he couldn't have just agreed with them and said yes she does look lovely.

Aibu and just generally being too sensitive?

[Willow36]

Fucking hell, I'd be so upset. Poor you. I'm sure he didn't meant offend you but I'd feel really rubbish about him saying that. Big hugs.

[hairtearing]

Oh that was a twattish thing to say, must have been embarrassing too I'm quite angry for you,

How did everyone react?

[pictish]

As compliments go, it's a shite one. It's patronising and smug. Top be fair though, there's a clanger in all of us...we've all had loads of those I'll-get-me-coat moments.

It was an ill thought out compliment I think. It does mark him out as a bit of a tosser, but I don't think it was designed to wound the OP.

[MansView]

yeah, tricky one imo...

he could have been a total nasty cunt in saying it knowing it would upset you, but then it could have been a bad attempt at a joke...

tho, I suspect he fancies your sister now - and wanted to make it known...shame nothing will happen tho...!

[JamieandtheMagicTorch]

It was a clanger. I'd be OK with it, though, unless it was in the context of someone who is repeatedly insensitive

[SashaSashays]

It was a bit of a crap thing to say but to sounds very minor and as if he was just trying to be nice. I wouldn't take it to heart.

It really grates on my sister that her DH described me as the funny one, about 15 years ago. Don't blow it out of proportion.

[daddyorchipsdaddyorchips]

YANBU. Poor you. He'd have had a swift kick to the shin from me.

NeoMaxi- alternate day diet is where you fast day on day off. One day you have around 500 cals and the next you eat normally. Continually. An easier version is 5:2 where you fast (500 cals) for 2 days per week and eat normally the other 5.

[LastInTheQueue]

It was a cack handed compliment, IMO.
Probably sounded good in his head.

[Lottashakingoinon]

OP's DH ,ight have been a bit tactless and talking before engaging brain, or it might be the sign of a truly comfortable relationship (that misfired). Whatever, he has a long way to go before he comes up with anything remotely as half arsed as Mansview's last sentence.

[Lottashakingoinon]

might have been a bit...

[Pandemoniaa]

Is he noted for his lack of tact? I can understand you being hurt by his remarks but was it an unwisely chosen comment aimed at complimenting your sister rather than upsetting you?

I'm not trying to make excuses for him here but do you have any reason to think there's more to his remark than merely engaging his brain before opening his mouth?

[weeblueberry]

I have to say I'd just assume he was joking tbh and had my DP done it I'd have just chuckled along with him and not been bothered. I'm actually surprised as many of you would find it offensive. I suppose it's just down to your relationship really and only you know if he was meaning it seriously or if it was an obvious joke. Did everyone laugh afterwards?

[ShannonNoah]

See I just someone would play the jealousy card. Why?

Why would I be jealous because my sister has lost weight? She gave up and put back on half a stone, I was the one who got her back on course by giving her back her motivation, I also got her to come with me to spinning classes and would cut out articles I read about the 5:2 plan when she told me she was doing it.

She was so unhappy before and now she and I are both happy, both because she now has her confidence back.

If my DH had said "yes I agree, she looks fantastic" - it wouldn't have even registered.

It was the fact that I felt put down in the process.

[LemonPeculiarJones]

Have you spoken to him about it?

I'd be very hurt and need to have words.

[ShannonNoah]

But yes thank you for all the replies, it's obviously quite a split between the YABU's and YANBU's.

I should just say to him that whilst I think it's lovely he wants to compliment her, it did hurt my feelings by the way he decided to do it.

[HipHopHooray]

It was a joke. And it was also a joke that you would only make if your wife is and always had been attractive. I've heard men say this about their wife's mother. I genuinely don't think they were trying to make their wife feel shit, they were complimenting their MIL assuming (possibly incorrectly?) that their wife was secure in the knowledge that they would only have eyes for her!

[Darkesteyes]

Shannon some women will automatically assume you were jealous because in our society it is seen as "normal" to pit women against women. Demonstrated beautifully by goady articles in the daily mail etc.
"looks like i married the wrong sister" is not only hurtful to you It is hurtful to your sister too because it shows he thought less of her for being overweight.
Its a very mysogynistic comment and i would be steaming.

[Darkesteyes]

And it also shows that he bases marriage on nothing but looks.

[Flobbadobs]

it probably sounded good in his head
That.

It's exactly what DH would say and then he would give himself a hernia trying to talk himself out of the huge hole he had thrown himself into. And I would take great pleasure in helping him dig himself deeper.
If he does it again tell him he's a knob. A very small one...

[Fluffy1234]

I don't think being over sensitive but his 'joke' probably came out wrong. It would have pissed me of.

[BalloonSlayer]

Fucking hell, it was a dreadful thing to say.

Not only does it insult you but it implies he had both of you competing for him and had the pick of the two of you. Which is also quite insulting to your sister, y'know, the old "I could have had her if I'd wanted to" line.

Was it him that said you are "too sensitive" by any chance?

[Darkesteyes]

Ballon Slayer that is an EXCELLENT point. You put it better than i did.

[YippeeTeenager]

Unless he often puts you down in front of other people I'd cut him a bit of slack here. In the cold light of day it is an unkind thing to say and I perfectly understand why you are upset, but we all say things in the heat of a crowded conversation that aren't what we mean at all. It just sounds to me like he was trying to be funny and got it horribly wrong. I've done it myself often enough

Give him a chance to think about it from your viewpoint and apologise before the jackals on here tell you to leave the bastard!

[MansView]

yes, sadly some/many men seem to seek joy in putting down their partners with comments like that...it's not my style at all...

but some women enjoy this kind if banter/teasing - but not when it crosses that line...