To think it is really really weird that my OH keeps a lock of my hair?

[Objection]

Moving house and came across a chunk of my hair, neatly tied into a little strand.

Confronted OH who said, without a hint of embarrassment, that he had it "to remind me of you".

Er, okay... Creepy hair keeper.

He sourced it after I'd cut my fringe one time and claims its a "normal lover thing".

AIBU to think this is really weird?

Really, really creepy. Does he carry it around with him? What's wrong with a photo in his wallet or something?

Keeping a lock of your lover's head hair is perfectly normal. Old-fashioned but normal.
From anywhere else, or finger and toe clippings and I'd be looking for the voodoo doll.

Well I supposed once upon a time it WAS a normal lover thing, you know, hair in the locket type of thing. But now? YABU, I'd find it a bit weird. (But I do have locks of my DSs' hair from their first haircut, is that weird???!!!)

Old fashioned maybe, but not especially weird I don't think.

Many years ago, people used to put locks of their lover's hair in lockets and rings.

Hair lockets were common Victorian and Edwardian keepsakes.

Do you live together?

Is that not a good enough reminder??

We were asked just yesterday by an undertaker whether we wanted to keep a deceased relative's lock of hair. So it must be a pretty normal type of keepsake.

I can understand keeping a baby's hair but why keep the hair of someone you live with? Why not just take a photo if he really wants to remember you when away from you.

Isn't it what serial killers do?

I would be totally weirded out tbh.

A child's first lock of hair is different I think. My gran had mine. I never did it with dd though (or kept her first teeth, which some of my friends have done)

Still, it's better than one of my exes who kept a used condom from every girlfriend in his bedside cupboard.

Maybe he thinks he'd be able to use it to get a clone made of you if you died.

Not that that make it better

Sangria - dear me, what a catch! How many did he have in there, about three?

Holy shit just seen the condom revelation! That is the WORST THING EVER! You dumped him the second you found out, right....?

I think it's romantic not creepy. YABU.

Holla- no I dumped him the second night when he slept-walked and pissed in the corner of his bedroom.

Ahhhh, such fond memories.....

(He still comes only third on my list of nutters-come-hither, first place going to the goth who drew flowers on his face and kept breaking into my house to leave me poems, and second to the scientologist....)

Apologies for hijack

Reminds me of the series 'The Fall' ...

I still have DH ponytail from when we were 17. DH has very long hair when we met in school, he got bored and his mum tied it in a bobble and then cut it off. It is in a little freezer bag. It is very normal behaviour if your partner is so inclined and a bit of a soppy sack like me >:}

Two camps

You do.not mind becaise.you feel comfortable with your partner

You do mind and gives you creeps becauae you hav no respect or true love for him/her

Simples

Bloody hell, whatever you do, dont shave your bajingo when he is near by will you?

Yeuch!

I actually think its really sweet and was a little touched.

But it's still fucking creepy.

Sangria - that is possibly the creepiest thing I've ever heard. Did he tie little knots in the top to, you know, keep everything in?

i wouldnt find it creepy

My DP often tries to give me his belly button fluff as a present

I think it's quite sweet OP. My mum kept a lock of my hair, don't see why a partner can't.

My exh got a sunburnt back which I lovingly peeled the skin off.. I got a big strip off and kept it in my diary!

I'll get my coat

Well, it is always good to have a dna sample handy, so why not.

You are right to be suspicious, this is a form of patriarchal control. Leave him and seek out the nearest women's refuge.