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Salsa dancing and angry DH

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mimishimmi · 27/05/2015 14:13

So my DH has been sleeping on the couch and cold-shouldering me since Monday night when I tried out a free salsa dancing class (my first ever salsa dancing) at a local hotel which runs them weekly. He knew beforehand that I was going as I did tell him and the kids. I already have a dance background with flamenco which I continue to dance. I liked the class ... we were not partnered up with any one person and basically the women were all in a circle with the guys rotating among us. To be fair, there did seem to be a few 'singles looking for love' type of attendees (among the women I talked to beforehand anyway ) but I've just really always wanted to be able to dance it and know the official moves - not the super sexy skimpy clothes style of dance, just the normal social type of dancing. I am planning to invite him for the next class (and it's a hotel anyway so if he really didn't want to try he could just come and have a drink and watch). This cold- shouldering is not new, he's done it a few times before until I've given up whatever it is he doesn't like or broken down and apologised profusely. I talked to a simply gorgeous woman after the class and told her that I'd love it if DH came, she said 'good luck with that, ten years and I've never convinced mine'. AIBU to attend ( as a married woman) or if not, how should I approach this with him?

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AllKnickersNoFurCoat · 30/05/2015 12:19

I'm not for a minute suggesting your H will murder you (!) but there is an irish dickhead called Joe O'reilly who staged a break-in-gone-wrong and murdered his wife. The gardai were suspicious immediately because he kept saying 'rachel was nobody special'. He meant to imply to the gardai that she was an ordinary woman with no enemies and he couldn't imagine who'd want to kill her. But the gardai thought it was a very odd thing for a husband to say about his wife.

Sorry if it seems inappropriate to tell you that story, but I'm so reminded of it.

ttc2015 · 30/05/2015 13:54

What makes him so special?

So special he can be controlling and abusive and hurt his wife with comments and actions? What makes him so special he deserves you OP? Because right now it looks very much like all he deserves is to be binned quite frankly and it looks like you are slowly seeing that as well.

So if you do want to leave him at some point, I suggest you post in Relationships to ask for advice first because controlling men become awful when control is ripped from them and you need to be a step ahead.

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