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AIBU?

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DH won't denounce Trump. AIBU to expect him to?

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FabulousUsername · 31/01/2017 08:11

Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this. I haven't been very politically involved in the past but I have a keen sense of right and wrong and I detest Trump's bullying ways. And most everything he says, I'm sure there is no need to explain the revulsion I feel about his leadership. DH would say, at a push, that he's a bit of a monster but that he has a point, that he's a guy who gets things done, he knows 'how the world works'.

I'm seeing patriarchy everywhere...and I feel really aggrieved that H tacitly supports the view that it is our destiny. As a bit of backstory, he does belittle my work and (I now realise) looks down on women generally. For example, joking about men trading in wives for younger models like Trump-- clever guy, eh Hmm (me with bored sarcastic eye roll). I've responded to this by saying that the door is open and if he wants to trade me in he's welcome to. But he insists its banter and all men talk like that and that I can't take a joke. Old stuff, really, but in the context of the Trump presidency it suddenly seems crucial for him to realise that this sort of joke isn't acceptable. Not one bit. And it isn't funny to joke about me wanting to march in protest to Trump. I keep thinking he will change and be on my side, so to speak, but so far no sign of it.

Would you choose to 'agree to disagree'? Or would the thought of being married to a Trump apologist be a dealbreaker?

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whatsthepointofmorgan · 31/01/2017 13:17

Getting sick of all these threads. I just stumbled across another one and couldn't resist having a look.
Narky, you should get yourself on over there. You might even get to use your favorite word. Actually I think the word was said within the first few posts.
I bet you're already on it.
Trouble attracts trouble.

Think I might have a quick look. I bet I'm right.

VestalVirgin · 31/01/2017 13:19

Would you choose to 'agree to disagree'? Or would the thought of being married to a Trump apologist be a dealbreaker?

Dealbreaker.

A man who supports a misogynist cannot ever truly love a woman. What I want out of a marriage is to be loved, so why stay if I cannot get that?

whatsthepointofmorgan · 31/01/2017 13:22

Yep. You're' there, with your superior attitude.

I'll leave you to it.
Have fun.

NarkyMcDinkyChops · 31/01/2017 13:24

Getting sick of all these threads

and yet here you still are.

BeMorePanda · 31/01/2017 13:55

Getting sick of all these threads
Can't imagine why Hmm

angeldelightedme · 31/01/2017 16:54

Ivanka is his daughter. Ivana is his first wife. Melania is the current wife. Hope this helps.

Well duh!! Thanks for that Captain Obvious! Who said she was his wife!!
She is a woman in a powerful position in his business ie not an oppressed secretary!

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