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To be really fucking pissed off that DP always thinks he knows better than me??

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WanderingNotLost · 08/02/2017 19:11

Today it's dinner. He's cooking something I'm not specially keen on, but says he can pick up stuff for me from the shops on his way home if I want something different. So I ask for spinach and ricotta tortellini and some carbonara sauce, which I'll chuck together with some mushrooms and other stuff. Except when he gets home, he tells me he got cheese and ham tortellini, because he "didn't think spinach and ricotta would work with carbonara sauce". Well who the fuck cares what you think, if I wanted cheese and ham tortellini I'd have asked for it! Now as it is I don't even know if I want my dinner, if all it's gonna be is a riot of cheese and ham. Why would you ask someone what they want, and then get something else?

Or last weekend, we'd gone out for the day and my battery died on my phone. So I start rummaging around in my bag for my charger, which I'd put in that morning. You know, in case my battery died. But I can't find it in my bag and I'm starting to think I've gone nuts, when DP informs me that he spotted my charger in my bag before we left and took it out, because "I didn't think you'd need it". Well, who the fuck cares what you think I need, surely it's up to me what goes in my own sodding handbag!! As it was I couldn't charge my phone, and I spent the rest of the afternoon pissed off with him.

These are literally a few examples among the many hundreds where he's assumed that he knows better than I do. It's starting to give me disproportionate rage. I'm literally sulking in the bedroom because he's bought the wrong sodding pasta. But he does it all the time and I've had enough!

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kittytom · 08/02/2017 20:26

YANBU. My DH does this. He is what my mumsnet-reading friends call a Spoony Fucker. Bloody annoying! Mine just has eldest child syndrome I think. Well done for making him go back for the right pasta!

HolgerDanske · 08/02/2017 20:31

Do you know what, I don't think any relationship with any of its good points would be worth putting up with such breathtaking arrogance and misplaced sense of entitlement, for me. I would absolutely detest that, honestly don't think I could (or should!) put up with it. I've got the rage thinking about it.

I would start making life extremely inconvenient for him whenever an opportunity comes up so he knows how it feels.

EllaHen · 08/02/2017 20:33

Ask him if he thinks you are stupid. Every time. So that it's like a trigger question. When he hears it, he knows he's being a patronising dick.

JontyDoggle37 · 08/02/2017 20:39

My DH Asked me one year what I wanted for my birthday. I gave him a list of two or three things I really really wanted. On my birthday he said this: "I looked at all the things you wanted but decided to buy a weekend break for us both to Amsterdam." Amsterdam is his favourite city. I had never been, couldn't care less about going and was livid. I pointed out what an arrogant decision that was, quite loudly. He has learnt. Amsterdam was ok but I'd happily never go back.

Pacha11 · 08/02/2017 20:54

He is passive agressive. Look it up.

Magicpaintbrush · 08/02/2017 20:55

Wow, that would drive me fucking bananas. How irritating and disrespectful of him. Little things like that can drive a big wedge over time. He is being extremely interfering and patronising.

Maybe you should start doing the same to him.

WanderingNotLost · 08/02/2017 22:51

Ah Jonty an ex of mine did something similar... instead of taking me to see The Lion King in the west end for my birthday (which I've always wanted to see) he instead got me tickets to see his favourite dj, who I'd never heard of. We didn't last long!

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