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Scabs

16 replies

Racoonworld · 27/08/2017 23:22

My DH picks his scabs and eats them. He thinks this is normal, I don't.

AIBU to think that it is not normal to
A) eat your own scabs
B) pick and eat your DW/DH scabs?

OP posts:
NC4now · 27/08/2017 23:25

I thought we'd be talking about crossing picket lines.

Your husband is gross.

ILoveMillhousesDad · 27/08/2017 23:27

Urgh gross. Could not have sex with someone who did this tbh.

ILoveMillhousesDad · 27/08/2017 23:28

This can't be real

Original poster
Racoonworld · 27/08/2017 23:29

It is 100% real. It is disgusting isn't it?

OP posts:
Sparklingbrook · 27/08/2017 23:32

How many scabs does he have? Confused

I have just checked and I have no scabs whatsoever. DH says he has none either. I think your DH must be scabbier than normal.

StickThatInYourPipe · 28/08/2017 00:06

I'm really sorry I would have to leave him for this! I couldn't kiss him again! only sort of joking

Nuttynoo · 28/08/2017 00:26

He's really disgusting. Picking at scabs is barely normal - it's disgusting and really not something to be done in company, but to eat them crosses the line

gamerchick · 28/08/2017 00:29

Does he pick and eat your scabs as well like OP?

Lozzy5790 · 28/08/2017 00:47

YANBU!!! That is disgusting! My DH also picks and eats his own scabs - he's never tried with mine luckily... probably because I was so disgusted by him eating his own.

We've been together 8 years and I cut his toenails for the first time last week- previously he used to bite them off (wtf?)

FeelingAggrieved · 28/08/2017 00:48

Disgusting.

SnickersWasAHorse · 28/08/2017 00:50

Picking scabs, yes. Eating is wrong when you are an adult, standard behaviour for 70s boys. Find one and ask them, it's true.

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 28/08/2017 03:36

Please stop acting as if the OP's DH is a freak. Skin picking which often includes eating scabs can be symptomatic of excoriation which is a psychological disorder. Would you make fun of someone with OCD?

Sparklingbrook · 28/08/2017 08:08

OP does your DH have a psychological disorder? Or is he just disgusting?

Miserylovescompany2 · 28/08/2017 08:14

Yes, I completely get the picking part - to eat them? - nope - turns my stomach actually.

Difford · 28/08/2017 08:26

I do. Like a pp said, it is a compulsive behaviour and I find it impossible to resist. I recently had a bad car accident resulting in a large wound. I couldn't stop picking the scab to the point where it was bleeding and painful, I had to ask my dh to watch me and physically stop me if my had went towards the scab. I know it is disgusting but honestly can't stop.

brendani9 · 28/08/2017 17:24

I remember being at school (early 80's) and watching another kid pick a scab off his knee and eat it like a biscuit. Rank.
Seem to remember references to this in kids books of the era too.

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