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Found a condom in boyfriends jeans pocket

661 replies

bigapplerecords · 22/11/2017 08:54

I've just been through the laundry basket to put a load of washing on and found an unopened condom in the pocket of my boyfriends jeans.

We don't use condoms.

Aibu to think there could be a perfectly innocent reason for it being there??

OP posts:
hareagain · 23/11/2017 19:36

So part of you doesn't believe... Listen to it. He's lying.

Thinkingofausername1 · 23/11/2017 20:04

Suggest you start wearing condoms and see what reaction is.

QueenAmongstMen · 23/11/2017 20:39

But the condom could have been in his pocket from a night out before meeting OP, condom forgotten about and jeans washed and put away for a next wear. Wore out again recently completely forgetting the condom in the jeans

Surely if a condom had gone through a washing machine cycle the packaging will have been destroyed somewhat whereas OP implies it's just a normal looking condom wrapper.

If it is a normal looking, undamaged, no evidence of being through a spin cycle condom wrapper then surely it has been put there after the jeans were last washed?

Puremince · 23/11/2017 20:42

I know someone who had condoms planted on him during a works night out as a practical joke. His wife found them but believed they were planted (they were novelty coloured / flavoured and she didn't think that was his style).

ilovesooty · 23/11/2017 20:42

Good luck OP. I hope it works out well for you. I'm sure you're a sounder judge of your relationship than the knitters round the guillotine on this thread.

crazycatgal · 23/11/2017 20:42

You’ve been with him for only 6 months and you are going to take his word on something that seems suspicious and doesn’t sit right with you.

If you won’t do anything 6 months in it’s highly unlikely that you will take action if he does anything else concerning down the line.

iBiscuit · 23/11/2017 20:48

knitters round the guillotine Grin

AuntyElle · 23/11/2017 20:50

mishfish: Are you the jealous type OP? Maybe he doesn’t want to simply say they were from before in case he gets a third degree

Dear god! Confused

PollyPerky · 23/11/2017 20:51

Why would his friends want to put it there? They are late 20s and know he lives with OP. Some friends they'd be .

If it was from pre Apple he would have said so.

There are some posters who are not engaging brains.

somethingDifferent38 · 23/11/2017 21:02

*Why would his friends want to put it there? They are late 20s and know he lives with OP....

There are some posters who are not engaging brains.*
Yes, sorry, men in their 20's never muck about or do silly stuff -they would just congratulate the OPs boyfriend on his committed relationship on an evening out, and all sip their lemonade, because they sensibly save their money and avoid the silly behaviour that drinking alcohol could lead to...
I don't know why I thought that could ever happen Hmm.

PollyPerky · 23/11/2017 22:04

Oh ha bloody ha.

You must know some very immature guys in their late 20s. My son is around that age. His friends might have done that at 18 but not going on 30.

And you are not engaging your brain. If he thought this was the reason he'd have said, 'Fucking hell, I bet that was Jason...' or whoever, 'I knew they were mucking about'.

Not 'No idea baby'.

FFS.

Mustang27 · 23/11/2017 22:11

Some people are really immature though at any age. I know several Iv known work colleagues and friends to buy inflatable sheep,viagra and flavoured condoms from club vending machines and tease the quieter or more settled in the group.

LadyB49 · 23/11/2017 22:18

If condoms come in a pack of 3. There are two in a drawer. One in his pocket. Is the one in the pocket a counterpart to the two in the drawer.
The condom in the pocket has a torn corner..... Is there a corresponding torn corner on the pair in the drawer. Showing whether it not they were once all together. So it had to be physically separated from the other two. As opposed to the condom just 'appearing'

somethingDifferent38 · 23/11/2017 22:23

*You must know some very immature guys in their late 20s. My son is around that age. His friends might have done that at 18 but not going on 30.

And you are not engaging your brain. I*
Its lovely your son is so mature (and I'm sure he is telling you, as his mum, everything he does...).
But if you engage your brain (I wouldn't generally be that rude, but you seem to like the phrase..), you will probably realise that a lot of the drunk people fighting, shagging, and abusing the police, outside nightclubs, on Saturday night, are indeed people in their 20's!
It is honestly possible that the OPs boyfriend has the odd, slightly irresponsible friend. Its even possible your DS does too, and may not have introduced you to everyone he knows ;-).

Mustang27 · 23/11/2017 22:25

Lady they are not from the same pack they are not even the same colour wrapper.

PollyPerky · 23/11/2017 22:40

Something AFAAIK, the OP had made it clear (if you RTFT) that he does not go out on his own , (she can account for his movements), nor does he have 'mates' who would play a prank like this,

Addictedtothisbloodyforum · 23/11/2017 22:42

You are being so naeive! But you deep doe. Know this ...... sorry op

Addictedtothisbloodyforum · 23/11/2017 22:42

Deep down

somethingDifferent38 · 23/11/2017 22:45

AFAAIK, the OP had made it clear (if you RTFT) that he does not go out on his own , (she can account for his movements), nor does he have 'mates' who would play a prank like this
So, if he really never, ever goes out without the OP, he could not possibly have cheated either, could he?
You can't both claim that you know he is never unaccounted for, and that he is cheating!

PollyPerky · 23/11/2017 22:47

He goes to work. He could be seeing someone at lunchtime or straight after work. Why don't you RTFT before you wade in with all this stuff?

PollyPerky · 23/11/2017 22:48

There are 25 pages here Something. You have not read many or any.

We aren't talking about them being joined at the hip 24/7.
But he does go to work.

Stop arguing and start thinking and maybe have a read, eh?

somethingDifferent38 · 23/11/2017 22:49

No one knows what happened, me included, but so many people seem very invested in persuading a woman to end a relationship which seems great in every way, based on assumed guilt. Its someone's life, not a game, or a puzzle Hmm

somethingDifferent38 · 23/11/2017 22:56

He goes to work. He could be seeing someone at lunchtime or straight after work.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? I have read the thread, I know he goes to work, and he will of course see lots of people there who could play a prank. The statement that he never goes anywhere has been used to imply that a prank is impossible, but for an affair, he has plenty of free time. You are changing the facts to suit your theory, from one sentence to the next!

Either he is always accounted for = affair impossible, and prank impossible
Or, he is sometimes out with people without the OP = both prank and affair possible.
Try to grasp logic - I'm out.

Shankarankalina · 23/11/2017 23:07

When we were ttc, we never had a ceremonial purging of the condom drawer, so I'd let him off with the ones stuffed in amongst his socks.

That said, the wide-eyed 'I've no idea, babe' is about the cleverest, most finite argument possible because it leaves NOWHERE for the OP to go. It is the most shit and guileless of answers to hear.

MyOtherProfile · 23/11/2017 23:28

Really hope he never gives you any other reason to doubt him OP. You really were caught between a rock and a hard place.