To think DP is a dick with all his ‘connections ‘

[LovingMyDarkAndStormy]

Been with DP for a few years. He’s great but a class A dick.

He ‘knows’ a lot of people - famous people. It’s got to the point that literally every programme we watch - he knows someone connected with it.

It’s either an actor who is one of his DCs father/mother.
His old road he lived in is featured in the film/programme
He bumped into them the other day
He went to the premiere off ..

I’m a bumpkin

I only ever served Maggie Philbin a bra when I worked as a Saturday girl in M & S

He’s a bore

& he corrects me with my pronunciation

Today I said ‘pale’ wrong (he asked me how it’s spelt)

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To top it off I have to meet his family (first time - they live overseas) over the weekend.

They are famous. I’m the brassy, inappropriately dressed bumpkin

next time he tells you he knows someone famous, tell him you used to shag them Every single time. The weirder the better

Please do this!

A dose of reality served on a daily basis could help immensely. My boyfriend's best friend is a bit famous and I actually feel a bit sorry for him. My boyfriend and the friend's daughter are the only people in his life that treat him like a normal person (I don't mix with him myself). It's unfortunate, but basically everybody else in his life brown nose him and he really acts like he's up his own arse the majority of the time. When he's not acting like he wants to eat himself he's actually a decent guy, but he's certainly no better than anybody else.

Who was pale, anyway? Was it Maggie Philbin?

I’m confused. Great and class a dick? Does he make you happy?

So what if he knows famous people. So what if you don’t. You both seem to be putting up barriers and yet together for years. I don’t get it.

He is very good & kind to me

He's not OP. He's really not

My ex was a tedious star-fucker like this. He was terribly mean about the fact that I’d had a fling with someone famous before I’d met him. He was similarly charmless and full of how chummy he was with celebrities (he really wasn’t, we both know the same friends of friends).

Life improved an awful lot without him.

I have a relative like this. I shut off and make appropriate oohs and aahs at regular intervals. He has a shit life in reality and he does know the people he talks about it’s just idgaf

Crowther was the second host, the first one incredibly enough was Eamonn Andrews

I’m loving the way no one gives a shit about the famous bit, but we all want to know about this ‘pale’ pronunciation!

How on earth do you find yourself married to someone you barely know?

Marrying a bit of an arse can happen to anyone - in fact tbh it usually does, most people are deeply flawed. If you like him and want him around, his and your own arsehood need to be merging creatively.

I do think I don't love him.
I don't think I do love him.

Dump him, you're both incompatible and it is showing in the way you think, eat, talk and dress. There's no getting away from the fact that you two are completely mismatched and shouldn't be together. Don't waste your life on him and date other men so that your sense of reality can be rebalanced.

My dp says buck and cuck for book/cook he is a lovely idiot OP when you dump him please out them on here :-) I did a thread on here about famous people who are a bit of a arse in real life! (Still about cilla)

So How DO you pronounce "Pale" OP?

And why don't you just leave him if you don't like him?

I can imagine if you were raised with celebs you might talk about them all the time because it would be a bit like you taking your partner to your old village, and introducing them to the milk man and Peggy from the shop when you see them... it would make sense to mention them in context(oh that's Dave on the telly! iyswim. It would be very annoying though.

Dh still talks about the time he saw a cheeky girl on the tube.

Commenting on your pronunciation or making you feel like a poor relation are different though. Twat behaviour.

It is hard to assess on what we have above. He talks about his children's school friends' parents presumably children at a private school from his marriage. So it looks like the poster is a probably younger new partner and her boyfriend could not sustain things with his first wife either probably because he isn't a very kind person or some other reason.

If he wanted someone from his class why not just choose someone like that? If it doesn't matter to him why point it out to you? it may be quite significant he has not married this time round. I would think about how you can live financially without him if you are not married and if you currently live with him and may not love him any more.