To think that just about everyone knows that one couple...

[HoneyDragon]

The one where one party isn’t abusive/ cruel/evil, but is just your bog standard simply dreadful. Yet their significant other is a total poppet and somewhat unassuming and nice.

You know the ones? Where you find yourself at events where they are and spend your time considering rehoming and rehabilitating the nice one and then relocating them 3000 miles away and releasing them back into the wild to start a new life with a suitable mate?

My best friends husband is a knob, he didn’t used to be a knob but as he has got older and has got more money he has got worse. He is racist and homophobic, seems to forget he was brought up in a council house and now hates anyone on benefits and anyone who is he thinks is a scrounger. He calls me a communist because I vote labour and have attended some anti austerity marches and also Florence Nightingale because i used to work with disabled people.

One of my oldest friends had a crush on a boy in the year above us at school (who didn’t). After uni she had a very prestigious career, as well as an impressive bank of hobby’s. She was constantly busy and thrived on noise and colour. (Ah youth). Anyway ran into boy from school maybe 5 years later and like a fairytale they fell in love. Except he hadn’t changed 1 bit from school and still hasn’t. His friends are friends from school. He’s works from their home which means it needs to be his office so is quiet and dull. I always feel he’s clipped her wings. She tries to do exciting fun things but he acts like the cute boy from school, sneers and shuts it down.
I don’t know how she can’t see it. I’ve tried to talk about it with her but she just agrees his hobbies are best. Last I heard they were watching the box set of Buffy and Angel of an evening.

Yes my "friend" is with a lovely guy. She is a complete bitch to him and has basically admitted to us she onlys stays with him because of money. Treats him like utter shite. I could rant all day about the way she is to him and their kids(especially the youngest). I have distanced myself from her because I cant condone how she is and the abuse in my eyes that he suffers. Alot of other mutual friends have done the same but we do make an effort with him.

Another couple I thought he was the problem, financially controlling but it is actually her. She has major spending issues and is a compulsive liar and gossip. I genuinely think she needs help but is past it.

Finally my oldest friends husband. Completely gives me the creeps and frightened the absolute shit out of me last week. They had called up to mine with her son for a few drinks. He was drunk coming (a bad drunk as it is). When they left, he started ringing my phone and sending messages on fb messenger and knocking on my door asking to come in for a drink. All hun this and babe that. Needless to say i didnt answer but really got a fright for some reason. Was praying I had locked the front door and hid on the couch in case he could see through the blind. He has previously hit on me and others.

Yes! My sodding Brother in law! (Sister's husband)

Also, my sister in law (brother in law's wife)

Grrrrrrrrrr! (I could rant, but I won't!)

I thought I knew a couple like this. Until I spent an extended amount of time with them. Turns out they're both knobs. She just hides it better.