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What would you call your exes wife??

168 replies

Lifeadminatwork · 08/09/2018 14:06

New wife? Second wife? Wife is just fine thanks!

Im not insecure/needy/need to get out more, just wish the poison that comes out of exes mouth could be channelled elsewhere for a while.

Straw that broke my back!

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bastardkitty · 08/09/2018 14:07

Unlucky

EllenJanesthickerknickers · 08/09/2018 14:08

Current wife, or butterface.

LaContessaDiPlump · 08/09/2018 14:09

Janet.

Grilledaubergines · 08/09/2018 14:09

Wife. Because she is. Doesn’t need a prefix.

Seeingadistance · 08/09/2018 14:09

Third wife, current wife or wife.

Usually, I refer to her by her name.

carbuncleonapigsposterior · 08/09/2018 14:10

His wife. It was a long time since I was his wife!

JaceLancs · 08/09/2018 14:10

I call her Mrs xxxxxx number 3

Lifeadminatwork · 08/09/2018 14:11

Exactly grilled. Thank you. Some of these have made me laugh so she hasn’t taken away my sense of irony and humour.

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Lifeadminatwork · 08/09/2018 14:13

Funny that she doesn’t refer to me as current stepmum as she hates the fact I am. I simply don’t exist in that context which is great!

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chickhonhoneybabe · 08/09/2018 14:14

Grotbags! 😂😂 —not because she looks like grotbags—because her name reminds me of her

EllenJanesthickerknickers · 08/09/2018 14:14

Mind you, he's her fourth husband...

Lifeadminatwork · 08/09/2018 14:16

Good for her Ellen 🤣 she’s been testing them out first before she got to the right one.

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Lifeadminatwork · 08/09/2018 14:16

Out of interest why butterface? Greasy skin?

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Mercurial123 · 08/09/2018 14:17

Poor cow because she has to live with him. I got out and am very happy and content with life.

ToEarlyForDecorations · 08/09/2018 14:20

Butter face: nice body but her face lets her down/is not attractive. It's a corruption of, 'but her face' say it quickly and it sounds like butter face.

BitchQueen90 · 08/09/2018 14:20

My exh has a partner but they're not married, I just refer to her by her name or l his girlfriend.

I hate the terms "stepmum" and "stepdad" so I'd never refer to her as my DS's stepmum. Equally if I ever meet someone I'll never call him my DS's "stepdad."

JacquesHammer · 08/09/2018 14:22

I call her his wife unless the situation requires further explanation.

Lifeadminatwork · 08/09/2018 14:26

I’m not in the least bothered What she thinks of my step parenting, or what she thinks of the term step. It’s immaterial to me and I’m just glad her failure to accept me in that role means she leaves me alone in that respect.

As for her ex, my husband, she clings onto their long marriage and her status as first wife like a badge of honour. I wish she’d just move on!

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Lifeadminatwork · 08/09/2018 14:26

Thanks for the butterface explanation - must remember that one 😂😂

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LanguidLobster · 08/09/2018 14:28

Just wife.

Never knew that about butterface either

TooMuchPenis · 08/09/2018 14:30

Probably "my ex's wife".

Unlucky

TooMuchPenis · 08/09/2018 14:34

As for her ex, my husband, she clings onto their long marriage and her status as first wife like a badge of honour. I wish she’d just move on!

Is there a real reason you care though?

If I divorced and my dh married someone new I'd never refer to them as my chid's "step mum" I think it's a bit of a pointless title. Your whole relationship to the child is predicated on fucking their dad and not having given birth to them. It's nothing to do with them, and of course I'd hate for anyone to attempt to "parent" my child who has two perfectly good parent already. Same would go for any partner I had. People who use it for children they haven't raised imo tend to be trying to erase the previous family unit.

TheBigFatMermaid · 08/09/2018 14:36

Third wife, or the one who has to watch her back for the next one to come along...

As unlike me, who met him when he had been divorced from #2 for a few years, they got together when we were still together.

Maybe your circumstances are different. In which case, just wife would do.

strawberryalarmclock · 08/09/2018 14:37

Depends if it's a month in which she loves or hates me! It's tiring keeping up with it!!!

TheBigFatMermaid · 08/09/2018 14:39

#1*