AIBU to think this is a bit much?

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I know I probably sound a bit bitter here but...This couple are just too much! Constantly rubbing/patting each other, kissing, rubbing noses... and I mean constant.

They have ridiculous pet names for each other and only use them or husband/wife, never actual names, they feel the need to constantly let everyone know they have sex even when it’s not in context, like ‘oh you watched GBBO? did we mention we had sex earlier?’.

It’s all so forced though, she uses this awful fake breathy voice around him (definitely not her real voice), they cant be apart for a single second and must be in physical contact at all times, they have been sharing an armchair and there are 3 other seats available. Neither goes out without the other- ever! they’ve been married a good few years now and I honestly thought it’d calm down before now.

They make forced (not funny) jokes about everything and both crack up with fake laughter, never disagree or have different opinions and judge the rest of us for not being so OTT with our partners. I’m married but still my own person, I do things without DH, have my own opinions which aren’t always in agreement with his as do most people I know.

Is it just me that thinks it’s all a bit much? I really hate the idea of ‘other half’ and that a woman is somehow less than a whole person without a man. I’m the same person, roughly, I was before DH, This girl won’t even go out to lunch with the girls because she’d miss her dh... 🤨

Why on earth are you friends with an idiot like this?

It's not for you but they are happy.

'oh you watched GBBO? did we mention we had sex earlier?

😂😂😂😂

IME OP, these are the couples who usually split before long. It's usually all for show. If people have to declare how happy they are constantly I'm always suspicious

But o give it 10 posts before someone calls you jealous

They either genuinely enjoy this sort of thing, or they're doing it to draw attention to themselves. Either way, just let them get on with it.

Be happy for them. From afar, that would drive me up the wall.

Yes you're right, it's pathetic.

Either way, just let them get on with it

In the privacy of their home, yes, but others shouldn't have to endure that kind of shit.

You'll find they end up quite unpopular, and then end up wondering why they have no friends in a couple of years.

It’s about as genuinely intimate as renewing your vows after eight months

Ugh they sound like something out of a bad sitcom!

How old are they?

I'd have to say something.

Why would you have sex instead of watching GBBO?!

I’m so happy at least some people get it!
It’s all just too fake, showy and in your face. I’m in a happy marriage (mostly, he has his moments!) but don’t feel the need for constant physical contact or showing off.

I’ve been exposed to it more than usual the last few days and it’s really grating today. I willingly went for a walk because the sound of rubbing was driving me crazy 😡

who are they? how old are they?

Friends? put some distance in it?

It just sounds like their way of coping.
I would find it irritating, but it takes all sorts.

Hope you're looking forward to their holiday pics from S America soon :)

I remember someone I worked with telling me once about their partner, who cried and begged her not to leave him every time she went to work because he was so lost without her there. She thought it was romantic. I felt stifled by proxy.

Grim - sounds like they are 15

Weird.

I knew a couple like this. So OTT and sexual references and sitting on laps etc.

After a few years they split and he came out as gay!

What is the context OP. have they arrived at your house uninvited to act this way in front of you? If not, in what way is it affecting you.

I reckon at home they're like that couple who were always rowing in Father Ted.

I was friends with a couple like this. They were all over each other (although she was much worse than him) as if they literally couldn't wait a second longer to rip each others' clothes off. It made for some uncomfortable dinner parties. When they were hosting dinner, they'd usually disappear upstairs to bed by 10pm leaving the rest of us to it.

I was a close friend of hers and she eventally confessed that she'd started an affair with a co-worker, and hadn't had sex with her DP for 2 years. I felt like yelling "we all had to put up with that show for years and you weren't even having bloody sex??!". I think it was all insecurity and just a front.

@starzig we’re on a mini break together, small cottage in the country with not much else and the bahviour is stopping us doing the things we’d planned.

Thank God it's a 'mini' one

Why don’t you have a bloody word and say how fricking annoying you’re finding them? Don’t let their behaviour stop you doing stuff, just get yourself gone to do what you want. They’d be left alone after much rolling of eyes from me. If for some reason you need them, then bloody well get them told!