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... 🤨

Sounds like me when I first met dh - I was in my teens to be fair and we didn’t do the public cutesy names or tell people we’d had sex 🤮 but we would always hold hands/be in physical contact and I didn’t go places without him because I’d miss him! We were and are genuinely just very happy together. Nearly 20 years into our marriage now and we do do some things separately but are still very happy and barely have a cross word.
If they are always like this and it irritates you I’m not sure why you’ve gone away with them?

Hahaha my friends (using the term pretty loosely to be honest) are like this too, I tend to avoid them but we run in the same circles, so I'll see them together occasionally. They are mortifying to be in public with, some of the ahem 'hands on' behaviour would probably be liable for public indecency

She drunkenly admitted once that it's to do with social anxiety, and that the more anxious she is, the more she has to do it. I think she's probably right, though I suspect she's doing it because she is worried that people are watching her, and wants to be seen to be doing something, rather than that she is anxious and looking for comfort from him. Because I know it's based in her insecurities I do try to be more understanding, but I admit that it mostly drives me batshit and I try to avoid them both

Oh god, I'd have to say something.

I'd guess though that the happy front they're put on is just that; a front. It's like the couples who gush all over each other on FB #thisone #loveofmylife and all that bollocks.

Sounds like my FIL and his wife. It's revolting, she sometimes posts up pictures of him in his underwear and says things I'd rather not hear

Couples like this are very strange. I once went to a destination wedding and had to share a villa with two other couples who were friends of the bride and groom but whom I didn’t know.

One of the couples were like this. They each called the other ‘ducks’ and would say it several times in a sentence, like a verbal tic.

“Ducks, could you pass the sugar please ducks?”

“Here you go ducks.”

“Thanks ducks.”

As nauseum.

Fuck knows what became of them. It was annoying and very odd though!

Quick update: she is crying because she made tea and we didn’t eat it all (6 people, enough food for 10), he then rubbed her leg while eating.

I’ve also noticed they’re really passive aggressive! I have no energy left, this was supposed to be a celebration weekend for a few big birthdays but actually it’s them making us feel awkward.

And we’re out of Prosecco 😭

I'd go home.

And tell them why.

At least they're not asking you to join in 

But surely if you know these people well enough to be going away with them you knew they’re were like this and that the woman is a drama queen to boot! I’ll ask again - why did you go?