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To wonder if everyone hates their husband?

52 replies

redwineagain · 13/05/2019 03:16

I will first say that I'm divorced and have just come out of an abusive relationship, so I may well be biased...

But I've seen a few things on social media recently about women blocking their husbands on WhatsApp/Instagram each time they argue.

AIBU to say that if you're married there's a line you don't cross, and blocking each other is close to it?

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JacquesHammer · 13/05/2019 08:06

He’s my ex-H but I don’t hate him. We have each other on social media (and his new wife) - no issues Smile

BumbleBeeWineGlass · 13/05/2019 08:08

DH and I don't argue, he drives me insane some days but in general we're pretty tight, I have him on any social media we both use and we send each other silly memes and tag each other in food videos Grin

BertieBotts · 13/05/2019 08:10

No, I like mine. But yes lots of dysfunctional relationships about - it seems like it's all you see anywhere after you leave an abusive one. I think it's not a bad thing to be aware of. It makes you see the value in being single, which there absolutely is - and have a pretty high bar for anyone new who wants to come into your life.

pepperpot99 · 13/05/2019 08:11

Aah yes, social media. Where would relationships be without it? It doesn't infantilise at all, does it? Hmm

BillywilliamV · 13/05/2019 08:12

Why do people insist on posting this sort of shite question?
Pointless and boring, people add their 6pennyworth and don’t read what anyone else says anyway!

IdaBWells · 13/05/2019 08:13

I love my husband and we have been married 23 years in June. He is on FB, but not that much. I am not on SM except forums like this if it counts.

mydogisthebest · 13/05/2019 08:30

No I still very much love my husband after almost 40 years. We are both on facebook and have many of the same friends so often both comment on the same post.

I have never unfriended him nor has he unfriended me

Likethebattle · 13/05/2019 08:33

One woman I know changed her name back to her maiden name after arguing with her husband. She was stuck with it for 60 days though x

CherryPavlova · 13/05/2019 08:34

I love my husband very much. We’re best friends as well as partners.
He doesn’t use social media much now after deleting his twitter account but often looks at mine to see what mutual friends are doing or what the children have posted.
I can’t block him because he’s not got accounts but I can’t imagine why I would anyway.

ZippyBungleandGeorge · 13/05/2019 08:37

Erm no and the kind of people who regularly block their partner on social media aren't a representative sample of the population. Unless you're 16. Most sensible adults don't play out their relationship online

Subeccoo · 13/05/2019 08:39

We've been together 6 years but it popped up on FB the other day we'd been friends on there 10 years.

In the initial stages of our relationship we used fb messenger and have remained on each other's friends list since.

We're older (39, 45) so perhaps it's that but the thought of blocking or removing is hilarious, sm is just that, we have it but it's nothing to do with our relationship???
We use WhatsApp as our daily messaging app but just like texting.
We don't argue tbf, minor disagreements, frustrations but we talk things through.

I love him dearly, I don't hate him at all.

MrPan · 13/05/2019 08:49

All sounds quite teenagery. Adults don't really do this.
Mrs Pan and I don't have the same SM outlets but if we did I'm pretty sure we'd still be grown ups.

MissConductUS · 13/05/2019 09:07

Ah, more FaceBook drama. DH is one FB but never actually looks at it, and no, I don't hate him for it.

BogglesGoggles · 13/05/2019 09:08

Are all these people you get by any chance?

expatinspain · 13/05/2019 09:12

Blocking people on social media is very immature unless it's a serious issue where you are cutting someone out of your life. My DP blocked me years ago after a row and I just thought he was a childish nob at the time. He doesn't do it anymore. I have a friend who is always blocking people if they annoy her (usually work colleagues) and then
everything is smoothed over and she adds them again after having to have a cringeworthy conversation as to why she blocked them in the first place, or lying and saying it was a Facebook glitch 🤦🏽‍♀️. I don't see the point. Stupid unnecessary drama.

Celebelly · 13/05/2019 09:14

Blocking and deleting your partner when you argue is something teenagers would do. It smacks of an immature relationship.

Keepithidden · 13/05/2019 09:23

I'm friends with DW on Facebook, I think she hates me though!

Everyone's circumstances are different.

Dungeondragon15 · 13/05/2019 09:27

DH isn't on facebook but if he was he wouldn't be my friend because what is the point. If you live with someone you know what they are doing anyway. Being connected and then blocking each other seems extremely childish.

ShanghaiDiva · 13/05/2019 10:12

I don't see the point in all the drama. Dh does not use social media. We have been together for over 30 years and generally behave like adults not 5 year olds in the playground.

AlaskanOilBaron · 13/05/2019 10:21

Very strange. Neither of us are on S.M. (I realise some think MN is S.M. - I don't) but if we were, I doubt we'd interact much on the ether because we live together.

redwineagain · 13/05/2019 10:25

@JacquesHammer I have my ex and new wife on social media too, it works for us!! I've just seen so many references to people blocking their husbands on whatsapp or Facebook after an argument, I was wondering if it was a 'thing'

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redwineagain · 13/05/2019 10:26

@BertieBotts this is absolutely it. I never used to notice it before

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redwineagain · 13/05/2019 10:30

@expatinspain that's exactly what it is, such drama

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AryaStarkWolf · 13/05/2019 10:33

I love my DH and no neither of us have ever blocked eachother on Social Media, we're not 12 years old Grin

KoalaTea · 13/05/2019 10:55

I still have my Ex on facebook, we use it to communicate quite a bit.

However, I do wish he'd piss off from is following me on Twitter because he seems to feel its an appropriate place to insert himself into my hobby/social life where he's not welcome... and take digs at me over why we separated.

We dont have mutual friends, so my mutuals/followers on twitter dont know him from Adam, and it irritates me.

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