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DH has a 'spank bank'...

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PosySimmons · 17/09/2019 10:25

We've been married for four years and together for seven.

DH recently photographed some ID docs of his I needed for an application form and emailed them to me. I need to resend them and couldn't find the email so had a quick look at recent docs on his laptop (which I often use, we don't have passwords to keep stuff secret from each other).

The newest folder was called New Folder and set up around the date he sent me these docs (a few days ago), so I opened one of the images in it (not named, so whatever file ref was assigned when it was saved).

It was a naked photo of one of his ex girlfriends. And pretty explicit at that.

There were lots of other photos, all put in the folder on the same date. I hovered over them for a few second but decided I didn't really need to see them to guess what they were. And frankly I don't want to see naked photos of an ex. Nor, I expect, would she want me to see them.

Am I BU to think this is pretty gross? They're not old pictures he forgot about, they have been very recently rearranged into a new file that was at the top of his recent documents.

I don't know how outraged I should be. I think I mainly feel disappointed in him for being, well, a bit grim and cheap. And kind of upset that he has no respect for either of us. The thought of any of my exes having a quick tug over images of me makes my skin crawl.

Is this just something men do?

For reference, we don't have much of a sex life at the moment tbh. We have a small child, I've had loads of surgery over the last couple of years, and life's a bit stressful. DH has intimated that he'd like more sex, but hasn't made any effort to make me feel more inclined. I can't spend all day cleaning up after him and a toddler, spend little time together doing anything other than parenting and boring life admin and suddenly feel like a shagfest at bedtime.

No matter how 'deprived' he feels (which in itself is a thought that gives me the creeps - I'm not depriving him of a marital rights, we don't live in medieval England) AIBU to feel even less like DTD any time soon?

FFS. I thought he was better than this.

OP posts:
Myriade · 18/09/2019 17:55

@notworththesqueeze, I have to ay I am wondering if going into that sort of length is worth the effort too.
I mean why doing all of that to avoid being caugt 'watching porn' when you could just use your imagination. Confused
Or are men so incapable of using their brains that they cant muster a nice pron film in their heads??

Justaboy · 19/09/2019 21:28

Crumbs! I go away for a couple of days and I see that becaue i said i have One picture of my ex wife, topless on a beach in the south of France where its a beautiful setting and the light is just right, she knows i have it and shes got the rest of the set which are on instagram plus a few from life model drawings and some shots taken using professional models at a camera club, the same ones who do fashion shoots and the like albeit some years ago now i get described as Creepy and sound like someones ex and a whole tip of other silly abuse!.

FFS men have been painting and photographing women for centuries now you can see some rather racy paintings in the national gallery and the louve and other gallires all over the world they arent porno theres plenty of that and more on the web. So because i describle then as tastefull some contributors think there what was it "moist" or porno?
Really get a bloody life!

None of them are wank material, imagination is sufficent for that thanks!

Vanhi · 19/09/2019 22:35

FFS men have been painting and photographing women for centuries now you can see some rather racy paintings in the national gallery and the louve and other gallires all over the world they arent porno theres plenty of that

You might want to look up stuff on the male gaze in art. "It's been going on for centuries" isn't an adequate reason to keep doing some things, otherwise we'd never make any progress.

Lipz · 19/09/2019 22:47

This is awful for you, I think I'd crack if I found this. I bet his ex doesn't even know he has these pics of her, all organised into a file and just there to be found as you found them easily enough. I think I'd equally be sick if I thought an ex of mine had kept pics of me.

I'd replace them with pictures of his MOTHER !!! not naked ones of course ...

trendingdiscussion · 31/12/2024 17:24

bloody hell op
you stayed with him

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