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Husband and female French tutor. Is this suspicious or OK?

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Afternoonlemonandhoney · 07/10/2019 23:44

What level of contact are you happy with...?
Aibu or have reason to worry?
They meet a couple of hours a week for the lessons (on a one to one basis) There is nothing particularly incriminating.
He looks like enjoying her classes a lot but there's every chance it's perfectly innocent. I have had this type of relationship with a few male colleagues in the past.
I met her once only by chance and she is very pretty! He has her email address but also her WhatsApp.
We've been together for more than 10 years, 1 kid. Things are ok between us as far as I'm aware.
Perhaps I'm just jealous of her and their meetings about his new challenge/hobby of learning French. We have a cottage in France and visit there frequently.

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reasonablesettlement · 10/10/2019 17:04

OP, that you are even thinking like this says so much about you, as well as your opinion of your husband and professional working women.

Would you rather your husband were with you because he has no alternatives or because that is where he wants to be?

Stop worrying about the French teacher and make sure you are not making yourself emotionally unattractive.

SlightlyMisplacedSingleDad · 11/10/2019 08:43

@afternoonlemonandhoney - saying "don't be harsh" is all very well, but you do need to hear that your response to your husband learning French is irrational and dysfunctional.

Much of the advice you've been given on here, such as joining the whatsapp discussion, joining the lesson, or other ways of trying to stop your husband being alone with his professional tutor, is textbook coercive control. Which is abusive and illegal.

What much of this thread therefore amounts to, is women giving other women advice on how to abuse. And we see it all the time on Mumsnet, with a certain type of woman who believes she has the right to monitor and police her partner's interactions with members of the opposite sex. That is abuse. Purely and simply. You may not like that. But it's the law.

flipperdoda · 11/10/2019 10:01

You have made up your mind. I don't understand why you came to ask if it was okay - it seems you only wanted backup.

SlightlyMisplacedSingleDad - your last comment is spot on. As is the person who said you just don't trust your husband.

You do not trust him. Are you going to speak to him about it, stay quiet, or leave? Because they're your options - inserting yourself in the lessons or whatsapps aren't actual reasonable sane options.

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 11/10/2019 10:08

@Afternoonlemonandhoney Are you asking whether it's possible to have a platonic friendship?

Do you not have any male friends?

JorisBonson · 11/10/2019 10:31

@SlightlyMisplacedSingleDad has hit the nail on the head here.

Imagine if a man was trying to stop his wife interacting with her male tutor. Oh the umbrage.

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