To not like this text message?

[Fidgetwonkam]

How would you feel if you received this message from your boyfriend/partner?

I had mentioned that I wanted to start again with my hobby that I haven’t done for a long time (well before I met him)

I know it was sent with good intentions but I just don’t like it. Aibu?

How would it make you feel to get a text like that?

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@Mamboitaliano
That would be perfect reply if she were to end it...so mean to 😂

Op this did make me laugh. He is obviously trying to be supportive but the cringe level is too high for me 😖

It's just a silly little drunken poem to show that he's supportive of something you want to do and that he loves you is all. It's so harmless and quite sweet! But the fact that you've reacted badly to it says to me that the relationship probably isn't right for you. As someone has already mentioned, it sounds like you've got 'the ick'. Time to review things?

It's not a poem! They were texts.

He's got the pots for you.

Turn up that ghetto blaster.

My ex used to do this.... he sent me a rhyming poem about anal sex once

Do you remember it; please tell us, I just can't even imagine ...

It sounds like a slightly drunken message of support to me. I don't see the problem to be honest.

Patronising poem
I read, now I see you too
Now single, you too

@NoMilk 🤣🤣

It's so harmless and quite sweet!

It's the "i need MUCH more than a pretty face (sic.)" that makes me find it hard to see it as sweet .. that's inherently knobbish, how does he not realise it's all cringe but esp that line?

I’ll have what he’s had

Except....wait, no I won’t.

You'll wish you had a man who sent one word texts again if he keeps this up op.

He told me/admitted the other day, that he knows he’s not the world’s most good looking man but he has incredibly high standards.

I think it was supposed to be a compliment to me.

This actually reminds me of the episode of 'sarah and the potter' on Chanel 4 'the joy of missing out'
Where people get off on making pottery (he is not hoping you could get into for that kind of pottery is he OP?) 😂

My ex used to do this.... he sent me a rhyming poem about anal sex once

"I know we've been together a while,
So let me take you up the aisle"

I think he is just missing the cringe filter!

Urgh fucking cringe. Sounds like a Nice Guy who thinks he's wonderfully kind bestowing on you the honour of being 'more than a pretty face.' Because that's all most of us women are to dicks like that. And he's shit at poetry. LTB. Bet if you try to dump him he turns into a nasty stalker bastard.

There once was a man sent a text
Which he thought would help him get some sex
Until late one night
With a terrible fright
His poetry turned out a hex

Hes drunk but it's still creepy isnt it, very intense and smug/creepy about how he 'knows' all of you etc. I'd want to tell him to shut up and get a grip.

Do you have other reservations about him OP? Clearly something doesn't sit right and that hits a nerve.

He told me/admitted the other day, that he knows he’s not the world’s most good looking man but he has incredibly high standards.

That and the first line of the poem strike me a bit as negging (?)

Like he's aware you're better looking a d do he's emphasising that he "needs" more than just good looks, a d he has very high standards - to try to even things up/ in case you think he's lucky to have you etc.

Lots of things are right, which is why we are together but these type of texts and general neediness puts me off.

My marriage was so far in the other direction, in terms of affection and attentiveness, that I feel like I don’t know what’s normal!

To the poster who asked if we were long distance. No, but we only see each other a few times a week, due mainly my working hours and my children.

I've read a bit around pick up "artistry" a d thays one if their techniques for picking up (or keeping interested) a woman they perceive to be very attractive (or more than them)... Emphasise to her that looks aren't everything and she needs more than that to get & keep their interest or esteem.

I knew the Pottery Throwdown was what initiated these texts.

I don't find them too bad tbh. He is trying hard. But....I (briefly) dated a guy who repeatedly told me that he'd 'give me a good life, a very good life'. He had a high paying job and I assume that is why he said it but it really really irked me. I know the real reason it annoyed me is because I didn't fancy him and I think he thought I was playing hard to get or acting not interested when I simply wasn't interested.

Now I'm constantly stressed about money, maybe I should have stuck with him

I think it’s drunken attempt to be funny. Does he expect you to answer in poetry or learn his poems by heart? If yes, I would think seriously about the relationship ...

*and this is one of their techniques

Red flags are flying.

It might be useful to read up on unhealthy relationships. Particularly if all of his ex girlfriends treated him badly, and he really didn't deserve it, or he has no idea what went wrong.