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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Does anyone here actually like their husband?

191 replies

Womendohavevaginasnick · 20/06/2021 16:34

Yes=yabu
No=yanbu

Seems to me there's so much husband bashing going on on here, makes me wonder why some people are even together!

OP posts:
Wombats12 · 20/06/2021 21:45

Yep, love mine and he's worked from home for 20+ yrs.

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 20/06/2021 21:54

@FakeFruitShoot

My DH is great but in a very low key sort of way. I can't describe it.

It makes it hard to respond even to the moany threads because I see lots of things through the prism of DH and me. Like I responded to a thread about a partner staying out until 5.30am with a breezy, oh it's fine, assuming he'd been out debating politics and watching wrestling like DH would have been, having stopped drinking about 1ish to get up with the kids about 9am. A big back story unravelled and "give and take" isn't a thing for some families (with good bloody reason, I gathered, because someone men often take the piss)

My DH never lets me down and we've got each others' back. I wouldn't need to write a post about it. Lots of it is luck. I could congratulate myself on choosing so well but I really didn't. It wasn't a conscious decision.

What a refreshing read. Sometimes on MN when women end up married to areholes, there is an attitude that it's somehow the womans fault, and those that are not* married to knobheads are morally superior and much better at judging these things, and it never happened by chance!
FlowerPower3110 · 20/06/2021 22:06

Yes absolutely! Grin We've been together for 14 years and married for 7

MrsBobDylan · 20/06/2021 23:03

I have adored my dh everyday for 19 years. I grew up in a house with warring parents and promised myself I would find the right person, or stay single.

My dh brought unconditional love and happiness to my life for the first time.

I find the posts where women detail their appalling relationships so sad and wasteful of potential happiness. I lived that life as a child and it is a living death.

89redballoons · 20/06/2021 23:16

My DH is brilliant.

He's unwaveringly loyal and honest to me, he's loads of fun and makes me giggle every day, he's a great dad and does more than his fair share of the housework, he's handsome and looks after himself, he strives to improve himself all the time. He is a man of relatively few words but when something important does need to be said, he is very insightful.

I really, really like him and really love him. We've been together 12 years, married 3, have got through the pandemic so far with a toddler and WFH and even after all that I still fancy him!

MgW1 · 20/06/2021 23:41

Not right now ... hes snoring his head off after having a few too many fathers day beers aaaggghhh!!!! The rest of the time , hes great 👍🏻

foreverandalways · 20/06/2021 23:44

My husband is quite literally my life.....supportive, patient, hard working, my best friend and loves the very bones of me ....I am extremely lucky x

FunTimes2020 · 20/06/2021 23:46

@LittleRedPill

People are hardly going to start posting saying everything in fine and they’re very much in love with their partner though are they? By definition, it’s when the relationship is in trouble that the OP needs advice.
Exactly!
pallisers · 21/06/2021 00:04

@Womendohavevaginasnick

Yes=yabu No=yanbu

Seems to me there's so much husband bashing going on on here, makes me wonder why some people are even together!

people post when their husbands are shite because they want help. And yes it would make you wonder why some people are even together - better apart really.

I have never posted on MN about how lovely my dh is - he really is - best thing in my life,.

Is it so hard to understand that people post about problems rather than being happy and fine?

entropynow · 21/06/2021 00:10

Yeah, he's alright. Happy now?

Saoirse82 · 21/06/2021 02:23

Mine is my best friend, I've been sick during this pregnancy, have moaned and complained a lot and he's done everything housework, cooking meals, bringing me drinks. I know he'd do anything for me, he's a thoroughly good husband and I know he'll be a brilliant dad too.

Comedycook · 21/06/2021 08:11

The thing is life is so complex. We fundamentally get on...we have the same morals and opinions on most things. I fancy him. He is always there for me and I can rely on him. On the other hand, I don't live in a perpetual bliss filled bubble. He is not perfect. He can drive me mad. I detest him working from home. I feel like he has impinged on the only time I had to be alone. I know if I had to, I could live without him.

toomuchtooold · 21/06/2021 08:22

This is so goady. People post about their partners on here because they are having problems and looking for advice. The partners are never covering themselves in glory. This morning I've seen a bloke with a baby and a pregnant wife go out for a pint and come back the next day, one that bullies his child (who is also bullied in school) and then shouts at his wife if she tries to intervene, and one who had twins in lockdown and complains that his wife doesn't look happy enough. None of these chaps is covering themselves in glory. But their partners are on here looking for positive solutions. Better partners than any of those men deserve IMO.

BlowDryRat · 21/06/2021 08:59

YABU. I am totally in love with DH, adore every inch of him and enjoy spending time with him. I am that soppy.

Blooming hate exH though.

DocsOddSocks · 21/06/2021 17:49

@toomuchtooold

This is so goady. People post about their partners on here because they are having problems and looking for advice. The partners are never covering themselves in glory. This morning I've seen a bloke with a baby and a pregnant wife go out for a pint and come back the next day, one that bullies his child (who is also bullied in school) and then shouts at his wife if she tries to intervene, and one who had twins in lockdown and complains that his wife doesn't look happy enough. None of these chaps is covering themselves in glory. But their partners are on here looking for positive solutions. Better partners than any of those men deserve IMO.
It's not necessarily goading and to be honest, I agree with the OP! Smile
Peacelillyhippy · 22/06/2021 08:54

The OP shows judgement of those who are unhappy in their relationships. Isn't that one of the points of an anonymous forum - to rant, moan or share things that you may not in everyday life? The OP has no empathy just contempt and smugness.

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