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Partner goes shooting almost 5 to 6 days a week

237 replies

Bebenama · 04/05/2022 07:26

been with my partner for a year, for the last 3months he’s been going shooting from 5pm till 11:30pm, and occasionally when he’s off work or weekend he will go all night and come back in the morning about 11am something 3pm in the afternoon. I’m not comfortable with this as I don’t feel that give us any time together.

l work till 4 and have school age kids from previous relationship so I’m the week I’m ready to chill with partner by 8pm. My partner work at home and finish mostly between 5 and 6pm and that is when he have a shower and prepare to go out.

I really don’t understand this shooting and hunting habit. When I met him I know he was into this but thought he only do it few days in a week as mostly he would be at mine by 8pm for just us to have a nice time. This is before we start leaving together about 5 months ago.

He wouldn’t take me out anywhere, anything I suggest he would make excuses so I give up asking. on the other hand I do all the cooking and most house work. I have to cook as I have kids in the house.

please let me know if this is normal relationship for him to go out almost every night and sometimes don’t come home.

OP posts:
3WildOnes · 04/05/2022 11:44

@Wereeaglesdare you think it is ridiculous to wait for your kids to grow up and leave home before moving a man in?! I am ever thankful that my own mum didn’t think like you.

you can live a full, happy and satisfying life without living with a man.

Wnikat · 04/05/2022 11:44

You moved a guy in with your kids after 7 months of dating??

Jacopo · 04/05/2022 11:46

I think he's dating Mae West.

Partner goes shooting almost 5 to 6 days a week
BooseysMom · 04/05/2022 11:52

If he is shooting animals have you ever seen the carcasses?? Because normally they bring them home and start chopping them up in the cellar or garage.

😆i don't know whether this was meant to be funny but it certainly made me howl! As if it's normal for men to be chopping up carcases in their garages! (Or maybe it is in some places 🤔)

britneyisfree · 04/05/2022 11:53

Come off it, you weren't born yesterday. Get rid.

Hunting my back foot.

Herejustforthisone · 04/05/2022 11:59

Christ almighty, he sounds pointless, lazy and frankly vile for allegedly enjoying shooting things dead five or six days out of seven.

Text him and tell him just to not bother coming back to your house. Bag up any of his crap and dump it out the front.

Musicalmaestro · 04/05/2022 12:00

What is his job OP?
I’m struggling to think why he needs a shower before going out to tramp about the countryside..

Maydaysoonenough · 04/05/2022 12:01

Just pack his stuff and leave it in the garden. Text him he needs to collect before it rains /gets stolen. Lock the door and ring the police if he gets aggressive..
Does he keep a gun in a locked cabinet away from your dc?

LiesDoNotBecomeUs · 04/05/2022 12:03

It doesn't really matter if it is normal or not - you are not happy with this life-style and he doesn't seem to care that you are not happy. That does matter.

(No -I don't think it is normal for shooters to be out that often and that long.)

Copperpottle · 04/05/2022 12:08

Of course it's not normal. You're just his housekeeper. Men choose a weak woman to cook and keep house while he just goes about doing what he wants. You're a replacement mother.

It's not a relationship.

Lastqueenofscotland2 · 04/05/2022 12:09

You’ve been together 5 minutes. Just tell him it’s not working

Copperpottle · 04/05/2022 12:09

Also the shooting excuse for having an affair is a new one. Guess he assumes you won't be coming along.

Nanny0gg · 04/05/2022 12:09

elbea · 04/05/2022 10:49

Having lived/worked on a country estates, the gamekeepers were out hunting all the time. Lamping rabbits every night was very common, it used to shine through my windows all the time. It’s been breeding season for rabbits and that’s when they are usually culled most, to stop more rabbits eating crops.

Does he have an agreement with a farmer that requires a certain amount of time/animals to be shot?

Pigeons and squirrels...

TheMullerLightOwl · 04/05/2022 12:09

Full disclosure I've never held a shotgun in my life, but I'm pretty sure you need daylight to go shooting - unless he's part owl and has super duper night vision?
I think there might be another explanation for his absence at night...

Nanny0gg · 04/05/2022 12:11

MrsSkylerWhite · 04/05/2022 10:50

“He might be a game keeper.”

do they work from home? 🤔

😂

KettrickenSmiled · 04/05/2022 12:12

BooseysMom · 04/05/2022 11:52

If he is shooting animals have you ever seen the carcasses?? Because normally they bring them home and start chopping them up in the cellar or garage.

😆i don't know whether this was meant to be funny but it certainly made me howl! As if it's normal for men to be chopping up carcases in their garages! (Or maybe it is in some places 🤔)

Perfectly normal. Even women do it in "some places" ...

You've never lived more than the next meal's distance from a supermarket, have you?

Tsuni · 04/05/2022 12:15

You moved a man you barely knew who owns guns into your house with young children?
And you're not sure if him fucking off every night is normal?
Yeah, ok.

You need to dump him.

youvegottenminuteslynn · 04/05/2022 12:27

You have primary school aged children and have moved in a man you've been with for just a year?

What are you thinking? Poor kids.

Florin · 04/05/2022 12:31

If he is actually shooting and not bringing anything home I am guessing he is shooting rats but all night every night I have never heard of for anyone shooting anything and both my husband and I shoot plus most of our friends. My guess is he has another relationship.

NewandNotImproved · 04/05/2022 12:36

Moving some bloke you’d known a matter of months in to your kids home is diabolical, implement basic safeguarding and prioritise your kids.

it’s not clear why you’re with this bloodthirsty boyfriend or what you get from this strange house sharer ‘relationship’, but date him if you feel the need, separate to your kids.

NewandNotImproved · 04/05/2022 12:38

youvegottenminuteslynn · 04/05/2022 12:27

You have primary school aged children and have moved in a man you've been with for just a year?

What are you thinking? Poor kids.

She moved him in to her kids home after much less than a year of dating. Absolutely dreadful.

Kennykenkencat · 04/05/2022 12:39

Bebenama · 04/05/2022 08:27

He said he shoot pigeon and squirrel and from his friends land. I had a feeling he could be cheating but I just want to get rid him as I don’t see the point if we don’t spend time together. He went out 10pm last night and still not home yet it’s 8:20am here in UK.

last night he knows I wasn’t happy him going out but he still went. He’s living in my house. I really want to ask him leave the house today.

nrtft but this

🤣🤣🤣

He is definitely cheating

Neverreturntoathread · 04/05/2022 12:41

Definitely not normal.

I think you’ve found the reason he’s still single!

I would not be interested in a relationship with a man like this. I mean what’s the point?

Kennykenkencat · 04/05/2022 12:41

I think as soon as he said he went hunting
I would have given him a wide berth.

Can’t he find a “Nice bit of squirrel” in your local Asda

WilsonMilson · 04/05/2022 12:49

Shooting? In the dark? All night long?

Are you sure the ‘shooting’ is not, in fact ‘shagging’?

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