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Apparently I can't take banter

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NotExactlyJimCarey · 05/06/2023 09:30

Husband proclaimed a few weeks ago how uptight I am and that he can't banter with me anymore, seemed out of nowhere as I feel like we laugh plenty, and I said as such to him and even apologised if I'd come off that way and said I'd be aware of it.

Since then I feel like he's just being a prick to me. I know he'll say I can't take a joke so I've bitten my tongue but the things that he apparently sees as banter I find just disrespectful. Like he got up off the sofa and threw the rubbish from the food he was eating in my face. When we had a gin one evening he went to refill them and came back and had made himself another gin and tonic but only bought me out a shot of gin as a joke and I had to go back in and make my own gin. He's shut doors in my face. Started driving the car without me getting in so I'm following him up the road with him repeatedly driving off. Throwing a load of his dirty laundry down the stairs deliberately as I'm walking past so it all lands on me. Yesterday at the beach I got upset because I'd been breastfeeding the baby and hadn't popped a boob back in after without realising, when I noticed I sort of gasped and put it away and asked him had he not noticed and he said yes ages ago was waiting to see how long it would take you to notice and laughing about it, which I feel was really disrespectful as lots of people would have seen at that point and he knows I wouldn't like that. I snapped at that point and said he's being really rude to me lately and he was like scoffing that he knew I was biting my tongue and to just admit I'm uptight and can't take banter. Wtf?!

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REignbow · 05/06/2023 15:36

As everyone has said this is not banter but abuse.

Please ring Wa and speak to friends/family in real life.

ThereIbledit · 05/06/2023 15:37

That's not banter, and no queen should put up with that utterly revolting display of disrespect..

REignbow · 05/06/2023 15:43

What are you going to do @NotExactlyJimCarey?

RisingSunn · 05/06/2023 15:43

I love banter with my DH. What you describe is NOT banter. He is bullying you.

LadyJ2023 · 05/06/2023 15:45

Weirdest banter I've ever heard of. Is he a teenager

pollykitty · 05/06/2023 15:53

Your DH sounds like a right arsehole. None of this is remotely funny, unless you're 14 years old. Banter is silly and funny for both people.

Yesterday we were watching 'Say Yes to the Dress' and discussing the host's coiffed hairdo (it was the British version). I said something like the only person I know who has a more coiffed hairdo is your dad. He spends hours brushing his hair every morning. I'm always saying, hurry up DH. Your hair looks fine. (Of course this is a lame joke because DH spends about 30 seconds getting ready in total including a shower and never brushes his hair) My DH responded with something like I'm so lucky to have your mum to keep me on track. I just cannot stop brushing my hair. And so on. It's harmless.

Laughing at your DP because her boob is hanging out is NOT funny.

howdoesyourgardengrowinmay · 05/06/2023 15:57

Tell him you don't feel the 2 of you are compatible any more and perhaps it's a good idea for you both to move on before the relationship deteriorates any further. Either that will give him a sharp wake up call to start behaving like an adult, or give him the answer he wants, which is to move on.

cruisebaba1 · 05/06/2023 16:01

You need to leave this idiot, it is abuse

fdgdfgdfgdfg · 05/06/2023 16:34

He's not bantering, he's being a cunt. I'd be telling him I was leaving him unless he cut it out right now.

TenseTessa · 05/06/2023 16:57

Definitely abuse.

My exH did this kind of thing. See how it escalates:

Started with
Jokes at my expense in front of my family and I wasn't good at taking a joke

Breaking the car hard when I was drinking from a bottle as a passenger so it would go all over my face

Driving off (he still does that to my asd child 😡)

Engaged:
Got really horrid about my concerns about inviting my dysfunctional family to wedding

Then pregnant
Really laying into me when pregnant then being the victim for being the bad guy

Then with new born baby
Laying into me for not buying him a gift after baby was born - I was almost disabled and struggling to feed the child. I was sitting crying with pain of feeding and he started the above.

Telling me the house was a shithole and it was my fault because I went to 4d /wk post my second child

Finally
Telling me i was lucky he didn't hit me

I Left him/ divorced him

Shouting at being a bully to kids

He later has assaulted the children and been dragged through court as a consequence.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 05/06/2023 17:32

Mmhmmn · 05/06/2023 11:27

Agree. Also because ...why should you bring yourself down to enacting that level of abuse when you're just trying to live your life and look after your child like a healthy, mature, civilised adult?

Good save, you two. I'd written what I would do, which isn't necessarily wise.

whynotwhatknot · 05/06/2023 19:08

No its not banter thats when both parties are in agreement something i funny

are you married to jay from inbetweeners-notice he never done it to bigger boys/men

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