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To not want my DG to call me a "princess"

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HulkHulk · 30/06/2023 19:50

Today DH and I went to a restaurant for lunch and I ordered a milkshake. They told me they milkshake machine was broken. No big deal, ordered a sprite.

Later DH teased me about the "pissed off princess" facial expression I pulled. He did it in a "my wife doesn't like getting her own way". He often talks about me being a princess, or sometimes spoilt, or "classic my wife" behaviour. He says "lots of women are bloody princesses"

The thing is I literally don't know what he's talking about. I am very un princess like. And anyway this might be OTT but I find the whole line sexist? He tells me he's just messing about and to stop taking stuff so seriously but it's this joke he brings up again and again and it just totally bizarre to me. I'm pretty bloody laid back and deal with a lot of pressure at work all the time. I just don't relate at all.

Aibu to ask him to stop? I have but he is still finding it funny.

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HulkHulk · 02/07/2023 17:45

@Theeyeballsinthesky he didn't used to actually. I mean he was hardly Germiane Greer but no red flags like this. I'm no psychologist but over the years I've taken the more traditional man role I guess (breadwinner, manage finances, even do the spiders in the bath) and his little "typical little wife" comments have grown in the last years. It does feel likes he's trying to reaffirm himself. He's got more insecure over the years. Of course he would tell me to get over myself if I said anything like that.

He said it again today. We passed a shop on way home to get milk, he jumped out and said "you just wait in the car like the passenger princess" with a grin on his face...I didn't have anything witty to say so just said "classic sexist rubbish" or something and he just rolled his eyes.

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lljkk · 02/07/2023 18:16

I refer to one of the dogs that I walk as a princess.
Anyway, HIDING FOR RIDICULOUS SEXISM REFERENCE.

M0rT · 02/07/2023 18:34

Every time he calls you a princess start singing "Some day my prince will come"
Every. Single. Time.

notwavingbutdrowning1 · 02/07/2023 18:36

I would just start calling him dickhead each time he calls you princess.

Sometimes I find myself looking for a Like button on Mumsnet and this was one of those times.

Gettingbysomehow · 02/07/2023 18:39

Its on a par with are your hormones playing up, is it the time of the month. My ex used to ask if I was ok every 5 seconds in a passive aggressive way to wind me up implying there was something wrong with me.
Nope, there was something wrong with him......bye.

Caradonna · 02/07/2023 18:39

You’re no f……..g Prince sadly

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