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Husband on a buck weekend aibu

82 replies

Newmama93 · 01/07/2023 03:52

Aibu to expect a message when my husband is on a bux weekend away?

I asked him to keep me updated on when they got back to the room safe after they went out on a pub crawl, he messaged me at midday once they arrived at destination then they went out and I sent him two texts as I was going to bed (11pm) asking if the stripper had left the house (she was organised by other boys for the groom and I knew when she was going but said I had a problem if she stayed with them after paid time amount) and asking where they were and he read my messages and I didn’t hear back from him until this morning, he didn’t go to bed until 5am so I feel a little hurt he didn’t once think to let me know or respond. I was quite worried about him as they’d been drinking from 9am that morning! But am I seeming too overbearing to want this? Should I just catch up on details once he returns in two days?

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Kinneddar · 01/07/2023 03:56

Leave him alone. He's on a weekend with his friends last thing he needs is to be checking in all the time. You can get all the details once he's home

WandaWonder · 01/07/2023 04:18

I would like this but no would expect this he is a grown up

Newmama93 · 01/07/2023 04:42

Guess it’s just one little thing I wanted was the know when the stripper left the apartment - I wouldn’t have minded not being filled in on when they got back but to have my messages read about the stripper while at home pregnant with our toddler kind of sucked.

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BonnyLassie99 · 01/07/2023 04:56

OP you’re understanding not minding your man seeing a stripper when you’re pregnant! God I’d hate that!

TheCyclingGorilla · 01/07/2023 05:01

Agree with @Kinneddar . Leave him alone.

Kinneddar · 01/07/2023 05:03

Newmama93 · 01/07/2023 04:42

Guess it’s just one little thing I wanted was the know when the stripper left the apartment - I wouldn’t have minded not being filled in on when they got back but to have my messages read about the stripper while at home pregnant with our toddler kind of sucked.

But he could have told you she left on time even if she didn't. He might have told you she stayed later. There's nothing you could do.

If you trust him enough to be at an event with a stripper surely the timings are pretty irrelevant

GBoucher · 01/07/2023 05:08

He's on a stag weekend with his mates, leave him alone. Would you like it if you were at a hen do and he kept checking in on you and asking you to text him when the male stripper left? Seems childish and insecure.

moneymatr · 01/07/2023 05:10

She will have left whe she stopped getting paid. It's a job it's highly unlikely she will fancy any of the men who hired her. But if he agreed to text really he should have

ProfessorXtra · 01/07/2023 05:15

What’s the issue if the stripper stayed later?

Look I wouldn’t like dp going to see a stripper. I even hate male strippers and wouldn’t go watch one at all. But ‘I don’t mind there being a stripper as long as she leaves by X time’ is a bit odd.

If your husband didn’t book the stripper and it’s not his stag party he has no say on when the stripper leaves. If you think he is going to cheat on you with the stripper, it doesn’t really matter what time she leaves.

Personally, I think texting someone when you know they are getting drunk is asking to be let down. You are asking someone drunk to make a good rational decision, text something coherent back. It’s really unlikely.

I think asking someone to keep checking in while they are drinking or while they are on a party weekend will end is disappointment. I would expect a text or 2 during the day, especially as you are pregnant and have a child. But I wouldn’t expect a lot of conte t, especially when they are drinking.

moleeye · 01/07/2023 05:15

I would hate this - leave him be. Comes across as so very needy and insecure

Chocolateship · 01/07/2023 05:35

Me and DH always let eachother know when we're back at hotel or wherever we are staying after a night out, neither of us ask for it it's just something we do and its never bothered me. It sounds like he was back at the place they were staying so I wouldn't be too worried, this is the far bigger issue:

stripper while at home pregnant with our toddler kind of sucked.

I bet it did, ew.

Peony654 · 01/07/2023 05:38

You need to leave him alone. A message each day is fine, I don’t think I even managed that in my own hen weekend..

BadNomad · 01/07/2023 05:51

If the stripper hadn't left, what were you going to do? There's really no point stressing about this stuff because it's out of your hands. Leave him to enjoy his grubby little weekend then address your relationship issues when he gets back.

Heybearu · 01/07/2023 06:03

Often on stag weekends there are penalties for texting or calling other halves. If you trust him you trust him, dont be arranging him about weird things like when the stripper left.
It's natural to feel anxious sometimes but perhaps seek comfort speaking to a friend at home or family. If you can let him have his fun weekend and be happy hell come back appreciated if tour in lots of negative contact he might come back feeling resentful and feel embarrassed there.

PriOn1 · 01/07/2023 06:10

Unfortunately, I think you’re setting yourself up for a fall if you let him go, expecting him to get drunk and expecting him to text you to reassure you. You either trust him or you don’t.

Would you have preferred it if he had chosen not to go at all? That would be understandable. It’s common enough to hire a stripper, but also sleazy and a bit grim. I know you he told you it was the other men who organised it, but by going along, your husband is inherently indicating approval (and likely lying that he wasn’t involved). So then, your decision is whether you accept that he’s the kind of man who goes along with seeing strippers or not.

Some women wouldn’t care either way, but from your reaction, you obviously do. If you were not happy, you could have told him that and seen how he responded, then made your decision about whether it was a dealbreaker for you.

I take it that you didn’t tell him you weren’t really happy, but rather pretended you were okay with it, but hoped he would compromise by texting you for reassurance and now he’s let you down? It’s horribly difficult when you get pregnant and discover that your partner, who you hoped/assumed would change when you were pregnant, doesn’t and I know that as it happened to me.

I think you have to work out how to deal with it going forward. Whether you are too overbearing is not the right question. You feel how you feel. If your line in the sand was that he would text you and he didn’t, then you have to take it up with him. Arguably it was a bad line in the sand to draw, because once he was drunk with male friends, the chances of him texting were always quite slim, in my opinion. There would be huge peer pressure not to do so.

But given he let you down, you now have to decide what to do if a similar situation arises. You know now he won’t text. Your choices are to let him go or not. Obviously there are risks with either, but ultimately it depends on where your line in the sand is. You can keep compromising on your own feelings and let him do what he wants, letting him get away with letting you down, even though it upsets you, or you can set boundaries you are happy with. But then you have to understand that if he oversteps them, your only option might be to leave and you have to be willing to follow through and do it.

I’m probably not the best person to advise as I allowed myself to be compromised for years. It took me way too long to leave and I put up with years of being disrespected because we had children together and I didn’t want to parent alone, but with hindsight, I massively regret putting up with it for so long. I think working out my boundaries and sticking to them would have meant leaving much earlier, but ultimately that would have been better.

And obviously all this is in the context of how he is the rest of the time. If he’s great the rest of the time, then maybe an odd night out is not a big deal and you can live with it, but if it’s the tip of an iceberg of generally thoughtless, unpleasant behaviour, then perhaps you’re better off without him.

Newmama93 · 01/07/2023 06:17

Yeah I just expected a text to be returned when I had texted, but no biggie just wanted advice on whether anyone else would discuss it further once their husband returned. I wanted to know about the stripper as if she stayed at the hotel I wouldn’t be comfortable him staying there all afternoon with her which has happened before on buxs and a clear no no from him as well if I was at a hens - so I just wanted to know if she had moved on.

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Chocolateship · 01/07/2023 06:35

I think there's a difference between wanting to know they're safely back wherever they're staying and wanting to check in as you don't trust them, this falls into the latter and sadly even if he did text you couldn't be sure he was being honest or not. It seems this is an issue in your relationship that you either need to address or realise you can't cope with- the not trusting not getting no response to a text.

Rafting2022 · 01/07/2023 06:44

So depressing to read of all these women who are happy for their husbands to watch strippers. How disrespectful.

SpringIntoChaos · 01/07/2023 06:45

Every man on the trip will have told their wives/girlfriends that 'the other guys organised the stripper' 🤷‍♀️ It never ceases to amaze me that women still fall for this line! 🤦‍♀️

OP...leave him alone...you either trust him or you don't. Either way, whatever has happened has already happened and you'll have to deal with it when he gets back.

RattyHealy · 01/07/2023 06:50

Rafting2022 · 01/07/2023 06:44

So depressing to read of all these women who are happy for their husbands to watch strippers. How disrespectful.

I don't think they are ok with it are they? I wouldn't be ok with my partner watching a stripper or going to a lap dancing club and he knows that.

The OP expecting regular updates and particularly on the whereabouts of the stripper is just silly though. If she doesn't trust him then how is a message or call where he could be lying in any way helpful?

BonnyLassie99 · 01/07/2023 07:08

moleeye · 01/07/2023 05:15

I would hate this - leave him be. Comes across as so very needy and insecure

I don’t about you but pregnancy made me insecure, granted I didn’t have the best partner at that time but whilst a woman is pregnant and not feeling or possibly looking her best, then feeling insecure is normal imo.

Shoxfordian · 01/07/2023 07:10

Leave him to it: what difference does it even make if the stripper stayed later? You either trust him or you don’t.

MadamWhiteleigh · 01/07/2023 07:12

Shoxfordian · 01/07/2023 07:10

Leave him to it: what difference does it even make if the stripper stayed later? You either trust him or you don’t.

This.

Leastsaidsoonestscrewed · 01/07/2023 07:13

Blimey women have such low standards in men.

Megifer · 01/07/2023 07:16

So they ordered a stripper to the hotel room? Say what? Isn't that just a prostitute then? How fucking grim.

make sure you get an STD check after you next have sex.