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DH's colleague is victim of sexual harassment and she told him

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moijejoue · 02/12/2023 06:08

DH has a new job and is crudely speaking a travelling salesman. Him and his colleagues get paired up to go round visiting their clients all over the world. Recently on a trip, a colleague (15 years younger than him, lovely long blond hair) told him a client gets handy when he's drunk. She said she would like to leave before the client gets to that level. DH was telling me that he should probably let their line manager know. I feel sorry she's experiencing something so horrible. .now the AIBU part. I have a tin voice in the back of my head saying:
Psychologically, men (DH) feel good about themselves being in a capacity where they have to protect a woman (his colleague) and the colleague's situation also lets him know she is good looking and so much so that men can't help but get handsy with her.

I am at my absolute rock bottom right now. I am 8 months postpartum. I look the worst I've ever looked, I am the heaviest I've ever been, I've had the other end of the scale of DH's colleague and people call me fat in public. DH is far better looking than I am. I really feel he settled for me because we're sadly from a culture where being divorced is looked unkindly on and he is divorced. At my lowest I can convince myself he could do so much better than me.

DH and I haven't been getting on great lately. We have a week where we are very good and then a week where we have fought. I just feel we're on shaky ground although he doesn't think so.

AIBU to feel nervous about DH's colleague and her unintentionally making DH think she's attractive.

OP posts:
moijejoue · 02/12/2023 19:35

Imperfectp3rf3ction · 02/12/2023 15:57

I'm very confused reading your previous posts tbh.

Not having sex in almost 2 years won't be helping your self esteem
Was your baby an Ivf baby ?
You want couples counseling with him ?

But you also say through them you've done lots of self improvement and therapies so you should have the tools to get yourself feeling better. I think there's some major underlying issues here.

My life feels like it's completely spiralling. Baby wasn't IVF but she's 8 months and we had no sex during pregnancy so.. more like a year and a half.

I have no idea where to start. And those are only posts under this username. People have called DH chaotic, ND. Some things are.so rubbish people think I'm trolling. I feel so completely useless and tbh feel like I look like a troll. I'm exhausted from trying to make it work with DH.

I think my self esteem sucks. I'm paranoid about other women but do understand my thoughts are unreasonable.

I'm just exhausted.

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Janieforever · 02/12/2023 22:12

Other women aren’t the enemy op. You’re your own enemy, and until you take steps to resolve that, it will continue. I haven’t seen your other threads, so don’t understand rhe back context. I can only comment in this thread.

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