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Boyfriend wants to take my friend out on a date

530 replies

MayNov · 23/01/2024 13:08

So, trying to keep this one short. My friend from out of town is coming to stay with me for a few days. My boyfriend has met her and gone out with us the last time she was in town. My boyfriend has taken a couple of days off work to go out with us.

I've mentioned I was going to do a gym&swim on one of the days she's here (I can spend up to 4 hours gymming & swimming) and my boyfriend said he'll ask my friend whether she wants to go on a long walk and for a lunch at the local pub with him. I said that would make me feel uncomfortable, he said he doesn't see any reason why this would make me feel uncomfortable.

Aibu to insist this would make anyone feel uncomfortable?

OP posts:
Kurokurosuke · 25/01/2024 21:19

Hmmmm….definitely feel the title should have read

my boyfriend though my out would be nice to take my visiting friend out while I was swimming.

Sceptical123 · 25/01/2024 21:25

VoleChomper · 25/01/2024 18:38

Christ on a motherfuckin' bike. Over two days later and people are still asking the OP why she's going to the gym.

Grin

TAKE ME AWAY, LORD!

😂😂😂😂😂🤣

Onesipmore · 25/01/2024 21:32

To be honest I can't imagine my dh taking any time off if I had a friend on a trip visiting me. Likewise he doesn't need to be around every evening.

BayCityCoaster · 25/01/2024 21:33

Very much agree with @LadyMacbethWasMisunderstood

Spyral · 25/01/2024 21:38

I've only read the OP, has this turned out to be a reverse? That's how it felt to me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Spyral · 25/01/2024 21:41

Spyral · 25/01/2024 21:38

I've only read the OP, has this turned out to be a reverse? That's how it felt to me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ok, so now I've read OP's posts. Not a reverse after all.

I couldn't see an issue with what the DP was suggesting so assumed that it was actually a reverse and the OP couldn't understand her DP's objections.

Ne'er mind now.

ArnieLinson · 25/01/2024 21:44

Your friend doesnt want your boyfriend there. Tell him to stay away when she is here and enjoy the time with her yourself.

BayCityCoaster · 25/01/2024 21:45

Why do people do this?

Only read the OP of a looong thread and then post drivel.

We can honestly wait for you to read the thread. Or, least, the OP’s posts.

We don’t need to hear what you think, when it’s completely irrelevant and out of date.

You always look so foolish when you then post, ‘oh, now I’ve bothered my arse to RTFT, I can see what I just said was stupid’.

Sorry, but honestly….! Grin

MarshaMarshaMarshmellow · 25/01/2024 21:46

Having read all your posts on this thread, OP, I do think this is slightly weird. He's only been your boyfriend for six months, you don't even live together, and he's taken two days off work to help you entertain your friend? It gives me the slight creeps in two different and contradictory ways...

  1. he's acting like "one of the girls" and actually intruding on your time together in a way that's quite unsexy, as if she's come to visit both of you and you're all a big gang of girly mates

  2. he does fancy your friend after the time they stayed up late drinking and is jumping at the chance to spend time with her again

Ilovecleaning · 25/01/2024 21:52

Weird.

Watdidusay · 25/01/2024 21:59

Theres definitely more to this story.

Sceptical123 · 25/01/2024 22:04

I don’t think the OP’s coming back. I hope she’s ok and her BF hasn’t kicked off

Uokhon · 25/01/2024 22:09

You are abandoning your friend and your boyfriend is stepping up.

BayCityCoaster · 25/01/2024 22:12

Uokhon · 25/01/2024 22:09

You are abandoning your friend and your boyfriend is stepping up.

How to tell us you haven’t RTFT without actually saying you haven’t FTFT.

Uokhon · 25/01/2024 22:15

BayCityCoaster · 25/01/2024 22:12

How to tell us you haven’t RTFT without actually saying you haven’t FTFT.

No I haven't read 20 pages of other people's opinions.

Make sure to copy and paste your pointless reply across the boards, will claw back the time you spend on "RTFT".

Fluffyfleece · 25/01/2024 22:18

TrishTrix · 25/01/2024 21:02

Suspect you've got loads of replies but I'd be looking at why you feel this way.

For context my friend's husband has just stayed with me for a week while he attended a conference in my home city.

Another friend's husband and I are going to an exhibition together on Saturday. She isn't coming as she isn't remotely interested in the content.

I've known these blokes a long time >20 years but we only met because of who they are married to. And we must have had a first outing (definitely not a date) at some point but what it was has got lost in the mists of time.

You're missing the point. OP's friend is aware that OP had a broken back and would rather spend time at rehabilitation with OP as she has done before. Not with new partner.

Can you state that you understand that now? I worry about the level of of intelligence on here sometimes.

SwimmingWorrier · 25/01/2024 22:22

Monsterjam · 25/01/2024 18:49

That sounds like a lovely lovely thing for him to do!

😂no he is weird.

Saltyseadream · 25/01/2024 22:27

Exactly this ☝️

Saltyseadream · 25/01/2024 22:28

Exactly this

Champers66 · 25/01/2024 22:32

Nah let him crack on. He’s being kind

Nanny0gg · 25/01/2024 22:33

BusyMummyWrites01 · 25/01/2024 19:31

I think it’s a little odd [ie very rude] that you are having a gym/swim morning when you have a guest visiting from out of town. You should really take her on a guest pass or postpone it until she has left. Your BF sounds like an absolute gent for offering to entertain her while you are self-indulging and leaving her at a loose end.

Oh dear god.

Read the updates please

MarshaMarshaMarshmellow · 25/01/2024 22:33

Uokhon · 25/01/2024 22:15

No I haven't read 20 pages of other people's opinions.

Make sure to copy and paste your pointless reply across the boards, will claw back the time you spend on "RTFT".

You can just read OP's posts though. Click on "All" at the bottom right of the OP. That's what I did, didn't need to read 20 pages. A word to the wise!

Fluffyfleece · 25/01/2024 22:33

Champers66 · 25/01/2024 22:32

Nah let him crack on. He’s being kind

He's being intrusive and presumptuous

Nanny0gg · 25/01/2024 22:34

Champers66 · 25/01/2024 22:32

Nah let him crack on. He’s being kind

The friend doesn't think so...

Nanny0gg · 25/01/2024 22:35

Uokhon · 25/01/2024 22:09

You are abandoning your friend and your boyfriend is stepping up.

No she bloody isn't!

Don't you think it's worth reading the OP's posts?

If not, why not (after 500 posts)?