If your DH is a white collar worker, do you ever fantasise about blue collar workers?

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My first DH was a white collar worker. High up in finance. Never had a fight in his life. Short and skinny. Unable to really be a guys guy or have any banter with other men. If we had ever been stuck in a dangerous situation, we would have no doubt died 😂 I never felt physically safe with him. When I was with him, I definitely found myself fancying more manly men, like builders, mechanics, police officers, boxers etc, you get the drift, and I was wondering whether I’m unusual in that?

My DH used to play rugby and cricket to a good standard, has damaged his knee ACL and just loves a cricket tea. Are they twins?

Hopefully not the same bloke 🥹😂

My DH is a relatively high grade civil servant but he's common as muck and from a solidly WC background.

MC men turn me off. Hate the suited and booted look.

Give me a muscled commoner in grey trackies with handsome face, big muscles and big package.....

I worked in finance and most guys below 50 were very built and normally gymming for at least an hour daily. Your DH would have been an exception. Don’t think it’s white collar vs blue collar thing.
many of them did rugby, etc in school/ uni or competed in sports.

I love to take the piss out of my
Husband when tradesmen come round to do jobs on the house. He starts calling them "mate" and acting more blokey and I always reenact it after with him saying to the tradesman, "don't hurt me! I'm an academic."
I wouldn't swap him for the world, but when he does do a manly, physical task, I make sure I watch and say, "phoarrr!" while I tell him how impressed I am.
He's the nicest, funniest, gentleman, but I'm sure he'd put on a pair or rigger boots and a boiler suit while calling me "love" and bending me over the car bonnet if I asked.

Yeah this is my experience too. I work in finance, as does my DH. A lot of our friends work in finance. Most are health conscious, gym
goers, rugby players, weight lifters etc.

Mine's a nerdy physics graduate who works as a software developer. He also teaches bushcraft and is regularly covered in mud and stinking of bonfires. Perfect combo.

Yeah that's not really the type I go for...

Health conscious rugger guys aren't really dripping in sex appeal, I'd rather have a fit builder who smokes and lifts brick rather than dumbells.

Health conscious is a bit try hard and overly self conscious rather than effortlessly appealing

I mean, that’s fine, you fancy who you fancy. I was referring to the OPs post about finance guys being nerdy, small and weedy though. Not my experience.

Well I'm certainly glad that my proclivities meet with your approval 😊

And in defence of corporate types, my experience isn't that they are small and weedy, just a bit 'try hard' and self conscious. Not cute.

I neither approve nor disapprove of your taste in men, you do you. I was solely posting in response to the OP.

My DH is white collar, a solicitor in the City. He is tall, muscular, from a northern city and used to regularly get in fights when we were younger (most recent one was punching a guy who was overtly racist to a stranger). He really sticks up for people, is kind and principled and I've always felt safe out with him.

My dad is blue collar and never fought anyone. So not sure it's to do with their profession...

No. I dared a physically big tough guy. He always got in loads of fights, he wasn't aggressive but other men seemed to want to 'prove themselves' against him. And it was always slightly disconcerting to know that he could break bones if he wanted to. I feel much safer with my level headed sensible husband

Yeah but working in finance can also be an accountant, and we all know that stereotype!

I’m not generalising. I’m specifying: my other half!

My current DP is a manly man and I LOVE it. I always tell him I love that he’s “man shaped” (broad shoulders with defines muscle, lovely pecks, chunky muscled legs etc) I’ve always loved raw masculinity but my ex was an office worker. He still did some man stuff and worked out so had defined muscle but was slim build and nerdy.

Current one is just rugged and blokey. He’s done all the manly jobs and hobbies. Builder, bodyguard, doorwork/security, bus driver, army, built cars, rides/tunes motorbikes. As soon as he puts work clothes on, picks up tools and demonstrates all his years of skills it honestly has an affect on me 😂🙈

He’s not an aggressive person by nature, but equally he can handle himself, and has had to on many occasions in his various lines of work when negotiation hasn’t worked to de-escalate a situation. He wanted to go to work, get paid and go home again, but sometimes he had to fight.

I love a man in a tie and cuff links! 😍 No thank you on the blue collar fantasy.

Mr Tree is very typically masculine and yes I love it!

Coming from a very rough area in a working class Northern town, most lads I knew growing up could handle themselves as fighting was almost a weekly event!

i prefer the ones who ended up in “clean” jobs. I can’t stand dirty or rough hands.

A well known one at that

My DH is an intelligent, nerdy type with a professional job. I love him to bits. But I find him sexiest when he's using his brain to figure out how to do some practical DIY task at home. I love watching him thinking it out then getting on with it. He's also amazing in a crisis, thinks things out and makes a practical plan

If only he had massive shoulders and big hunky arms he'd be perfect

" If we had ever been stuck in a dangerous situation, we would have no doubt died"

So you would be useless in dangerous situations too then?

Don’t underestimate how savage the white collar world can be. Some of these guys are little bundles of rage inside a business suit

Yup, boy band members do nothing for me!

Prefer collars off 😀!