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What is wrong with some women!

343 replies

Alltheshoes74 · 13/05/2024 10:08

Went out for a few cocktails with my husband Saturday evening, we were sat at the bar having a lovely time. I went to the loo and got chatting to some girls in there. Later in the evening they passed us and said hi and stopped for a chat. One was local and one was not - the local girl was mid 30's, single mum. We are older - she could be my husbands daughter! I didn't notice anything odd then as we left it turns out she asked my husband for his number!! What on earth! I mean his ego is now bursting out but we were amazed at the absolute brazenness of it all. Am still horrified that someone would do that - even when i was young and single I'd never dream of doing that.

OP posts:
Thursdaygirl · 13/05/2024 18:55

OP, some women are absolutely AWFUL. And the woman you describe is one of them.

GaryLurcher19 · 13/05/2024 18:56

Alltheshoes74 · 13/05/2024 15:59

This happened literally as we were about to leave - he told me as we walked out - largely I suspect to avoid me ( Numerous Margaritas down) giving her a piece of my mind.

Sorry OP, but you've refused to tell us what your DH claimed she said other than requesting a contact number. That may or may not be a come on.

You say she was sly about it but also blatant. He was horrified but also it buoyed his ego. None of it adds up.

Maybe he was avoiding you giving her a piece of your mind precisely because she didn't in fact say anything? Or maybe she asked to keep in touch with you?

Does he allow you to have friends?

All of this is giving me manipulative bloke vibes.

Rycbar · 13/05/2024 19:03

My husband genuinely has a number of women who fancy him quite openly (at our shared hobby so they know
le too!) It used to really bother me but now it’s a running joke in our house and with his family! I trust him and just think it’s a bit desperate of the other women - I clearly have the upper hand - he married me! Have a laugh about it.
on the other hand I have met a disturbing amount of men on nights out who have wives and girlfriends who made it quite clear they are happy to do more than flirt. So I think your title should be people and not women!

Dweetfidilove · 13/05/2024 19:04

I don’t know what’s wrong with some women, but I’m guessing this one fancied your husband and possibly her luck 🤷🏽‍♀️.

Doesn't matter though, as I’m also guessing he’s not interested.

EyeEyeElCapitan · 13/05/2024 19:04

MumblesParty · 13/05/2024 16:01

Ha ha MN at its best!!

Real world - cheeky cow for blatantly trying to chat up a married man in front of his wife!
MN world - he must have encouraged her, he’s lying, he gave her his number first, he’s a handyman and she has jobs that need doing, he’s a cheat, he’s a bastard, OP is boasting. I’m sure if we stick around long enough we’ll see people suggesting she may have mental health problems or a hidden disability that makes her unable to not ask for the numbers of married men!

This post says it all. The place has gone even more bonkers than normal mumsent recently.

SabreIsMyFave · 13/05/2024 19:05

@Alltheshoes74 I will ask again, because I haven't seen you confirm or deny. Did you actually HEAR this woman hit on your husband/ask him for his number?

Dweetfidilove · 13/05/2024 19:07

Rycbar · 13/05/2024 19:03

My husband genuinely has a number of women who fancy him quite openly (at our shared hobby so they know
le too!) It used to really bother me but now it’s a running joke in our house and with his family! I trust him and just think it’s a bit desperate of the other women - I clearly have the upper hand - he married me! Have a laugh about it.
on the other hand I have met a disturbing amount of men on nights out who have wives and girlfriends who made it quite clear they are happy to do more than flirt. So I think your title should be people and not women!

Quite. A young man many years ago told me he didn’t care about my husband, he was only interested in me.

I didn’t actually have a husband, but thought that’d put him off. Nope, he didn’t give a hoot.

It's a people issue, not a woman’s issue.

silverfullmoon · 13/05/2024 19:14

I’m sure if we stick around long enough we’ll see people suggesting she may have mental health problems or a hidden disability that makes her unable to not ask for the numbers of married men

😂😂😂The OP's husband should sleep with her - "be kind".

therealduchess · 13/05/2024 19:15

I've noticed that some people (male or female) seem to get a kick out of chasing somebody who's obviously in a relationship.
I actually know of a woman who is open about always going for married men.
YANBU to be peed off. I would be!

EmpressSoleil · 13/05/2024 19:18

Well according to some pp's, OP's husband should have told OP straight away so a dramatic scene would unfold and she would have had more of a story to tell us 🙄

Custardslices · 13/05/2024 19:18

To follow mumsnet advice one word....

Dementia!

TheAceWoman · 13/05/2024 19:19

Alltheshoes74 · 13/05/2024 10:18

No - definitely nothing like that - he looks great for his age it was just awful

It was just awful.

Funny

GaryLurcher19 · 13/05/2024 19:25

Icantpaint · 13/05/2024 18:20

This site is mental
must be him at fault somehow.

im a bloke. I’ve had women ask if I’m single, then say “take my number anyway” when I say I’m not. It’s not like it happens every week but it’s not vanishingly rare either.

Have you had women make friends with your wife in the toilets, then spend time chatting to both of you at the bar and then make a pass at you that your wife couldn't see or hear despite her being sat right next to him? Were you both "horrified" and also dead chuffed?

Because that's the scenario we've been given to believe.

GaryLurcher19 · 13/05/2024 19:25

Custardslices · 13/05/2024 19:18

To follow mumsnet advice one word....

Dementia!

Why?

TheaBrandt · 13/05/2024 19:26

Ha I can well believe it! Dh had this from an old female friend of his when we got engaged sort of “don’t marry her have me” conversation on a night out! Mortifying.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 13/05/2024 19:26

EmpressSoleil · 13/05/2024 19:18

Well according to some pp's, OP's husband should have told OP straight away so a dramatic scene would unfold and she would have had more of a story to tell us 🙄

Oh I don’t think that at all. I mean if this is true, what’s OP supposed to do, what would any of us do? We’d like to think we’d have had words with the woman in question but how do you say it without coming off as unhinged?

I’d probably burst into song with Jolene though 🤣! Or some bad girl song which states hands off! 🤣

GaryLurcher19 · 13/05/2024 19:31

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 13/05/2024 19:26

Oh I don’t think that at all. I mean if this is true, what’s OP supposed to do, what would any of us do? We’d like to think we’d have had words with the woman in question but how do you say it without coming off as unhinged?

I’d probably burst into song with Jolene though 🤣! Or some bad girl song which states hands off! 🤣

😂

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 13/05/2024 19:31

Thursdaygirl · 13/05/2024 18:55

OP, some women are absolutely AWFUL. And the woman you describe is one of them.

Many many years ago (in my mid 30s) I went out after work with a few colleagues, one of whom definitely fancied me, and I sort of fancied him too.

We went to a bar near Bank/Liverpool Street where a few hammered and hard faced Essex/east London girls were quite aggressive towards me, one even said to me “is he yours?!” and gestured to the man next to me. As I valued my looks, I shrugged my shoulders and luckily after hanging around she wandered off. I did end up going home with the man but it didn’t last as he just wasn’t my type. Maybe I should’ve handed her to Ms Grab a Man.

SloaneStreetVandal · 13/05/2024 19:39

Very bizarre behaviour, so much so I think it must've been a dare. Dares are a massive thing on social media (among stupid adults as much as teens!). There's probably a video of it on tiktok 😂

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 13/05/2024 19:47

5128gap · 13/05/2024 12:44

OP asked what's wrong with 'some women'. In this woman's case the possibilities are:
She was overcome with desire for OPs husband and has no moral qualms about his marriage.
She was overcome with jealousy of the OP and wanted to steal her life.
She did it for a bet with her friend.
She did it to test her pulling power.
She didn't do it at all and the H made it up either to cover his own approach to her or to make OP think he's still got it.
The OP is only going to be receptive to the first two of these possibilities, for obvious reasons.

I think this post pretty much covers it.

(unless one chooses to add in that DH is a bit deaf and misheard what she way saying or that OP is making it up)

hayleyrabbit · 13/05/2024 19:54

Oh god - another amateur novelist. What a load of bull.

IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 13/05/2024 19:57

PhuckyNell · 13/05/2024 11:06

Op deep deep down they are all that kind of man 😂

No they aren't. That's as generalising as OPs title.

SloaneStreetVandal · 13/05/2024 19:57

The OP's husband is so gorgeous, the police want to put him under arrest (iykyk 🤣)

What is wrong with some women!
IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 13/05/2024 20:01

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 13/05/2024 11:22

It does seem strange behaviour from the woman. Most of them especially if they know the man’s married steer well clear, even flirting, as they know that he’s off limits, more so stay away if the wife is about.

It does sound like something a married man might say to his wife to get her jealous or prove he’s “still got it”. Whatever “it” is 🤣!

I worked with a girl who once sat herself on the desk of my friend, who is a very happily married man, and offered him the time of his life. He turned her down.

I know this is true and not just "his version" of events because she also told me. Whilst accusing me of sleeping with him which meant he wouldn't sleep with her. Because in her head, it was only that he was already cheating on his lovely wife that he didn't want her.

To be clear, I was not sleeping with him. Also very happily married.

IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 13/05/2024 20:03

MonsteraMama · 13/05/2024 11:41

Typical of Mumsnet for everyone to doubt the OP, assume the husband must've done something wrong because MEN BAD, and treat it like they're a bunch of amateur detectives

"What were her exact words OP? What colour shoes was she wearing? Was her handbag blue? What was the exact time of day that the event happened? I'm just not sure I believe you."

I believe you. I too am blessed with a handsome husband and women try it on with him quite a lot. It's illegal to admit that women can just be absolute cunts on this website, but there is definitely a breed of woman who gets off on the idea of being so alluring she can get a married man to cheat. It's just low self esteem.

This.

I believe you too. I've known these women. They exist. They shouldn't (sisterhood and basic respect). But they do.