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Strip club stag do imminent wedding

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Surreyfirsttimemum · 27/06/2024 17:55

DH went on his stag do abroad and told me they went into a strip club, he was offered a private dance but didn’t have one and that it was so awful with dancers being a bit rubbish it was funny. We’ve been together a decade I knew when he was a teenager before we were together he had a private dance with a friend and that same friend had a private dance on his stag where my DH attended when we had been together only a couple of years. We discussed at the time and I expressed how I would call of a wedding in that instance and strongly dislike strip clubs due to specific personal reasons.
we haven’t discussed since I didn’t tell the best man about this for DH stag but I made clear to him that I did not like them and he sent me a text at the airport he loved me and our one year old son and will behave.
when I found out they went to a strip club I was distraught, he thought it was ok as he didn’t have a dance and his friends were ‘bored’ and thought it would be funny. We discussed and it became clear that in the past decade we have been together he has been twice before to strip clubs with these friends he didn’t have a private dance but went for a laugh and the women were topless at some, one was abroad. That means he has been 5 times to a strip club and four of those times we were together. I feel physically sick I mean he wasn’t denying it but why not tell me at the time previously especially when he knows I feel so strongly about it. I feel disgusted I want to just forget and move on and get married wedding is in a matter of weeks but I am so angry and feel like I really did make myself clear. I’m not the kind of fiancé that would tell the whole friendship group my views I would think he could stand up for himself but apparently he just goes along with the crowd and doesn’t care enough about me. Any advice on how I can move forward would be appreciated or another view can’t talk to others IRL as I feel it’s so personal my views and I know others do not share them.

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UnbelievableLie · 27/06/2024 22:18

It's either a deal-breaker or it isn't and right now, it sounds like you're looking for an excuse to not carry through with what you've previously stated will happen. Just admit, you're looking to brush this under the carpet otherwise you wouldn't need to ask...

impossiblesituations · 28/06/2024 07:12

There is an amazing recent podcast on Steven Bartletts Diary of a CEO with a divorce lawyer. Have a listen. I wish I had before getting married. There is no rational reason to get married. When you look at the facts, it's madness. And I promise you the behaviour will get worse. I regret getting married so much. There were already huge red flags like what you've described and from the day we got married it became a free for all. It was like a switch went off in his head that he now had me trapped and could do as pleased. He literally doesn't care about your boundaries and does not respect you. It will only get worse.

Cheerupmaggi · 28/06/2024 07:19

What was he meant to do, say he wasn't allowed to go? If everyone else was going. Fgs, chill out.
Imagine a woman's friends wanting to go see magic mike for example, and having to say her husband wouldn't like it so she couldn't go.
My partner and I don't like lapdancing bars, he went once as a student and felt really awkward and uncomfortable (said everyone was after his money!) but if he went on a stag do and didn't get a private dance, I wouldn't care.

skyandocean · 28/06/2024 07:20

Tell him u can't go through with the wedding, just make him think you aren't even though u won't end this as a baby is involved. But just make him think you are so in th future he doesn't do anything stupid as he'll know your true to your words. So close to ur wedding now, he'll be begging for forgiveness if he thinks ur about to end it over something you made very clear to him

GabriellaMontez · 28/06/2024 08:42

impossiblesituations · 28/06/2024 07:12

There is an amazing recent podcast on Steven Bartletts Diary of a CEO with a divorce lawyer. Have a listen. I wish I had before getting married. There is no rational reason to get married. When you look at the facts, it's madness. And I promise you the behaviour will get worse. I regret getting married so much. There were already huge red flags like what you've described and from the day we got married it became a free for all. It was like a switch went off in his head that he now had me trapped and could do as pleased. He literally doesn't care about your boundaries and does not respect you. It will only get worse.

I had one like this. Seemed to think that after I'd signed on the dotted line he could do/not do anything he wanted.

It was a green light to do as he pleased with little consideration.

He was stunned when I eventually left.

TheShellBeach · 28/06/2024 14:05

skyandocean · 28/06/2024 07:20

Tell him u can't go through with the wedding, just make him think you aren't even though u won't end this as a baby is involved. But just make him think you are so in th future he doesn't do anything stupid as he'll know your true to your words. So close to ur wedding now, he'll be begging for forgiveness if he thinks ur about to end it over something you made very clear to him

Erm............

Just tell him the truth. There's no need to pretend anything.

He's crossed a line and the OP can decide whether or not to marry him.

GoneFishingToday · 29/06/2024 10:16

OP have you decided what you're going to do about this?

If you've decided not to cancel the wedding, then please tell us, and save other people making the effort to comment.

One last thing, failure to stand by your own boundaries on something as important as this, doesn't bode well for your child either, as if you do this with your child, ie, you say to them, 'don't do that or we'll cancel the family holiday', and then your child goes ahead and does whatever it is, you really MUST then cancel the family holiday.

My advice to you:

NEVER threaten something you're not prepared to carry through on.

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