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Partner passing comment about his ex, should I just brush it off?

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Tinyt2018 · 22/02/2025 13:09

I went down a rabbit hole and maybe should t have asked (I have my own issues I’m aware of) I asked my partner of two years who was more pleasing on the eye and he said his ex was more attractive but that we had a better connection, I may add at this point in my heart I know we don’t because I have had to keep up a sexual facade and truly he doesn’t seem interested as he puts it in vanilla sex which had seemed to have multiple times a week like he had with this ex he made comment on, I only seem to turn him on if it’s appealing to his kink side and he can easily go 10+ days without an interested In sexual intimacy with me, when it is kinky thought he peaks and doesn’t stop going on about it .. I am not kinky in the ways he thinks I am and I am drained, but the cherry on top was when he mentioned another ex and a particular time that he had never orgasmed as hard since … he told me he was hard thinking about it ( edit: he could of said this to make me jealous and wasn’t this case in this instance )and this whole thing has messed me up… AIBU ? Is this ok ? Is this normal

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Barrenfieldoffucks · 22/02/2025 18:10

It sounds like he actually likes you more as a person , if he is happy to just hang out and not have Sex? It might be that if he is knocking on a bit, he needs more oomph to want to have regular sex, so the link stuff is more important. How old are you both?

If none of this applies, then yes, fuck him off (no pun intended) and find someone nice you don't have to bend yourself into a pretzel for.

ItGhoul · 22/02/2025 18:19

Tinyt2018 · 22/02/2025 13:15

Maybe so but it has come from a place of feeling inadequate and not desired.. he is into such things as sharing me and cuck type fetishes

It is absolutely insane to be doing sexual stuff you don’t like simply to please a man who doesn’t give a shit about you.

OP, he is humiliating you and comparing you to his exes for the sole reason that he knows that the more insecure you will be and the more he can push you into doing things you don’t want to. He’s using you for sex and his treatment of you is manipulative and abusive.

Have some bloody dignity and walk away from this awful relationship. You are better than this.

ItGhoul · 22/02/2025 18:21

Tinyt2018 · 22/02/2025 13:25

The thing is I know why I am drained and I am actually pretty miserable, I am finding it hard to walk away from something I know isn’t right because in other aspects he is kind to me and means well

He isn’t kind to you and he doesn’t mean well. He is using you to indulge his kink - which isn’t even a kink you’re into. Get rid of him.

StormingNorman · 22/02/2025 18:40

Does he know you’re not into the same kink? Or dates he think you enjoy it?

Pookypook · 22/02/2025 18:44

In the kindest possible way OP, you come across as very young and naive. There is no good reason to stay in a relationship with anyone who has such little respect for you. Yuck. Get rid!

marmiteandminticecream · 22/02/2025 19:01

so he knows your feeling insecure but rather than make you feel better like any decent man would he as made you feel worse and he knows it
what next will he be telling you hie ex was a better cook / better looking or more fun
get rid of him before your mental health really starts to crumble

Littlejellyuk · 01/03/2025 14:12

Your own sanity is more important than his weird willy habits.
If you're into it then sound!
But if not, then don't be a doormat to please this man-child.
Bin him. Yesterday!

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