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Furious at DH and his friend bringing someone back to our house

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TiredSaturdayy · 26/07/2025 07:54

My DH’s friend is staying for the weekend. He lives about 4 hours away and they only see each other once a year. This is perfectly fine with me as I usually get on well with him.

Last night, they both went out into town to catch up. DH got into bed about 1am, I sleep lightly so was woken but soon got to sleep. His friend is staying in our spare bedroom.

I am woken by noises shortly after. I wake DH and ask if he can hear them. He says there’s something he needs to tell me and that his friend met a women in the last bar they were in and INVITED HER HOME! So the noises were infact them ‘at it’ in my spare bedroom.

I go ballistic at DH and ask why he thought this was acceptable. Our DC is away this weekend which is beyond the point. Completely irresponsible to allow a stranger into our house in those circumstances.

I tell DH that if he doesn’t ask her to leave then I will. He says he’ll message his friend. No reply. He’s about to get up and knock on the door when we hear it open and his friend sees her out and she eventually leaves.

DH is asleep still now, I am downstairs absolutely aghast at their behaviour. If he thinks I am sorting out the fry up they kept on about before they went out then they’ve another thing coming.

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bingobanjo · 26/07/2025 11:05

If I heard the next morning that a woman had been all over the friend but DH had said she couldn’t come back, I’d be annoyed with him about that! Everyone’s having fun and I’d enjoy the gossip the next day.

DustyMaiden · 26/07/2025 11:07

I would be worried how they behave when out together. Your DH obviously thinks it’s normal behaviour.
If I saw my friend once a year and they ignored me to chat up a stranger and bring them back to my house, I would not be impressed.

Iceandfire92 · 26/07/2025 11:07

I personally think you sound like the fun police. I'm presuming nothing or nobody was harmed or stolen. Your drunk DH made a bit of a silly drunken decision by letting them, there's nothing more to it than that. Some of these responses are so dramatic.

maudelovesharold · 26/07/2025 11:08

RampantIvy · 26/07/2025 10:55

I'd be giving them short shrift about treating anybwoman like that.

I think there was enthusiastic consent on her part from what we have read on here.

That's all very well, but there certainly wasn't enthusiastic consent from the op for a friend of her dh and a random woman to shag in her house, in the room next door, no less. No wonder she's fuming!

^Think is often used as a noun in Britain, where this expression originated. You'll hear people say, "I had a good think this morning," for example. The confusion of think with thing is largely an American phenomenon, because speakers of American English rarely use think as a noun. But the beauty of another think coming is its implication of deep contemplation: you may have given the subject some thought, but you reached the incorrect conclusion and need to think about it some more. It's a more interesting way of saying, "You're wrong about that, and you should reconsider."^

Exactly! We often say "I'll have a think about it..." or "I'll have another think and get back to you..."

Plumnora · 26/07/2025 11:11

Pennyforyourthoughtsplease · 26/07/2025 08:19

Sorry if I'm being thick but why? I agree it's grim in OPs house and so unacceptable, but in a different scenario or if it was the friends house if they're consenting adults what's the issue?

You answered your own question! It wasn't in the friends house, it was in his hosts house and the OP didn't consent to having a total stranger brought over so the the friend could have sex. Of course if the friend took her back to his own house it would be absolutely ok.

MissHollysDolly · 26/07/2025 11:16

OP, you’re massively overreacting. From the title of your thread I would have thought you’d walked in on all three of them at it. I couldn’t get het up about hearing guests “at it”.

MyDadWasAnArse · 26/07/2025 11:16

Bobbybobbins · 26/07/2025 09:06

It is ‘another thing coming’….. (sorry not the point of the thread)

Another thing coming is a case of mishearing becoming misspelling, and it's easy to understand why if you say another think coming out loud.

Plumnora · 26/07/2025 11:18

No this isn't ok. If they were 19 and living in digs then absolutely ', but this is an abuse of your hospitality. You know nothing about her, you have kids and he crossed a line. I'd kick him out and I'd be furious with my husband. Just shows they never grow up.

BunnyLake · 26/07/2025 11:20

Pennyforyourthoughtsplease · 26/07/2025 08:19

Sorry if I'm being thick but why? I agree it's grim in OPs house and so unacceptable, but in a different scenario or if it was the friends house if they're consenting adults what's the issue?

Well a different scenario is not this scenario is it! It is disrespectful for a friend to bring back a stranger to have sex with in someone else’s house without their (OP’s) permission. Would you do that?

Coconutter24 · 26/07/2025 11:21

Trendyname · 26/07/2025 10:49

Another think coming = think again = you are wrong, reconsider.

I know what think again means 🤦‍♀️ I do not need to reconsider

soupyspoon · 26/07/2025 11:21

CoffeeCakeAndALattePlease · 26/07/2025 10:55

Both think and thing can be used, either is accepted and fine.

think is the original saying and thing has become the more commonly used one.

No, they're not accepted and not fine. Its wrong!!

When I hear people say 'another thing coming' I know they're not well versed or knowledgeable and if they argue until they're blue in the face about it, despite it being explained why its 'think' and why that makes logical sense and 'thing' does not make logical sense, I know they're not very smart.

AnSolas · 26/07/2025 11:22

Isittimeformynapyet · 26/07/2025 10:54

I'm sure @Pennyforyourthoughtsplease was just asking what's wrong with two adults meeting at a public venue and mutually deciding to have a one night stand.

If someone asked you what time the bus comes would you talk them through a terrible bus crash?

If the person was asking after having a shag in my guest room?

No just point them to the front gate.

BunnyLake · 26/07/2025 11:22

MissHollysDolly · 26/07/2025 11:16

OP, you’re massively overreacting. From the title of your thread I would have thought you’d walked in on all three of them at it. I couldn’t get het up about hearing guests “at it”.

Which ‘guests’ you mean the total stranger who OP didn’t invite?

LemondrizzleShark · 26/07/2025 11:23

Anchorage56 · 26/07/2025 08:23

And the thinking process of a woman going back to a house with two men she doesnt know?

I’d be concerned she was too drunk to make a decision honestly - it is ridiculously risky behaviour

I did a lot of risky things in my 20s, but even when very young and very drunk, I knew better than to go off with multiple strange men by myself to an unknown second location!

PluckyChancer · 26/07/2025 11:23

ThatsCute · 26/07/2025 09:54

It’s THING.

Grammar Police here - to serve and correct.

Wrong!

If you think it’s ok to say that, you’ve another think coming.

Using ‘thing’ instead makes zero sense. 😂

HappyNewTaxYear · 26/07/2025 11:23

CoffeeCakeAndALattePlease · 26/07/2025 08:00

I think going ballistic was OTT. Surely you can just say you’re not comfortable and that you’d like her to leave? Do you mean you were angry, shouting etc?

Personally, if my kids weren’t there I’d not be bothered and be fine with him having his fun. With my kids home I’d be less happy though I’d not go ballistic.

Women are allowed to be angry. We are all allowed to be angry. So, Mrs Calm, is it you it your husband who’d strip the bed and wash the jizz-stained sheets?

OP, you’ve every right to be angry. This is so disrespectful. And you know who’s stripping the bed? Not you.

BunnyLake · 26/07/2025 11:26

soupyspoon · 26/07/2025 11:21

No, they're not accepted and not fine. Its wrong!!

When I hear people say 'another thing coming' I know they're not well versed or knowledgeable and if they argue until they're blue in the face about it, despite it being explained why its 'think' and why that makes logical sense and 'thing' does not make logical sense, I know they're not very smart.

I agree. The saying is another think because you need to rethink what you are doing (or intending on doing). It has nothing to do with ‘things’. It’s like people insisting would of is just as acceptable as would have because they sound similar in speech.

babbi · 26/07/2025 11:26

Anchorage56 · 26/07/2025 08:23

And the thinking process of a woman going back to a house with two men she doesnt know?

@Anchorage56 what on earth was that lady thinking going off with 2 men ?
I am assuming she doesn’t know either of them .
What a risk to take ..

DiscoBob · 26/07/2025 11:28

It's your husband's fault for condoning it. Maybe even encouraging it?

In his drunk state, trying to act all cool. 'Yeah, bring her back, the Mrs won't mind, yeah it'll be awesome, go for it mate...'

Else I don't see how it could've happened without his approval.

My lodger used to bring strange men to the house quite a bit. And then they'd stand in my kitchen in their greying calvins using my cooker and saucepans making a fry up at 9am?! Grrr...

So yeah, it's out of order for sure. But don't so much blame the mate, or the woman he brought back. It's your husband's fault fully in my view.

BunnyLake · 26/07/2025 11:30

ThatsCute · 26/07/2025 09:54

It’s THING.

Grammar Police here - to serve and correct.

And you are under arrest😁

It’s think.

Tink3rbell30 · 26/07/2025 11:31

That's gross! Was it a sx worker?! If she upped and left that quick.

LimpysGotCancer · 26/07/2025 11:31

AnSolas · 26/07/2025 08:44

Married man and his friend bringing a woman home from a local(ish) pickup joint Pub.

And catchups will usually be in places the local knows

And Rape

The woman agrees to have sex with A not B.

She goes to a different location with A and B.

A then B have sex with her.

During the trial the woman has to

• prove that she agreed to have sex with A

• prove that she agreed to have sex with A but told B that she would not have sex with him

• prove that going to the location was not in any way suggestion that she was open to having sex with B

• prove that going to the location was not in any way suggestion that she would be open to having sex with B after she got to the location

• prove that going to the location was not in any way suggestion that she had been open to having sex with B after she got to the location

(And the reverse is true for the men so high risk choice )

These are all good reasons for a woman not to go back to a house with two strange men.

But it doesn't follow that the men are being disrespectful in agreeing for her to come back, in a situation where i) they don't intend to act this way (and indeed don't), and ii) she enthusiastically consents.

You are making a massive and quite basic logical error

AnSolas · 26/07/2025 11:33

CaptainMyCaptain · 26/07/2025 09:59

That makes no sense.

If you THINK [xxxx] then you've got another THINK coming. That makes sense.

If you THINK [xxxx] then you've got another THING coming. That makes no sense. What kind of Thing is coming?

So may options

Wooden spoon
Smack to the back of the head
Slipper
....

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🤷‍♀️

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BunnyLake · 26/07/2025 11:34

Even my sons let me know when their gf’s are staying over and this is their home. It’s called respect.

ManteesRock · 26/07/2025 11:34

CinnamonJellyBeans · 26/07/2025 09:59

You should be aware that your husband was on the pull with his friend. The woman was definitely out with a female friend or group of women. This was no passing conversation involving the woman and the male friend

You should not be kicking out a lone female who is possibly drunk or under the influence of drugs into the night. I find her apparent willingness to go home with a random pair of men a red flag for reduced cognitive ability. You should have intervened and ascertained her ability to consent. Then if you understandably did not want your home used as a knocking shop, ensured your husband's friend delivered her home.

I would be looking at my husband with fresh eyes if I were you. It sounds like he's reverting to type.

FFS! Just because a woman wants some no strings attached sex it doesn't automatically mean she's under the influence of anything!
It means she wants sex!

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