What are the point of the clickbait posts, please?
I think I do see some of them, I just wonder what the motivation is?
it’s not like social media where posters get paid when people interact with post….so why do they do it on here?
and @Jayeu Yes, a lot of naivety.
The posters who would leave their husbands at the drop of a hat if he so much as went to a strip club etc.
Everything is more nuanced.
I’m not a man hater by any means, and I’m not an apologist for bad male behavior….but I think you can’t ignore biology and the impact of testosterone etc. A lot of things about men (my husband) I don’t like, but short of marrying a eunuch or becoming a lesbian, I just have to accept some of them.
My husband watches porn. He’s discreet, but I’ve seen his browsing history. Nothing “extreme” just women. He likes looking at women’s bodies and genitals
In a way that I certainly wouldn’t find it appealing to look at a strange man’s genitals…..but he’s a red blooded male, as much as I don’t particularly like it, I don’t see the point in fighting biology about that. Would I prefer it if he didnt get turned on my looking at vaginas? Well no, I don’t think I would.
Many years ago we had a very dry spell (no sex or intimacy for many years following the birth of our first child closely followed by twins). It was a very rough time, lots of resentment on both sides, and he ended up sexting an ex girlfriend.
I posted on here at the time (several years ago, under a different username) and the consensus was “leave the bastard”. These posters husbands would never look at porn or be attracted to another woman and would never be tempted by attention elsewhere even when hadn’t had sex for years.
Breaking up a family and ending a marriage over the exchange of some messages and photos. I found all the comments very overwhelming.
On another website, I posted on the divorce / separation forum, and the advice was much more measured.
What my husband did was not good. But we cleared the air and once we were back on track and my sex life returned, I began to see what the constant rejection for so many years must have felt like to him. And the sexual frustration.
In hindsight, I should never have let things get to that stage. I’m not excusing his behaviour but I can understand it.
And I have to say, I found the vast majority of the posters at that time very unhelpful. They just sounded so naive and blindly loyal and picture perfect. There were none of the more balanced, nuanced replies from the wise mumsnetters that I often see on here, which was a shame.