Help end medical misogyny. Sign our petition.

Help end medical misogyny.
Sign our petition.

Sign the petition

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

AIBU to think my fiance overreacted by getting a younger woman's number because I double booked by accident, and threw my belongings about?

1000 replies

Sunglasses1979 · 01/06/2026 12:52

I am trying to work out whether I am being unfair or whether my fiancé genuinely overreacts to situations.
I was spending a long weekend with him and we had plans for Monday. Friday to Sunday eve were lovely and we did sightseeing etc. then went to his and were planning to stay there for a few nights.

However, I realised I had accidentally double-booked the Monday because my adult DD had arranged for me to meet her new boyfriend and his father over lunch. It was important to her and had been organised for a while. DD has is ND and has severe MH issues; this is the first "normal" relationship she has had and it's a huge deal for her.

I told my fiancé on Sunday afternoon that I would go to the lunch for a few hours and then come back afterwards so we could still spend the Monday evening together and the following days.

He was furious. He said I was choosing other people over him and repeatedly referred to my daughter's boyfriend and his father as "strange men". He seemed particularly upset that I would be spending time with another man, even though it was DD's BF's dad not just a random stranger.

After I had told him I had double booked and would need to go for a few hours we were arguing about it non-stop for hours. I was crying at one point and I kept saying I was sorry, it was human error, not deliberate. After all this arguing I was tired and wanted to stay in, but at around 11pm he insisted we go out. While we were out he deliberately started talking to a much younger woman, introduced himself to her, claimed he got her Instagram and then repeatedly talked about how he was meeting her for dinner the next day. His argument was that if I was going for lunch with strange men the next day, then why couldn't he meet up with a new person too? Even though it was not the same at all, obviously. The young woman must have been about 20 and we are both in our 40's so it just felt really weird and "off".

The argument continued after we got back to his for most of the night and I got very little sleep. The next morning I had to get an extremely expensive Uber to make sure I did not let my daughter down and miss the lunch. He had said not to come back to his after lunch but then called me when I was in the Uber and asked me to come back to his after all.

The lunch itself was lovely. Afterwards, I travelled back to his. However, when I arrived we had another argument. During it, he picked up my bags and threw them across the room in anger, they went everywhere as he threw them so hard.

He later continued to use the lunch as an example of me not caring about him enough and prioritising other people over our relationship, and how I like "strange men".

From my point of view, I attended an important family event for a few hours and still made the effort to return afterwards. From his point of view, I had disrespected him and chosen other people over him.

When I told him how much the Uber cost he took offence because I have never gotten an Uber to his even if I am running late; he said he didn't realise I have money in this way.

When I went back to his after the lunch I had to get a standing room only train in the middle of the heatwave; I don't like public transport at the best of times and he kept asking when I arrived what did I want to do; meet his friends in the pub or go straight to his. I said I don't care and was almost in tears as I was finding the journey so stressful. I didn't realise but he had me on loud speaker so all his friends heard me when I said "I don't care" and now he's saying his friends all think I am horrible and rude to him. When it was taken out of context and they didn't know we had been arguing all night and that he'd got a much younger woman's contact details the night before.

Am I missing something or was he overreacting?

OP posts:
RoseField1 · 01/06/2026 12:54

His entire behaviour is highly abusive. Has he behaved like this before?

FeliciaFancybottom · 01/06/2026 12:54

Jesus love, bin him off. He's flying so many red flags you can see them from space.

Bonkers1966 · 01/06/2026 12:54

747 words. Yes, you are missing something. This man does not like or respect you but you have chosen to stay with him.

Weedingtodo · 01/06/2026 12:54

Leave him.

Grecianrainbow · 01/06/2026 12:55

Just get rid. He’s a dickhead. You do not want to live a life of being abused by him. He’s already started being violent to your belongings next time it could be the walls then your face.

ChavsAreReal · 01/06/2026 12:56

End this relationship.

Namechangetheyarewatching · 01/06/2026 12:56

Thank fuck you're not married and run run far away from this controlling man, it will only get worse.

GCAcademic · 01/06/2026 12:56

Why are so many women on here putting up with this kind of shit? Are you so desperate to be with a man that you'll literally put up with anything?

Beaniebabe1 · 01/06/2026 12:56

Run girl run! He sounds dreadful. There’s nothing from what you have written which would point to you over reacting. In fact I am surprised that you have not already finished the relationship.

Whyherewego · 01/06/2026 12:56

This is absolutely horrible behaviour on his part. He is totally unreasonable and you shouldn't marry or even date this man

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 01/06/2026 12:56

End it.

bonkersbongo · 01/06/2026 12:56

He’s abusive, massively. Get rid. It’ll only get worse x

WallaceinAnderland · 01/06/2026 12:56

None of that is normal behaviour. Don't allow him to abuse you. End it and don't see him again.

Ziggedy · 01/06/2026 12:57

So abusive. Thank goodness he is a fiancé and not your husband. Do not tie yourself to this vile man. Cut and run and don’t look back. The fact you need to ask other people’s opinion on this shows how he’s already gaslit you into normalising his hideous behaviour.

Lifejigsaw · 01/06/2026 12:57

OP come ON! Nothing about his reaction is normal or acceptable, absolutely nothing. Run away from this man

AxolotlEars · 01/06/2026 12:57

Run ...nope, fly away

Thepeopleversuswork · 01/06/2026 12:57

He’s an abusive cunt. Get away from him as fast as you possibly can.

More to the point, why are you having to ask if you’re unreasonable. He’s being an absolute arsehole it’s worrying that you can’t see this.

Do you have a history of abusive relationships?

DollopOfFun · 01/06/2026 12:57

What. A. Wanker.

Come on now.

thistimelastweek · 01/06/2026 12:57

He sounds insane.

Sunglasses1979 · 01/06/2026 12:58

Bonkers1966 · 01/06/2026 12:54

747 words. Yes, you are missing something. This man does not like or respect you but you have chosen to stay with him.

Didn't realise how long my post was đź« 

I didn't feel very respected at all, it was horrible going out so late to what is essentially a student bar just to watch him show me how easily he can pick up other, much younger, women. I wanted the ground to swallow me up.

OP posts:
Justusethebloodyphone · 01/06/2026 12:58

Urm…that’s not how any healthy person behaves or how any healthy relationship is, it’s a million miles away. So far that I couldn’t even begin to dissect or suggest what you should do other than end it and question why you are even questioning it.

rubyslippers · 01/06/2026 12:58

He’s abusive and controlling
do not marry him
Get yourself out of this relationship now
he’s dangerous

Thepeopleversuswork · 01/06/2026 12:58

And please for the love of God don’t marry him.

TheZenOne22 · 01/06/2026 12:58

Please leave this man - in no way you should you be considering marrying him. He sounds extremely childish and abusive and he has done more than overreact.

From what you have written I can’t imagine this is the first time he has acted extremely unreasonably.

SocialistMummy · 01/06/2026 12:58

Time to throw this one away honey.

Maybe get with the BF's dad?

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is not accepting new messages.