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What is the wankiest thing you’ve seen your ex do?

784 replies

Magpiesinthegarden · 03/06/2026 13:51

That made you think - what a knob! And that you are well rid of them!

lighthearted thread -

I’ll go first -

Recently my ex changed his profile picture to this wanky AI generated image of him in the middle with a halo and two angels either side… he actually gave himself a halo 🤣 What a knobhead! Like he was Jesus 😳(He was a massive narcissist. My ex. Not Jesus)

What are the wankiest things your ex has ever done?

OP posts:
PenandPip · Yesterday 10:07

Not my ex but my beloved sisters ex. He got the OW pregnant the night my sister gave birth to their third child via c section. Shagging her while my dear sis lay in hospital recovering with their new baby.

Fernticket · Yesterday 10:09

AnnListersBlister · Yesterday 08:10

If you want a clearer picture, he was about 6" with long black hair, mostly hairless body and a huge beer belly. He had a big knob that was always bobbing along as he walked about the house, so I suppose that redeemed the look somewhat.

🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

IsThisEverOkay00 · Yesterday 10:10

Not sure about wankiest but I discovered he was (& still is) paying £2,500 a month in rent for a 5 bedroom house. Meanwhile I’m in a 2 bed flat and the dog we shared lives with me, because he didn’t want him.

CruCru · Yesterday 10:11

Some of these stories are very sad … but are also not lighthearted (which Magpiesinthegarden put in her OP).

EvieBB · Yesterday 10:15

ThePeppyOpalScroller · 03/06/2026 14:17

Took "his" lightbulbs when he moved out.

😂 OMG! I've heard it all now ....!

CruCru · Yesterday 10:16

My ex never read for pleasure (it just wasn’t a habit that anyone in his family had). Once it became clear that I did read fiction for pleasure, he made a point of buying extremely weird novels (because he didn’t like anything “mainstream”) and reading them performatively. Sometimes he would gasp and look up while reading to check I was still paying him attention and noticing him reading.

We once went out to a beach party (sort of a club - type thing) on Brighton beach. Carl Cox was DJing but my ex decided that the music was from too many adverts, was naff and he wouldn’t dance. But he didn’t want me to dance either so kept hugging me to try to stop me.

DoodlesMam · Yesterday 10:16

i was going to say that about mine! When I left after he'd offered me violence, I cleaned the toilet bowl with his tooth brush.

Fernticket · Yesterday 10:19

IsThisEverOkay00 · Yesterday 10:10

Not sure about wankiest but I discovered he was (& still is) paying £2,500 a month in rent for a 5 bedroom house. Meanwhile I’m in a 2 bed flat and the dog we shared lives with me, because he didn’t want him.

As an animal lover, I bet the dog is much nicer to live with than the ex. I'd choose a pet over a bloke any day.
Also 💔for the the OP whose shit ex gave the cat to Battersea. I hope she was able to get the cat back.

NoisyBrain · Yesterday 10:32

LOL at Mr Wiggly 😂

The reason my first marriage ended was because he was shagging someone else for months, but he did a great job of convincing himself HE was the victim.

After a failed reconciliation attempt (what was I was thinking?!) I went on holiday with a friend - a holiday I was supposed to have gone on with ex - to our favourite country, which is relevant. Whilst away I decided I wasn't taking anymore of H's shit and to crack on with splitting up. I got home to find he'd decided he 'missed' me and was angling to get back together. I said that wasn't happening and that's when the wankiness really ramped up a gear.

I went to stay with a friend and on returning to the house to collect some clothes found that ex had burned a load of things associated with our favourite country in a metal bucket in the garden, like some kind of pagan ritual. He'd also smashed up my framed pictures of said country. Yeah mate, blame the country I went on holiday to for us not getting back together, not you cheating on me 🙄

There was loads of other more unpleasant wankiness. Wanker.

WhatOnEarthm8 · Yesterday 10:47

theallypallywasp · 03/06/2026 14:11

Get his mam to do his ironing (she used to let herself into his flat to do it while he was at work). Prick. I mean that's not the wankiest but it's the one that makes me think WHAT A LOSER the most 😁

Ah yes, and my ex done that as well as ask her to make dinners, wash clothes etc. Crazy looking back

FairKoala · Yesterday 10:48

CrikeyMajikey · 04/06/2026 01:31

At his house for Sunday lunch, table laid, all was cooking nicely. He calls me into the dining room where the table cloth was looking very disheveled, cutlery moved around and little teeth marks and chewed edges on the table mats. He then asked me if I had made the mess and chewed his table mats! He refused to beleive that I hadn’t and it was probably his dog. I didn’t stay for lunch. 30 years later and I still can’t belive I was accused of chewing table mats.

Anyone remember Mutley’s snigger from Whacky Races

That dog must have been having a good laugh

Delladuck · Yesterday 10:56

PenandPip · Yesterday 10:07

Not my ex but my beloved sisters ex. He got the OW pregnant the night my sister gave birth to their third child via c section. Shagging her while my dear sis lay in hospital recovering with their new baby.

My aunt was pregnant with twins

Her arsehole ex pushed her down the stairs and kicked her stomach while she laid at the bottom

She was rushed to hospital and gave birth to them-both very poorly babies because they where so premature

Where was he while she was desperately trying not to give birth?

Shagging her sister (my other aunt) and got her pregnant (im not sure what happened to that baby but she didnt have it)

One of the babies died-she was very lucky the other one survived (and that was very touch and go)

She had nowhere else to go and no money,so had to go back to him

He was a pisshead and would come home,bounce the baby on his knee and piss himself/all over the baby before passing out and battered her daily

She finally saw an option to leave (this is only the 70's) and ran,taking her baby with her

Married another total (snobby) wanker and divorced him years later

Shes now happy just casually dating and refuses to get serious (cant say i blame her!)

Shes having the time of her life and good for her

Him?

After not wanting to know his baby,years later got in touch and demanded 'respect' and a relationship

The now grown up baby told him to fuck off and he dropped down dead,on his own in a shitty flat about a fortnight later and wasnt found for days (he'd been hounding his now adult child for contact but suddenly went quiet)

Nobody mourned him-he was quietly cremated and god knows where they scattered his ashes

RubyMentor · Yesterday 10:58

ShorterMumma · 03/06/2026 17:22

My exdp demanded our younger 2 dc have DNA tests to avoid paying £7 a week maintenance...

Hes not worked in 7 years to avoid payment and not contributed 1p to our 4 dc.

Edited

what an absolute bell-end waste of space

Glidinglikeaswan · Yesterday 11:05

GreenCaterpillarOnALeaf · 03/06/2026 15:55

My ex got an “only god can judge me” tattoo, posted it to Facebook and my dad tried to send it me with the message “lol what a fucking knob”. But because he’s older and tec illiterate he shared it, with the caption “lol what a fucking knob” and tagged me in it. Dad no longer tries to use Facebook 😭.

Your Dad is a genius!

RopaVieja · Yesterday 11:17

Here are a few things that spring to mind, amalgamated from various exes (I wish I'd had a little more respect for myself in my younger years):

  • Saying of himself on multiple occasions, as a 20-something, "I'm very well read."
  • Spontaneously playing his guitar while we hung out in his tiny cramped bedroom, looking at me expectantly every so often
  • Constantly complaining about the fact that his dad wanted him to go to college or uni and was crushing his dream of "being in a band" 😂(I notice there are several band-related posts in this thread... what is it with these guys?!)
  • Had a tantrum and stormed off from our group of friends when I suggested an alternative explanation for something he was complaining about
  • Saying that I needed to shave more (not sure why some guys think it's ok to comment on women's bodies so much?!)
  • In his 20s, said that he wished schoolgirls were only allowed to wear skirts, not trousers 🤢 (he was a total fucking pervert)
RopaVieja · Yesterday 11:17

Glidinglikeaswan · Yesterday 11:05

Your Dad is a genius!

I love this one too 😂

Ladygodalmighty · Yesterday 11:18

Isometimeswonder · 03/06/2026 14:59

After not hearing from him for months he sent me a picture of his new baby .... I can't have children.

Totally nasty f*cker!

Shockhorror22 · Yesterday 11:43

My first proper boyfriend - manipulative, jealous, dishonest. I was v naive and he tied me up in knots. Finally split up and a few weeks later he came round. It was possible, he said, that his friends might tell me that he’d been shagging someone else, because he’d told them he was, but he’d just been showing off, so I shouldn’t believe them. I was so happy because I realised I didn’t give a fuck either way.
Then he tried to kiss me but I moved away, so he told me I’d ‘blown it’ and left. A good day.

cobalt123 · Yesterday 11:47

Shockhorror22 · Yesterday 11:43

My first proper boyfriend - manipulative, jealous, dishonest. I was v naive and he tied me up in knots. Finally split up and a few weeks later he came round. It was possible, he said, that his friends might tell me that he’d been shagging someone else, because he’d told them he was, but he’d just been showing off, so I shouldn’t believe them. I was so happy because I realised I didn’t give a fuck either way.
Then he tried to kiss me but I moved away, so he told me I’d ‘blown it’ and left. A good day.

😂 that “you’d” blown it. Honestly…

Bloozie · Yesterday 11:51

We shared a love of the countryside and went hawking together. It was early February and FREEZING cold - like, minus 10 and snowing.

I wore merino wool leggings, thin jogging bottoms and thick walking trousers, merino base layer, thermal mid-layer, fleece, down jacket, scarf, woollen hat, gloves...

He wore thin corduroy trousers, a Harris tweed jacket with shirt underneath and a silken neck scarf. Which ended up tied around his head to protect his ears from the biting wind.

In his head: country squire.

In reality: Queen Mother, but make her hyperthermic.

SO WANKY.

MeandT · Yesterday 11:56

OMG @Bloozie I've ploughed through 29 pages of dickheads, wankers, abusers, twats & a handful of gemstone Dads who've got their daughter's backs. But this one just made me snort 🤣

Definitely wanky 🏆

Mangelwurzelfortea · Yesterday 12:00

RopaVieja · Yesterday 11:17

Here are a few things that spring to mind, amalgamated from various exes (I wish I'd had a little more respect for myself in my younger years):

  • Saying of himself on multiple occasions, as a 20-something, "I'm very well read."
  • Spontaneously playing his guitar while we hung out in his tiny cramped bedroom, looking at me expectantly every so often
  • Constantly complaining about the fact that his dad wanted him to go to college or uni and was crushing his dream of "being in a band" 😂(I notice there are several band-related posts in this thread... what is it with these guys?!)
  • Had a tantrum and stormed off from our group of friends when I suggested an alternative explanation for something he was complaining about
  • Saying that I needed to shave more (not sure why some guys think it's ok to comment on women's bodies so much?!)
  • In his 20s, said that he wished schoolgirls were only allowed to wear skirts, not trousers 🤢 (he was a total fucking pervert)
Edited

I had one particular standout ex who did so many wanky things. He was also in a band (obvs).

The standout one was that he was reading Irvine Welsh's book Filth on the train to work, and I really hated that book and said so - not in a nasty way, I read a lot and just thought we could have a conversation about it. He glared at me, got off the train at the next stop - even though it wasn't his stop and he had to wait half an hour for another train - and never spoke to me again. I was actually really in love with him (idiot that I am) so couldn't believe this was genuinely the reason he broke up with me. He only ever sent me one text: 'You know what you've done.'

I subsequently found out that he'd shagged his ex-girlfriend behind my back and they were back together.

Katiesaidthat · Yesterday 12:10

liamharha · 03/06/2026 18:18

Told our 14 year old daughter he had a new daughter now so didn't need to see her

Only until the new daughter wises up and decides she no longer wants to see the bastard.

keffie12 · Yesterday 12:19

🤣 The wankiest thing my ex has done would be breathe which you may think is extreme however you don't know him.

He was a violent bully and made our lives hell even in the aftermath. 3 of my adult youngsters out of 4 have nothing to do with him, my daughter limited so I think that tells you all.

Perhaps you were looking for something more light hearted however there is nothing light hearted to say about him.

I've rebuilt a good happy life since leaving him 26 years ago however !!!l

Maximusdecimus · Yesterday 12:42

Wear crocs.