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Did my DH’s comments to a stranger cross the line?

151 replies

Cyclingsar · 20/06/2026 16:39

Local retail park - there’s a gym by the car park. Walking back to the car earlier, DH makes conversation with a man (early/mid 20’s I guess) and says he’s in good shape (he had a vest on and was muscly) and that he wouldn’t trust him around me. Jokey tone, the guy laughed. He then said ‘she’d eat you alive, son. She’d probably teach you a thing or two’, again he laughed and we carried on walking.

DH is a bit of a cheeky chappy and always makes conversation with strangers, but I felt this was a bit off.

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omgwhys · 20/06/2026 16:40

Very weird. Humiliating for you aswel. He’s overly friendly it sounds. Disrespectful to his woman also. I’d have words

Wishimaywishimight · 20/06/2026 16:41

It's very juvenile and pretty crass. I'm sure he finds himself hilarious 🙄

XelaM · 20/06/2026 16:42

Very awkward but then I absolutely detest "cheeky chappies" 😬 sorry

JabbaTheBeachHut · 20/06/2026 16:43

Oh God I'm cringing for him 🤦‍♀️

He sounds exactly the type of guy most people side-eye whilst clenching their arse cheeks through embarrassment.

Plus it makes you look like a sex mad woman.

TofuTuesday · 20/06/2026 16:43

Are any of these weird conversations actually true? We’ve had the waiter one, the builder one, I have never met anyone who talks like this.

CharlotteSometimes1 · 20/06/2026 16:44

Pathetic, sounds overly keen to be liked by the man at your cost, whilst simultaneously bigging himself up.

JabbaTheBeachHut · 20/06/2026 16:45

TofuTuesday · 20/06/2026 16:43

Are any of these weird conversations actually true? We’ve had the waiter one, the builder one, I have never met anyone who talks like this.

Nor me.

Well not since the 1970s anyway.

ToKittyornottoKitty · 20/06/2026 16:46

Seems very odd and unlikely.

TheChosenTwo · 20/06/2026 16:48

Cheeky chappy or just a bit of an overstepping over familiar oddball ?
he just sounds a bit odd to me.

Cyclingsar · 20/06/2026 16:48

TofuTuesday · 20/06/2026 16:43

Are any of these weird conversations actually true? We’ve had the waiter one, the builder one, I have never met anyone who talks like this.

I am fairly confident my ears were not playing tricks on me!

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BillieWiper · 20/06/2026 16:50

That's just bizarre. Why is he talking about you randomly sleeping with a complete stranger?! Had he got a fantasy where you shag a younger guy? Otherwise I've no clue why anyone would say that.

Unless maybe he fancied the guy and was using you to try and style it out. After he complimented his physique unprompted?!

Shinyandnew1 · 20/06/2026 16:50

You’ve known and been married to this man for what, years? and he has never said anything like this, yet suddenly today, out of nowhere, he comes out with that comment?

Kokonimater · 20/06/2026 16:50

Yuk.

SmashThePatriarchy · 20/06/2026 16:50

Really shit male “banter”. Which is just code for being offensive to women. Whilst you’re stood there.

CatesandAle · 20/06/2026 16:50

Sounds like he was a bit intimidated by the younger man’s physique and wanted to give his own ego a boost by boasting about his sex mad woman and his greater sexual experience?

YANBU.

notanothernamesurely · 20/06/2026 16:50

Your husband said ‘she’d eat you alive’ to a stranger …. About you?!

JoyousOpalLemur · 20/06/2026 16:51

I don't understand why some posters think the OP is lying?

ToKittyornottoKitty · 20/06/2026 16:51

Cyclingsar · 20/06/2026 16:48

I am fairly confident my ears were not playing tricks on me!

So what did you say?

Cyclingsar · 20/06/2026 16:52

Shinyandnew1 · 20/06/2026 16:50

You’ve known and been married to this man for what, years? and he has never said anything like this, yet suddenly today, out of nowhere, he comes out with that comment?

He’s said some close to the edge things before, but never in reference to me.

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Cyclingsar · 20/06/2026 16:52

ToKittyornottoKitty · 20/06/2026 16:51

So what did you say?

I didn’t want to make a scene in front of the poor lad but once we walked on I tore a strip off him.

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Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 20/06/2026 16:53

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toomuchfaff · 20/06/2026 16:53

No matter what you say to DH, you'll be blowing it out of proportion, he was only joking, it was a joke, my god woman are you still going on about it, I didnt mean anything, cant you handle a joke....

Hes a dick, you'll not get anywhere but you need to correct him.

Does he always find he has to fill the silence, by making derogatory comments about his wife to strangers?

DimwittedSkater · 20/06/2026 16:56

Sounds like he was jealous of the muscly young man, tbh. Calling him "son" and making out that he was so clueless that his wife would make mincemeat of him and teach him a thing or two. I really think this is the male version of when a woman gets jealous of a beautiful woman.

Jeschara · 20/06/2026 16:58

XelaM · 20/06/2026 16:42

Very awkward but then I absolutely detest "cheeky chappies" 😬 sorry

So do I. I find them very juvenile and boring. They try to make themselves liked at everyone else's expense. Tedious thick idiots.

Thebigonesgetaway · 20/06/2026 16:58

How icky. I am assuming you’re both swingers or he wishes to be.