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Insecure about dh and porn

102 replies

Foundmymojo · 06/05/2012 09:37

I really need help to get over this issue in my head. I've recently discovered that porn is really easy to access on mobile phones now. I was being a bit naive before thinking my dh had grown up a bit by now as all his old style dvds and use of the home computer have stopped, the dvds were chucked away.

But it just turns out he has an easier and much more private source via his phone. It turns out he's using it maybe 2 or 3 times a week, whenever he's alone really. It's pretty tame, mainly searching lesbians or stockings, sometimes using mature as a search word.

I just don't know if this is normal and ok or not. I can't stop thinking about it. I am 21 weeks pregnant and our sex life is not great, I guess I feel that if he didn't use porn he could spend more time sleeping with me. I don't make much of an effort at the moment what with a nearly 2 year old, being pregnant, working etc. It just makes me feel like shit.

He doesn't know that I know by the way. I hate myself for it but I checked his internet history a couple of times the last couple of weeks. I obviously have issues. Please help.

OP posts:
GurlwiththeFrothyCurl · 07/05/2012 22:40

I think some people have very weak boundaries and ideas about what is acceptable in a good relationship!

GurlwiththeFrothyCurl · 07/05/2012 22:42

Or am I just getting too old?

AnyFucker · 07/05/2012 22:42

I don't think so, Gurl

Magic69 · 07/05/2012 22:45

Why so bothered about porn? If I found porn on my DH s phone I will think it was funny......don't be so hard on him, love and understanding, that's how marriages last

AnyFucker · 07/05/2012 22:47

yes, the degradation and objectification of women is simply hilaire

GurlwiththeFrothyCurl · 07/05/2012 22:49

Oh, so the systematic abuse of women is now funny? OMG!

GurlwiththeFrothyCurl · 07/05/2012 22:49

And my marriage is now 24 years and going strong. What a fucked up world we live in.

LimitedAppeal · 07/05/2012 22:52

Not the thread for a bun fight over posters Dinah. Could I politely suggest you desist?

Dinah, your parents grew their own dope and you knew? That's not big and not clever. I am sorry that you had this sort of upbringing. Did you have to keep their weed crop a secret at school? Or did you and your schoolfriends giggle about it with your motjher and father?

Your defensive style suggests you would happily consider growing weed in your own DCs home with you. Would you?

This OP is pregnant by a drug dealer and user and is 'insecure' about his use of porn. This is absolutely not a happy situation/marriage to bring a newbron baby in to. I am very sorry for the OP who obviously thinks she should suck it up for whatever excuses she chooses to give him.

I would leave this marriage and strike out alone with my children.

fabulousdarling · 07/05/2012 22:54

No ones perfect O.P. It's up to you to decide how far a margin either side of the line of imperfect you are willing to accept. Personally I think it is always useful to speak to a man about why he is looking at the porn, what he searches for specifically, why it turns him on etc. He may actually tell you he knows it's not a desirable habit, and reassure you that he doesn't find you any less attractive or whatever. Unless you talk with an open mind you'll never find out.

Right now you are anxious, vulnerable and thinking the worst scenarios. You need to talk: 'I feel this' 'I feel unappreciated because of this etc' Make it clear. Write out what you want to say before hand if that helps.

I wouldn't tolerate the cannabis, but then I wouldn't even date a guy that smoked tobacco - that's me. I do think you ought to consider carefully the fact that you are pregnant and breathing in second-hand cannabis smoke, and also your DC though.

I hope things work out.

Magic69 · 07/05/2012 22:54

Some people don't see porn as degradation or abuse.....most pirn stars earn more than you or I ever will, it's a profession which is directed at bringing sexual gratification. My DH is the best father and husband I could ever want and we have been going strong for 15 years- if he chose to watch porn I would most likely join him!!

Doesn't make us less loving as parents or less intimate as a couple. Just because u CHOOSE not to do something does not mean u are better or greater than people who make a different choice

LimitedAppeal · 07/05/2012 22:56

MN is currently under invasion. I welcome it tbh. I dare not respond though as might be deleted and so will any replies, then kicked off MN with no email to explain why. And the weed/porn brigade will remain.

Good on em I say. Let's big them up.

OP, can you get your DH to post the 'large amount' he has down to me and my toddler please? I can PM you with my address. just wazz 'skunk' on the parcel and my MN name. Bit like the santa thing we do on here. Ta

LimitedAppeal · 07/05/2012 23:00

I am a pirn star btw Magic. I so know where you're coming from. If my husband hadn't fucked off to shag porn stars in Asia i would still be with him. Aaah. The laughs we would have had together watching Fireman Sam "prin" movies together.

AnyFucker · 07/05/2012 23:02

I'm a Gurn Star

My face-pulling is legendary

LimitedAppeal · 07/05/2012 23:02

rofl. YouTube link to your Gurn movies please.

arf!

GurlwiththeFrothyCurl · 07/05/2012 23:04

Joining in the Gurn Star stuff with some of the tripe on this thread!

LimitedAppeal · 07/05/2012 23:08

AF I found you! !!

LimitedAppeal · 07/05/2012 23:09

I wonder if the OP is trying to wake up her stoned sex-addled H? Am worried about her.

Come back OP. I have yet further important and relevant advice. Sad

GurlwiththeFrothyCurl · 07/05/2012 23:10

How on earth did that pic of me end up on t'internet? Bemused....

LimitedAppeal · 07/05/2012 23:11

what the bloke with the small tongue? I have had bigger tongues than that.

AnyFucker · 07/05/2012 23:11

oh, that is hawwwwt

I would wreck my relationship for that ! < rubs thighs >

LimitedAppeal · 07/05/2012 23:13

Hey, eyes up here ladeez,

if I was a husband and I found my biatch wotchin pics of a lad like that with a big snake for those lovin moments I would probably join in. Lick all the choccy cake up. And make a nice cuppa after while I popped out his babe. (not sure of the right-on lingo as I am 84)

GurlwiththeFrothyCurl · 07/05/2012 23:13

No, AF's link. Seriously, OP, at 21 weeks all your DH should be doing is making you feel loved and cherished. If he is not doing that, then he's a very poor example of a husband. That's all really.

LimitedAppeal · 07/05/2012 23:14

suits you!

GurlwiththeFrothyCurl · 07/05/2012 23:16

What I am getting from MN is that I need to help my two sons be better future partners. There are some truly awful examples on these threads and I would be ashamed of my lads if they turned out like these.