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Has to have everything I have

9 replies

Dufield · 12/05/2006 13:40

I have been with my DP for over a year now and have started to realise that he seems to want everything that I have, he does this with food for example if I buy a packet of crisps and he buys a chocolate bar he'll wait until I open my crisps and then asks for a few, even if he's previously said that he doesnt like them.

If we get a take-away he has to have some of mine even though he has his own and if I buy drinks such as bacardi breezers (which he doesnt like) he'll insist on having a bottle or two, again even though he has his own drinks.

More worryingly though he does it with medicine too, if I buy flu tablets he 'develops' flu and has some of my tablets, recently my grandma gave me some of her cocordinols for my headaches and when I got home DP developed a headache and took some of my cocordinols. Its like he cant bear me having anything that he hasnt got, even cough medicinem heartburn tablets, ibuprofen....etc.

Has anyone else experienced this?

OP posts:

Beauregard · 12/05/2006 13:48

How strange?
Dd1 is like this with food ,it's like she's possessive of it and noone else can eat anything that she isnt having!

heavenis · 12/05/2006 13:49

Never heard of this before. Maybe he gets sympathy pains re headaches etc. But having the same food, I remember doing that when I was a child. I'd been helping my dad all day and come tea time I ate everything he did,even if I didn't like.

CarolinaMoonfish · 12/05/2006 13:51

weird.

is he like this with other people (siblings etc)?

Have you mentioned it to him?

fullmoonfish · 12/05/2006 13:54

Not exactly, but on the rare occasions I am ill, he mysteriously gets ill too, only worse (because he is a man and therfore has no pain threshhold). So I never get to go tobed and get looked after, mutter mutter. Which is fine, but a bloke suffering from bad period cramps??? Psshchaugh

meowmix · 12/05/2006 13:57

sounds like an attention thang to me. he must dread you ever going into labour....

mousiemousie · 12/05/2006 18:00

Troll

Durr

CarolinaMoonfish · 12/05/2006 18:44

but shurely if you were trolling, it would be about something more controversial than this??

it's hardly pirate sex is it?

maltesers · 12/05/2006 22:04

Sounds like he looks up to you or something. Cannot fathom this thread out. All very strange behaviour ,,very child-like !

beamer · 12/05/2006 22:19

Clearly has a huge insecurity problem,is the possessive type?

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