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Is this normal or insensitive. Sex?

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Workwhatwork · 09/09/2013 09:43

I'm having a really shitty time right now with various things that are going on so I'm feeling quite low anyway.

Last night I was in bed with my boyfriend and I started trying it on with him. I was sort of cuddled up to his back and I started stroking his hair and back and kissing his back a bit, then touching him down there. I was running my hands up and down and then when I wernt to touch him down there again he blocked me with his arm so I took that to mean he didn't want sex and turn over to go to sleep.

He turned to me and said I was teasing him and started touching me down there. I wanted to have sex but I couldn't get wet and him touching me was hurting.

The thing is and I don't know whether it's just me, sorry for tmi, but I seem to be able to get wet more at certain times of the months, so just after my period I can't always get wet but just before I do. Sometimes my boyfriend hurts me when touching me, if he's trying to put his finger in me he will often miss by an inch or so and try to force it into the completely wrong place, he also uses spit as lube even though we have proper lube and I don't like it. Because of all this I think I've got quite jumpy especially when I'm not wet because I'm expecting for him to hurt me.

After a while of me not getting wet he started to go in a mood saying I was teasing him and obviously didn't want it as I'm not wet. I try to explain that just because I can't get wet doesn't mean I don't want to, and that sometimes it isn't just a case of sticking his hand down there for a fiddle and expecting me to have multiple orgasms, sometimes it is but sometimes I need a bit more foreplay.

It escalated into a row and he started doing over the top impressions of me jumping and saying "ooo, ooo, ahh, ahh" like a monkey as though that's what I was doing. I was a bit jumpy but it's because it was hurting and I was expecting him to try to shove his finger in where I have a wee like he often does. But apparently this is all my fault as he isn't doing anything different.

The other massve thing is, in the past, (we have been together 5 years), I have found out he has gone behind my back.

I've found out he's been on dating sites talking to other women. He says that this was when we had split up so almost doesn't matter. We were both on Facebook and he was chatting and flirting with women from chatrooms and stuff on there. He had a few younger women on there and when I asked who they were he said that they were girls from school who were a few years below him. He sort of joked that they would never look twice at him as they're too good looking (how's that supposed to make me feel) and that he'd only added them to make him look good. I also found out he had fake email addresses to use on dating sites. This was an ongoing thing over about 2 years and there were at least 10 different women I found him chatting and flirting with all from chatrooms or dating sites. I even caught him chatting with one the night after his grans funeral.

These are the things I found out, I of course don't know what else may have happened. But that I'm aware of nothing has happened since, he's no longer on Facebook and neither am I and he no longer has a computer or laptop aside from the one we share.

But last weekend I was looking through the photos on his phone. I never look at his phone so goes to show, but I was looking for some old photos of a concert we went to. And I came across a photo of a pair of boobs. No face just a top pulled up flashing the boobs, the photo was in downloads so I can only thing it was a picture message he'd been sent.

Of course I felt sick, asked him who it was. The story he gave was that he couldn't even remember her name, it was some woman from a dating site years ago and he didn't even realise it was still in the phone. But he tried to make out it wasn't a picture message but had been synced from his old laptop.

I told him to get out, it was over. But he wouldn't go, he seems to think that because it was all part of the things he was up to in the past and I'm supposed to have forgiven him, that I should just forget about it now.

But of course I can't, I don't trust him at all.

Then we went to a family party at the weekend. There was another woman on our table, a family friend. I started to feel as though he was making a particular point to speak to her. He rarely strikes up conversation with anyone and usually sits messing around with his phone but he kept making jokes to her, telling me to look at her phone case isn't it nice. Then I remember that she sent him a Christmas card last year and my name wasn't on it even though everyone elses were sent as couples.

This is how I've ended up as a result of what he's done in the past. Even if nothing is going on I feel as though he tries to get attention from young women to get an ego boost.

Sorry it's so long I just don't know what to think anymore.

OP posts:
LoisPuddingLane · 16/09/2013 21:29

Being on your own is much much MUCH better than being with a dirty, abusive man.

Back in the day, when I was young and silly (as opposed to old and silly) I moved in with this guy. He was ok, not abusive. But fucking hell he was dirty. Never showered and used to say I should tell him when he needed to. Left engine oil all over the washing up liquid bottle. Left unflushed poo in the toilet.

Yuk. I moved out.

pumpkinsweetie · 17/09/2013 06:48

Oh no, i was really hoping you had freed yourself from this man.
I really do hope that soon you will realise being alone is much better than this life.

He is abusive, please don't be clouded. Maybe you could make plans to leave next monday instead?

Lweji · 17/09/2013 07:03

He's nasty to you because he's a nasty man.

Forget the good times.

Can you live with the bad times? If they are so bad that you want him away, go with that feeling.

Every relationship has good times.
He gives you those to keep you hooked and to make you doubt yourself.

It's the bad times that separate a good from a bad relationship.

garlicbaguette · 17/09/2013 10:51

It's the bad times that separate a good from a bad relationship.

That's a nice summation, Lweji :)

TalkativeJim · 17/09/2013 10:58

Good god.

Anyone with half an eye can see that the constant strain, the cognitive dissonance necessary to make living with a pig like this even possible has sucked every ounce of humanity and spirit from you.

I can't tell you enough how much better you would feel, as a person, if you never had to see him again.

Forget picking over the details of how good he might be here and there, blah blah. It's like rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.

Reading your descriptions of him makes me want to vomit.

You can't see this now, you're trapped in it and you think it's about YOU. It isn't. It's about him.

Saddest of all is what a fab person you sound. It makes sense - you're someone whose good nature can be taken advantage of.

You're a clever woman, OP. That's obvious. So why not try an experiment? No matter how hopeless it feels now, dump him, get him out of your life - and see how differently you feel in a month. Worth a try???

LurcioLovesFrankie · 17/09/2013 11:49

It's like rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.
^^
This. Brilliant!

LoisPuddingLane · 17/09/2013 13:03

Perhaps what you need is a bunch of Mnetters to come round and stand guard - not let him back in. If he says who the hell are you they can say

WE ARE THE MUMSNET MASSIVE AND YOU ARE HISTORY, SUNSHINE!

MissDD1971 · 17/09/2013 13:04

I echo what everyone is saying here but I can't stress more - OP needs therapy to change her mindset over this cretin (harsh on cretins, I know) and her previous dodgy relationship she wrote about.

THERAPY THERAPY THERAPY.

otherwise she'll run back to bum-cleaner or into the arms of another Neanderthal man (harsh on Neanderthals).

MissDD1971 · 17/09/2013 13:05

Lois - OP does feel like she needs support - a good platonic male friend.

who can be onhand to throw her ex's stuff into the street and boot him into the last century where he belongs

valiumredhead · 17/09/2013 13:24

I agree miss e.g.

valiumredhead · 17/09/2013 13:24

Miss d!Grin

MissDD1971 · 17/09/2013 13:26

I'd take the valium round to her too valiumredhead! Grin and a big bottle of gin/vodka/etc

pumpkinsweetie · 17/09/2013 14:17

Totally agree Mrsd !
Op needs support in throwing this turd out to the bins!

Hullygully · 17/09/2013 14:23

I haven't read the thread but

HE IS VILE

BIN HIM AT ONCE

MissDD1971 · 17/09/2013 14:25

pumpkinsweetie - that's great but I'm a MissD not MrsD! Grin

pumpkinsweetie · 17/09/2013 18:36

Grin Sorry missd

MissDD1971 · 18/09/2013 09:53
Grin
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