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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.

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Workwhatwork · 09/09/2013 14:20

Yep still has his own place. That's just another issue.

We can't afford to live in two seperate places, he's supposed to be renting his place out, but it's been going on for years. He needs to do work on it before he moves out, but he never gets round to it.

In fact both of our places need work, but he spends quite a lot of time doing work for his family and friends. In fact he's been given another job list by a family member at the weekend. Apparently they want a load of security cameras fitted.

He has got a shower that floods, his car needs a major job doing and is out of use, he can't afford to get it done at the dealership so is going to attempt it himself, his garden is in a right state, lights not even working in his kitchen as he needs to do some wiring, locks extension and bathroom broken, plastering and paint needed where the shower has been flooding. And the list just keeps getting longer. That's without social commitments and things we're supposed to be doing in my house.

But I know what his priorities will be, he just ignore our own biuts and pieces and get on with doing fancy jobs for his family. So far he's fitted a new bathroom for his sister, fitted fancy lights in his dads garage. But our jobs just sit never getting done.

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Workwhatwork · 09/09/2013 14:25

I said that he should explain that he doesn't mind helping out, but that they'll have to wait a while until he's sorted his own stuff.

But he says he's too embarassed to let them know what a state hi house and car are in, so instead he will just spend weekends doing DIY for other people, who will rope him into doing even more, and then he will take it out on me that he's tired and never got any time.

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AmpullaOfVater · 09/09/2013 14:25

He's shit in bed and doesn't respect your body. He's sleazing over young girls online. He makes you miserable most of the time.

Absolute no brainer, OP.

KatyTheCleaningLady · 09/09/2013 14:25

Thank God he has his own place. He can go live there immediately.

GettingStrong · 09/09/2013 14:28

Maybe he will sort the diy out if he has to move back in there himself.

LoisPuddingLane · 09/09/2013 14:39

He has got a shower that floods, his car needs a major job doing and is out of use, he can't afford to get it done at the dealership so is going to attempt it himself, his garden is in a right state, lights not even working in his kitchen as he needs to do some wiring, locks extension and bathroom broken, plastering and paint needed where the shower has been flooding. And the list just keeps getting longer.

Frankly I'm finding it hard to care what state his place is in. To quote Ampulla, he's shit in bed and doesn't respect your body. He's sleazing over young girls online. He makes you miserable most of the time.

GET RID. And spend some quality time with your own fingers, not jabbing.

RaRaZ · 09/09/2013 14:40

He makes me happy at times but makes me miserable more

Listen to yourself, pet. He makes you miserable more than he makes you happy?! No fuckin wonder by the sounds of it - but my point here is that you don't deserve that. No-one does. You're only in your thirties - still your prime of life: go out there and find someone who sees your beauty inside and out, loves you for who you are, and doesn't hurt you in bed. Tell this selfish bastard to fuck off back to his scratty flat and re-start a life of wanking in the leaky shower. You will be far happier without him, I can promise you that.

KookyKitty · 09/09/2013 14:45

It's your place, so what's stopping you from just putting his stuff in bags and kicking him out?

You say how unhappy you are in this relationship, so end it. What's holding you back?

Yes, you're scared of being lonely, but your young, surely it would be worse wasting another day in of your life in this miserable relationship.

pretty much everyone agrees this man is a grade A dick with no respect for you. Your in the enviable position where there are no joint commitments in the shape of tenancy agreements or children. So why not take control of your life and finish things today. You don't need his premessio

KookyKitty · 09/09/2013 14:47

It's your place, so what's stopping you from just putting his stuff in bags and kicking him out?

You say how unhappy you are in this relationship, so end it. What's holding you back?

Yes, you're scared of being lonely, but your young, surely it would be worse wasting another day in of your life in this miserable relationship.

pretty much everyone agrees this man is a grade A dick with no respect for you. Your in the enviable position where there are no joint commitments in the shape of tenancy agreements or children. So why not take control of your life and finish things today. You don't need his permission, think of it as today being the day you decide to take your life back.

valiumredhead · 09/09/2013 14:50

Urgh, he misses by an inch and expects you to get wet? Good Lord!

valiumredhead · 09/09/2013 14:51

Yy just kick him out!

EhricLovesTeamQhuay · 09/09/2013 15:33

I'm a bit confused. When you say he insists you must be horny because you're wet, and you say you explain about cycles and tampons and he doesn't listen, are you saying that he insists on having sex with you if you are wet? And you try to persuade him that you are not horny but he doesn't listen?
Honestly, that is not ok. Most people ask/tell if they are horny and the respectful response is to take their word for it. You don't have to persuade a partner you don't want sex - you just say. He sounds so awful.

valiumredhead · 09/09/2013 15:42

You say he tries to force his finger 'in completely the wrong place' -do you mean anally?Sad

Honestly OP just end it, this is awful, you deserve better than this x

TheOrginalPoster · 09/09/2013 15:45

Your biggest sexual organ is your brain.

You know this guy is a shit, of course your body wont respond as mentally you know he is a horrid, abusive tosser. Its a holistic thing.

You sound lovely, you should just dump him and move on asap.

Workwhatwork · 09/09/2013 16:22

I'm a bit confused. When you say he insists you must be horny because you're wet, and you say you explain about cycles and tampons and he doesn't listen, are you saying that he insists on having sex with you if you are wet? And you try to persuade him that you are not horny but he doesn't listen?

Well, he doesn't insist. He will touch me, realise I'm wet and start coming on to me, which for him usually means playing around down there. If I do not want to reciprocate I might no no because I'm tired, not in the mood or whatever, but he will insist I must be in the mood because I'm 'all wet'. I can and do just say no although I admit he can get in a bit of a mood about this and take it personally, or sometimes I go along with it but do usually end up enjoying it in the end because I'll try to get myself in the mood.

At the same time I can not be wet but still thinking about and wanting sex, but perhaps my body is not responding because there is a mental block. I definitely think him hurting me has to do with it because he's just rubbing and poking away with roough fingers. But it's not always like this of course, because sometimes he might go down on me or I might ask him to use lube, sorry all way, way tmi I know. But it means the problem is not always apparent.

You say he tries to force his finger 'in completely the wrong place' -do you mean anally?

No not anally, although he used to have this horrible habit of putting hands round there and then touching my clitoris which I asked him to stop because I was getting horrible uti's. No he does this horrible thing where he rubs my clitoris and if I don't get wet or orgasm he moves his finger down as if he's going to put it inside me, but instead he's too far up, so just below my clit and tries to force it in, of course he's way off the mark and it feels horrible, it's making me shudder to think about it. When I say ouch and ask him to be careful he gets annoyed that I'm not wet or I'm lying in the wrong position and he can't 'get to it' properly. I have tried and tried to say it's no good sometimes just having a fiddle and expecting me to melt in his hands, that I need to be kissed, touched, even get the lube out, he just gets more annoyed as though I'm insulting him, and says he can't believe that we're arguing over sex. I've said it in a nice way, given him pointers, it makes no difference.

It's not always apparent because I probably have a higher sex drive anyway, and most of the time I'm fairly 'easy' to please sad as that sounds, I usually end up taking myself off into my own little fantasy world and probably convince myself it's a good sex life.

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Workwhatwork · 09/09/2013 16:27

I wanted to ask whether you can forgive past deceipt, he says I should forget about all of the things he's done in the past because he's changed. But after what happened last night it seemed to be bigger in my mind.

I think because it's happened before, but the way he was jumping around making monkey noises as impression of me just made me feel sick.

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valiumredhead · 09/09/2013 16:41

Oh sweetheart , yuck just yuck. Get rid of him.

AnyFucker · 09/09/2013 16:44

If you are looking for a reason to end it with him, you have several as far as I am concerned

GettingStrong · 09/09/2013 16:45

Please don't try to convince yourself it's a good sex life anymore. It really isn't Sad

valiumredhead · 09/09/2013 16:46

I agree with anyfucker, just one of these things would have me packing his bags, seriously.

Workwhatwork · 09/09/2013 16:59

I won't even get started on him picking him bum in the bath with me then. No I will, he asks me to have a bath with him then lies there legs spread out while I'm squashed up at the tap end, and farts and picks his bum non stop.

I'm actually not sure what I see in him at all.

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AnyFucker · 09/09/2013 17:02

Oh, ffs

I was just about to put dinner on Shock Grin

AmpullaOfVater · 09/09/2013 17:04

My god, what an utter prize.

QuintessentialOldDear · 09/09/2013 17:07

Of course you are neither going to get wet or aroused if a man is prodding and hurting your vagina. Hmm

Workwhatwork · 09/09/2013 17:09

Sorry Smile I'm just trying to think of the things I won't miss if I break up with him. getting up to an unflushed toilet every morning him using my toothbrush

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