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Dp makes me jump on purpose

94 replies

bordellosboheme · 15/10/2013 23:04

Is he a twunt? Angry
I just came in from a 40 minute drive. It was dark outside, it was dark in the house and dp was standing there trying to give me a little shock as he put it. Surely this is the behaviour of a 12 yo? Not a 57 year old? Can someone explain him to me please?

OP posts:
Walkacrossthesand · 16/10/2013 08:15

'It's only fun if it's fun for both of you' was what I used to say when one of my children was upsetting the other one in the name of 'fun'. Personally I'm at a loss to understand why grown men and women enjoy startling each other, and YY to the point above re the 'crying wolf' element - but trying to startle someone who you know dislikes it, is simply cruel. OP, could you park car in front of house with headlights on to light it up, take a big searchlight, enter house like a police team, etc etc, make a big point of 'making sure there's no-one there' - try to spoil his 'fun', say you're 'joining in the game in your own way'. Maybe that will work where saying 'please don't do that' hasn't. I'd rather be with someone who respected my wishes, personally...,

mammadiggingdeep · 16/10/2013 08:18

I think it's funny when you know the other person is there... Ie you know somebody is in the house with you. However, doing it on a dark house etc when you think nobody is there is awful. That's a real fright!!! Not kind really.

Scarynuff · 16/10/2013 08:23

Have you told him to stop doing it?

I know he should realise you don't like it from your reaction but if you've said so and he keeps doing it he is not taking you seriously which is a problem.

What else does he do?

CuntWagon · 16/10/2013 08:25

I really fucking hate people who do this. It's not even remotely funny, ever. It's a horrible physical feeling to be startled. It's just nastiness disguised as a joke.

IneedAsockamnesty · 16/10/2013 08:27

It's not really a very safe thing for him to be doing, my brother did it to me once freaked me out so much and I didn't realise it was him so he ended up with two missing teeth and a broken nose.

AKissIsNotAContract · 16/10/2013 08:34

Stab him in self defence

BerstieSpotts · 16/10/2013 09:08

Practical jokes really are a personality thing. Seen some weird threads on here before where people compare and swap their best ones Confused

Definitely a compatibility issue I'd say! I hate them - couldn't deal with it. Some people apparently find it really funny though (mutually) and it keeps the relationship interesting.

cuttingpicassostoenails · 16/10/2013 10:45

If you don't like it and have told him so then he is a bully if he continues with it.
I would not want to be married to a bully.

CogitoErgoSometimes · 16/10/2013 10:50

I'd actually call 'red flag' on this one. Cruel practical jokes are not loving behaviour and, if this is part of a pattern rather than a one-off, I'd be very worried. One of the first things I remember my emotionally bullying ex doing was tricking me into eating something heavily laced with tabasco. It's a similar kind of thing and it didn't bode well.

willyoulistentome · 16/10/2013 10:54

Next time, punch him hard on the nose ! Claim it was a reflex action. Dickhead!

LaRegina · 16/10/2013 10:57

He's being an arsehole.

Next time he does it I would 'accidentally' be so scared that I would assume he was a burglar and punch him.

AmberLeaf · 16/10/2013 10:58

The key point here is that you don't like it.

Have you made it expressly clear that you hate it? [not trying to excuse him-just wondering] if you have then I'll call Twunt. If not then, tell him and if he stops-all good, if he doesn't 'Twunt'

It is something that me and one of my sons do or attempt to do to each other, but we are both fine with it and tbh neither of us succeed that often as we are on hyper alert most of the time! if one of us managed to scare the other, we laugh.

LaRegina · 16/10/2013 10:58

X-posted willy

Anniegetyourgun · 16/10/2013 10:59

What a dick.

That is all.

MonkeyGoneToHeaven · 16/10/2013 11:07

My stepfather used to do this all the time as a 'joke'.

I was a complete bag of nerves and it literally took me years after I left home to feel safe and relaxed.

Horrible bullying behaviour.

AnandaTimeIn · 16/10/2013 16:22

Some people are just weird.

Why would you deliberately want to frighten someone you supposedly love?

akaWisey · 16/10/2013 17:24

I had one like that (had being the operative word).

Cooked me a meal with an ingredient I'd said I'd never, ever want to eat. Lied when I asked if I was in fact eating said ingredient. Then told me afterwards. Watched my face……..smiled.

I'm single now.

CogitoErgoSometimes · 16/10/2013 17:35

What was the horrible ingredient akaWisey?

Takingbackmonday · 16/10/2013 17:53

Oh FFS get a grip

Onebuddhaisnotenough · 16/10/2013 18:01

Aka My Ex also did this. Very early on. I wish I'd recognised it for the red flag that was. Perhaps would have saved m many years of misery in an abusive marriage.
OP this behaviour is not on. Tell him how it makes you feel and if he does it again then you know he's an arose.

WhatDoesTheDogSay · 16/10/2013 18:06

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Lavenderhoney · 16/10/2013 18:19

Was it the first time he has done this? Did you tell him not to do it again?
And how long have you been together? Is it usual for him, I mean.

I don't like being made to jump and I take a very dim view of it. If you were already nervous about the dark and he knew that its not nice at all.

Why did he want to shock you? Why didn't he put the lights on and get you a cup of tea instead? Hanging about outside like that!

Cadsuane · 16/10/2013 19:05

My best friend's DS (15 and about a foot taller than me) learned the hard way not to this to me as my fight or flight response was definitely fight. Blush. In my defence he sneaked up behind me in the street and it was only one kick and one punch before I realised who it was.
His mum just laughed as she had warned him that I wouldn't react well.

LEMisdisappointed · 16/10/2013 19:09

The answer is to perfect a clean and accurate punch to the bridge of his nose - he will never make you jump again!

Grumpywino · 16/10/2013 19:58

I have a natural defensive reaction that means people rarely jump out at me or suddenly pat me hard on the back twice.

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