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Aibu to be upset and shocked by this??

270 replies

livingtowork · 09/01/2016 22:11

I'm staying at my boyfriend of 4 years and I've come on, I usually have more stuff with me but I wasn't expecting it until Monday so when he said he was popping to the shop to get sweets for his kids I asked if he could get me some tampons - he said he's never bought them in his life and never would - even for me!!! Its a crap area so he'd rather me walk myself to go and get them, his 12 yr old daughter said she would go with me but ffs, its tampons and this is the 21st century - I feel so sorry for his 2 daughters (although I am sure he would go and get what they needed!!) Feel like shit right now with a was of bog roll in my pants!!!! :-( :-(:-(

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goodnightdarthvader1 · 09/01/2016 22:12

He needs to grow up.

AnyFucker · 09/01/2016 22:12

Get in a taxi and go home

This one is a dud

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 09/01/2016 22:14

Meh. DP won't, nor would my dad. Wanna tell my dad to grow up Darth? He'd laugh in your face.

WilLiAmHerschel · 09/01/2016 22:14

Jesus I could not be in a ltr with someone so pathetic.

TheoriginalLEM · 09/01/2016 22:15

bin! what a twat

HeffalumpTrap · 09/01/2016 22:15

Selfish arsehole. You deserve someone able to put your needs above their mild embarrassment.

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 09/01/2016 22:15

Are you going to get them?

Use the time on the walk to assess the relationship. It sounds crap. He'd rather you be uncomfortable and inadequately resourced than have a moments discomfort himself buying tampons, and his embarrassment would be entirely in his own head. Grown men buy sanitary products all the time. Nobody blinks.

It's not the actions of a loving man.

Saxons · 09/01/2016 22:16

Pathetic man. I would go home

HeffalumpTrap · 09/01/2016 22:16

And milk, it just because you're surrounded by immature pricks it doesn't mean you should encourage everyone else to be

Tiggeryoubastard · 09/01/2016 22:16

That's pathetic. Even my sons would buy them. Ridiculous 'man'.

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 09/01/2016 22:19

Grin At my dad being an "immature prick". He'd wipe the floor with the lot of you.

DP probably is a bit though Blush

BertrandRussell · 09/01/2016 22:20

"Meh. DP won't, nor would my dad. Wanna tell my dad to grow up Darth? He'd laugh in your face."

Yep. Happy to tell your dad to grow up. If he laughed in my face it would just confirm that he really needs to grow up. Your dp, being younger, is showing that he is an arsehole. As well as needing to grow up.

AnyFucker · 09/01/2016 22:20

Milk I would tell your pathetic father he is a twat

Bring it on

BertrandRussell · 09/01/2016 22:21

"grin At my dad being an "immature prick". He'd wipe the floor with the lot of you."

Does that mean he's not an immature prick?

ScarlettDarling · 09/01/2016 22:21

Milk your dad sounds just lovely.

Tiggeryoubastard · 09/01/2016 22:21

Wipe the floor with people? Classy. Hmm
You've obviously been brought up to think that normal and manly, milk. It's the opposite. That's very sad.

AnyFucker · 09/01/2016 22:21

I feel sorry for women who know no better than to accept such juvenile males in their life

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 09/01/2016 22:22

Oh how I wish I could. 'Cause honestly, I know we all think we're so clever here at our keyboards, but really... we'd all stand no chance against my dad!

BertrandRussell · 09/01/2016 22:22

My dad was born in 1918.

He was happy to buy tampax for me.

So it's nothing to do with age.

sweetkitty · 09/01/2016 22:23

My DH has bought them for me before he said what's the hassle everyone knows they for my other half. It's s bit like women buying condoms in a way we do actually use them.

Tel him to stop being pathetic

AnyFucker · 09/01/2016 22:23

Milk, your dad might be able to shout louder and show more aggression

It doesn't mean he would "win" an argument though. That is an entirely different thing.

Tiggeryoubastard · 09/01/2016 22:23

Mine was born in the 20's, he served in the RN until he was in his 50's. He bought them. That's a man.

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 09/01/2016 22:23

Tigger - I meant intellectually I suppose. He's a very very very very very clever man. And I don't doubt that he'd flatten the lot of us with one bloody clever point.

He's like that.

AlistairSim · 09/01/2016 22:23

What a bizarre attitude to have.
I would feel very let down and unimportant.
Has he explained why this would be such a problem for him?

Hillfarmer · 09/01/2016 22:23

Jesus wept! Four years and you've finally found out who he is. I'm with AF. Get in a cab and go home.