One liners from well-meaning partners that cause an eyebrow to raise...

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My dearest DP has just pranced in to the bathroom where I was showering shouting "Vagina! Vagina! Vagina!" So I shook my arse at him and he said with such glee "wow, there's a great wobble on that!"

He meant it as a compliment. I was like yeah, thanks love. I'm a bloody size 8!

He's now singing to himself about how I smell while ironing my work clothes.

Anyone else have a fecking weird unique one?

You will piss off some people by daring to be a size 8. I am and get the shitty snide remarks about do I eat enough, your too thin.

I didn't see any stealth boasting
DP has a knack for only opening his mouth to change feet sometimes - the last one was when we got into bed on a particularly cold night and he cuddled up to me saying 'you're so soft, squashy and warm'. Quickly followed by 'shit cold I didn't mean that how it came out! You're not squashy just comfortable to cuddle up to'. Which wasn't really much better when you think about it...
He has also told me that my grey hairs looked like expensive highlights under the streetlight.
He's recently been told to just stop talking and admire me in awe struck silence...

I was read one time , sex is grown up version of playtime. I guess he just want to be silly and have fun.

"Expensive highlights" 😂

Exactly that.

Love the highlights comment.

Admire you in awe struck silence. I adore that.

DP and I make up songs about each other constantly. It's always a little offensive but done with love and a sense of humour. I think these things are so, so important in relationships - laughing at yourselves and being silly and not worrying about the offence police. I've also had the warm and squishy comments, i also now and then blow a huge raspberry on DP's small but a little squishy tummy and chase him flicking water which I know agitates him. Life should be fun and silly no matter what age we are.

"Christ you're looking skinny, are you hiding smarties under there? - indicating to my chest. Ex-boyfriend.

I had just cleaned the house, and DH said "It's lucky I didn't marry you for your housekeeping skills" The house was spotless, he could've checked the underside of the bath seen it gleamed. I was fuming.

I also once complained I'd put on a few pounds on holiday in France and instead of saying "Darling, don't worry about it, it'll melt off when we get home" DH asked "Is it a personal best?" I was so mad I would've left him on the spot if we hadn't been on the motorway.

OP I think your husband sounds lovely.

I think his sounds funny and lovely.

I have one of those.

I don't get the "ribs over rack" thing. What does it mean?

Thank you :-)

Ribs over rack is a throwback to my hospitalised level of anorexia as a teen; even now when I'm careful to eat enough and consume as many calories on top of what I need as I burn off exercising I still feel uncomfortable when I can't see my ribs, but when I can't I instantly go from C to DD. Currently I seem to have worked it out where I'm a 6-8 28D but the slightest mention of wobble makes me go a bit nuts. Ugh. All girls boarding school for you.

MrsM that's so funny, herewego and Ozzie thank you :D

Ah right. You do seem quite conflicted about your body - your DP should know to choose his words more carefully, I think.

omg my DP is the same. he knows he can call me anything (even after having a kid) and I'd be just and mean back or he'll expect a childish thump. That what makes him and myself work. both a pair of crazy loons

will often ask me "how are the netters today? Are they being unreasonable" in full knowledge it is met with death stare.

I have a lovely silly funny one too. He asks me "what are the vipers all angry about today?" and I always answer "men" 🙃

Once I was complaining how I looked like a potato in a work uniform. "Potatoes are nice though, everybody likes potatoes. And they're very versatile" was not what I was hoping for, but it did make me laugh 😁

Nah. I don't buy in to stepping on eggshells or "triggers". My silly, funny, loving partner can say things that I know he means with love without having to worry about hia

Sorry phone - *him upsetting me with an offhand comment.

My lovely friend called his fairly new DP at Christmas (new enough relationship that they were with their respective families not together, and told her he was having a lovely time, but there was a big lump missing! She still married him.

if he makes you happy and he doesn't mean it nasty then there's no problem is there?

I keep getting asked if I've cooked muffins today. I ask why he goes cause I can see muffin tops. I have no come back so I can't help but burst out laughing.

Oh Lila YES! We should all meet up

If there is no issue then why did it cause an eyebrow to raise then OP?

This site can be so weird! Hardly a stealth boast, I read it as lighthearted. Bad times when you can't say you are a size 8 without considering it boasting or having body issues....

I think it raised an eyebrow because it's an odd way to pay a compliment as it could sound like an insult. Hence the humour.

Worst comment from my DH was 'i think I just need more sleep than you'. When DD was 4 weeks old and he had just had a 3 hour nap. Was too sleep deprived to throttle him.

When I grumbled to my dh that he never gave me compliments, he thought for a minute and said, "Black suits you."

Some girls are bigger than other girls mothers..

Love it vagina better than pussy Any day.