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DH finds a celebrity more attractive than me.

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relationshipsnc · 03/02/2017 03:31

I had no clue how to write the title? I know she's more attractive than me, so have no issue with him pointing that out. I'm sure in our marriage I've said someone is handsome, etc.

However, he has recently commented on a meme of her on Facebook. Tagging his friend and saying "if I weren't married... ;)" and I just don't appreciate that. Am I being over sensitive? He 'jokingly' says he'd swap me for her any day of the week and when I don't laugh, claims it's just a joke, etc.

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Yoksha · 03/02/2017 16:08

Nothing wrong with saying. But tagging on facebook! Meh. Twattish behaviour.

MovingForwardSlowly · 03/02/2017 16:12

Your being silly.

BobbieDog · 03/02/2017 16:15

I wouldnt like this.

I dont think its the done thing to tell your partner that you find other people attractive.

I know for certain dh would not appreciate me telling him who i found attractive.

Pipachi · 03/02/2017 16:28

It's disrespectful and stupid

OhhBetty · 03/02/2017 16:45

It wouldn't bother me at all if he joked about it to me. It would bother me if he put it on Facebook as I would realise I was in a relationship with an immature twat. Putting your partner down to make your friends laugh is never ok in my book.

Chloe84 · 03/02/2017 17:25

Ugh I think saying this crap makes him feel better about himself.

You need to comment on every single man you see either on TV or out and about very vocally about how attractive you find them so he hears you loud and clear, I guarantee he will quit with winding you up about women.

I agree with the above from Adora.

DarklyDreamingDexter · 03/02/2017 19:28

You are not overthinking it or overly hormonal. He is being totally rude, disrespectful and downright cruel to humiliate you on FB like that. I would be absolutely furious. You need to nip it in the bud. You could get your own back by humiliating him on FB and see how he likes it, but tempting though that may be, it would probably make you look a bit childish. I think I'd be packing my bags and staying at my Mum's for a few weeks until he made a grovelling apology. You need to think of some way of getting through to him about how you feel or it will get worse and your self esteem will take even more of a battering.

MrsBlennerhassett · 03/02/2017 19:40

I find some celebrities more attractive in a way than my husband but im in love with my husband and so even if he were stood next to the celeb and the celeb was trying to come onto me, id still go for my husband because love makes attraction deeper, whatever someone physically looks like.
Ive often sat and watched peaky blinders or whatever with my husband and said shit like 'i dont care about the plot at all im just lost in Tommys eyes' Its just a bit of a throwaway comment and safe fun.
My husband makes a comedy 'Phwaor' noise whenever he sees Kate Moss.
Its just a bit of fun.
The facebook thing is a touch direspectful altho i imagine its more because he wasnt thinking it thru rather than he actually disrespects you. He was probably thinking of it like any other time you would call a celebrity fit with your mates. However on facebook its left there in black and white for all to see.
It may be the pregnancy making this seem worse than it is. My friend dreamt of her partner cheating all thru her pregnancy, she used to get really cross with him because of these dreams. She asked her midwife about it and the midwife said it was really common for women to suddenly get anxious about fidelity during pregnancy and their attractiveness.

toffeeboffin · 03/02/2017 19:43

DH actively encourages me to leave him for Roger Federer in case I ever run into him. You know, whilst I'm mincing around with the jet-set in Switzerland or wherever Grin

HotNatured · 04/02/2017 11:28

Eugh, you are married to a classless knob, OP. The insufferable 'banter' about celebs that wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire is bad enough, but the public declaration on FB is sad, pathetic and worst of all, bloody disrespectful.

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