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Quasi husband thinks I'm ugly

48 replies

burstthebubble22 · 04/08/2017 17:27

So me and this guy haven't broken up but I was supposed to marry him and because I'm in a financial mess I couldn't go through with the marriage plans (there was no wedding organised yet). I thought it was the wisest thing. To wait. He took it as me not loving him enough to marry.

So that's a bit of context.

He feels hurt and I understand that. He went online and in some thread about a girl constantly seeking male attention he mentioned how he fell in love with an ugly fat girl (me) who turned out to be a girl looking for male attention, who broke his heart. He also said that taught him again the lesson that going after a homely looking girl thinking she's a better person than a very pretty one is wrong.

He snooped around my emails before we sort of broke up due to me not agreeing to marry and found posts I had made on Craigslist in 2015 in the platonic section looking for people to speak to as just friends.
He saw I always said no meet ups, no pics, no dirty talk, no flirting. Somehow for him this still constitutes attention-seeking and now I am a fat girl looking for male attention in his eyes.
I never exchanged any pictures with anyone and haven't been in contact with anyone since then. I failed to see how I am an attention-seeking person. I'm the total opposite. He hasn't found anything bad at all.
I replied once then stopped because these people just didn't interest me.
He was talking to girls online too at the time (which I knew about and that's the only difference).

He's always had a problem with my weight and he has a weight problem too.

When I confronted him about the post he made yesterday, because I felt like garbage obviously, he said he knew I'd see that post and it was just venting and exaggerating things.

I feel so humiliated that he thinks that. I think of when we had sex and all that and feel like killing myself. I'm not kidding. How do I feel good about myself knowing I trusted him and he has always seen me as an ugly girl.

He tried to make it sound like words said in anger sort of but before we got together he had seen a pic of me from my ex and thought I looked homely and I was slim then. I must conclude that that's his real opinion. Even if he did tell me during the course of our relationship that he thinks I'm pretty and I can be good-looking if I lose the weight. I can't believe all that now anymore.

It was just my face in the pic. Nothing else. He justified that by telling me that he thought it was the classic pose of someone fat hiding that they're fat so he found it unattractive but that's not true because then I wasn't a fatty. I put on weight quite a while after that pic was taken.

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burstthebubble22 · 04/08/2017 18:19

The post was definitely him and he confirmed anyway so it's not my supposition.

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CherriesInTheSnow · 04/08/2017 18:25

Fucking disgusting pig Angry

I suppose all women are attention seeking whores to him to some extent, that's the problem. Either he is just angry and bitter and is taking it out on you (most likely), or was hoping from the outset that getting with someone that he personally didn't consider conventionally attractive in the hope that she would have low enough self esteem to put a stop to her innate whorish ways, I suppose Envy

Please get far far away from this sad pathetic twat.

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Kaytey · 04/08/2017 18:35

I feel you really need some time alone to work on your self esteem and to learn to love yourself a bit more. You're worth more than this guy and you yourself think.

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MorrisZapp · 04/08/2017 18:41

Are you still with this guy?

burstthebubble22 · 04/08/2017 19:40

I don't know. According to him he doesn't want to see me again but still talks to me online.
He wants to have a last chat on Skype before he stops talking to me completely.
To be honest he hopes through these moments of saying he wants to cut me off and then still talking to me so I'm not sure about his real intentions.

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burstthebubble22 · 04/08/2017 19:44

goes not hopes

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Isetan · 04/08/2017 19:44

Here's a gentle slap, you're a very lucky woman to have dodged this bullet. You were right not to marrry him and hopefully you're no longer (it isn't clear) with him. He was not a catch and his recent behaviour confirms it.

His hurtful words and pathetic behaviour speaks volumes about him and nothing about your worthiness. Don't let the bastard win by letting his bullshit feed your insecurities.

Well done for not marrying him, you need to listen your gut more.

Comps83 · 04/08/2017 20:37

Get in there first and cut him off. Trust me , take it from someone who knows all too well, you will regret not getting the boot in first, not keeping your self respect and letting him make a fool of you. Cut all contact now and move on with YOUR life . Please!

St01c · 04/08/2017 20:42

Oh my Goodness what an arsehole, he believes he 'settled' for you and yet he's fat and unemployed and was telling strangers on line about you and about how he settled for you. Block him, but first tell him you're blocking him because you thought that a fat unemployed man would value you more but you've learned that that's not true.

chips4teaplease · 04/08/2017 20:45

OP, read carefully and understand.

  1. He is a cunt.
  2. If he ever enters your mind at all, for whatever reason, remind yourself of 1).
  3. If you want to lose weight for yourself, for your health, do so. If not, don't. If now isn't the right time, wait. I am definitely fat. I am also old. The men who have paid me attention recently include internationally known musicians, philosophers, and poets. I don't know what it is men want (they all want sex, obviously, but why they'd want it with me is an absolute mystery) but being 'fat and ugly' is no obstacle to having a really good time.
Comps83 · 04/08/2017 20:49

Bravo chips . OP I really think you would me doing me especially and plenty of other woman a justice by kicking this one to the curb . I actually feel like begging you , PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. Cut all contact now.

PickAChew · 04/08/2017 21:18

Nothing uglier than his nasty. There would have been a lot more pain coming from that loser.

You'd be well rid of him, while he's stuck with himself forever.

PoorYorick · 04/08/2017 21:25

He hasn't always seen you as an ugly girl, he is simply trying to hurt you in the worst way he knows how. Not that it makes any difference, because either way he is a prize cuntbag and I am personally thanking God that you are not marrying him.

Fuck him and anyone unfortunate enough to look like him. Don't you dare let a worthless sack of shit like him make you worry that you're in any way not good enough. His opinion doesn't mean diddly squat. Fuck his 'last Skype' conversation, cut him off right now and go on with your life being you, the brilliant, worthwhile, important, precious you.

Don't you dare waste any headspace or self esteem on this pointless fleshwaste. Don't make me come over there.

mumoseven · 04/08/2017 21:46

Chips4teaplease, you sound absolutely fascinating!

OP tell him to do one. Seriously.

chips4teaplease · 04/08/2017 21:56

Chips4teaplease, you sound absolutely fascinating!
Dear me, no. I'm still the same short, fat, ugly grandma I was before these strange things started happening to me.

ArgyMargy · 04/08/2017 22:10

Are you American, OP? Did this guy want to marry you so that he could stay in the U.K.?

burstthebubble22 · 04/08/2017 22:33

No, I am from a country in South Europe but have been living in the UK for years.

Thanks for all the support. It was appreciated Flowers

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Gwenhwyfar · 05/08/2017 00:08

A bit off topic, but the confusion about the word 'homely' reminded me of when I told an American friend I wanted to make my place look more homely. He was confused and eventually explained that homely means ugly in the US.

LondonNicki · 05/08/2017 23:40

He's not the man for you. I think you can over analyse it to death but that's the summary. You deserve better xxx

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