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Is this a huge thing...or am I being silly?

118 replies

ThunderInMyHeart · 09/09/2018 10:56

I appreciate my issue is tiny in comparison to other threads on this board, but it's been niggling me.

Last night I (31) was out with my boyfriend (30, dating a year, live together) and his friends for a friend's birthday celebration. Not a huge fan of this friendship group - they regularly go away for long weekends just to do drugs... BF has not been on the last few weekends (that have occurred whilst dating me) as he 'doesn't want to do drugs any more'. I hide the disdain for their lifestyles from the group. BF full well knows my thoughts.

BF has said for the last few months that he's going to look for a new job (we both are due to mortgage/house-buying reasons). I committed to the same thing and have been/am going through 4 different interviews processes; he, none. His CV hasn't even gone out. For context, I am already pulling double weight financially in that my salary is twice his.

He's childish when drunk i.e. says random unrelated sentences interrupting the other person talking. I feel like I have to paper/gloss over his bizarre interjections. Babysit him. It's embarrassing, but not that much of a biggie. But last night, him and the friends are jokingly flipping the bird at each other, just being fucking teenage. I’m just grinning and wishing I could go home…I’d had to go into the office that afternoon to work and on-top of the month of interviews I’ve been doing (with the aim of: buy house, get great mat package…being a grown-up), I just thought, ‘FFS. When is he going to grow up? He says he wants kids with me, buy a house etc, but, jesus. It feels like I’m the only one putting pen to paper…and he enjoys these shit-tastic nights out with these people’

Anyway, I’m chatting to one of his friends and enjoying the conversation, then I see my boyfriend at the bar talking to one of the girls in the group. He’s known her for maybe 4-5 years, but last saw her a year ago. They’re not best friends or even great friends. I see him wrap his arms around her waist, her arms over his shoulders, he’s lifting her up and bear-hugging. Her feet are dangling in the air and it’s full-body contact with her head in his neck. I was fuming, but had to restrain for the sake of not upsetting the party. When he came over to me, I said ‘that’s not cool what you did’…his reply: ‘oh you’re being ridiculous. She has a boyfriend’…as if her having a boyfriend makes a difference. What then pissed me off further was that he apologised to me, but then called me ridiculous for feeling how I did…so, in essence, a non-apology. He admitted that had a guy done that to me, he wouldn’t have liked it at all. In my book, that kind of a hug is 100% not appropriate.

I left the party about 15 minutes later. And part of me did think 'what else does he do when drunk? What else haven't I seen?' - as I said, he's immature when drunk...easily led. He is the classic example of a Bilbo Baggins 'I'm going on an adventure!' when he's drunk.

So, and I’m sorry this is so garbled, my questions are: i) would that hug have pissed you off? And ii) would you be concerned about his, in my eyes, immature lifestyle?

Other thoughts/answers obviously welcomed! Thank you.

OP posts:
Onedayy · 09/09/2018 12:13

It sounds as if he is about ten years behind you.

User878929333 · 09/09/2018 12:14

Does he only do the random interjections with the ‘druggy’ friends? Because if so, to me, it sounds very much like someone has bunged him a snort of something on the quiet. It does not sound like textbook drunk behaviour. No one can be 100% sure of what another adult does unless they are literally never out of your sight. I assume he goes to the loo without you on these nights out?

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 09/09/2018 12:16

OP, I fear he may never grow up ..... move on.🌸

sprinklesandsauce · 09/09/2018 12:18

OP, I rarely say LTB, but sadly it is clear from the first part of your post that you are not compatible. You want to buy a house and settle down and he doesn't. You are thinking about the future, he just wants to party now.

That is fine, he can do that, but he needs to be honest with you that he doesn't want the same future that you want.

LurkingWaspi · 09/09/2018 12:18

He is 30.
Even putting money and "hugs" aside, he still comes across as a childish eejit and a waste of space. It's a no from me.

Juells · 09/09/2018 12:18

This will not end well for you. Having had one bad experience I'd have thought you'd be doubly careful about getting involved with another person who's a bit carefree...

MrsExpo · 09/09/2018 12:21

I'll add my voice to the "dump him" pile .... OP, you can do better than this immature idiot. Dump and do it now. Keep looking for your dream job ... and a grown up partner to share your life with.

The hug thing wouldn't have bothered me too much under the circumstances. The rest is just one huge red flag.

pictish · 09/09/2018 12:26

You’re simply not suited. You have different values, aspirations, preferences, morals, boundaries and preferences for pastimes and company.
Neither of you are right or wrong, you’re just reading from different pages. He won’t become what you want him to and it will cause endless rows as you try to make him toe the line while he resists it.

If you want a sensible bloke with savings, a tangible ability to get a mortgage and whose friends you approve of, go and find one. This guy isn’t that guy...and neither does he have to be.

Onemansoapopera · 09/09/2018 12:27

You can both do better.

BitOutOfPractice · 09/09/2018 12:27

You met and moved on quickly. Now you are finding out what he’s really like.

(I wish I had a pound for every time I’ve typed that on MN Confused)

He’s not long term settle down material. Hold on very very tight to that £40k

pictish · 09/09/2018 12:27

“You can both do better.”

That’s it, in a nutshell.

Washedwithrain · 09/09/2018 12:30

Not a huge fan of this friendship group - they regularly go away for long weekends just to do drugs

That would be enough for me, never mind the rest of his nonsense.

sleepyhead · 09/09/2018 12:31

Do you have a time line all planned out by any chance? Because it doesn't sound like this is the right person for you but you're trying to justify staying because it will fit in with your job > house > marriage > baby plan.

It's fine to have a plan but it's not fine to try to mold someone that you don't think is good enough to fit that plan.

It doesn't sound like he wants what you want at the moment. He might want it later on but you'd be a fool to wait, and a fool to bank on him changing.

I think it's time to move on tbh.

SleepFreeZone · 09/09/2018 12:32

I can see your future with this man OP, abd it’s not pretty. Once you have children you are either going to have to let him care for them while you go back to work, let someone else care for them while you go back to work. Or hope and pray that he has a personality and maturity transplant abd somehow can double his salary whilst not pissing it up thecwall every weekend.

thethoughtfox · 09/09/2018 12:32

You don't want to be with him, this is clear so leave. But YABVU to say that you are 'pulling double weight' because you earn more money than him.

Happityhap · 09/09/2018 12:36

It's more that I'm obviously the one who is getting us the deposit (I have 40k in savings, he nothing).

Buy a house in your own name, if you want to buy one, and make sure he continues to split the bills equally.

If you have a child, is he going to be the main carer? If not, you will be looking after 2 children then.

viques · 09/09/2018 12:37

You have 40k in savings? And he has none. So if you bought somewhere together not only would you be paying a larger chunk of the mortgage than he would, but you would have sunk all your savings into the equity of the house as a deposit. You do realise that if you are not very careful you could end up losing half your savings if you get the wrong sort of agreement about who owns what and end up with a 50/50 split.

Save yourself future pain. Dump him now.

brizzledrizzle · 09/09/2018 12:40

I can't see any good reason for you to plan a future with this man.

Jaxhog · 09/09/2018 12:45

By all means dally with this child-man for a bit longer, but please, please don't buy a house with him or have a child with him. He isn't a long term prospect.

SheSellSeaShells · 09/09/2018 12:47

Buy the house on your own or you'll get shafted by him using your savings to get on the property ladder. You're not compatible, and he'll end being a cocklodger and you'll resent him. I think you know this, you just needed mn to confirm it. Are you sure he's not still doing drugs, might explain why he has no savings...

Italiangreyhound · 09/09/2018 12:48

ThunderInMyHeart the hug would not have bothered me. But the fact the hug would have bothered him, in reverse, yet he still did it, suggested he has double standards.

I say just stay with him if you do not mind always being the grown up, using your 40K to help buy a house he will live in and not perhaps contribute to, if you fancy always being the bad guy keeping away from his drug taking mates....

Or take your 31 year old self off, make some new mates, find a man who actually wants what you want, and buy a house follow your dream.

LemonysSnicket · 09/09/2018 12:49

I) no the hug wouldn't have pissed me off but I'd leave him because you clearly look down on him and his friends and so maybe aren't suited

ashtrayheart · 09/09/2018 12:49

The hug would have bothered me less than the other stuff you mention.

Happityhap · 09/09/2018 12:52

I don't get the objections here to a 50:50 split of bills. Isn't that just being a grown-up?
Different if one partner earns less because of childcare, or one partner has taken on more expensive outgoings off their own bat.

HeebieJeebies456 · 09/09/2018 12:55

he's immature wh fact that he hasn't even sorted out his CV let alone en drunk...easily led.

he's immature when sober too - just able to hide it better.
Alcohol just bypasses the masks and filters he uses.
The fact that he hasn't even sorted out his CV let alone applied for jobs despite 'wanting' the same future says it all.
He's a man-child and you will always be responsible for the mental load as well as having to 'parent' him.

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