Partner just told me my own story??

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Bit of a weird, not serious thread but I'm feeling a bit odd about this. About a week ago I told my partner a funny story about my brother taking his work colleges contraceptive pill by accident thinking it was a hayfever tablet (that she said he could take)
Tonight my partner turns to me and says "Hey here's a funny story from when I was a kid Tells me the exact same story but says it was one of his mums pills then adds "I was so sick the next day" I just told him it wouldn't make him ill and he huffed and said he must have got ill at the same time. Afterwards he was googling what happens if the man takes the pill.

I know there are bigger things that a partner could lie about but why would you bother making it up? And how did he not realise it was my own story hes telling me. I'm just a bit about the whole thing.
Thanks for listening

I would’ve asked why he didn’t tell me ‘his story’ the other day when I told him about the exact same thing happening to a colleague!

How long have you been together, has he done it or similar before ?

That is really really odd. Has he done anything remotely similar before? How old are you both?

Hmmm, could just be he wanted to amuse you and thought he remembered a story. Obviously he didn't remember it was you who told him in the first place.

On a more sinister note, my ex used to do this but i'm sure he was deliberately trying to get some sort of reaction against me.

SO - could be harmless, could be sinister.

What else does he do?

Very weird! I would have had to pull him up on that.

Why did he not say "Oh similar happened me..." when you told him yours...

Why did you not remind him you'd only told him that story?

I dont know why I didn't ask or say something tbh! He has done similar before but stuff that could be explained as a mix up not an outright lie. Been together a year

Ask him now. Ask him is that story true because you told him the exact same story last week. Be interested to see what he says.

Weird. I’d ask it why he lied?

As an isolated incident is it a huge deal. He thought it was a funny story and has been retelling it which always works better if you personalise it. I'm guessing he just forgot it was you who told him it.

He's jealous of you.

I honestly did something similar when I described a big Indian wedding that I had not actually attended but got confused with one I had been at. The story was so similar I thought I had been there until I said the brides name.

Next time this behaviour occurs call him out on it

I've had this. I told a friend a funny story involving my pet and a while later she retold the exact same story to our entire group of friends as if it had happened to her. I said 'that was me actually' and we all had good fun taking the piss out of her for a while but she took it all quite well. Sometimes people bend the truth to entertain others.

Well I asked and he said "oh I must have not thought of it at the time"
I guessing he's embarrassed because the chances of the exact same thing happening word for word seems unlikely.

I sometimes do similar things. I have a very strange memory and can honestly remember events in the past that didn't happen, I just muddle them up with something different or occasionally with something someone else did. It is quite unsettling when I realise. I think I'd rather be told if I've done it, though kindly as it's embarrassing.

TBH I would leave it, it was either innocent or a bit creepy. If the latter I'm not sure he would react well. Best to monitor for future similar things and try to point it out straight away.

Im always showing or telling dh something and he says oh have you heard such and such. I showed him vid of Borris waffling about making busses the other night. Last night he says oh have you heard about this. Pisses me off because he clearly wasn't listening

It’s weird but the memory can do strange things

It’s skipped a current in the brain and ended up in memories rather than things I’ve been told

I don’t think it’s anything to worry about and if it keeps happening I would urge him to go to GP for referral

It is not a great character attribute but i think he must feel pressure to be more interesting.

My dh does stuff like this sometimes. He just had a crap memory.

He remembered the story in isolation, not where it came from. He might have known it hadn't happened to him but didn't know who it had come from, so making himself the lead character was just the simplest way to tell it.

Maybe it's true ?? My OH once took my mum's HRT thinking they were painkillers.......it isn't that unusual.

I would think its a red flag, paired with the fact he's been weird about other stuff too

Me and my husband do this to each other a lot. Context is we've been together 13 years and worked together for 7 - we'll reminisce about our old office and one of us will often say "I thought that happened to me"

It's a bit weird that he did this after a week but I wouldn't think anything of it. I would be interested to know if that really happened to your brother - this is how urban myths spread.

My friend once told me about her dad being fooled by her grandmother into eating carrots during the war by slicing them into batons and calling them aubergines. My reply was, that was my dad and they were artichokes! She wasn’t lying as such, just forgotten who had told her the story.

There's something a bit creepy about this. Why lie about something trivial like that? It seems he has "issues". I would definitely be watching out for more weird behaviour and then it might be adios amigo.