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I don’t find this funny. Am I being uptight?

145 replies

Seasideshells · 29/11/2019 17:22

I don’t like the way dh speaks to me - supposedly in a joking way - some of the time and relating to sex.
So for example he says things like ‘get your knickers off, I want to knock the back out of you.’
And variations on ‘if you walk around looking like that you’ll get it whether you want it or not,’ if I’m walking around in my short pyjamas for example. I don’t like it. I feel generally overall he doesn’t have a great attitude to women - calls them ‘splitarses’ and this is kind of symptomatic of it. I’ve told him I don’t like it but apparently I’m being uptight?

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Ferretyone · 29/11/2019 17:39

I think that this is one of those occasions when you need to have a very solemn and detailed talk about this. You need to choose the time and place very carefully and make it quite quite clear that this is not acceptable to you [nor to anyone in this day and age].

If he just laughs it off then I don't know the next step ...

dontalltalkatonce · 29/11/2019 17:39

Sounds like another dickhead who's got into violent and rape porn.

madcatladyforever · 29/11/2019 17:39

He is disgusting. I would never tolerate this.

Wildorchidz · 29/11/2019 17:40

Sorry
Missed the bit where you said you have children.
What’s your housing and financial set up?

HaileySherman · 29/11/2019 17:41

Oh god, ick! You're not uptight, he's a neanderthal. Do you have daughters? If so I think that could be a dealbreaker for me.

Meandyouandyouandme · 29/11/2019 17:42

I could have written this, exactly what my H says to me! Word for word, and I get told I’m boring, or can’t take a joke. You have my sympathies, and you are not uptight.

Hydrogenbeatsoxygen · 29/11/2019 17:42

You deserve much better than this @Seasideshells.

Start getting your ducks in a row, life is too short to stay with this godawful man. Flowers

FavouriteSoul · 29/11/2019 17:42

You mustn't let this go, it's really nasty. It would be a dealbreaker for me. Tell him to stop talking about you and other women with such disrespect.

category12 · 29/11/2019 17:43

If you're only staying because you don't know how to get out, maybe we can help signpost you?

First step would seem to be to get legal advice about your position on the quiet.

TowelNumber42 · 29/11/2019 17:43

Agree with him. "Yes I am uptight. Stop it."

Goldenchildsmum · 29/11/2019 17:43

He is a gross, disgusting cunt. 🤮

Yetanotherwinter · 29/11/2019 17:45

Has he suddenly started talking like this or was he like this when you married him. If you’ve married a man like this you’ve left it way too late to be pulling him up on it. If he’s just started this misogynistic talk then I would be asking why he’s changed. He’s talking like some kind of sex pest rapist.

Christmaspug · 29/11/2019 17:47

I couldn’t be with someone like that .
Porn I expect

plumpkinz · 29/11/2019 17:47

You wouldn't want your daughter's boyfriend to talk to her like that and likewise if you have a son you'd be horrified if he talked to his girlfriend that way.
We often don't see it when it's from our perspective so look at it from someone else's to get some clarity.

Butterflyflower1234 · 29/11/2019 17:47

You need to put him in his place or leave. Stand up for yourself and explain you won't tolerate anymore the way he's speaking to you or about women in general. And say if he doesn't like it then he knows where the door is.

IWorkAtTheCheesecakeFactory · 29/11/2019 17:48

if you walk around looking like that you’ll get it whether you want it or not,’

“What does that mean DH? Are you saying you will rape me?”

Ask him directly with a straight face. Make him explain the comment. Of course he’s such a banterlord he’ll refuse to answer and say “ffs it was just a joke- chill frosty knickers” but keep doing it. Every time. That’s if you can bear to stay married to someone so disgusting.

CharlotteCollinsneeLucas · 29/11/2019 17:48

He is a gross, disgusting cunt

Nah, he's nothing like. He's got neither depth nor warmth.

Ninkanink · 29/11/2019 17:48

Wtaf?

That is just not acceptable, on any level.

You need to get yourself and your children away from this man.

PigOnStilts · 29/11/2019 17:49

He sounds revolting

IWorkAtTheCheesecakeFactory · 29/11/2019 17:49

It’s mostly said when driving - as in - oh typical, it’s a fucking split arse.

Your kids are hearing this OP. Are you happy with that? That they’ll be repeating this before long?

CharlotteCollinsneeLucas · 29/11/2019 17:49

you’ve left it way too late to be pulling him up

Not true. You can decide at any stage that you're no longer prepared to live with this.

Beamur · 29/11/2019 17:52

Vile.
Disrespectful.
Even if he stopped saying it, you now know he'd be thinking it.
You must feel very disappointed if he wasn't like this before.
I couldn't stay with someone who spoke to me like that.

WineGummyBear · 29/11/2019 17:54

I'm so sorry you are being spoken to that way. Sounds really scary/upsetting. You are not being uptight!

Flowers
AlexaAmbidextra · 29/11/2019 17:56

You need to tell him that until he stops being a disrespectful misogynist any sort of sex life will be strictly off the agenda as his attitude revolts you. And mean it. I don’t know how you’d let a Neanderthal like this anywhere near you tbh.

StoneColdSaidSo · 29/11/2019 17:58

Agree with others, he’s into porn way too much. This is very unhealthy and not someone I would want around my children. I hope he doesn’t say anything like that in front of them.