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DP has really upset me (sex)

206 replies

Owleyes16 · 14/03/2020 17:37

NC for this because I'm kind of embarrassed and confused.

Some background: I'm 24 and DP is 30, we've been together for 5 years, lived together for 3, and he's the only person I've ever been with, my first everything. We're generally great, best friends, love each other more all the time, never had any major issues. Sex life is normally great.

We've been TTC 6 months now so this has started to take its toll on me mentally, the last 2 weeks I've been very anxious and upset but I have improved over the last few days and looking forward to trying again. However because of how I have been feeling, and life getting in the way, we haven't had sex for 3 weeks.

Today was going to be the day we got back to it, I started running my bath and we were kind of playing around, and kissing, cuddling, etc. I told him I wanted to wait until after my bath to have sex because I didn't feel clean. Bath finished, I get naked ready to get in and we get a bit carried away, he especially is very excited. Anyway, we end up start having sex and he says "oh you really do smell" and I remind him I did say I wanted my bath first. Annoying, but continue, he didn't say it in a nasty way just matter of fact, and to be fair I did. Then he said a few times about how "wide" and "loose" I am and kept commenting on that and how wet I was. I got really self conscious and stopped, I didn't really know what he meant by that but I just felt awful, it's not a nice thing to say, and I told him that, he apologies, I get in the bath.

Then some time later he comes in with a face on him and tells me that he's sorry for upsetting me, but I have to understand that "as a guy, when you're wide it makes me think that you haven't been faithful". You don't have to tell me how gross that is, in so many ways. I told him how upset I was and how stupid he is, he apologises more, and we've barely spoke since.

He came in the front room a while ago to ask me what was wrong, and upon finding I'm clearly still upset, he said that he can't say sorry anymore than he has and he can't cope with the tension, etc. And I just said yes I know you can't do anything about it now, but it doesn't mean I can't still be upset, that I feel disrespected and insulted. He stormed back off to the bedroom and I haven't heard him since.

I really don't know what to do about this. I don't know how to feel. This is the first time in our relationship I've felt like this, just like he doesn't respect me and won't take responsibility for what he's said, sorry just doesn't feel good enough. I know he's going to try to pretend as though nothing has happened soon, come in and cuddle me and I'll have to forget about it and get on with it, but I don't know if I can let it go. He's accused me of cheating on him, has shown his ignorance re female anatomy, has insulted my biology, made me feel self conscious, etc.

Am I overreacting? How can we move forward from this? Sorry this was so long, I didn't want to drip feed.

OP posts:
FreshFancyFrogglette · 14/03/2020 20:06

My ex used to say that to me, and he was abusive in other ways, eventually violently so. Massive red flag. Please listen to other posters and walk.

Shinycat · 14/03/2020 20:06

@Owleyes16 WOW I don't often say this, but Leave The Bastard. What an absolute tool. Horrible way to treat you. Sad

How is he going to behave when you have a baby, and your bits down there change, and possibly aren't quite a snug and 'tight' as they were before? Not necessarily but a possibility yes!

Please do not have a baby with this man. You deserve better. You poor love. Flowers

I seriously am sooooooo shocked. And upset. And FUMING for you. Nasty gaslighting, negging git.

Listen to all the advice on here. Dump him!

Treacletoots · 14/03/2020 20:06

Oh OP. You've actually been incredibly lucky.

He's shown you who he is before you're pregnant, before you need his support and will be tied to him for the rest of your life.

It's hard to take in right now, but take this opportunity to consider a life without him, where you have a partner who doesn't make derogatory comments about your vagina. Change doesn't happen over night but please read up on abusive relationships. They all started somewhere, often similar to this. I met my DH aged 35, after a string of similar men to the one you describe and if I had my time again I would have left the minute they showed their true nature. Leopards don't change their spots. Neither do abusive arseholes. I'm also convinced he's cheating on you, or at best thinking of it. He's projecting, that's clear.

ShellsAndSunrises · 14/03/2020 20:09

I'm really struggling here because I genuinely can't express how much I love him.

I’m sorry about that... genuinely. But he doesn’t sound like he loves you. He’s your first everything and he’s accusing you of cheating. He makes weird power moves. He was offensive and mean, and has sulked about it... he’s putting you in your place.

Maybe this is a one-off, but it’s a clusterfuck of mistakes that he’d be falling over himself to fix if it was... his behaviour suggests that he’s not.

probablysue · 14/03/2020 20:13

He’s gross!

UYScuti · 14/03/2020 20:15

To put it bluntly - he has more life experience than you and knows exactly how to manipulate you...and he doesn't care that he's doing it to you
oh how I WISH how I fervently WISH I'd had mn when I was a young woman, it's too late for me, but you younger women, you must live your lives, fill your boots and dont take any shit!

geordiema77 · 14/03/2020 20:15

Think about a man your own age, maybe a year older (25). Now think about why a man that age would want to date a naive teenager at 19 who may not have had a boyfriend and is also a virgin.
Does that sound like an equal relationship to you or one with a power imbalance?
Because that was your boyfriend when you first started out OP. Spend some time thinking about why he wasn't with women his own age and why he may have targeted you instead.

And stop having sex with a man who thinks you being wet is a sign you've been cheating. That is an utterly abhorrent thing to say to another human being.

IdblowJonSnow · 14/03/2020 20:16

Yuck.
LTB. Please.
What a pig. OP there is no coming back from this.

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 14/03/2020 20:17

He's quite thick OP. And abusive. A thicko who doesn't apparently realise quite how thick he is. All of these are reasons to leave him.

Shinycat · 14/03/2020 20:17

He does sound ignorant, immature, and very ill-informed. To think a woman's vagina would 'widen' after shagging another man. FFS.

This reminds me of an eejit I dated when I was 17 (and he was 19,) who assumed women got turned on by sticking a tampon in. Hmm

Yeah coz something the size of my little finger is SUCH a turn on. [him]

PumpkinPiloter · 14/03/2020 20:18

If ever there was a red flag this is it. What a ridiculous thing to say.

Chinks123 · 14/03/2020 20:19

I don’t even know what to say...
I think if my dp said that I would honestly walk away because I wouldn’t want sex with him again, he sounds disgusting and my feelings would be really hurt.
I’m yet to meet a man who can make a vagina go ‘wife’ from sex. My latest 10lb baby had a bit of an effect on my pelvic floor, and dp swears he can’t tell a difference. (I think he’s lying)
He’s an arsehole get rid Smile Oh and everyone smells sometimes, you did warn him!

CalleighDoodle · 14/03/2020 20:20

Stop trying to have a baby and fuck him off

Chinks123 · 14/03/2020 20:20

*Obviously meant wide.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 14/03/2020 20:21

Start using contraception again NOW.

Make a plan to leave him,you deserve so much better.

Be relieved he said this before you got pregnant so you know what a thoroughly unpleasant person he is and can leave him.

Shinycat · 14/03/2020 20:21

@Owleyes16

I'm really struggling here because I genuinely can't express how much I love him.

@ShellsAndSunrises

I’m sorry about that... genuinely. But he doesn’t sound like he loves you. He’s your first everything and he’s accusing you of cheating. He makes weird power moves. He was offensive and mean, and has sulked about it... he’s putting you in your place.

Maybe this is a one-off, but it’s a clusterfuck of mistakes that he’d be falling over himself to fix if it was... his behaviour suggests that he’s not.

What shells said. ^

Sorry OP, but WHY do you love this person??? (I cannot call him a man!)

He clearly treats you like shit. And I am sorry to sound condescending, but I think because you are so young, you are really naive and easily led, and being controlled by him. Because there is no way ANY woman should love a man who treats her like this.

DON'T have a baby with him. PLEASE. Sad

SewItGoes · 14/03/2020 20:22

Sorry, but I don't think you should keep trying for a baby with this man, without pausing for some serious reflection. There's something wrong with a man who would speak to his partner in such a disgusting, disrespectful way and then be incapable of understanding how bad it was and that he can't just sweep it under the rug.

I'd expect abject grovelling after something like that. And he wouldn't be getting near me in bed again for a very long time, if ever.

He's shown himself to be cruel, immature, and ill-informed. He needs to filter his bizarre thoughts, at the very least. Whether or not you stay with him, at least give it more time and thought before you bring a child into this relationship. It doesn't sound like he's up to the challenge, to tell the truth.

NoMoreDickheads · 14/03/2020 20:32

Thinking it ok to slag off my body in any way is one of the things I've sworn I'll never accept from a lover again.

glowingtwig · 14/03/2020 20:33

What @Aquamarine1029 said.
You will not find lasting happiness with this man.

Shallow07 · 14/03/2020 20:40

Please leave him and start living your life for you, OP. Don't get pregnant just because he wants to. Go and live and do whatever you want to do. If you don't know because he hasn't let you figure that out, get some counselling so you can ❤️

Windyatthebeach · 14/03/2020 20:48

Having a baby won't change him for the better op..
It won't make him happy.
Having a baby puts a massive strain on the best of relationships and the biggest game changer to a sex life ever..
Maybe you love the idea of a man and a baby but seriously he isn't the man of your dreams...
Confide in a friend or relative irl and make plans to leave.

MsDogLady · 14/03/2020 20:55

He felt entitled to treat you with cruelty and contempt. Whatever his sick game is, he has intentionally created much emotional distance between you. I wouldn’t stick around for more of his abuse.

shrumps · 14/03/2020 20:55

Adding to the chorus of LTBs. He honestly sounds like a terrible future partner/dad. End It and find a good one. He isn't it.

mnthrowaway202020 · 14/03/2020 21:00

Ew, he’s too old for you - you were 19 and he was 25? I’m a bit younger than you and I wouldn’t necessarily date a man 6 years older than me as we’d be in completely different life stages. I’d be wondering why he couldn’t find a successful woman his own age.

His comments are immature and rude. I’d be wondering if he had been cheating with those comments. He was definitely trying to hurt your feelings, right from the start.

ErickBroch · 14/03/2020 21:08

Do you think he would get over it if you said his dick was so small? Thought not.

I personally would not get over this if my DP said it to me. It is disgusting and intentionally cruel. He is also accusing you of cheating. I would not get over that.

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