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Fucking men!

422 replies

StoryOfMyFuckingLife · 09/02/2021 04:50

I am 46. I'm about a stone overweight. I'm atractive enough but no one is going to offer me a modelling contract. I'm single. I'm always fucking single or just about to make myself single again.

In the past 5 years, I've dated two men. Both for less than a year and both I dumped for crimes against respect and decency.

In the past 5 years alone, I've lost a friendship group because one of the married men in it made a really obvious play for me, was far too attentive, giddy when I was nearby and i ended up withdrawing from the group because I didn't like it and it was, quite frankly, embarrassing. I didn't fall out with anyone because I did nothing wrong but friendships dwindled once i started avoiding group stuff because of it.

I've lost another close male friend (he was married and I was close to his wife too) because, after making a pass at me when she was out of the room on one occasion and me rejecting him, he later contacted me to tell me he was in love with me Hmm which means I've lost her too.

I could have lost another friend because her husband 'developed feelings' for me - he actually told her he'd fallen in love with me Hmm. Fortunately, she is the most amazing woman ever and told me at the time that he was an idiot but she couldn't bear to lose me as a friend. We worked really hard on saving our friendship. They worked things out and it's now like that blip never happened (fortunately).

I've moved on, i've made new friends... every time it happens, i move on and make new friends. And it just happens again.

I dated someone for a few months last year (the second of the two men). I met him through friends. So we have mutual friends/acquaintances in common. Three couples mainly although the wife of one doesn't socialise much with us and has her own friends.

Of the three men... two of the three have made it known for a while that, if I were interested, they would be too. They've both declared love Hmm

The third? Well I don't know him well. He's socially awkward, quiet and a bit irascible. And then, tonight, he messaged me to say he was sorry to hear that the his friend and I had split up (4 months ago!) He's never seemed particularly interested in getting to know me or talking to me so i was surprised at his sudden friendliness...

You know where this is going...

Just pisses me off and makes me feel really sad. I know that none of these men are actually interested in me. Of these four men, one I was seeing but he never thought I was good enough for him because I'm not 28 and hot. And the other three are in relationships telling me how attractive I am and how much they fancy me.

Of all the men who have declared love to me over the past 10 years, I haven't been in a relationship with any of them and none of them have been single.

It's just fucking shit.

What is fucking wrong with them??

OP posts:
MrsVogon · 10/02/2021 13:05

[quote youvegottenminuteslynn]**@mumieone

Feminism isn't a word in the dictionary darling it's a movement that took the weight off mens shoulders and allowed them to keep more money in their pockets (now that you work and have your own) and therefore more money to spend on mistresses and taking women out to lunches for little affairs. It killed chivalry and made many women wonder 'where did romance move to'.

You realise that feminism isn't a movement with the dating process at its centre? In fact, centring men as the focus of the feminist movement is the opposite of its intention. What a way to be grateful to the women who dedicated their lives to giving you freedom and choices you wouldn't have otherwise had. Bloody feminists eh? Ruining it all for us by letting us vote, get mortgages and push for equal pay... burn the witches!

Oh and while I think you thought your 'darling' sentence showed your pithy wit it's just nonsensical. It's a word in the dictionary and a movement.

The word feminist can describe both a core belief and someone actively involved in progressing and upholding women's rights to the point of equality.

To be feminist means to believe the sexes are equal. Different, but equal. To disagree with that is to be sexist by definition.

How disappointing when someone who benefits from other people's sacrifice references it so flippantly. I can only hope that's due to ignorance rather than sheer ungratefulness.

You're still welcome to have a Stepford relationship or cherrypick whatever outdated bits of the patriarchy that you want to - the point of feminism is that women can choose individually whether to do so or not. [/quote]
@youvegottenminuteslynn I'll join you with the face palm at the response from @mumieone

"Feminism isn't a word in the dictionary?" Hmm

MerryChristmasToYou · 10/02/2021 13:42

Stater dresses give a feminine silhouette.
Try wearing something less feminine.
I'd recommend baggy dungarees but men seem to like me in them

How about some hiking type clothes in unflattering colours? Purple fleece and shapeless navy combats or something?

Originalusername2021 · 10/02/2021 13:44

309 results for skater dress 🤔

www.simplybe.co.uk/shop/s/?text=skater+dress&nofollowind=true

category12 · 10/02/2021 13:48

@MerryChristmasToYou

Stater dresses give a feminine silhouette. Try wearing something less feminine. I'd recommend baggy dungarees but men seem to like me in them

How about some hiking type clothes in unflattering colours? Purple fleece and shapeless navy combats or something?

Are you joking? Confused
StoryOfMyFuckingLife · 10/02/2021 13:49

309 results for skater dress

309 ways to be an off trend harlot! 🤣

MerryChristmasToYou

You might be onto something there. But what do I do about the boobs?? I mean, I'll still have boobs. Won't somebody think of the men!

OP posts:
MerryChristmasToYou · 10/02/2021 13:49

@category12, which bit?

StoryOfMyFuckingLife · 10/02/2021 13:50

Are you joking?

I hope it was a joke! I took it as a joke... Confused

OP posts:
category12 · 10/02/2021 13:52

The bit about wearing unflattering clothes.

Silenceisgolden20 · 10/02/2021 13:56

A lot of men like women in dunagrees.

Hmmm, have you tried a bin bag? 😂

MerryChristmasToYou · 10/02/2021 13:58

@category12, sort of.

Skater dresses tend to show an hourglass shape. Bit baggy fleece and loose combats - def not sexy Grin

greybluegreen · 10/02/2021 14:04

Hessian sack. I'm sure our twin set and pearl crowd will agree that it's suitable attire for a lady over 40. It's also something to grip for the gentleman lifting her over puddles.

category12 · 10/02/2021 14:05

@greybluegreen

Hessian sack. I'm sure our twin set and pearl crowd will agree that it's suitable attire for a lady over 40. It's also something to grip for the gentleman lifting her over puddles.
Grin
youvegottenminuteslynn · 10/02/2021 14:08

@greybluegreen

Hessian sack. I'm sure our twin set and pearl crowd will agree that it's suitable attire for a lady over 40. It's also something to grip for the gentleman lifting her over puddles.
GrinGrinGrin

He'd better not drop her though because god forbid the sack should cling to her body when she gets wet from said puddle, he won't be able to control himself because men can't possibly take responsibility for their own actions. Burn the witches, bloody women. Temptresses, the lot of us!

Originalusername2021 · 10/02/2021 14:08

Ooo I’m 40 this year - best get ordering my Hessian sacks - can you tumble dry those?

Meripenopause · 10/02/2021 14:09

Tbh, I think the last guy I dated really just wanted a 'trophy girlfriend'.
On balance, better to be a fuck buddy than a trophy wife. At least you are free.
If there was a way to eliminate men on both those extremes, dating would be much better (although a considerably smaller pool) Grin

greybluegreen · 10/02/2021 14:13

He'd better not drop her though because god forbid the sack should cling to her body when she gets wet from said puddle

A lady wears two sacks in case of such occasions - don't you know. A man won't be able to contain himself if he catches a glimpse of a lady wearing only one and don't even start on cinching it at the waist!

greybluegreen · 10/02/2021 14:17

@Originalusername2021

Ooo I’m 40 this year - best get ordering my Hessian sacks - can you tumble dry those?
A single lady doesn't tumble dry one's sacks. One is single and needs to be reminded of one's spinsterhood at all times with scratchy, uncomfortable hessian.
Originalusername2021 · 10/02/2021 14:22

@greybluegreen 😂😂 ah it’s only single ladies - as I’m partnered up am I ok to carry on wearing my skater dresses?

greybluegreen · 10/02/2021 14:23

[quote Originalusername2021]@greybluegreen 😂😂 ah it’s only single ladies - as I’m partnered up am I ok to carry on wearing my skater dresses?[/quote]
Of course! One may wear anything under one's hessian.

StoryOfMyFuckingLife · 10/02/2021 14:28

🤣🤣🤣

Tbh, the one thing Monday Messager did get right was that the guy I was seeing is too wrapped up in himself (and his trophy girlfriend aspirations) to have realised how lucky he was to have me and made a big mistake in letting me go 😉

If only he'd left it there... 🙄

OP posts:
MrsWindass · 10/02/2021 16:01

@AndIquote

Can I have £1 for every time skater dress is mentioned ? I get this a bit OP I do a bit of what is classed as a traditional mans trade. I am happily married. I live in paint spattered work clothes, a tom boy (if that term is still allowed). Enjoy beer, camping & walking etc. Fancy a new friend OP? My husband is a loyal hound type.
I think I need a tequila shot for every time a skater dress is mentioned .

@StoryOfMyFuckingLife have you thought about pretending /identifying /wtf as a lesbian to avoid troubling the men of the world so much ? Expect though they would think you just needed a good seeing to ?

I've never read so much crap in all my life . I am attractive and am shapely and I can see that other men look at me with a glint in their eye but I have never been approached in an improper manner but then I don't wear a skating dress ....

MerryChristmasToYou · 10/02/2021 16:12

I'm thinking of nipping to the shop. Am i safe to go in anorak and jeans or should I slip into my skater dress?

GeordieGreigsButtButtZoom · 10/02/2021 16:30

I've never read so much crap in all my life

Are you saying OP is lying about her experiences?

greybluegreen · 10/02/2021 16:36

@MerryChristmasToYou

I'm thinking of nipping to the shop. Am i safe to go in anorak and jeans or should I slip into my skater dress?
Well, jeans show your legs so you're risking a married man chasing you around Asda in a Benny Hill Esq manner. Be it on your own head and don't say you weren't warned.
Annabellerina · 10/02/2021 16:48

I've only read the first and last pages, can see things have moved on! But just thought I'd say that it's not just you OP. I get this too - and my theory is that married (bored) men see my happily single lifestyle and freedom and want a bit of that and try to hitch a lift, so to speak. I won't change my friendship group because I love my female friends and I'm at an age where almost everyone is married or heading that way. I won't change anything about myself at all. But it does mean I barely speak to or make eye contact with the men cos I can't be arsed with it all, and it's mainly the women I want as friends anyway. I'm civil and polite to the men and that's it. It comes across as cold but it's better than the alternative. And really...the men aren't as fun as they think they are anyway 😄

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