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Is my boyfriend right? Should I change how I dress?

213 replies

galaxymilkshake · 02/07/2022 08:49

Just feeling a bit upset but wondering if my boyfriend is in the right.

So anyway, I dress very casual, very creative. I'm not a girly girl by any means. My friends say I need to put more effort into the way I dress and my cousin joked around and said I dress like a Grandma 😑.

Apart from my dress sense. I just don't have much money to buy new clothes.

Anyway, I feel like my boyfriend was a bit of a sick today. So yesterday, myself and my bf went to the cinema very late. Unfortunately, we just missed the start show time and the Cinema staff refused to let us in. Due to that, we went to a restaurant instead and booked ourselves into a hotel as it was very late.

Myself and my boyfriend don't see each other that often. He is very keen but I am going though so many family stuff- so at present we see each other once every four weeks. So at the hotel, we were having sex and then I surprisingly came on my period and was having cramps. My bf because upset saying that "You are always on your period, this always happens, I hardly see you, you know what Galaxy I'm just going to go, can you book a cab please, I bet this didn't happen when you were fucking your lesbian friends (we had broken up for two years and I had one sexual encounter- he did not)". He then calmed down and said ok let's do it but I said no that I'm feeling unwell and he processed to give me water and rub my back.

Anyway, in the morning, he was practically insulting my dress sense... he said "What happened to you, you don't colour coordinate your clothes correctly, you look like a grandma like your cousin said, your friends are not telling you the truth, maybe that's why the cinema people didn't let us in because of the way you presented yourself, just look at you? Even those other girls were looking at you, what happened to that other stuff you were wearing before- that was very nice. If you dress like that again when your with me then I'm just going to go home, you have lost a lot of weight, your clothes just hang off you, please wear those clothes like last time next time".

I'm not being funny, but he doesn't dress all that decent himself. I comment that "oh your wearing that again" but I take him as he is and I don't comment any further because that doesn't matter to me.

He also did something else which I don't feel like sharing on here..But because of what my friends say and cousin, and now my bf should I change what I wear and start to dress more you know... make more of an effort? I have let myself go...

OP posts:
diddl · 02/07/2022 12:24

Dump the bfriend.

Change your style of dress in you want to.

Do you dress like HBC at all?

CallOnMe · 02/07/2022 12:26

End this relationship now!

You don’t see each other often anyway and when you do he’s rude and abusive.

He doesn’t like you OP - he literally couldn’t make that any clearer.

You sound quite vulnerable.
Do you have any SEND or MH issues?

Do you live with your parents?
It sounds as though your family and friends aren’t much better so you don’t really know how to be treated with respect.

Please listen to the advice on this thread.
You don’t need anyone who is negative in your life.

CoastalWave · 02/07/2022 12:26

He's not your boyfriend.

Stop contacting him. He's a wanker.

WITL · 02/07/2022 12:31

PinkButtercups · 02/07/2022 08:56

You broke up for 2 years and it should've stayed permanently. He's a dick and trying to belittle you and put you down all because he couldn't get his Willy wet, c**t.

This

ILoveAllRainbowsx · 02/07/2022 12:31

Please do not have kids with this man. Once you are trapped he will be even worse than he is now.

Please leave him as soon as you can. It is better to be single than put up with an abusive partner.

Entwifery · 02/07/2022 12:34

This relationship sounds like a nightmare. How on earth are you feeling stuck in this shit relationship when you only see him once every four weeks? Just block him and be done with it, you barely have any attachments so it should be easy to make a clean break.

Toddlerteaplease · 02/07/2022 12:36

He sounds awful. Dump him.

AlisonDonut · 02/07/2022 12:39

This is the least stuck relationship I've seen on here. You don't even see each other that often. If you feel stuck then something else is going on, what is it?

JAPANLOVER · 02/07/2022 12:39

Dump him, you deserve much better x

SistersRdoingit4themselves · 02/07/2022 12:39

I didnt read all of this i just saw the title and i knew my advice for you.
No.
Never change how you dress, think, feel, speak, behave for anyone. Be who you are. NEVER NEVER change.
The only thing you need to do is kick that guy to the kerb.
Someone will love you....just the way you are.

Lingoflaming · 02/07/2022 12:43

You need better taste in men, not clothes. Bin the abusive bastard.

Shakirasma · 02/07/2022 12:44

Change nothing, except your relationship status to single. You will be so much happier.

GenItalienSchauen · 02/07/2022 12:46

My boyfriend has anger problems

This alone is reason enough to bin him.

Inthesameboatatmo · 02/07/2022 12:50

I'm so angry on your behalf op. Bin this neanderthal ffs. Be who you want . But get rid of him.

howdoesatoastermaketoast · 02/07/2022 12:50

life's waay too short!!! Dump him asap. what a total ass.

BellePeppa · 02/07/2022 12:50

Change your bf not your clothes! You do yourself a disservice staying with him.

Littlepaws18 · 02/07/2022 12:52

It he's not saying he likes you just the way you are then he doesn't really like you- he likes an ideal of you in his head.

I recently went up two dress sizes, tried to let my hair go natural (it wasn't a great look tbh) and my partner told me that he loves me no matter what I look like and if I want to change it's entirely up to me (I was mentioning how crap I looked).

On the other hand a woman sat on a bench outside Tesco said to her boyf 'look at that woman what the hell is she wearing, wouldn't be caught dead'. I was wearing a sea salt black jersey dress with a green leaf pattern on.

The first story has gave me the confidence to change for me, the second made me feel like crap. Your boyf is doing the latter.

Bikeybikeface · 02/07/2022 12:58

This is not a healthy relationship OP. Do you like the way you dress? If it, maybe you are subconsciously dressing this way a) as you are depressed b) to push him away or c) because he’s not worth the effort.
If you are happy with the way you dress then the only thing you should change is your partner.

mam0918 · 02/07/2022 13:03

Grandma style (3/4 legth pleated skirts and blouses & floral 'curtain' style dress with cardigans etc... even pastle purple rinses) was very in about 5-10 years ago due to the hipster movement... hardly wildly outdated unless your wearing a head scarf, 5 layers including peticoat, rouging your cheeks with lipstick and no other make up and dragging a wheelie trolly.

Im not sure how your getting so many comments though... I have quite an out there OTT dress sense (bright colours and crazy patterns and everything bedazzled) and no one ever really mentions it.

Thing is most non-fashion folk cant 'change' their style, our style developes because its the stuff we are comfortable in. Try and dress a completely different way and we become uncomfortable, anxious and irratated - the grandma style I listed above while perfectly fine on other people is not something I could wear, I would be so uncomfortable in skirts and dresses, purple doesnt suit me and florals look odd on me etc... same way most people would not feel comfortable in my style.

TheNinny · 02/07/2022 13:03

He sounds horrid regarding the clothes, I’d dump him for that. But if your period coincides with your monthly meet ups I’d definitely change weekends or use a birth control pill that regulates when you take your period - if not using one already.

Nanny0gg · 02/07/2022 13:04

I really don't think you love him as there's nothing there to love.

You only see him once a month, so send a text now telling him you don't want to see him again

Then block.

Lingoflaming · 02/07/2022 13:07

freedomprogramme.co.uk/online.php

Do you the online freedom programme to help you spot Red flags in future relationships. Dump the shit.

LoonyIdea · 02/07/2022 13:08

ShirleyJackson · 02/07/2022 08:51

Bin him, he’s a cunt.

This.

ParanoidGynodroid · 02/07/2022 13:09

Well firstly I'd add my voice to the chorus of LTB. Dump him, run and never look back.
Who gets angry at someone for a normal bodily function, FFS? (amongst everything else)

Worst is he's now become physically abusive. Believe me, now that that genie is out of the bottle it will only get worse. He will do it again. Then he will minimise it. And then blame you for it.

Your messages reminded me so much of my DD. She has just left an abusive, angry prick. It was hard, but she says now it's done she's so happy and has never felt so free. She'll never put up with any crap again.

I think you like the way you dress, OP, you described it as creative. Stick with it, be yourself. And find someone who appreciates you and your uniqueness.

Strugglingtodomybest · 02/07/2022 13:22

Worst is he's now become physically abusive. Believe me, now that that genie is out of the bottle it will only get worse. He will do it again. Then he will minimise it. And then blame you for it.

This is what I came in to say. He is a classic example of an abuser from what you've written.

I don't understand what is keeping you together? Are you scared of leaving him? If so, please contact your local domestic abuse charity for help.

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