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I think I found a mini vibrator in my car

375 replies

howdoIhandlethissituation · 29/11/2022 20:09

Obviously name changed.

Context: late 40s, married 20 years, two dcs late teens still at home. Sexless marriage for 5 years. Before that very unsatisfactory. No intimacy.
No communication other than day-to-day running of the home and family.
I've checked out but so has he, long ago.
Basically I gave up trying (aka banging head against a brick wall), spent several years getting quite depressed, then went on antidepressants, hrt and had therapy.
Feel better about life in general and in myself, but still not brave enough to fall it a day on my marriage, for the usual reasons: fear of the unknown, upheaval for dcs, financial implications (not dire but scary all the same).

Today I found what I think is a mini vibrator in the compartment on the inside of the driver's door of our shared car. The dcs don't drive. Dh and I are the only ones who could have put it there and it wasn't me. I have never even seen one but it's metallic, pink, about 4 inches long, looks like a bullet and has an AAA battery. Nothing happens when I press the button but I can't think of anything else it could be.

As it was in the car I assume he's been using prostitutes.

So, how do I handle this?

My plan is to try a new battery tomorrow to confirm what it is.

Then check bank account for cash withdrawals.

Advice?

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AttilaTheUOkHun · 29/11/2022 21:55

Mention casually to your husband you've taken up vaping and whip the thing out your pocket and light it up. This won't achieve anything but his face might be quite funny to watch.

PeeJayDay · 29/11/2022 21:55

"What a terrible day to have eyes."

Same 🤮

ladydimitrescu · 29/11/2022 21:55

I still reckon it's a vape tbh!

Flooper · 29/11/2022 21:56

Marriage is clearly deader than a long dead dodo.

So this might be a good thing, the catalyst you need to admit it openly and say 'let's go our separate ways?'

Nancienoo · 29/11/2022 21:57

Just ask him

justcallmebozo · 29/11/2022 22:00

AttilaTheUOkHun · 29/11/2022 21:55

Mention casually to your husband you've taken up vaping and whip the thing out your pocket and light it up. This won't achieve anything but his face might be quite funny to watch.

Ooh, yes, please do this, and covertly video it.
I'd love to see his reaction.

Elerandooo · 29/11/2022 22:01

Theres obviously one of three explanations here…

  1. Husbands having an affair- not with prostitutes though- and they’ve been shagging in your car and left it behind (grim)
  2. Husbands using it for his own self pleasure… in your car (grim)
  3. Its fallen out of one of the teens bags/pockets for whatever reason a teen would have one- I mean you can pick them up for a quid in Poundland- and your husbands naively picked it up thinking nothing of it and put it in the side compartment.
I’d just ask him what it was doing in the car and gauge his reaction.
FlissyPaps · 29/11/2022 22:02

ladydimitrescu · 29/11/2022 21:55

I still reckon it's a vape tbh!

Unlikely from the way the OP has described.

Id be shocked if an adult couldn’t tell the difference between a bullet or a vape🙄

Onnabugeisha · 29/11/2022 22:04

Elerandooo · 29/11/2022 22:01

Theres obviously one of three explanations here…

  1. Husbands having an affair- not with prostitutes though- and they’ve been shagging in your car and left it behind (grim)
  2. Husbands using it for his own self pleasure… in your car (grim)
  3. Its fallen out of one of the teens bags/pockets for whatever reason a teen would have one- I mean you can pick them up for a quid in Poundland- and your husbands naively picked it up thinking nothing of it and put it in the side compartment.
I’d just ask him what it was doing in the car and gauge his reaction.

I think one way to find out is to put in a dash cam, facing backwards…l

AttilaTheUOkHun · 29/11/2022 22:07

Onnabugeisha · 29/11/2022 22:04

I think one way to find out is to put in a dash cam, facing backwards…l

Envy why would op want to see her husband playing with his frenulum?

hellycat · 29/11/2022 22:08

Men don't have the best memories in my experience.

He's just left it there after a session with his girlfriend, meant to remove it, then forgotten all about it. He doesn't remember as it's not really central to his pleasure, and maybe he resents subconsciously a woman having to get herself off.

It just has 'shitty inadequate man' written all over it.

lemmein · 29/11/2022 22:10

You'd have to be pretty thick to leave a vibrator you use on your mistress in a compartment of a shared car. If it had fallen under the chairs or something, yeah, understandable - but to deliberately place it somewhere your partner will see it? Hmm

I'd leave him just for being a dope tbh!

(Unless of course he wanted you to find it)

Iliveinanoodie · 29/11/2022 22:10

Ooh, yes, please do this, and covertly video it.
I'd love to see
OP supposedly is unable to even upload a photo of the thing we have to identify

notforme · 29/11/2022 22:10

This is a weird one. Why would he hide it in the car you share with him?

usernamealreadytaken · 29/11/2022 22:11

@RaRaRaspoutine "What a terrible day to have eyes."
Best response ever. I just laughed so much I had to read the post to DH and he gave me the Hmm

Onnabugeisha · 29/11/2022 22:12

AttilaTheUOkHun · 29/11/2022 22:07

Envy why would op want to see her husband playing with his frenulum?

Academic reasons. I think it matters if he’s just wanking or having an affair. For most couples, wanking isn’t cheating.

Iliveinanoodie · 29/11/2022 22:12

Should I google frenulum?

CourtneeLuv · 29/11/2022 22:12

Shameless placemarking.

Onnabugeisha · 29/11/2022 22:14

He might have bought it as a neck massager….roll it up and down his neck?
(That’s what I told my 3yo what mine was complete with demonstration when they accidentally found it).

CatLoaf · 29/11/2022 22:15

AIBU to think this thread is an undercover Poundland ad

Nancienoo · 29/11/2022 22:16

CatLoaf · 29/11/2022 22:15

AIBU to think this thread is an undercover Poundland ad

😂

Wishuponastar5 · 29/11/2022 22:17

This is such a wind up thread. How can you not post a photo and fail numerous times. Good way to get loads of people posting though op!

FettleOfKish · 29/11/2022 22:18

Good Lord the amount of grown women who don't know what a frenulum is (and we have the audacity to laugh at men who don't understand Women's anatomy).

If I say 'banjo string' does that ring any bells? Confused

Macaroni46 · 29/11/2022 22:20

Who stopped wanting sex in the marriage? You or him?
Tbh sounds like the marriage is over anyway so why not use this as the nudge you clearly need to separate.

Nancienoo · 29/11/2022 22:20

FettleOfKish · 29/11/2022 22:18

Good Lord the amount of grown women who don't know what a frenulum is (and we have the audacity to laugh at men who don't understand Women's anatomy).

If I say 'banjo string' does that ring any bells? Confused

I didn’t tbh