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I really can't believe this - am bewildered and shocked at DH

122 replies

strangesituation · 12/02/2008 14:23

Ok, before I start I am a MN regular and have been since my first DC was born in 2001. I remember the supermarket grapes, the river of sweetcorn, all the thread on breast V bottle and many others, but I have had to change my name for this. You will realise why in a minute.

When I first met my DH he was trying to forge a living out of being an artist. He is fantastic but he soon realised how competitive it is and soon realised he just had to make a hobby out of it rather than a career. He now has a more mainstream job which often requires him to work from home so he has the smallest bedroom as his home office.

The DC's wanted to do some drawing today and I went in his home office to get some printer paper for them to use. While I was in there I opened the wrong drawer and found some of his recent "artwork" and was absolutely shocked at what I found. He had done some pencil sketches of women - normal stuff such as women walking in the rain with umbrellas, women having picnics in the park etc. However he had stuck what looks like ladygarden hair on some of the picture, so part of the umbrella was made out of this as was the womans shoes in the picnic picture. Its definitely not his own as - god I am cringing as I write this - his is red so I strongly suspect he has been rummaging in the bin in the bedroom to get my clippings out. I went to check the bin as I had trimmed my ladygarden on Monday and the trimmings were no longer there. Worse still some of the "decorative pieces" were blonde and I have NEVER had a blonde ladygarden so where on earth is he getting those bits from. I am mortified and disgusted with him. What on earth am I going to say to him?

OP posts:
Blu · 12/02/2008 14:44
TimeForMe · 12/02/2008 14:44

We could all make a donation to his art for a small fee. A MN lady garden montage

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 12/02/2008 14:46

Or a minature corpse of his dead father complete with pubes

..wanders off to find out where those were sourced...

jumpingbeans · 12/02/2008 14:48

Sorry, but pmsl at BS "paint brush"

strangesituation · 12/02/2008 14:49

Its you isn't it Timeforme - come on fess up. Is your ladygarden blonde?! How much is he paying you?

Seriously though - I hope there is nothing sinister in this. Its not the sort of thing you bring up in general conversation it is so he must be close to the person who donated their hair

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Wisteria · 12/02/2008 14:51

he might be on some bizarre forum where artists talk about such things........and then send them through the post.

TimeForMe · 12/02/2008 14:51

No it's not me. As black as the ace of spades mine, with the odd grey one in and amongst besides, I flush my clippings straight down the loo, no one is gettng their hands on mine without permission!

Blu · 12/02/2008 14:52

Does anyone actually have blonde pubes?

Despite a not inconsiderable choice of memories to sift through, my impression is that blonde people usually have quite dark pubes - or reddish.

TimeForMe · 12/02/2008 14:53

Maybe he does a bit of rummaging in the bin of the local beauty salon too!

TimeForMe · 12/02/2008 14:54

yes, some blondes do have blonde pubes. Have you not seen Sky channel 329?

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 12/02/2008 14:55

If he wants to reignite his career, I'm sure I have a few friends who would be interested in these!?

BroccoliSpears · 12/02/2008 14:55

I'm very very very blonde and not from a bottle, but my pubes aren't blonde exactly. More... mousey I'd say.

I share this in the interests of art appreciation.

Right. Time for the off switch and to step away from the computer.

expatinscotland · 12/02/2008 14:56

My ex h has blond pubes.

He's in his 40s and still very blond.

LadyMuck · 12/02/2008 14:57

Er, how do you know this EIS? I don't yet have an xh yet so wondering how I would still know the colour of their pubes. I'm assuming some very dodgy short wearing?

strangesituation · 12/02/2008 14:59

I know some blondes do because on occasion DH and I have used the odd "graphic film" to spice things up a bit.

So, is there anyway I could get the info out of this friend without sounding weird because the more I think about it the more I am convinced it may be her?

I liked the artists forum idea until I remembered that 99% of the time it is me who gets the mail and DH always asks me to open everything as its always bills and I sort those out anyway. Think I would have remembered a package of pubes arriving

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Lauriefairycake · 12/02/2008 14:59

is it ok for the pubes to be hers ???

or are you thinking its a prelude to some 'inappropriateness' going on between the two of them??

You sound concerned and I don't think I would be concerned if my dh had others womens pubes on a picture if he was an artist but I would be concerned if he was fucking her if you see what I mean

Lauriefairycake · 12/02/2008 15:01

or not just fucking her but collecting them himself ?

I would be asking him where they came from - but only if I was confident that it wasn't a problem with something else.....

onebatmother · 12/02/2008 15:01

perhaps he has another friend who looks like this. In which case you have nothing to worry about.

Flamesparrow · 12/02/2008 15:02

I'm still baffled by YOUR pubes in the bin... why not flush em??

Rhubarb · 12/02/2008 15:02

at this thread.

I wish I could believe that some Mumsnetter out there is going to ask her dh's friends if any of them have donated their pubes for his artistry rather than just ask him outright. In fact I'd love to believe that some artist is using pubes for his artwork. If you'd said he used it for the drawing's pubes then fair enough, but for an umbrella???

So I'm afraid I'm in the cynics group.

NAB3wishesfor2008 · 12/02/2008 15:04

You can not ask the other woman!

You weren't snooping so don't act as if you were. Your house too, right?

Just ask him how he makes his extra bits on the pictures. It might not be pubic hair.

expatinscotland · 12/02/2008 15:06

Well, he was very blond when I was married to him, LM (my ex h, that is), and I still know him and teh hair on his head is still just as blond.

jesuswhatnext · 12/02/2008 15:07

i don't think i'll ever buy a piece of his work for the front parlour!

mwamwa · 12/02/2008 15:07

don't beat around the bush....just ask him.

UnquietDad · 12/02/2008 15:10

Have heard of public art, but pubic art?

Maybe he is aiming for the Turn-hair prize.

What would Brian Sewell say?

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