Top places exH sulked - can anyone top these! (semi-lighthearted!)

[heliosoftroy]

Currently going through a divorce from my super sulker ex, and often find myself thinking, with incredulity, at some of the sulks soon-to-be-exH pulled in the most inopportune moments! Top sulk moments -

• On a beach in the Florida Keys. Also a beach in Miami (separate occasion)
• Sitting in the 3rd row of the stalls at Hamilton on Broadway
• At my birthday dinner out in a fancy restaurant
• All the way on a 3hr train journey to a romantic weekend away I planned for his birthday
• The first Christmas I went to stay with his family
• At Peppa Pig World in the very long queue for a ride
• DC's birthday party
• On a cruise in the middle of the Caribbean
• Looking round wedding venues...

I'm sure there are more, but anyone got any crackers from sulking partners to make me feel better?!

Our wedding

Ultrasound of our second child (he refused to look at the screen)

Every Christmas

At a lovely restaurant in Rome for a holiday I had paid for the both of us....

Mine fell out with me on the plane on our way to a lovely Greek island and didn't speak to me for the first three days of our honeymoon.

Walking round London on an expensive weekend away, and all the way home on the train, leaving me to deal with little DS.

When we got home I told him I'd leave him if he ever did it again. He hasn't, but I don't really take trips away with him any more anyway.

Congrats on divorcing the sulky man-baby! Some of mine, thankfully an ex now. Most of the time he always denied he was sulking too, so wouldn't actually tell me what was wrong, which drove me crazy.

• Sulked his way through my birthday dinner(s) - all of which I'd booked and mostly paid for, as I was the higher earner.
• Sulked through dinner with my parents - they live abroad and he only had to do this a few times a year, and they were nice to him .
• Sulked at my friend's lovely wedding - amazing food, music, open bar - still don't know what his problem was
• Sulked his way through any conversations about holidays, as if I was asking him to sit in a dark cell and drink his own piss rather than plan a lovely break - he always LOVED the holidays when we got there and had a great time, but if I so much as reminded him to request time off he would sulk all night

Am sure there are a more but I have to take a break because thinking about it is annoying me all over again!

Ex DP

in Paris as it was too French and stupid transport system. When i said he spoiled Paris with his moaning and sulking he said he thought it was great!

At a music festival we booked tickets months in advance but football was on that day - unknown when tickets booked. His solution I drive him to football and pick him up. My compromise was for him to watch football and I will meet him at the festival. Both get to do what we want. Sulked as I couldn’t possibly be alone.

sulked I got ill in Mexico with a tummy bug. Happy for him to go by the pool and meet his holiday buddies. He sulked I spoiled his fun as I was ill.

turns out ex DP wasn’t as sociable as he thought he was.

My ex was a world-class sulker. His crowning glory was on a special holiday (my 40th) when we flew to the Caribbean for a stay on a private island - we were flying to Barbados on Concorde, then on to the island by small plane (oh, those were the days…😁). It was a true once-in-a-lifetime trip, and I was absolutely beside myself with the thrill of everything. My ex, hmm, not so much. He sulked in the Concorde lounge at Heathrow, he sulked on the flight, he sulked on the private island…. On the morning of my birthday he prodded my (size 10) stomach and said “you ever considered surgery on that?” before leaving me on my own for the day to go scuba diving. And then sulked over dinner because I wasn’t as happy as I should have been. I look back now and can’t believe it took another five years before I finally left him.

(He still sulks for England, twenty five years later..)

Oh loads and loads and loads and fucking loads.

Two of the most insane:

When I was in early labour and was dealing with various doctors etc because I was actually booked in for a c-section. I hadn’t asked if he was hungry 🥹 boo fucking hoo!

At a Christmas tree forest with the children, I said I really wanted a fat fluffy tree, but he wanted a tall thinner one. It wasn’t even an argument I just stated a preference, and he went off on one and then sulked. We got a fat fluffy one, and that was one of many reasons I knew I was done 👍🏼

Exh sulked a lot. The last big sulk was because I wouldn't get him a burger and a roll at the neighbour's BBQ. I had already been and picked up food for us and sat down to eat. He had finished his and insisted I get up to get something else for him. When I refused, the mother of sulks.

I just choked on my Dairylea Dunker at this! 😂My friends would still be laughing and calling him Harry Potter (amongst other things) to this day.

I don't have a sulker myself thank god, but my best friend does and some of his sulks have been legendary. They last days. I went on holiday with them last year and it was like being at a zoo for a rare species just watching the incredible things he'd get his pants in a knot about.

On a beautiful river canoe trip - because he got wet feet.

During a barbecue - because my chef brother was better at grilling steak than him.

On a road trip through the mountains - because he lost the game of rock paper scissors to have control of the aux.

On a lazy Sunday afternoon at a gorgeous fairytale Norwegian lake - because he couldn't skip stones and my 10yo nephew could.

Honest to god bottom lip sticking out pouting like a little boy for hours over these things. My mind was boggled.

Just leaving this here

This.

Mine was rude to me before the wedding and claimed it was nerves. On the honeymoon on a train across Canada we were sitting side by side and he stopped talking to me and I asked him a few times what was happened and he blanked me. I spent an awful awful week in Canada with him. He did not speak to me at all. When we got back it was like it never happened, laughing about what we had seen and done.

In the Christmas we went to Norway and he did the same - stopped talking to me before we landed and didn’t speak for a week.

Both times I was traumatised and I couldn’t understand why - I left him.

I remember an epic sulk at Brimham rocks because it involved too much time walking round the rocks and he wanted to get to Betty’s.

In fact, I can think of several days out which were not to his liking because they didn’t involve going straight to the tea room

My ex (many years ago) got sulky over everything. The best one was in a nightclub when a man said “excuse me love” when walking past on the stairs. He proceeded to go into mental overdrive and started zipping and unzipping his coat and throwing his head back like a toddler. I couldn’t contain how hilarious it was and neither could my friends. I ended it about a month later.

At the incredible fairy-tale hotel of the Post House in Lake Louise in Canada. Just before Christmas, sparking lights, huge snowy mountains, wonderful lake. In front of the hotel is a frozen pond. Hotel suite with roaring fire, wooden-cabin style rooms. I have never seen anything so picturesque.

A group of people had the audacity to start skating on the frozen pond, thereby making the scene even more magical, and actually laugh loud enough that we could hear them from our window as we looked out.

Frenzied calls to reception about the "unacceptable noise" and demanding that the skaters be removed immediately. He was just batshit and ruined everything. I should have left him then.

On Lantau Island near Hong Kong. He was furious about having to take a bus (it was the only way). The really notable thing about the island is that it has this huge amazing buddha statue in a Buddhist monastery on top of a high hillside. Despite the awfulness of being ranted at in public, it was hilarious how just as he was gathering momentum about the 'dreadful' and 'pointless' bus journey this spectacular buddha suddenly loomed up behind him.

Fuck me, I'd have gone for an annulment the day I got back for that.

At my son's uni open day. Couldn't bring himself to unite with me to support our son

These are epic. My husband is not at all a sulker. My ex-boyfriend though 25+ years ago managed to sulk through an entire weekend away in Guernsey and kept such an epically grumpy face up the whole time. The best was when the air steward on the way back to Stansted asked him if he wanted a drink and his sulk was so tremendous he completely ignored her. It was all because on the Saturday he was tired and wanted a nap. He refused to get out of bed in time to transit to a special dinner dance with my family then claimed (as we arrived very late) I'd told him it was in the same hotel. My mum and dad knew how upset I was, advised me to dump him when I got home and heroically tried to chat to him all that night.

I dumped him on the drive home and he had the temerity to look hugely shocked and surprised then bawled all the way back.

I am fucking gobsmacked at some of these. 17 years together and I can literally not think of a single time my oh has sulked. How tf do you people cope? How do you even act when someone’s sulking? If I was on holiday and someone was acting like that I’d tell them to piss off back to the room until they’d sorted themselves out. I think I’d literally murder someone over the pregnancy ones 😳

At a pub quiz. Couldn’t get one of the first answers so picked up his drink and sat outside all night leaving me with his friends that I didn’t know, they were new to the area and I had to host them.

And most holidays.

And whenever he feels anyone is better or more clever than him. He likes to be the King Prick in the room.