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?!

Following cos 💀😱

Not my partner but my Dad.

When I was a teen my mum paid for us to have those 'modern' family pics with a white background, everyone having fun. Mum and Dad had an argument about something little before hand and my dad got in a sulk. Then we went for the photo shoot! He refused to smile in any of the photos and the rest of us had a lovely time! She still has them on her kitchen wall and his glower makes me laugh every time i see them.

He was a prime sulker and it must have been hard for her at times though. Sure she has a few more of these.

This is how abuse works though. You no longer go on days out with him, so it's your behaviour which has changed. I don't know your circumstances but it's a big red flag. Don't change yourself to accommodate his bad infantility.

Ex fiancé - my 21st birthday, we were in a beautiful scenic location, he didn’t speak to me all day. I ate dinner on my own in the hotel restaurant and went in the bar, had the best night with a group of old men who bought me drinks all night.

ExH - Our wedding day, every single time we were hanging out with my friends, every time I beat him at a game, every single time his friends invited me to join a drinking game because I could handle my drink better than him.

Not a sulk, more of a major meltdown ... On a date in the 80s, the cassette player in his car (orange Fiesta) had stopped working and, as we walked through a local park on the way to have lunch at a nearby pub, he kicked off into a proper tantrum about it, went to kick a nearby stone on the path and his grey slip-on came off and went into the duck pond. I just sat and absolutely wept with laughter as he carried on shouting and swearing at the ducks as if they'd caused it in some way. He then drove me home, still hungry, in silence and one wet shoe, pulled up outside the house and growled "So, do you want to see me again?" ... it was a no. Oh I'm so tempted to look him up on social media now to see how his life has unfolded.

This is brilliant.

Needed a laugh and many of these posts have not disappointed!

I like the Buddha one in particular

I got to the point with my ex that we were taking him to theme parks so that he could stay on his phone all day doing his Important Work and hold our coats as we went on the rides. It’s all a matter of planning the right sort of day

Blimey, i thought my ex was bad! Congrats to us for getting rid of the man-children!

On a night bus in India because I reminded him we needed to leave a party to not miss said night bus. Wouldn't sit by me or speak until... I apologised. I don't remember how this one unfolded.

At a night club while staying 2 hours away with my friends (refused to have a drink or a dance and sat in a corner with a face on telling me I owed him £5 for the entry fee).

I wonder if it's the same ridiculous man appearing in several posts on this thread 😅 we broke up 20 years ago but I'm sure he won't have changed.

My ex was a bit of a sucker but usually over understandable frustrations.

The most memorable, and frustrating one, was him lying in a massive strop on the sofa whilst I booked, with my money, exceedingly expensive flights to take all four of us to his best friends wedding.

He wanted to be there, he wanted the kids there, he wanted me to be there to look after the kids. I didn’t care if I was there or not.

This is a story from my teens but my mum was briefly married to an incredibly emotionally immature and stunted man (still lived with his parents when she met him and took his mums word like she was god) - we were once at his parents house and his Mum (who was a school dinner lady) had made a massive catering sized tray of malteaser cake - like the kind you’d have as pudding on a school dinner. Him and my mum ended up having a bit of a spat and he stormed off in the direction of the local park carrying the cake.

My Mum later found him sat at the bottom of the children’s slide having eaten the entire tray of malteaser cake. Such a perfectly encapsulating tableau of his entire personality and mode of operating.

🤣🤣🤣

@HoobleDooble I'm crying with laughter about the slip-on shoe in the duck pond 😜

Danioyellow you cope with it by eventually getting divorced 😂

But what I think happens, is that they do it when you have not much choice to ditch them (in my case I was actually in labour, and many more) or you’re on a plane going to somewhere lovely, or at granny’s 70th. You have to grin and bear it as you can’t cause a scene or escape. Then they go back to normal and then you feel all jumbled up psychologically, the whiplash really messes with your perception. You know it’s awful, but they’re being nice now, what actually happened there again…. It really screws with your reality. For me a lot of my letting go of ridiculous sulks, was to skim over things for my kids, like I’m not going to get into a row with my sulking EXH at Disneyland! Then maybe at dinner he might start cheering up, after I’ve done all day being cheery for the kids and doing everything. I don’t know, you just get so worn down it’s exhausting, you’re just mentally clinging onto the non sulking moments.

I certainly couldn’t do it forever, though. You have your limits. The one too many times couldn’t be glossed over any more, and attempts to discuss and give ultimatums and requesting change amounted to nothing. I got divorced before no fault divorces were a thing. The list was longgggg!

He sulked in the Concorde lounge at Heathrow

The tummy bit of the story is worse @abbey44 but the audacity of the man to sulk in the CONCORDE LOUNGE? A place I will never get to be <sulks> <throws toys>

DH isnt a sulker thank God, mainly because it would involve not speaking!!
My father was an epic sulker though, he completely ruined my graduation by announcing as we were getting ready to set off (2 hour drive) that he wasnt coming and my Mum couldnt take the car. She basically told him to get lost and he "agreed to come" but we were in a rush by that point and he kicked off again when we refused to stop to get him a Mars Bar on the way - I said there would be food there but he wanted a Mars Bar. He slept all the way there and had to be persuaded to get out of the car and then complained about wanting to leave the whole time because he was tired.
Utter wanker and I went NC with him as soon as I could.

Ex-BF, sulked on a trip to Rome in a bar in Campo de' Fiori because I had just been accepted to a post-graduate degree at Oxbridge and was excited about it. Said he hated me talking about it because it made him feel stupid. I didn't bring it up again.

That was the beginning of the end right there.

Ooo, a different ex.

Sulked looking round HMS Belfast.

It was his idea to go.

I am so glad DH isn't a sulker but this is hilarious.

A friend's DH (I hope now ex though we've lost touch) sulked because I and a third friend played a practical joke on him (very mild, I promise) and she invited me to her housewarming and when I RSVPd I was coming, she uninvited me because her DH didn't want me there.

Think you got your ducks in a row there 😂

I dated a bloke very briefly who threw a tantrum because I was chatting to a man we both know at the bar while waiting to be served.

He stomped out the pub leaving me on my own and walked home 5 miles in the cold and dark (this was November) and was sitting on my doorstep with a face like a smacked arse I got home several hours later. He slept on the sofa fully dressed - despite me having 2 spare bedrooms both with double beds - and left the next morning without saying a word.

@SamW98 what an arse.
Thankfully don't have a sulker. I'm laughing at the husband in the cupboard under the stairs.
@heliosoftroy your post made me smile. Must have been hard dealing with him however. Peppa pig world 🤣

Edit. Sam is not the arse, the partner is

Ex fiancé, thankfully not husband!
Post D&C whilst still in hospital bed. The reason? They were only asking if I was okay. He felt he wasn’t getting enough attention.

Wtf😱

Not so much a sulk, more of a full blown tantrum….because we turned up at a pub/restaurant without having checked the menu and didnt see the menu until we’d been seated.
The only thing he liked on the menu was steak, but they only served rib eye (he hates fat) and he wanted fillet. He ordered the steak but complained the whole time.
Cue the end of the meal he stormed out, eventually got him in my car, still tantruming, then he decided to get out of my moving car while I was driving through the car park. He walked home, approx a 1.5? hour walk.
Ashamed to admit we were only dating at this point and I went on to have a child with him. No prizes for guessing how that relationship ended up!