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?!

I sulked briefly (5 mins?) at my wedding because my brand new DH had disappeared into a side room with his two best women and everyone kept coming up to me saying oh where is DH. These are people on his side of the family and I had never met them.

Disneyland, Paris when I was helping my toddler with lunch and drink on a blisteringly hot day. We were taking too long.
My 21st birthday in Dublin. He stayed in the hotel ro all evening and I went to dinner on my own. I should’ve known then and not wasted another ten years trying to please him.
When our first child was born. He sulked as he had to return to hospital early the next morning and he was tired. I had just given birth and been up all night with a newborn breastfeeding. He had gone home to sleep. When we arrived back home, he had let the tank run dry of oil so there was no heating in our home with a newborn in DECEMBER. He sulked; it wasn’t his fault.
On a mini train adventure with our toddlers who were having such fun and he was furious as one of his friends had just texted him and he wanted to drop us to play golf.
And the biscuit: by this stage I was solomparenting every weekend and holding down a full time demanding job whilst he golfed with very weekend. I remember distinctly being in a park and seeing one of his friends playing tennis. My husband called whilst on the golf course and I said I saw such and such and his reply was to sulk as he too wanted to play tennis!!! No mention of seeing me or our children.
Thankfully I am now semi free of him.
This has been cathartic but also depressing 🙈

A whole weeks holiday in Ibiza because I had an infection and had to take antibiotics to get rid, which meant my pill was ineffective and he refused to use condoms or the pull out method - so no sex, he was sulking because he couldn't have sex, which was my fault for getting poorly, he didn't understand why I could just not take the antibiotics.

We very much have the same ex! Pair of losers.

Mine sulked coz on a very drunk night out with my friends who suggested we went to a strip club, when I said I was ok with going he stormed off and no it wasn't because he had very high morals, he just didn't seem to like me have a good time with my friends and like an idiot, I didn't go and he still sulked.
He never sulked around others, was all cheery and chatty and then when they went he was back to miserable git again, totally sucked the joy out of a room.

Aw no - well so glad to hear that he is an ex! Unfortunately I’m now left in a chronic state of always feeling in the wrong. I hope it eases soon.

I can't remember why the sulk started but we were on holiday in the canaries and he was pissed off with me for no good reason, so i called him out on it, which resulted in an even bigger sulk. I went down to the pool and left him to it (possibly the first time i ever just didn't placate him) and then i got a text 20 minutes later saying he was booking a flight home. I ran back upstairs to make sure he didn't take my passport and money, when when i got there he was sitting like an overgrown toddler pouting because there were no flights available for another 5 days - we were only there for 7 so his threat to fly home was rendered useless 😂 He was really really annoyed that i just came into the room, collected my money and passport and went back to the pool.

I dumped him by text not too long after we got home. I wasted 3 years on that big manchild. Got a much better bloke now.

My DH has never sulked, in 30 years. It’s why I married him after four years. My DF, however, won a lifetime achievement award in sulking. He sulked:

• on holiday, whenever we were about to go, it was too hot, something went wrong, we did something we had not guessed in advance he did not want to do, and before we came home (Florida, Barbados, Greece, bits of England all memorable sulk-fests);
• Whenever someone else was celebrating, birthdays, promotions, anniversaries, engagements so he was not the focus of attention;
• at parties, when one of his family was having a nice chat with someone else and he perceived he was being ‘ignored’;
• on long car journeys, because he was hot, hungry, lost, not there yet, didn’t like the little chef;
• at airports when sending us back to boarding school 3000 miles away (probably because he was sad to see it go but he turned it into an awful silent-treatment ordeal);
• for reasons that were never explained, hence the sulking, because we SHOULD have known what the problem was, etc etc

the sulking was often followed by anger and physical violence (always directed at me and my sister, never my younger brother), followed by more sulking because we had “made him” angry and he did not like “having to” chastise us (could have fooled me).

So I think sulking is positively insidious and abusive and I am grateful every day my DH doesn’t do it and that my kids are lucky enough to have him as their dad 💕

I had a friend who was told by her H she wasn’t allowed to be friends we me when I broke up with my ExH. Apparently he didn’t like me because I was rude and shouted at him. I’d come home from work to find him and my ex stoned playing computer games. Dam right I shouted at the fuckers, my house reeked and they’d been sat on their arses all day skiving work while I’d been at work all day.

Loads, most memorable, as I was wheeled down to the theatre for an emergency caesarian with eclampsia. He sulked that the spinal block they tried didn't work, meaning I had to be put under, and therefore he couldn't be at the birth. I was so out of it I didn't actually know at the time, I got told he sulked weeks later.

He sulked the night of his best mates 40th birthday and refused to come home with me that night because I wore a long frayed denim skirt to the party.

At any occasion at all. Holiday, family bbq, morning if my c section, you name it.

The most memorable sulk from my ex came when we were going up to London to have a long lunch, then see the pantomime - this was between Christmas and New Year.

He didn’t “like” the part of the station platform we stood on to catch the train. That’s it. He indeed sulked through a fabulous lunch and a great pantomime.

The DC were late teens so we just ignored him. That made him sulk more…

He sounds like a child. Good riddance OP!

My 2nd ex husband threw a massive sulk because while I was waiting to be taken to hospital with a suspected stomach ulcer and in a lot of pain, he wanted to play some music on his keyboard for the paramedics and they said no, they were busy concentrating on me.
Also on the anniversaries of my parents and brothers deaths I tend to be a bit quieter, he used to sulk and say I was boring and bringing his mood down. He was a complete emotional vacuum.

H went into a sulk in Florida as well, he refused to come to breakfast and when we got back had disappeared from the room, found him having a coffee hiding in reception. Put our outing out by quite a bit

He the sulked all the way round Epcot and refused to engage with any of us. He also refused to take off his jacket (sort of waterproof style) and you could see he was getting hotter in the humidity but insisted he was ok. We could see his bald head sweating

In the hospital about day 5 after giving birth. He kept going on about my 'open pores' on my nose, and kept leaning to one side to get a better look. I did tell him to pack it in and he stopped off and didn't speak to me for over a day

This thread isn't long enough to list the sulks of my STBXH. One that stands out is when his laptop wasn't working properly and he asked if I knew how to fix it. He sulked when I fixed it.

Another that comes to mind is a massive sulk, ruining a birthday celebration, when he sulked because there were other people in the restaurant.

My ex husband sulked because I saw the wedding photos before he did 🥴🥴.....for six bloody weeks 😔

@heliosoftroy, you have too much patience with him. He's a serial sulker. I'd not tolerate it. Very unattractive trait.

A previous boyfriend sulked because I told him it was rude that on Christmas Eve he told me he wasn't coming to my sisters house for Christmas dinner as we had planned as he had decided to go to his sister ms instead. My sister had got all the food etc.
He later dumped me because I "kicked off" about everything. I am very calm and never kick off. I just politely told him when he had behaved unreasonably.

No one has ever accused me of kicking off before or since. I'm 42 and I was seeing him for 15 months so his perception of how I behaved was clearly not true as no one I've ever come across in the rest of my life has ever thought that.

Noooo sulking cause the paramedics didn't want to hear his little song?!?! That is hilarious 😆😆Imagine having an ego that insane.

Just remembered that my children's dad sulked when I got swabbed for mrsa at the hospital before my caesarean because then didn't swab him so he said it was unfair and it was putting him at risk. He then pretended to have a rash and we had to go and find a pharmacy in the hospital so he could get his rash checked out. Presumably as he couldn't stand me getting medical attention and not him.
It was definitely bad behaviour but actually ideal to have him behaving like a toddler before the operation as it prevented me worrying about more important things such as whether me and the baby would be ok. My "baby" is 15 now so all ok.

-Sulked in a Four Seasons resort in the Maldives ‘because I was just relaxing’ (while he had to take some work calls)

-sulked throughout 5 day holidays in Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains ‘because i was relaxing’ while he had work to do. Made a massive scene at the airport on the way home, we were travelling with my brother and his wife, they were mortified, ex didn’t speak to us on the plane or in a taxi on the way from gatwick- again - it was because ‘we all could just relax’ and he couldn’t, or wouldn’t

-sulked all holiday in Oman, again-
relaxing, btw all holidays were always his idea, i hated travelling with him because of his nasty mood swings but he insisted and made sure I never had too good a time

-during dinner with his nephew and nephew’s new girlfriend at a rooftop restaurant in Melbourne. Didn’t speak to me all dinner, and when he did it was snarky and horrible. The atmosphere was so uncomfortable. Can’t remember what that one was about

-at breakfast at daylesford in the cotswolds because we arrived 2 min after they’d stopped serving breakfast. He wouldn’t eat from the lunch menu as he was very ‘particular’. The scene!! You would have thought the was the owner telling the staff off. Omg everybody was staring at us as the 50year old baby threw his toys out of the pram. I was too embarrassed to ever go back there.

These are all jaw-dropping, but this one takes the biscuit for sheer ridiculousness!

My 2nd ex husband threw a massive sulk because while I was waiting to be taken to hospital with a suspected stomach ulcer and in a lot of pain, he wanted to play some music on his keyboard for the paramedics and they said no, they were busy concentrating on me.

The paramedics must have thought he was an absolute loon!