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?!

My ex sulked after I disagree with him that I don't need to learn how to cut my own hair. He was telling me I was a terrible person, because I'm using hairdressers as slaves and I make them to do me favours. I should learn to do it myself because I can't be so selfish and rely for the rest of my life on getting haircuts from hairdressers.

On another occasion, we were having a nice day out. While we were sitting on a terrace and having a drink, a man passed by, looked at me and I dared to look back at that man. I had to chase my ex and convince him it's the first time I ever saw that man. I don't know why that man looked at me and I'm not cheating on him. The main reason why I started to chase him was because he had the keys from our house in his pocket and I didn't have my keys with me.

On another day out, he punched the traffic lights and his fist started to bleed. It was because I didn't want to run across the road, because it was too late for us to start crossing the road. I didn't want to risk and being hit by a car. Of course, after that he was telling me it was all my fault and he was injured because of me.

ExH - at a temple in Bali because they made him wear a sarong.

Sulked because I hadn't checked that the hotel we were staying at for a friend's wedding had a pool (it did) and he hadn't packed swimming shorts. I'd had a miscarriage a month or two before and was still feeling quite fragile, ended up sat in the middle of the town centre crying.

Sulked at a family BBQ (his) because I had put rice and chips on his plate next to the curry and thus made them wet.

Sulked on a day trip with DSD because she felt poorly and I bought the wrong age range medicine from Boots.

Sulked every single Christmas because he hated it.

Sulked one Father's Day because I'd bought him a gift from his DSD and he felt she should have made the effort herself (she was 7).

Left him 3 years ago and the cunt sulked about that as well.

There's probably loads, but these are the ones that stick out the most.

Taken into hospital with a suspected brain bleed (thankfully it wasn't) but I reacted badly to the lumbar puncture and spent 7 days in there with the post dural headaches. Ex sulked that he had to spend a full day with me and couldn't work. That might not have been so laughable had he actually made the effort to work more instead of coming home cos he was bored, it was too quiet or he was golfing early the next day. Then he sulked that he would have to pay the car park charging fee cos he was there for more than an hour. Him and my ex mil used to come sit a talk to each other and then rush off after 45 mins so they'd get the parking for free. Their excuse. Well you don't talk much and it's hard to talk to you when you're laid flat. Well no I aren't talking much cos I'm in absolute agony and I'd sit up for a bit only I'd probably end up throwing up all over the place.

Came in pissed one night. Sadly I knew what that meant for me. Forced into sex beaten if not. Anyway I was pissed off he'd woken me up banging around the spare bedroom and when he came in and ripped the duvet off me I snatched it back and told him to fuck off and that if he thought he was having sex with me he could think again. He tried everything to force himself on top of me, pinching the insides of my legs as hard as he could, you name it. I refused to relent to the pain and just kept my legs clammed shut as tight as i could. In the end he shoved me really hard and stormed off sulking saying I was a shit wife and that he'd be going to the solicitors in the morning. He didn't and I was too scared to. Although I doubt he'd say to them well I want a divorce because my wife didn't want to have sex with me so I've resorted to just forcing myself on top of her or beating her until she relents

Told to go to A&E I'd had a 10 day migraine and nothing was shifting it. Exh sulked like mad because he was 'tired' and he didn't want to be there. I told him to go back to the hotel we'd booked into and I'd ring when I was sorted. Hotel booked because it was snowing and often the road back home is closed when it gets really bad. No if he did that he couldn't be bothered to come and pick me back up. Finally got taken through. Immediately given 3 chewable aspirin, cannula inserted for pain relief and Dr reassuring me that the chances of me needing another lumbar puncture were slim. Put on oxygen and then just left to try and sleep it off once the pain relief was going in. Exh continued to sulk to the extent that when the Dr asked me what level the pain was at and anything above a 4 he wasn't letting me go until it was under control I actually lied and said it down to a 2 just so my ex would stop sulking. It wasn't and that migraine lasted 21 days in total. I spent the time smacked up on painkillers and prochlorperazine.

A wedding. He was designated driver. Only because it involved motorways and that's something I've never been confident on. Plus every other event we'd gone to I've always done the driving, so this time I said he would be the one driving there and back. Well he spent the entire day sulking because he couldn't have a drink. Refused to go and get some oil for my car when the oil light had been on for the entire journey there and the way back, said it was fine he'd taken it to the garage a few days before and it was just a faulty light. The engine blew up the following day when I was driving it ( oil put in I wasn't risking it, it was empty) leaving me stranded about 4 miles from home on a busy road in the dark. Wouldn't come out to me so I could ring the AA as they would only come out if he was in the car with me. An AA van did actually turn back and see if I was ok and towed me back to the garage. Rang ex up and said the driver had said he would sort out payments via a card once we were back. Clearly stated bring your joint bank card with you. What did he turn up with cash. Then sulked and got pissed because I had a go at him for not listening properly. He broke up with me the next day whilst I was on a train going away for a few days. Is words were you'd better change. Change meant not having any friends my that I had many anyway. He'd already seen to that, and I as never allowed to refuse to have sex with him ever again. Told him that was never going to happen and I was glad the marriage was over. I will add about 2-3 years later when I was getting some Cat food off him ( only he could order it from the Vets) it was raining and he asked if I'd drop him off. Didn't think anything would happen so I said I would. How wrong was I leant over kept roughly grabbing my boobs, trying to ram his hand between my legs and when I told him to get the fuck away from me he said even though we aren't together anymore you are still my wife ( divorce not finalised) and I can still do what I want to you. I pulled the car into a shop car park and told him if he didn't get out straight away I'd phone the police and any time I needed Cat food he could pay for it and I'd collect it from the Vets myself. Shit that was long sorry!

Some of these are appalling! And some are just hilarious.

My exP:

Chatting while painting a room, obliquely referred to dating in the past, suddenly realised he wasn't there, assumed loo, when he wasn't back 15 mins later I went to check and found him sitting in the lounge in a monumental sulk that I'd been open to dates 'because he'd never thought of me as a prostitute'

When a professional chef friend said that a dish he'd cooked wouldn't be served in his restaurant because of the cost of the ingredients - he sulked prodigiously and then accused me and the chef of flirting (in front of the chef's wife who didn't know where to put herself)

On a holiday of a lifetime in Latin America, not speaking to me for 3 days straight while I tried to keep up appearances with my parents who'd joined us for a special part of it...

When I dumped him, he threatened to kill himself until I called the police for a welfare check - that sulk was epic and finished with him threatening to take me to court (still not sure what for, exactly)

I’m sorry for your loss of your friend.

• My first mother’s day
• after my egg collection for IVF when I couldn’t think of anywhere for lunch while coming around from being under
• all holiday in my home country (long haul) to see my family
• when I wanted a bin in the kitchen instead of a garbage bag on the floor (took YEARS)
• basically whenever I had an opinion or voice of my own

Hundreds of times my ex sulked and manipulated.
Sleeping on the floor of a weekend break French hotel because...who knows?
Shouting at me down the phone on the day of my mothers funeral because I hadn't text him back.
Complained about our dd shoes, her slight tooth non alignment and his suit had not been dry cleaned, on a house move day, why?!
Whined about how bright the hospital lights were while I was in labour.
Cancelled his New Years Eve plans and then sulked for days because I didn't invite him along to an invite I had received.
Asked me where I wanted to go for my birthday dinner, Italian I said, sulked because "Italians can't cook steaks"
His house warming party, ignored me in the most dramatic and scene stealing way because he says, "I looked at a woman in THAT way." What woman? What way? No clues here.
And on and on and on.
I hope he lives a really long life and every day is an absolute and utter disappointment to him.

@crochetcatcrazy

Yours are definitely my favourites!

I think some of these are worthy of getting printed on t-shirts
I married a sulker too, ridiculous man. Sulked his way through the divorce too

Think I can beat it: sulked when I found out my DF had cancer and was upset at him being very ill. I mean I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. I cried a little, hugged DF, was a bit sad. Ex’s response whilst sulking: ‘he’s not dead yet.’
I could write a book!

I once had a friend whose dad stopped talking to the rest of the family (two kids and their mum) for a couple of YEARS.

They got kind of used to it, I think.

This thread is so depressing. Why do we women put up with such behaviour, we set the bar far too low.

This is hilarious 😂 I can't stop laughing 🤣

I once watched my Uncle - who must have been around 60 at the time - throw an epic tantrum when exchanging Christmas gifts with my parents.

My parents had bought a house phone (back in the day when you plugged in a landline and phone extension was a good thing to have) because my Aunt, his wife had asked for that as a Christmas present.

He opened this thing and threw an absolute tantrum the likes of which I've never seen on a small child. "I can't get bloody Janice off the phone, why would I want another one?"

And then he said "I'm pouting now" and crossed his arms over his chest and stuck his bottom lip out.

He was serious.

My parents had also at some point commissioned a painting of him (god knows why, as if his rampant narcissism needed feeding more) for his birthday the following year, so they gave that to him early to stop the tantrum.

Not seen that manchild in years but on the off chance he's reading this - Uncle Alan you're a twat.

After years and years of begging to go on a holiday, I gave up begging.
I worked my butt off to save and take myself and kids away for 2 weeks. Had the most amazing chilled two weeks of my life! When we got back he didn't speak to me for a whole week.

My Exh sulked

• On the way to get my biopsy results which we knew were for cancer (he decided on that journey to bring up his lack of sex life
• During Chemo
• Before Radiotherapy
• On every single holiday we had, and these sulks ruined the day for the children too
• When I wouldn’t wear a dress out for dinner
• Whenever I went out anywhere

He is now firmly my ex, and that was just the tip of the iceberg really.

Oh, and most Christmas’s, birthdays and Mother’s days

Ultrasound of DC when we found out I was having a girl. He stormed out.

Also, during the birth of our second child. I swore at him in Labour, so he went and sat down and didn’t engage again

It’s funny but it’s not. What IS going on here with these men? It’s basic abuse/misogyny in most cases and so much wider spread than I thought sadly…

I ended up in a relationship with another sulker/tantrum thrower/projector of his bad behaviour onto me after the first. I’m sort of losing hope of finding anyone who doesn’t !

My birthday
New Year
When we got engaged.
My dad’s funeral
My grandmother’s funeral

What an arsehole…

Went out for a meal with my ex and kids. He doesn't like onion. Asked for a burger without onion, but when it was served it had onion. He refused to eat it and refused to send it back and refused to take the onion off, then stormed out and waited outside for us to eat our meal.

I made sure we had dessert.

And I left him.

About 3 days after my Dad had died suddenly and unexpectedly. My exh turned round to me and said you should just put it behind you and move on it's in the past.

When I was lying in bed recovering from surgery on hardcore drugs. Stood there with a straight face and said how stressed he was and he had to go back to work. 16hrs away. Leaving me with one working arm and 3 kids.

Sulked when I was making snow balls with my son quite happily and son started smashing them up, you know, as you can, and you can make more. He stormed off and didn’t reappear for an hour or so. I was hungry he said.