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Partner constantly saying I don't have a sense of humour

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KateRusbyOnTour · 16/12/2024 00:00

Been having some issues at work, including potential redundancy looming but there's no clarity yet about that. Met partner today and discussed and asked for advice. I said let's talk about it now and then we can have some drinks and get on with the afternoon. He told me to tell him and then button it. I wasn't sure I'd heard correctly and asked if he'd said what I thought and he said yes. I told him it wasn't just boring chit chat, it was my life and future, and he told me I don't have a sense of humour. I'm fed up of being told I don't have a sense of humour when he says things like this.

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KateRusbyOnTour · 16/12/2024 10:44

Yes I think I'm going to need a bit of support processing this and extricating myself. It's been a long relationship and looking back, there has been a lot of small Death By A Thousand Papercuts things. I don't talk to friends anymore because they can't be doing with me saying "Guess what he said/did now?" He can be fine at times but it's usually when he gets his own way.

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Isatis · 16/12/2024 10:54

Is he one of those people who says something nasty or offensive and then, when others take offence, claims it was all "banter"? From all your posts, it doesn't sound like he has any redeeming qualities.

KateRusbyOnTour · 16/12/2024 14:30

Isatis · 16/12/2024 10:54

Is he one of those people who says something nasty or offensive and then, when others take offence, claims it was all "banter"? From all your posts, it doesn't sound like he has any redeeming qualities.

I've never heard him say anything to anyone else, only about them but if I have objected I'm usually told to stop being boring or it was a joke or something like that.

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Pensionswew · 16/12/2024 14:32

So you have lost friends because they were sick of listening to telling them what a twat he is?

Really OP?
Time to move on.

MrsTerryPratchett · 16/12/2024 14:35

KateRusbyOnTour · 16/12/2024 10:44

Yes I think I'm going to need a bit of support processing this and extricating myself. It's been a long relationship and looking back, there has been a lot of small Death By A Thousand Papercuts things. I don't talk to friends anymore because they can't be doing with me saying "Guess what he said/did now?" He can be fine at times but it's usually when he gets his own way.

Your friends will be delighted to have you back. My friend dumped her one like this and we see each other at least weekly now. She often says, "you always knew he was an arsehole". Yes, Sarah, yes I did.

KateRusbyOnTour · 16/12/2024 14:52

Pensionswew · 16/12/2024 14:32

So you have lost friends because they were sick of listening to telling them what a twat he is?

Really OP?
Time to move on.

No, I haven't lost any friends at all. They expressed exasperation with me so I stopped telling them things about him. I still have all my friends and he doesn't get discussed.

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Didsomeonesaydogs · 16/12/2024 14:55

MrsTerryPratchett · 16/12/2024 00:07

It's Schrödinger's joke. Say something horrible, wait for a reaction, if someone doesn't like it, it's magically a 'joke'

The response to this is, "a joke is when the other person laughs". He's an unfunny, unsupportive prick.

I know this as Schrödinger’s arsehole.

Onlyvisiting · 09/03/2025 19:03

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