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Partners insensitive comment

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BrightMauveCat · 02/02/2025 09:13

A little back story, we met around 4 years ago, engaged and getting married this year. We have a nearly 2 year old and I'm in peri, so as you can imagine in knackered. I also have an ill father and two older teens who certainly keep me on my toes.
So last night we were watching a program and I mentioned how latina women are always so beautiful, as in well groomed, feisty etc which I admire. I was also like this before peri got its hands on me.
Now my partner who has never actually made me feel crappy about myself, turned around and said that Columbian women are the most beautiful of the latina women. Now this is where I I felt that horrible drop in the stomach, I know I've let myself go to a certain point. He sees this and continues with, " well you perv over other men". I actually don't as I have absolutely no interest in other men (another wonder of peri).
I might add our sex life has also gone downhill with all my issues and work etc.

I know it's normal for men to look but he is fully aware of how I feel right now as we have good communication and i found it insensitive, I feel horrible about myself and how I am at the moment but I also wonder if I'm over reacting?

Would you ladies feel the same way?

OP posts:
Disturbia81 · 02/02/2025 11:04

I get what you mean OP, I don't like hearing comments like that but you did make one first. Just avoid any comments about looks etc.

Apileofballyhoo · 02/02/2025 12:36

BrightMauveCat · 02/02/2025 10:21

@Apileofballyhoo no, I've only been offered the coil. I'm so over it already, it's turned me into a different person and as you can tell it's hard to navigate life when you feel this way.

I'd ask for full HRT. I ran off crying into the bedroom when DH and DS started watching a programme I had no interest in without me. They watch tv together all the time and I'm not much of a TV person so this was so off the wall. That's probably my most extreme one, but another day I thought my colleague/friend was insinuating I should give up work because they showed concern about me, and I thought another absolutely lovely colleague/friend was annoyed when they weren't at all. Just perfectly normal things that I completely misread and overreacted to. I'm usually never bothered by anything people say or do, I don't take things the wrong way or react.

Cheesandcrackers · 02/02/2025 13:25

It's really about you TBH. He responded to your comment and you didn't like the answer. Which wasn't the worst answer ever to be fair. Just learn from this and choose your battles. I m betting you feel worse at this stage than if you'd just shrugged it off.

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