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Partner never takes me out

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FedUpDuck · 31/10/2025 20:01

Anyone else have a partner who just makes no effort to date you? I am really getting fed up and out of ideas to get him to make some effort.
He knows I hate staying in weekend after weekend but apart from the odd Sunday dinner out when he can tell I am really fed up. He just doesn't bother!
I'm not after expensive days out I just want to do stuff together. Apart from the one week holiday, we have had for the past 2 years we have hardly done anything else together.
I wouldn't mind but I also moved away from family and friends to live with him and I have tried so many clubs and things to meet people around here so I could have a social life without him but it's just a lot harder as you get older.

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LucyLoo1972 · 15/02/2026 03:52

TattooStan · 01/11/2025 07:21

My DH is not perfect, but he is good at this. He will suggest we go out for dinner and drinks, and get a table booked.
I do so much at home and to keep our lives ticking over, so do expect him to put some effort in to wining and dining me.
And I don't care if that sounds old fashioned. I'm the higher earner, and we've got a modern relationship in all other respects, but I like to be "taken out" from time to time. If anything, it gives me a reason to get dressed up, which I always enjoy.

yes - my husband never did this and it made me sad. we would go to concerts and thigns he wanted to go to but no effort to take me places id like to go.

Catladywithacat · 16/02/2026 03:22

He’s either cheap or embarrassed to be seen with you. And no you shouldn’t take him out he isn’t your son

tuvamoodyson · 16/02/2026 06:55

Was he very different when you met him?

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