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Pinkpoet support thread (TW for SA)

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PinkPoetAgain1 · 08/06/2026 12:05

Just starting a new thread for those who are following/supporting

I’m all over the place mentally at the moment as I said in my last thread but I’m still listening xx

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ThisIsPinkPoet · 08/07/2026 23:01

FiloPasty · 08/07/2026 22:57

Demanding physical affection, do you feel that you can’t just say no, why you capitulate so much. I had so little energy for sex when I had v small children. Is it that you don’t feel like you can? Id lie, say I’d been to the doctor and I have a polyp or something and no sex for 6 weeks, you need a break!

Im just sad for you poet x especially in this heat. I’m sleeping in a separate bed at the moment it’s so hot!

I don’t just mean sex but no, I don’t often feel like I can say no , and he would never go for 6 weeks without moaning, begging, making me feel guilty or insisting on ‘other things’ or potentially crossing lines and forcing me as he has before. 6 weeks would be an eternity for him.

but I was actually referring to other aspects of kind of ‘needy’ behaviour like demanding I give him cuddles or kisses or sit on his lap or let him touch my body

DoesthislookgoodOnMe · 08/07/2026 23:18

What do you think has triggered this behaviour?

FiloPasty · 08/07/2026 23:20

Hypothetically imagine he was sent on a work project and you had six weeks off, how do you think you would feel?

murasaki · 08/07/2026 23:25

ThisIsPinkPoet · 08/07/2026 23:01

I don’t just mean sex but no, I don’t often feel like I can say no , and he would never go for 6 weeks without moaning, begging, making me feel guilty or insisting on ‘other things’ or potentially crossing lines and forcing me as he has before. 6 weeks would be an eternity for him.

but I was actually referring to other aspects of kind of ‘needy’ behaviour like demanding I give him cuddles or kisses or sit on his lap or let him touch my body

You are allowed to say no, and in this heat I'm surprised you haven't at least once...

Hes still being completely unreasonable, even if he's not assaulting you at present.

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 08/07/2026 23:46

' or let him touch my body ' YUK

do you think he is planning on raping you when you are staying with these friends - as it's not likely that you will cry out or leave the bed

will any of your children be in the same bedroom with you

ThisIsPinkPoet · 09/07/2026 06:44

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 08/07/2026 23:46

' or let him touch my body ' YUK

do you think he is planning on raping you when you are staying with these friends - as it's not likely that you will cry out or leave the bed

will any of your children be in the same bedroom with you

It’s on my mind. The two youngest will be in with us , not in the same bed though. They are good friends of us both. We will have a nice time but he doesn’t like not being the ‘boss’ in his own home and it can make him a bit tetchy.

he has tried it on in the past with sleeping children in the room. Which I hate and say no. Even if we can be ‘quiet’ . They are not near us and wouldn’t wake but I just wouldn’t like it.

ThisIsPinkPoet · 09/07/2026 07:03

DoesthislookgoodOnMe · 08/07/2026 23:18

What do you think has triggered this behaviour?

He gets a bit needy on and off sometimes. I’ve noticed he fights for my attention when the kids or work are taking a lot of it.
he is also more moody and pent up during major football tournaments

DoesthislookgoodOnMe · 09/07/2026 08:07

@PinkPoetAgain1 its interesting what you say about the football being on. Women’s aid have cited a correlation of the World Cup being on and an increase in domestic abuse. They can even pin point the times. I am really sorry you are going through this. He is possessive of you putting it mildly. You must feel under pressure to satisfy everyone with not a minute to yourself.

YourOliveBalonz · 09/07/2026 08:09

You’ll be aware of the campaigns around domestic abuse and major football tournaments? They usually depict shocking images because that’s what you need in something visual, so a woman with black eyes. But can you see that with his moody and pent-up behaviour also escalating - he also assaulted you during half time recently leading to your graphic nightmare - that he follows the patterns of other abusers? I just wanted to point that out; he doesn’t batter you but his own brand of abuse escalates.

I also need to say that having sex with children in the room who could easily wake and hear something is not ok. It is actually a form of child sexual abuse.

throwawayimplantchat · 09/07/2026 08:11

ThisIsPinkPoet · 09/07/2026 06:44

It’s on my mind. The two youngest will be in with us , not in the same bed though. They are good friends of us both. We will have a nice time but he doesn’t like not being the ‘boss’ in his own home and it can make him a bit tetchy.

he has tried it on in the past with sleeping children in the room. Which I hate and say no. Even if we can be ‘quiet’ . They are not near us and wouldn’t wake but I just wouldn’t like it.

What kind of ages were the kids when he tried to have sex with you while they were sleeping in the same room?

YourOliveBalonz · 09/07/2026 08:14

FiloPasty · 08/07/2026 22:57

Demanding physical affection, do you feel that you can’t just say no, why you capitulate so much. I had so little energy for sex when I had v small children. Is it that you don’t feel like you can? Id lie, say I’d been to the doctor and I have a polyp or something and no sex for 6 weeks, you need a break!

Im just sad for you poet x especially in this heat. I’m sleeping in a separate bed at the moment it’s so hot!

This would rely on him having any sort of decency or care for her. I can recall a few threads ago, PinkPoet did mention soreness or a UTI and that she needed to not have sex - and I think she woke to him raping her that night after saying again before bed that sex was off the cards. This is also the man who was by the sounds of it demanding blow jobs in the immediate postpartum period.

Sorry, every time I write I can’t quite get over what a disgusting horrible man he is.

faial · 09/07/2026 08:14

He also gropes her when the kids are in the room and he thinks they aren't looking.

FMc208 · 09/07/2026 08:15

ThisIsPinkPoet · 09/07/2026 06:44

It’s on my mind. The two youngest will be in with us , not in the same bed though. They are good friends of us both. We will have a nice time but he doesn’t like not being the ‘boss’ in his own home and it can make him a bit tetchy.

he has tried it on in the past with sleeping children in the room. Which I hate and say no. Even if we can be ‘quiet’ . They are not near us and wouldn’t wake but I just wouldn’t like it.

That’s child sexual abuse!! Christ.

YourOliveBalonz · 09/07/2026 08:24

It sounds like you didn’t realise it would be a form of sexual abuse, but you say no anyway - to the man you usually can’t say no to - because you do know that doesn’t feel right. So what does that tell you about him? Why would he initiate sex in those circumstances? At best, a complete lack of care towards your children’s wellbeing. At worst, the wrongness of it is why he wants to do it. I’m not talking about a baby who sleeps in your room for best part of a year and is oblivious, but actual children in same room.

Don’t for a moment think it’s his overwhelming desire that just so happens to arise with the children being there. I can’t believe that a person with the world’s highest libido would want sex in those circumstances.

HyggeTygge · 09/07/2026 08:35

he doesn’t like not being the ‘boss’ in his own home and it can make him a bit tetchy.

God, what a pathetic specimen he is.
And then to take out these mild feelings of powerlessness (mild because it's not like his health or livelihood are in any way threatened by staying at a friend's house!) on you and the children. It's so disproportionate.

It seems like he's never matured enough to live with mild inconvenience without having to make others feel bad?

NettleTea · 09/07/2026 08:43

yes, I think that he likes it when you DONT want it, specifically. Remember when you were beiong really forward in your sexual initiating - he didnt like it did he. And he had to turn you over to finish because he couldnt engage with you intimately. Thats so many shades of wrong that its hard to know where to start.

I think we can safely say that he is turned on by you not wanting sex, or being in positions where you cant give consent - ie when you are asleep. Or when you will be uncomfortable, so when you are pregnant or unwell or in pain, or crying.

He gets turned on by your distress. So when you should be working or looking after the kids, he is pestering - it makes him feel powerful to take attention that he knows should be directed elsewhere - like he has won.

The same in the friends house - he doesnt like someone else being in charge - this is all about really unhealthy thought processes and how he views himself as the alpha male in every circumstance - but does it not also show you how fucked up his thinking is, that he should be so fragile that being a guest in someones home threatens his masculinity? Its pathetic. But them most of these kinds of men, behind the bravado, have fragile little egos, but thats what makes them dangerous, because its easily damaged and the repercussions are usually violent. Somewhere in his development, probably so far back he doesnt even know it and would never be able to fix it, something has gone wrong and his world has been built up with some really damaging messages - further enforced and embedded by 'the game', and reinforced by your marriage.

NettleTea · 09/07/2026 08:46

and this need to be the alpha male has played out before, with your father specifically, twice.
it seems alot of his behaviour is to do with showing other men what kind of man he is.
and this is another reason why Id be prepared to believe he has shared those photos/videos. Because it also feeds into the admiration from other men who also think the way he does.

ThisIsPinkPoet · 09/07/2026 08:56

YourOliveBalonz · 09/07/2026 08:24

It sounds like you didn’t realise it would be a form of sexual abuse, but you say no anyway - to the man you usually can’t say no to - because you do know that doesn’t feel right. So what does that tell you about him? Why would he initiate sex in those circumstances? At best, a complete lack of care towards your children’s wellbeing. At worst, the wrongness of it is why he wants to do it. I’m not talking about a baby who sleeps in your room for best part of a year and is oblivious, but actual children in same room.

Don’t for a moment think it’s his overwhelming desire that just so happens to arise with the children being there. I can’t believe that a person with the world’s highest libido would want sex in those circumstances.

It’s not really like that, more like the rare occasion we have been on a 2 week holiday and have a baby or toddler on campbed fast asleep on the other side of the room. Not older kids. 2 weeks is a long time for him to go without so he might suggest we are quiet or do it in the bathroom or something . That’s what I mean

we are only at our friends for 2 nights so should be ok if we do it just before we go

faial · 09/07/2026 08:57

Why would he initiate sex in those circumstances? At best, a complete lack of care towards your children’s wellbeing.

This, but it could also be partly due to a lack of boundaries. I remember Poet saying that they both visited friends and her husband was saying to the friends that Poet had had him up all night having sex with him, or something to that effect. No healthily boundaried person would do that - essentially involving others in their sex life without the others' consent. Which is exactly what having sex (or rape) with kids in the room or groping her with them in the room is.

faial · 09/07/2026 08:59

Doing it in the bathroom of a friend's house because he can't wait 2 days? That is grim.

DoesthislookgoodOnMe · 09/07/2026 09:04

faial · 09/07/2026 08:59

Doing it in the bathroom of a friend's house because he can't wait 2 days? That is grim.

I think Poet meant on holiday :(

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 09/07/2026 09:08

' have a baby or toddler on campbed fast asleep on the other side of the room. '

most people do not put a baby on a ' campbed ' for the babies safety.

' on the other side of the room. '

how large is this bedroom that your friends have as you are trying to make it sound big thus making it ok to have sex with your children in the room

faial · 09/07/2026 09:08

DoesthislookgoodOnMe · 09/07/2026 09:04

I think Poet meant on holiday :(

Oh sorry yes you're right.

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 09/07/2026 09:18

' 2 weeks is a long time for him to go without so he might suggest we are quiet or do it in the bathroom or something '

he is not a car that needs serviced once a year,

but he finds two weeks is too long not to have sex that's why he raped you during pregnancy

this is your life as it is, this is your life for the next 5, 10, 20 years

he will still be having sex with you against your will when you are in your 60's and 70's

life expectancy is 79 for a man, so you would be 67 of course he may live until his 90's which would make you in your 80's

and of course there would be no groping of you in the kitchen in front of the children as they will be long gone, just the 2 of you so he can just have you on the kitchen floor or over the kitchen table any morning afternoon he likes when ever he likes and as often as he likes

no need to wait until 8.30 when the children are in bed, no need to wake you up at 5.30.

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