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How d'yu cope with a husband who calls you names sarcastically? ..

8 replies

NetPotato · 24/12/2008 21:06

My husband scarcastically called me a very depressing name.. and i cant get it out of my head. its killing me pliz please help!
i've recently had a baby and obviously i gained weight hence the name calling.

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JacksFirstChristmasMama · 24/12/2008 21:10

Errrmmm... you tell him he's being a twat and that picking on you for weight gain due to pregnancy is not on?
WTF was up his arse?
Has he no respect for the enormous thing you just accomplished - growing a baby and giving birth to it? Who cares about a few pounds??? They will eventually go away.
I'd be tempted to accidentally knee him in the bits. for you!!

sagacious · 24/12/2008 21:11

I would tell him to fuck off

aGalChangedHerName · 24/12/2008 21:11

Knee him in the balls??

Name calling not on in my book. DH knows better tbh.

Has he always been like this?

slavetomykids · 24/12/2008 21:19

Sort it out now other wise it will get worse.

slackrunner · 24/12/2008 21:21

Tell him he's a complete bellend.

JacksFirstChristmasMama · 24/12/2008 21:24

I'd be tempted to find a flaw of his and pick on it relentlessly. Give him a taste of his own medicine.
Not very mature, I do know that, but he needs to know how bad it feels to be belittled for something out of your current control. Just about everyone is a little more "padded" after having a baby! Ok, there are some freaks women out there who've shed it all within a week of giving birth but they usually have the benefit of being on a magazine cover and have been touched up with PhotoShop!!
If you're too nice to retaliate in kind, could you look him in the eye and say "name-calling is not on. You're belittling me and I won't have it." ?

LittleJingleBellas · 24/12/2008 21:30

I would tell him I wanted a serious talk with him and not an argument.

Then I would sit down with him and tell him that I was hurt and upset by his comments and that I felt he obviously had no respect for me, because otherwise he wouldn't make them. And that I want to live with a man who loves and cherishes and respects me and not one who undermines and insults me and behaves as if he doesn't love me.

And ask him whether he is going to be the former man or the latter.

If he tried to make light of it, or deny it's happening, or pretend that I'm over-reacting, I would point out that if I think it's a problem it's a problem, that my feelings are important and I want them acknowledged.

And then I'd hit him round the head with a wet kipper.

BlueSapphire77 · 24/12/2008 21:57

I'd politely ask if he wanted a kick up the clack.
Everyone elses' comments are spot on
Mine is one of those who loses his temper easily and starts name calling, i just got to the point now where i sigh and ignore it, or call him a moron/frog/whatever, and just laugh at him which infuriates him (the being laughed at)
I expect i should tell him name calling isn't on but i have never been particularly bothered by most of the things he says, it seems to me his vocabulary is limited (dumbass) the only time he upset me was when he called me a c u n t and i said 'i might be but at least they're useful' then asked him if he would like to call it me again and lose his d-i-c-k
He bottled it lol
Has never called me anything in anger and never in front of the kids though, he seems to make a joke out of it.
Imagine him being pecked by a turkey
Then decide what kind of person you are and that will determine how you react.
Sorry to anyone who thinks i should tell him it isn't on but i am pretty placid and thats why i react the way i do.

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