One of my gal pals has been with her guy for about 3 years. She is beautiful, intelligent, kind and extremely secure in herself. Her boyfriend is nice enough, but also one who doesn't think before he speaks. Rough around the edges, an okay guy, but one I can only take in small doses.
He makes comments about other women that I feel are over the top. And she will usually counter with ...
It's hard to say. Maybe he just feels comfortable enough to joke around with her like that and just enjoys the five and take between them. He may not even be aware she is growing tired of it and just having fun thinking she's alright with it. Or maybe he just gets off on seeing her reaction. If she gets jealous he feels good about himself, as though it's a test as to whether or not she cares.
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Originally Posted by PassTheChocolate
Thoughts? ETA: I guess the question should really be, how disrespectful would this be to you?
Enough that I'd not be with him. I'd have left his ass the first time he made such a remark. What an idiot.
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Originally Posted by Coolhand68
It's hard to say. Maybe he just feels comfortable enough to joke around with her like that and just enjoys the five and take between them. He may not even be aware she is growing tired of it and just having fun thinking she's alright with it. Or maybe he just gets off on seeing her reaction. If ...
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Originally Posted by Coolhand68
It's hard to say. Maybe he just feels comfortable enough to joke around with her like that and just enjoys the five and take between them. He may not even be aware she is growing tired of it and just having fun thinking she's alright with it. Or maybe he just gets off on seeing her reaction. If ...
I had an ex BIL that was this way... Constantly making remarks about other women, so much, that I did not want to even be around the man.
I guess his wife just blew it off as to maybe,"this is how he is" type of thing.
A little comment every now and again is fine, but when you have to eat it everytime you turn around, its not funny anymore.
Once a boyfriend and I went to Puerto Rico and he looked and commented on just about every girl on the beach. He had made a couple of comments before but, nothing so obvious.
We lived in different cities so we had different flights and on the plane home... I made a date with another guy. That jerk was free to have all the other girls he wanted at that point.
Update - she walked. As expected, he is blown away and has no clue how this happened. He is completely broken. I actually feel for him to a degree, more so because he is clueless and doomed to experience this again. She did tell me she is conflicted about how she feels, though she wants it to be done. She is sad in that she doesn't want to seem like a snob, but she also can't help but feel she is above it all and isn't ashamed...
Quote: Originally Posted by PassTheChocolate We've all had something to say to him about it at one point or another. I really think he's just that dumb. She's more open minded than most women and he's taking it too far. I don't think he is doing it because he enjoys making her angry. Someone who does it on purpose knows it's wrong, at least. You can't fix stupid. I suspect that in the beginning of the...
Quote: Originally Posted by PassTheChocolate LOL...no doubt. I am pretty sure she'll be giving him a pink slip pretty soon. I give it a year, at the most. Still a year seems like a long time to spend with stupid, IMO. But no one can make that decision for her unfortunately.
Quote: Originally Posted by PassTheChocolate She won't chime in when he behaves like that, other than to point out how foolish he's behaving. She will make a comment about an attractive woman on her own. Oooo, gotcha. That's way annoying. I guess I say, look but don't touch. I'm not very jealous, but I can see how annoying that would be.
Phew. I posted a comment several pages ago but after subsequently ploughing through this whole thread again, what relevance do any of the ongoing responses have? This is not an issue which the OP has. It's an issue which the OP perceives is affecting the relationship between two of her friends and, to her only, is an "issue." The OP's girlfriend hasn't told the OP she has a problem with her boyfriend (unless I...
I am a guy, and this is my humble opinion.... that guy most likely does this same sort of behavior in the company of his male friends, or drinking buddies, also. This other group of his friends, lets call them his pre-relationship buddies. I would suspect that these buddies approve of his behavior, or he would not have this behavior. It would be most unlikely that any normal prior relationship with another woman would have green-lighted this...
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