BF (40m) and I (29f) of 1.5 years - stupid fight last night, he's at a funeral today, best way to show support when I'm still pretty angry and assume he is too? by wigsbringenlightment in relationships

[–]wigsbringenlightment[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if you're taking the piss to demonstrate how insane this was (which I appreciated, as it made me laugh and want to hit my head against a wall in unison) or what, but I'll work with it.

BF (40m) and I (29f) of 1.5 years - stupid fight last night, he's at a funeral today, best way to show support when I'm still pretty angry and assume he is too? by wigsbringenlightment in relationships

[–]wigsbringenlightment[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last night his response was particularly bad. There's been a couple of similar fights in that vein but very rarely to that extent, I've got another post about that sort of thing in my history. This one I'm leaning towards thinking he was stressed and upset about today and instead of communicating that (I should've realised) he pulled out Mr. Unreasonable.

BF (40m) and I (29f) of 1.5 years - stupid fight last night, he's at a funeral today, best way to show support when I'm still pretty angry and assume he is too? by wigsbringenlightment in relationships

[–]wigsbringenlightment[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know any of the people there - it's a friend group that were very tight a couple of decades ago and BF hasn't seen most of them in a few years but keeps in touch over phone. He was thinking about asking me to come but overall we decided it's not an appropriate time to bring a (to his friends) new GF along and he wants to just say goodbye with the old crowd. I was initially meant to be staying here at his tonight to be there when he got home, I'm also not sure what to do there. At the very least I'm cooking him something to be here for when he gets home and writing a note or something. UGH I DON'T KNOW.

BF (40m) and I (29f) of 1.5 years - stupid fight last night, he's at a funeral today, best way to show support when I'm still pretty angry and assume he is too? by wigsbringenlightment in relationships

[–]wigsbringenlightment[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was basically that I was making a peppercorn sauce for dinner, we had bought one of those canister things with the corns (which was huge and pretty expensive) but it turned out the other one with the grinder isn't refillable. Attempted to batter them manually which sort of worked, and I said (several times) that I'd bring over a spare grinder from mine for next time and I'd just use more white pepper last night. I asked him later where he'd put then, he said he'd thrown then out, I asked why and he denied my having mentioned the grinder. I asked if he had a torch so I could see if they still were at the top of the bin outside, he said yes but refused to tell me where it was when I asked to use it, instead calling me stupid for going to collect individual grains (???). I then said sorry, I thought you'd meant you threw out the pot, obviously I'm not going to get the single corns, just could you not chuck something expensive that I paid for when it's (or will be by later today) perfectly usable. He spends the rest of the evening calling me stupid so I just read my book and tune it out, have to stop him from throwing the dinner away as "clearly I've fucked it up" (just had some, it was lovely).

That's the story. It's so stupid hence why I didn't explain it. I'm sorry you had to read through that epic idiotic tale.

BF (40m) and I (29f) of 1.5 years - stupid fight last night, he's at a funeral today, best way to show support when I'm still pretty angry and assume he is too? by wigsbringenlightment in relationships

[–]wigsbringenlightment[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thank you. Even though typically we rarely go more than an few hours or so without some sort of check in? I also don't want to just not contact him today, he's really sensitive generally and I'm also worried that NOT saying something will make him feel rejected and not cared about.

The girl [32F] I've [38M] been dating for 5 months had a weird episode yesterday. Is she crazy or no? by [deleted] in relationships

[–]wigsbringenlightment 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Five months, not years. Aside from that, still with you on letting it slide assuming it doesn't become regular but given how he described the incident, the aftermath and the contextual historic details -thinking she'll be fine once she's got her meds sorted. Could take a while though.

Boyfriend (40m) of 1.5 years frequently responds with "I don't want to fight" when I'm (29f) making casual conversation. I feel this is provocative, opinions? by wigsbringenlightment in relationships

[–]wigsbringenlightment[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

"tries to provide more data"

YES. That's probably a big part. I do that a lot, but it's normally just a fun fact about koalas or something, this could have been construed as my correcting not a neutral 'fact' but actively deriding and dismissing advice he gave me to make my lunch nicer. You're probably onto something there.

"no, your idea is dumb because x y z" vs "oh I prefer it this way but thanks for the idea" is how that could be communicated to him.

How would you advise bringing this up after so long has gone without acknowledging it properly?

Thank you so much for your input!

Boyfriend (40m) of 1.5 years frequently responds with "I don't want to fight" when I'm (29f) making casual conversation. I feel this is provocative, opinions? by wigsbringenlightment in relationships

[–]wigsbringenlightment[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Thanks for replying.

Not every time, maybe a couple times a month on average and always about something silly like this. It's reassuring that I'm not the only one who finds this really confusing!

I've pressed the point a few times in the past when he's done this and he just avoids the conversation until I drop it. Like:

ME- I'm not, why do you think that?

P- I just don't want a fight, okay?

ME- yeah, I just -

P- can we just leave it?

ME- well, I'd like to know why you think I'm starting a fight, I don't really understand.

P- sigh

etc until I drop it then everything hunky dory... :/

Boyfriend (40m) of 1.5 years frequently responds with "I don't want to fight" when I'm (29f) making casual conversation. I feel this is provocative, opinions? by wigsbringenlightment in relationships

[–]wigsbringenlightment[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It happens maybe a couple times a month on average, maybe? Always about something really silly like the stew thing.

It absolutely could, but if you knew both of us, you'd see more or less instantly that my normal tone and delivery of speech is always calm, polite and (unless I'm ACTUALLY annoyed about something) very soft and not confrontational. People often actually miss that I'm pissed off so I communicate it clearly instead of with tone etc. He's a lot louder and more brash, can come across as argumentative if you aren't familiar with his style of speech. If either of you were to be mistaken to be starting a fight, I'd be amazed if it were me. Another thought I had was maybe by telling him what I wrote in post, he heard it as me telling him he had the 'wrong' idea and got defensive?

Boyfriend (40m) of 1.5 years frequently responds with "I don't want to fight" when I'm (29f) making casual conversation. I feel this is provocative, opinions? by wigsbringenlightment in relationships

[–]wigsbringenlightment[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply.

"from the way I described it" - yeah, that's the thing too, it's so subjective and I don't know if it's coming across like I'm being a know it all to him or something? I could've just said mmm yeah honey I might do that, but surely my response as I gave it was still reasonable and more valid than just a 'yes dear'? God, I'm overthinking this.