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If you’ve ever spent time with a couple that sees no wrong in belittling or nagging one another in public, you know how uncomfortable these situations can get for everyone involved.
A few days ago, Reddit user TemppThrowawa submitted a story to the platform’s ‘True Off My Chest‘ community about inadvertently becoming one of these people.
The man said he was drinking and the alcohol pulled on his tongue, releasing the words “you don’t fall in love with looks” from his mouth. The phrase instantly made his wife feel ugly and his damage control isn’t working.
How you treat your spouse in public often reflects the dynamics of your relationship
Image credits: J carter / Pexels (not the actual photo)
So when this man said a hurtful remark about his wife, she began thinking about bigger underlying issues at play
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Her reaction doesn't fit his words. Drunk or not, any rational person can understand what he was trying to say and that it wasn't insulting at all. In a healthy relationship, at worst you get some minor ribbing for your inarticulation.This is likely not the first time or your memory of what you actually said is so far from the truth you don't actually know what really happened. Either way, waiting 6 months to figure that out is insane. This relationship is very clearly over.
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I agree. What he said wasn't that bad. He didn't say she was ugly, only that looks wasn't the only thing important thing that mattered to him in finding a partner. Why is this woman's self-esteem linked to one off-hand comment? She knows that she is attractive apparently. He misspoke. There must be more to his behavior than this. Either her issues with him are much bigger than he knows/admits to, or she has very low self-esteem. What is she going to do when her looks do fade?
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I would love to read Op's wife's version of the story.
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The way it's worded in this post, I can see how he didn't mean to say that she was ugly. I wonder if that's how he actually worded it at the time? I agree that there must have been more going on in the marriage. The way he wrote it almost sounds more like a slip of the tongue than a divorceable action.
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Her reaction doesn't fit his words. Drunk or not, any rational person can understand what he was trying to say and that it wasn't insulting at all. In a healthy relationship, at worst you get some minor ribbing for your inarticulation.This is likely not the first time or your memory of what you actually said is so far from the truth you don't actually know what really happened. Either way, waiting 6 months to figure that out is insane. This relationship is very clearly over.
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I agree. What he said wasn't that bad. He didn't say she was ugly, only that looks wasn't the only thing important thing that mattered to him in finding a partner. Why is this woman's self-esteem linked to one off-hand comment? She knows that she is attractive apparently. He misspoke. There must be more to his behavior than this. Either her issues with him are much bigger than he knows/admits to, or she has very low self-esteem. What is she going to do when her looks do fade?
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I would love to read Op's wife's version of the story.
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The way it's worded in this post, I can see how he didn't mean to say that she was ugly. I wonder if that's how he actually worded it at the time? I agree that there must have been more going on in the marriage. The way he wrote it almost sounds more like a slip of the tongue than a divorceable action.
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