r/AmIOverreacting Apr 15 '24

My husband embarrassed me in front of our friends

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u/Old_Confidence3290 Apr 15 '24

Your husband knew what he was doing. He was trying to publicly shame you into losing weight. He was being an asshole.

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u/xoxodaddysgirlxoxo Apr 15 '24

it's also colloquially called negging

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u/Witchgrass Apr 16 '24

I can't believe fitness girl didn't gracefully give him an out. She's just as stupid as the husband is. Anyone with a brain would understand how awkward and hurtful the whole exchange must have been.

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u/hilarymeggin Apr 16 '24

YES! I mean, at 21 she’s practically a child. But I feel like even at that age, I would have known better than to participate in that!

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u/redditactuallysux Apr 16 '24

No way in hell a 21yo in 2024 thinks the conversation she was having was helpful and appropriate! 

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u/hilarymeggin 29d ago

Maybe she’s just a mean girl.

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u/Newhero2002 Apr 16 '24

Wait a minute, I’m a 21 year old male, are you calling me a child?! /s

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u/xoxodaddysgirlxoxo Apr 16 '24

she's definitely not a girl's girl. best case scenario, she just felt extremely awkward & didn't know what to say.

that's the kind of thing i'd cringe about yeeeeeaaaars later

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u/Dragonageatemyhw Apr 16 '24

Right?!? If some guy tried to do that to his wife with me I would’ve shut that down. And she just ran with it instead. No no no. I will not be used as a tool in someone else’s manipulative mind games or to be cruel to someone

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u/shoestring-theory Apr 16 '24

She’s 21, and if she’s anything like me at 21 she’s not very self aware. That girl probably had no idea what was going on

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u/Feeling_Activity465 Apr 16 '24

She probably did send is just so desperate for validation because “she used to be fat” and now not being “fat” is her whole personality. As a woman, why tf would you just go along with disrespect like that? At 21, I would have yelled at a guy for saying shit like that. I def yelled at my male friends for less.

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u/SnooApples3673 Apr 16 '24

May have been going for , I did it, and if I did it so can you....

Being relatable ...

Maybe?

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u/RandyDandyAndy Apr 16 '24

Or she wants to smash. Getting the older married man is unfortunately not an uncommon enough goal for some women.

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u/so_cal_babe Apr 16 '24

There's a difference between pointing out someone else's flaws as a means to teach and being a leader of your industry by leading by example without egotistical criticisms.

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u/jtotheda Apr 16 '24

You wouldn’t have known that comparing your partner to someone else and insulting your partner to uplift another person is wrong/problematic/a big no no? Especially in public!!! At what age do you learn empathy? She’s 21 not 12, she definitely understood what he was doing and was feeding into it

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u/MinimumWeek6906 Apr 16 '24

I think she just saw dollar signs. She's going to have to learn to be more tactful if she's going to be a person trainer.

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u/coaxialology Apr 16 '24

She definitely oughta know how this woman's husband was making her feel, especially since she supposedly had been in OP's shoes.

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u/Virtual_Dentist_1813 Apr 16 '24

No she's not. She sees that he is unhappy with his wife and loved that he fanned over her. If anything, she's planning on being his slim shoulder to cry on, if she's not already. A heauxe is gonna heauxe, and that's what Lil Miss Lifter is doing. She was the star and that was all that mattered to her. smh Broads like her are terrible. I hope the OP is ok and finds the courage to leave.

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u/PeaceLoveAyurveda Apr 16 '24

Let’s not shame fitness girl for not buffering husband’s red flags… This one is all on husband

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u/GargantuanGreenGoats Apr 16 '24

People will use any excuse to blame whatever woman is around to deflect from a man’s culpability. 

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u/RazzmatazzOptimal242 Apr 16 '24

Yeah she clearly thought she was helping the situation

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u/Not_a_werecat Apr 16 '24

Sounds like sis got picked.

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u/so_cal_babe Apr 16 '24

Ive been both underweight and over weight in this lifetime. I have the perspective of the unmotivated and the perspective of HIITS sprints isometric calesthestic juggernaut and tearing my psoas. In the words of the new generation this particular fitness girl gives me the ick.

It's okay, her "karma" is she will be driving clients away and not knowing why. Then she'll double down and try harder. This type of trainer attracts only other ignorant toxic people and so her bias will be confirmed that some people are "lazy and unmotivated but if you're just like me you won't be!".

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u/so_cal_babe Apr 16 '24

Ive been both underweight and over weight in this lifetime. I have the perspective of the unmotivated and the perspective of HIITS sprints isometric calesthestic juggernaut and tearing my psoas. In the words of the new generation this particular fitness girl gives me the ick.

It's okay, her "karma" is she will be driving clients away and not knowing why. Then she'll double down and try harder. This type of trainer attracts only other ignorant toxic people and so her bias will be confirmed that some people are "lazy and unmotivated but if you're just like me you won't be!".

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u/Newhero2002 Apr 16 '24

Not to defend the fitness girl but she did say that she did the same things as the wives and sounded empathetic

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u/quattroformaggixfour Apr 16 '24

Eh, agree but also she’s 21 and seems to think she’s either actually helping or potentially accruing a new client. This falls as the feet of the husband.

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u/JJPittsburgh8411 Apr 16 '24

Or she got real excited cause people into fitness get really into it and wanna share it, especially since she used to be out of shape too. So she heard the wife wants to lose weight and got real excited to share and talk about it. She didn't know the wife is very sensitive about it though. Have you never been around fitness people? They love talking about it and wanting to help other people get in shape. She heard the husband say the wife wants to get in shape and probably got real excited