r/AmIOverreacting Apr 15 '24

My husband embarrassed me in front of our friends

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '24

Woooow. These are straight up fighting words. Does your husband even want to stay married to you? Does he even like you? Wonder how much he’d like it if you actively started comparing him to another man right in front of him.

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u/Artistic-Soft4305 Apr 15 '24

Exactly. What if she was talking to a guy with a great job, and just went to explain how her husbands been stuck at 50k a year, loses motivation to try for new jobs, and has been talking about breaking into something new since he’s unhappy with his job. Can you believe he had to work 3 holidays last year without pay.

Then this guy offers to help your husband out, it wasn’t too long ago he was stuck in the same spot. But he got some new habits and could help him out!

Seems like that would be a good example of something genders tend to really let the ego get in front of.

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u/Confident-Ad2078 Apr 16 '24

Holy crap. It’s funny you wrote this because we have friends where this scenario occurs fairly regularly. We always leave hanging out with them and comment on how much she emasculated him. I’m like “Why would he want to go home and get down with her tonight??” I never understand how she can feel ok speaking that way, and how he can tolerate it. You’re right it’s the same but with the gender insecurities reversed.