A woman has been left feeling "uncomfortable" with the banter between her husband and a mutual friend as she likened the friendship to "high school flirting."
The disgruntled wife took to Mumsnet to share the dilemma, where she said she and her spouse had met the woman and her boyfriend through a "hobby" her hubby had picked up. Despite claiming her hubby was "very anti-cheating," the poster said she wasn't sure she could trust the other woman.
She told forum users she is not expecting a "steamy affair" but the way the pair were "slinging joke insults" at one another was like "high school flirting." Her fears look set to come to a head soon as the unspecified hobby would require her significant other to travel abroad with the woman, while she stayed home to look after their kids.
The woman is worried about her husband going on a trip away with his new pal (stock) (Getty Images/iStockphoto)She: "There’s a couple a similar age to us – the guy does the hobby and his GF often comes along. Increasingly my DH (dear husband) and this GF have been 'bantering' a lot in a way that looks to me like high school flirting – constant joke insults to each other etc. They were doing it a lot at a recent event, and now in the comments of a social media post. I’m starting to feel a bit annoyed by it.
"My DH is very anti-cheating and I’m sure won’t view this as flirting, I think he would be horrified if someone actually came on to him." She also described the other woman as "one of the boys" and did not trust her fully after some backhanded compliments.
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"What’s annoying is this hobby has a big yearly event in a hot country that they all went along to last year and stayed together in a villa, it’s in term time so I didn’t go as DS (dear son) had started school," she continued, adding she would also probably give the trip a miss this year. "However the idea of DH and this woman’s 'banter' going on all weekend with her in a bikini, and me stuck at home with DS, is making me feel pretty icky."
Other Mumsnet commenters weighed in on the situation and said it sounded "embarrassing" for her. One wrote: "I know exactly the kind of banter you mean. It's very mild flirting, doesn't cross any lines but pretty obvious all the same.
"My DH once had this kind of banter with one of my friends (only on one night when we'd all had a few drinks, not usually). Although in a way it was completely harmless I still felt a bit weird about it.
"I knew it was just fun and neither intended for anything to happen but I just thought, 'Oh pack it in!'. It was embarrassing!"
Another suggested: "Just cringing reading it. Bet there is rolled eyes behind him." A third added: "Tell him exactly how you feel. He's your dh and should take your worries seriously. She sounds awful with her 'backhanded compliments', he might not be flirting but she definitely is."
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