WHAT HE SAYS TO YOU
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WHAT HE SAYS TO OTHERS

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To you: You’re too beautiful to do the housework. I don’t want you to cook/clean/tidy.

To others: She thinks she’s too good to do the cleaning. She never does anything around the house.
To you: You are so good to your friends, they don’t deserve you and everything you do for them.

To others: She thinks you’re ungrateful and don’t appreciate everything she does for you.
To you: Your friends all badmouth you behind your back

To others: You know she badmouths you to me all the time, right?
To you: Come with me. My friends would love to see you too. They adore you.

To others: See? She won’t leave me alone, she wouldn’t let me come out to see you and INSISTED on coming along.
To you: My preference is to be with you. Always. I would rather be with you than see people I don’t really have a connection with.

To others: She insists I stay home with her and gets angry if I go out.
To you: I love you so much.

To others: She is smothering me with her demands.
To you: I would love to have a baby with you.

To others: She tricked me into getting pregnant.
To you: I love your mind and how you think.

To others: She is so stupid it really winds me up.
To you: I really fancy you and don’t need to look at another woman. You are all I need.

To others: Hello, I need to know your name. You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.
To you: You are a great mum

To others: I have to stay with her to protect the children.
To you: Your friend tried it on with me,

To others: Hey, fancy coming out for a drink with me?
To you: How does this f****ing pushchair collapse?

To others: I do everything, I do all the night feeds, she can't even breastfeed.
To you: I don’t have women friends.

To others: I only have women friends because I don’t trust men.
To you: You are naturally beautiful, you don’t need any make-up.

To others: She’s let herself go.
To you: I do NOT want you spending money on XYZ without consulting me.

To others: She spends all my money.
To you: I don’t want to be with you anymore. I need space to find myself.

To others: She kicked me out.
To you: You don’t need to learn to drive. I will drive you wherever you need to go.

To others: She refuses to learn to drive and expects me to drive her everywhere.
To you: Don’t speak unless you’ve had permission to speak.

To others: She won’t let me speak, she interrupts me every time.
To you: Here’s a spreadsheet of everything you have spent in the last week and we need to go through each item to see if it was necessary.

To others: I let her deal with all the household stuff.
To you: It’s important for us, as a couple, that all our friendships are mutual.

To others: It’s important to have friendships outside of the relationship.
To you: No one understands me like you do

To others: She doesn’t understand me.
To you: I'll help with the kids at the weekend.

To others: I'll meet you at the pub on Saturday. The wife doesn't want to come and I'll relax at the golf course on Sunday.

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