Do you get on with your mates boy/girlfriend?

Do you get on with your mates boy/girlfriend?

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love machine

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7,609 posts

242 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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Throwing all the bollocks about being permissive, tolerant and huggy/kissy out the window, I have just come to the conclusion I can't stand my mates girlfriend. She really rots my bones, tonight I gave up trying to be nice to her and read my book instead.

Jeez, I have finally given in to irrationality. His girlfriend, all I hear is a high pitched "ne-ne-nee-ne-neeh". She just gives him grief and is like a flat tyre on your weekend racer. I have finally lost it and stopped trying to be nice.

My mate and I have a great relationship and he gets on with my bird also. The three of us are extroverts and she (his bird) isn't. She wants to squirrel him away and lead a reclusive lifestyle and resents our friendships. I have tried to be rational and nice and treat her like a battered-rescue dog, but my patience has run out.

Do any of you just want to tell your mates partner to off, or is it just me?

Honestly, it's like kids fighting over a toy. I value a good mate but at the same time, I'm not prepared to fight with a neurotic nutcase.

Strewth...........

v8 westy

940 posts

261 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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you tend to find out who your mates are when the chips are really down, mates will desert you like a sinking ship, then you get to find out who is a true friend!

DanH

12,287 posts

267 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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Generally don't like mates birds. Too many friends 'settle' for reasons I can't fathom. Then again, ones divorced already at 26.

mxdi

13,993 posts

256 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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Its worse when you see your mate changing his ways to keep her happy,which will happen evenyually

mrmaggit

10,146 posts

255 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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Doesn't happen with

I'd been going out with a girl for a couple of months, when I got an argument starting question for no reason.

I just said "I'm not enjoying this anymore", got up and left.

Irascible git, aren't I?

wedgepilot

819 posts

290 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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I used to see a girl who would constantly start arguing with me because she "enjoyed a good argument". And that was one of her better personality traits. Great baps, though.

My mates all hated her, and they were right, but being in the 'eye of the hurricane' as it were, I couldn't see it.

Tell him, he'll thank you later.

Harry Flashman

19,946 posts

249 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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DanH said:

Generally don't like mates birds. Too many friends 'settle' for reasons I can't fathom.


IMHO this appears to say more about your attitude than your friends' girlfriends. They can't all generally be bad people...

birdbrain

1,564 posts

246 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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My best friend is married to a bloke who sometimes winds me up a bit. He's really pompous and generally has a bit of a stick up his ass. He went to a private school and as a result thinks he's a bit special and his parents are the same. That said, she loves him, he treats her well and when he relaxes he's not so bad, I just wish he'd stop being so superior.

One of my sisters has a habit of going out with complete w4nkers and the other has a long term boyfriend who has a great personality and we get on really well but he doesn't treat her very well. She won't break up with him though because she read in some dumb women's magazine that you should imagine you're going to die in a week and the person you want to spend your last week with is the person you should be with. I mean, WTF??

filmidget

682 posts

289 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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I got on with a mates girl really well...

So well that I married her last year

CharlieAlpha66

570 posts

242 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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Very well, too well usually....

My last four girlfriend's best mates have all fancied me for themselves - and made it known. After splitting up with one girlfriend and moving away a few years ago, a month later I spent the weekend in bed with her closest girlfriend, after flying her down South from Glasgow for 3 days/2 nights of debauchery in my new house. It was a one-off but I have got the polaroids to assist with the memories

Night's out with another girlfriend and her best mate (plus her other half) often tended to get interesting towards the end of the night too, alcohol having played it's part....

vixpy1

42,676 posts

271 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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Always get on brilliantly with mates Girlfriends. Its my female friends boyfriends I usually don't get on with!

tinman0

18,231 posts

247 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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Harry Flashman said:

DanH said:

Generally don't like mates birds. Too many friends 'settle' for reasons I can't fathom.



IMHO this appears to say more about your attitude than your friends' girlfriends. They can't all generally be bad people...


errm, have you lot missed the plot?

the mates girlfriend is the one shagging him on a regular basis. you (as the mate) are not.

duh.

agent006

12,058 posts

271 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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tinman0 said:

the mates girlfriend is the one shagging him on a regular basis. you (as the mate) are not.


Glad you cleared that one up for us, i wondered who she was.

Lois-PIE

14,706 posts

259 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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Pretty much get on with mates' partners.
Not had that many like mine though...but that's cos I seem to go out with pigs!

vixpy1

42,676 posts

271 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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Lois-PIE said:

Not had that many like mine though...but that's cos I seem to go out with pigs!


Oink Oink!

Lois-PIE

14,706 posts

259 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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never gone out with you though!

vixpy1

42,676 posts

271 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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Lois-PIE said:
never gone out with you though!


There's a gag about making you squeal like a pig..

but its too obvious!

love machine

Original Poster:

7,609 posts

242 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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Managed to put on "Mr Nice" again today.

The "Why don't you just shut up?" was on the tip of my tongue all the time though.

I may as well just have an automated electronic reply thing which, when it hears "ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-whingy-whine" says " off", "Get a grip" "Do you want a slap?" and then if I got really irritated, I could just hit her with it

groucho

12,134 posts

253 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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I can say that I get on with most of may mate's girlfriends or wives.

Grouch.

rob_f

4,133 posts

271 months

Wednesday 29th December 2004
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mrmaggit said:
Doesn't happen with

I'd been going out with a girl for a couple of months, when I got an argument starting question for no reason.

I just said "I'm not enjoying this anymore", got up and left.

Irascible git, aren't I?


I'm exactly the same, and i did exactly the same with a girl i'd been seeing for about 18 months about 6 weeks ago.

I also found that my mate, who's got a long term girlfriend that is slowly trying to turn him into a good christian house husband said he really respected what i did and good for me etc. Will he do it with his bird? Nope. Sad that he can't be stronger.

Rob.