Online Boundaries Within Relationships

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Anyone - male or female - who say they never masturbate are LIARS!!!!!!!!! It’s perfectly natural, perfectly normal and why in the heck are people lying about this?!!!!!
I genuinely most definitely do not masturbate. Not against it at all, don't judge people who do. Just doesn't interest me. Never feel the need when I've got a man sat right there lol.
 
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Anyone - male or female - who say they never masturbate are LIARS!!!!!!!!! It’s perfectly natural, perfectly normal and why in the heck are people lying about this?!!!!!
I dont
I used to all the time but since I've had the baby I just can't be arsed 🤣
Self pleasure to me is a full 8 hours sleep and an uninterrupted meal time 🤣
 
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My boyfriend is really open with me about watching porn, we talk about it all the time. His first question about me moving in was ‘what if you walk in on me having a tank’ and we laughed about danger wanks.

He actually said to me the other day that if he was single he’d have subscribed to his favourite porn stars only fans account and I said it wouldn’t bother me if he did to look but he’d be crossing the line if he messaged.

I wouldn’t ever go through his phone. I’m sure he messages girl friends and he probably thinks it’s perfectly friendly and nice but I know I’d be hurt by it. I sometimes message guy friends and that’s completely platonic, I’m aware of the double standard 🤣

He will quite openly look at whatever I’m doing on my phone whereas I think he can be quite guarded with his but that could just be in my head.

The thing that annoys me is it’s ALWAYS in his hand. I‘ll feel him move his arm above my head when we’re having a cuddle so he can see his damn phone. If we watch tv together, he’s on his phone. It’s started creeping into meal times when we sit at the table so I might speak to him and draw a line. He plays a lot of games on his phone and likens it to me watching tv 🙄
 
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My boyfriend is really open with me about watching porn, we talk about it all the time. His first question about me moving in was ‘what if you walk in on me having a tank’ and we laughed about danger wanks.

He actually said to me the other day that if he was single he’d have subscribed to his favourite porn stars only fans account and I said it wouldn’t bother me if he did to look but he’d be crossing the line if he messaged.

I wouldn’t ever go through his phone. I’m sure he messages girl friends and he probably thinks it’s perfectly friendly and nice but I know I’d be hurt by it. I sometimes message guy friends and that’s completely platonic, I’m aware of the double standard 🤣

He will quite openly look at whatever I’m doing on my phone whereas I think he can be quite guarded with his but that could just be in my head.

The thing that annoys me is it’s ALWAYS in his hand. I‘ll feel him move his arm above my head when we’re having a cuddle so he can see his damn phone. If we watch tv together, he’s on his phone. It’s started creeping into meal times when we sit at the table so I might speak to him and draw a line. He plays a lot of games on his phone and likens it to me watching tv 🙄
I can totally relate to your partner having his phone glued to his hand - mine is the same. Although I know he's not up to anything on it, it's completely innocently just scrolling or chatting to friends on whatsapp it bugs me a lot. Particularly when as you say, we're out for a meal or having dinner at home and he's got a fork in one hand and phone in the other. It's just basic manners really.
I get really annoyed when he asks me about my day, or we're having a general conversation and he's got one eye on his phone still!
 
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Oh no my fella is terrible with his phone as well 😂 he can just scroll through Facebook and watch random videos for hours on end. And flick between that and the bet 365 app

I'll always make little comments about him being on his phone and he goes 'you go on your phone too!' But I know for a fact I'm not on it as much as he is
 
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Sometimes he’ll look over me as I’m messaging or even say “ooh let me see”. I’ll sometimes casually ask who he’s talking to if I can see he’s engrossed in some chat, but I think it’s harmless to do so.
 
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My partner and I live together so our phones/ipads etc are just lying around half the time. He is much more social than me. He spends the vast majority of his life on You Tube, Listening to podcasts, chatting to friends on whatsapp... he isn't overly active on social media other twitter.

I know when we first got together he was friendly with a girl he worked with & hooked up with once, they had remained friends but i don't think she liked that he had met someone and was always trying to get him to go out for drinks, would ring him when she knew he was with me and one Saturday night she messaged him to say she was down in the bar beside where he lived at the time, and she had came from the other side of town to bring him some stuff he needed for a presentation that Monday.. I was with him so we went down together and she just ignored me while he made small talk and took the stuff from her. He told me he didn't even need the stuff. She asked him to stay for a drink but he politely declined. He was always really respectful and knew it was bothering me but they worked together so he didn't want to make it awkward.. i think she eventually just got the picture & stopped altogether. They both work in diff places now. He was always really upfront and honest with me about it which I really appreciated as I have been hurt heaps in the past by abusive partners. This is really the only thing I can think of that i have ever been a bit annoyed about.

I do trust him online, i know he has a few girl mates but i also have boy friends. I know a couple of his friends are absolutely stunning and I would be lying i said I wasn't jealous of how gorgeous they are but they are also really genuine, nice girls. One of them has a little dachshund so anytime she posts a pic on her story or feed on insta he shows me because he knows how much i love them! I have probably alot more guy mates than he does girls but when one of them posts something funny/sad or whatever and I think my boyfriend would like I always show him too.

I know he has a few whatsapp group chats which contain all guys and im sure now and again they talk about woman but it doesn't really bother me aslong as he isn't getting on like a creep but I don't think he would be as its really not him at all to be like that.

I have definitely been in relationships in the past where its been really bad though, one about 10 yrs ago i was sat on the sofa with my then boyfriend who was openly messaging other girls on facebook and commenting on their pics trying to be funny.. then would pass it off as he was just having a laugh... one night I just knew something was up and went through his phone only to find out he had kissed a girl... that was the end of that. Couldn't get past it as I knew trust was gone and I didn't want a life where I would be looking at his phone all the time.. no way to live, only end up hurting yourself in the long run.
 
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Anyone - male or female - who say they never masturbate are LIARS!!!!!!!!! It’s perfectly natural, perfectly normal and why in the heck are people lying about this?!!!!!
I know it's not really relevant to the thread but there are people, men and women, who don't. Some people have low sex drives or just don't want to. That is just as normal.
nobody is saying it's not natural. Some people just don't want to? Don't need to? I don't know why you'd think people would lie about it. Most don't have a reason to.
 
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My partner has a code on his phone, I don't know it but that doesn't really bother me. I have just a swipe unlock on mine so he could easily get into it but he never bothers. He has a lot of girl friends, which i think bothered me a bit when we first got together but once I realised how serious he is about me & we had our baby and moved in together I started not to be bothered

When we first got together he used to like other girls pictures on FB. That used to annoy me 😂 only really because I had been cheated on in the past. To me, if you're in a relationship why are you liking pictures of girls with their bits hanging out posing all seductively? If it was a picture of one of his mates just smiling it didn't bother me, just the 'seductive' ones. Once he realised it got on my nerves he did stop.

He says he never masterbates and looks at porn. I don't believe him 😂 I guess it doesn't bother me. We don't have sex as much as we used to since we had the baby which is understandable. So if he needs to 'get his end away' that's fine by me

The only pleasure I need is a good night's sleep atm 🤩
Yeah I don't see a point in liking other girls pictures (apart from like good mates normal pics). What would be the point of it if not to get their attention. Same with liking lots of pics of porn stars or other naked pics of influencers etc. To me it's a bit of a lack of respect to your partner. I know everyone has different boundaries and it's not such a big deal, but I have a friend whose husband follows about 20 friends on Instagram and about 200 accounts of girls who mostly post pics of their ass 🙄 find it a bit weird. Oh and pics he posts himself are mostly pics of his child which just makes the whole thing even more weird for me
 
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Anyone - male or female - who say they never masturbate are LIARS!!!!!!!!! It’s perfectly natural, perfectly normal and why in the heck are people lying about this?!!!!!
My bf has the highest sex drive of anyone I’ve ever met and doesn’t. He’s so open with me about everything and I still didn’t believe him at first but we’ve been together 24/7 since covid sooo 🤷🏻‍♀️
 
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When people say liking other peoples pictures - what do you mean? You can’t like any picture the opposite sex posts or just selfies or whatever?

Me and my husband are pretty open. I know he watches porn and masturbates. That’s fine by me, more peace and quiet for me 🤣

I like other men’s pictures on social media, only men I know. And it wouldn’t be a selfie, I wouldn’t like anyone’s selfie, I find selfie culture weird. But I’d like a picture of their dog or kid, or if it was a group pic of a few lads I went to school with I would like it. I don’t think that’s disrespectful and I wouldn’t be annoyed if my husband did the same.

My bf has the highest sex drive of anyone I’ve ever met and doesn’t. He’s so open with me about everything and I still didn’t believe him at first but we’ve been together 24/7 since covid sooo 🤷🏻‍♀️
I live with my husband and he’s open about masturbating. But I would have absolutely no clue when he does it.
 
My bf has the highest sex drive of anyone I’ve ever met and doesn’t. He’s so open with me about everything and I still didn’t believe him at first but we’ve been together 24/7 since covid sooo 🤷🏻‍♀️
I just don’t believe that!!!! Unless the two of you are shagging multiple times a day, every single day....? He’s probably having a little tug in the shower on the sly!!!!

I just honestly don’t see any issue at all around it. It’s a perfectly normal bodily function and there’s nothing to be ashamed of or any reason to try to hide it. Men generally need the physical release anyway so it’s sometimes more a necessity than anything else.
 
When people say liking other peoples pictures - what do you mean? You can’t like any picture the opposite sex posts or just selfies or whatever?

Me and my husband are pretty open. I know he watches porn and masturbates. That’s fine by me, more peace and quiet for me 🤣

I like other men’s pictures on social media, only men I know. And it wouldn’t be a selfie, I wouldn’t like anyone’s selfie, I find selfie culture weird. But I’d like a picture of their dog or kid, or if it was a group pic of a few lads I went to school with I would like it. I don’t think that’s disrespectful and I wouldn’t be annoyed if my husband did the same.



I live with my husband and he’s open about masturbating. But I would have absolutely no clue when he does it.
Yeah I would say for me if it was like a pic of a friend then that's absolutely fine. If it's a pic of some random person they hardly know or don't know then that's a bit less OK depending on the picture 🤣 there is a difference between a cool photo, like the person doing something fun, being in amazing scenery, or a funny picture, and a selfie or a bikini pic or something similar
 
Basically if my fella was liking pics of girls with their bits out, arses out, posing 'seductively' and 'sexily'

If it was just a selfie of them posing in front of Big Ben I wouldnt be bothered haha
 
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Anyone - male or female - who say they never masturbate are LIARS!!!!!!!!! It’s perfectly natural, perfectly normal and why in the heck are people lying about this?!!!!!
I never do it, I don’t get pleasure from it. And my partner doesn’t either. He wouldn’t lie about it as he knows I don’t have an issue with it, he just doesn’t get pleasure from it either. We have a good sex life and it’s rare one of us wouldn’t be up for sex if the other initiates it. He definitely doesn’t do it in the shower either, he’s not in there long enough for a start...😂😂

I know it's not really relevant to the thread but there are people, men and women, who don't. Some people have low sex drives or just don't want to. That is just as normal.
nobody is saying it's not natural. Some people just don't want to? Don't need to? I don't know why you'd think people would lie about it. Most don't have a reason to.
Exactly, I can’t understand why people are so convinced that everyone does it. The majority of women I know don’t masturbate, I think I’ve read before that a much lower number of women than men do it. And a lot of men don’t do it either. I don’t know how anyone can say categorically that someone is lying if they say they don’t/their partner doesn’t, everyone is different.
 
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Back in the early days of us being together my boyfriend went through a stage of following porn stars/only fans type girls on Instagram and Snapchat, and liking their photos. The ones with photo after photo of them bent over, boobs out, loads of make up etc... and back then you could see which photos people were liking too which I found really embarrassing as my mate once mentioned it. When I told him how much I hated it though, he did stop and unfollowed them.

I don’t care if he watches porn though, I do too and sometimes we watch it together 🤷🏻‍♀️ Free sites I don’t have a problem with but I wouldn’t be happy if he signed up to Instagram because I think it crosses a line of being more personal. And I’d be annoyed at him wasting money 😂
 
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Good sex and wanking aren’t an either or, you can have both. Really feel like some folk get quite high horsey about how good their sex is if they don’t tank 🤣

My husband is generously proportioned, has great stamina, always lets me go first (several times over) and yet sometimes, I just couldn’t be ducked, needed a tension release and whacked the vibrator out. Party for one is still a party 🥳
 
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I never do it, I don’t get pleasure from it. And my partner doesn’t either. He wouldn’t lie about it as he knows I don’t have an issue with it, he just doesn’t get pleasure from it either. We have a good sex life and it’s rare one of us wouldn’t be up for sex if the other initiates it. He definitely doesn’t do it in the shower either, he’s not in there long enough for a start...😂😂


Exactly, I can’t understand why people are so convinced that everyone does it. The majority of women I know don’t masturbate, I think I’ve read before that a much lower number of women than men do it. And a lot of men don’t do it either. I don’t know how anyone can say categorically that someone is lying if they say they don’t/their partner doesn’t, everyone is different.
You say you don’t know many women who do it.... but that’s like saying you don’t know many woman who like anal sex.... you don’t know because it’s not spoken about. I just don’t understand what’s not to enjoy - if you enjoy sex, surely you’d enjoy solo sex...?
Good sex and wanking aren’t an either or, you can have both. Really feel like some folk get quite high horsey about how good their sex is if they don’t tank 🤣

My husband is generously proportioned, has great stamina, always lets me go first (several times over) and yet sometimes, I just couldn’t be ducked, needed a tension release and whacked the vibrator out. Party for one is still a party 🥳
Exactly!!!!!!!!!! 😁
 
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I’ve just realised that wasn’t even the topic of this thread 😂😂

Online behaviour - anything with a subscription, liking lots of insta girls photos (half naked/suggestive/generally soft porn), messaging with flirty undertones and basically anything that makes them launch themselves at their phone like an electrocuted walrus before you can catch sight of the notification.
 
You say you don’t know many women who do it.... but that’s like saying you don’t know many woman who like anal sex.... you don’t know because it’s not spoken about. I just don’t understand what’s not to enjoy - if you enjoy sex, surely you’d enjoy solo sex...?

Exactly!!!!!!!!!! 😁
I have spoken about it though, with women I’m friends with and there weren’t many that said they did. Just because you don’t understand what’s not to enjoy, it doesn’t mean everyone else thinks that way. I just don’t have any interest in it at all, I tried it when I was younger and single, but stopped when I got with my first boyfriend when I was 14 and I never went back to it.

Good sex and wanking aren’t an either or, you can have both. Really feel like some folk get quite high horsey about how good their sex is if they don’t tank 🤣

My husband is generously proportioned, has great stamina, always lets me go first (several times over) and yet sometimes, I just couldn’t be ducked, needed a tension release and whacked the vibrator out. Party for one is still a party 🥳
I don’t think people are necessarily getting high horsey, or I’m certainly not anyway. I think my point about us having a good sex life and neither of us masturbating is more because we both feel our needs are met. For me, the only time I ever did it was when I was in my early teens, I was single and had no release. I stopped when I had my first boyfriend and never went back to it. Plus the fact we wouldn’t really have the time or feel the need as we are busy having sex with each other and outside of that we both work hard long days! I’m not being high horsey about our sex life, I actually think we are just “normal” for our ages. We are in our mid twenties and have been together six years, you would typically expect most couples in that scenario to have a fair bit of sex! 😂
 
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