Are you ever embarassed of him/her?

United States
July 6, 2010 4:23pm CST
My husband is a joker. He is always joking and trying to make people laugh. My parents always tell him he should have been a comedian. He is very funny. However, we go to the stores and he'll joke with people that don't know him and don't know that he's just joking. Like a cashier, they don't know him but he says things that could be taken the wrong way and I want to crawl under the register sometimes! Does anyone ever get embarrassed from their spouses/girlfriend/boyfriends? What types of things do they do that embarrasses you?
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• Germany
6 Jul 10
Well sometimes I had the feeling that she kind of embarrasses me but in the end I still love her the way she is so I don't really take it that serious. Sometimes it just depends on the age/family/social environment/the way they got raised etc. and so far and so on. But a fact is that if you really love the person then you don't care and IF you care a lot about this then you probably don't really love her/him, so just drop it! My significant other often said weird things while being with me together outside and I never really cared cause I knew her and I just knew how awesome she was even though things have parted now...but this is another topic. Love her/him like you love yourself and NOTHING will be that embarrassing that you will actually take it the serious way at all!
• United States
7 Jul 10
Embarrassment is part of human nature, we embarrass our selves and each other especially the people we are around in our daily life. Maybe you embarrassed her Peter, that might be why you parted.
• United States
7 Jul 10
I do love my husband and I don't think it's a huge deal. Just wondering if anyone else had the same thoughts that's all... There's no reason for you to get kind of mean about it though. =)
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
7 Jul 10
One ex boyfriend of mine when I was going through some stuff would just blab my business to everyone including people I didn't even know til I finally told him to stfu. He got offended because he actually believed that what he was doing was some how helping me. That's the only time I can really say I felt humiliated by anyone I was in a relationship with. Most times I just felt badly for them making themselves looks stupid.
• United States
7 Jul 10
LOL Why would he do that? That is terrible! You never tell a woman's business to people...Men just don't get it sometimes. LOL That's crazy =)
@littleone3 (2063)
7 Jul 10
My partner does this all the time. One place we go to regularly as soon as the female staff see him coming they start dropping things and getting all confused. We are usually met with remarks like 'Oh no not you again' all said in good humour. He makes friends wherever he goes. He will even go up to people that are washing tables or windows etc and say 'You missed a bit' He will joke with anyone My elder children hate going out with him as they get very embarrassed by him. He even jokes around with their teachers at parents evenings. One time we went with my dad to help him chose a new laptop. My partner had to haggle and he got my dad a free laptop bag and also had set the male sales assistant up with the two female assistants he told them that the male assistant was taking them out for a drink and they all agreed. My poor Dad just wanting the ground to swallow him up. I can't take him anywhere lol
• United States
7 Jul 10
LOL, that's funny! =) Your response made me laugh. He sounds just like my hubby, hehe. Your poor kids and dad =( Lol.
• Philippines
7 Jul 10
I'm embarrassed when my husband gets irritated with persons who would try to block his way, especially when we are at the malls, those teenagers who would group at the hallways wherein people had nowhereelse to pass by or walk through. Sometimes my husband would just yell at them.
• United States
7 Jul 10
HaHa! That's funny because my dad get's mad about the same thing! He says, go have your Pow Wow somewhere else. It's pretty funny =) Thanks for your response! :)
• Portugal
7 Jul 10
aww your husband is soo funny^^ why he doesnt go to comedian then? maybe he would be happy that way. anyway i never had a bf like that but i have a friend that is also very funny and is always laughing of everything also me sometimes dont know if he is joking or not ahah anyway im happy to know him. dont feel embarassed of your husband maybe he just wants to make people happy like him^^
• United States
7 Jul 10
He is honestly very funny. He makes me laugh even when I don't want to! He is afraid to get turned down I guess. He doesn't think he is as funny as everyone around him thinks he is... Maybe one day he will gain the courage he needs. =)
• Philippines
7 Jul 10
I'm a little like your husband but i do know when to act funny and when to act formal :) it's just observing on your surroundings :)
• United States
7 Jul 10
Thanks for your comment =) At least you know when to control it and who to joke with! =) He's not a very observing person I guess, hehe. =)
@GardenGerty (157016)
• United States
7 Jul 10
Oh, there are some things that embarrass me about my hubby, but I do accept them. He greets everyone with such a positive attitude, but he can take a thirty second greeting or story and drag it out to be a novel. Could be because he is named after Robert Louis Stevenson. Sometimes when he gets excited, he gets very loud, but I shush him gently, after all, he deals gently with my flaws. It is okay to be embarrassed sometimes, but not if it hurts the marriage.
• United States
7 Jul 10
Thanks for your response =) My Papa was the same way. My grandma would get so annoyed because he would talk to anyone and everyone! She would say you can make friends with the cows, LOL. I'm not embarrassed to the point of not loving him still =) I love his flaws as well as his great points! =) =)
@jugsjugs (12967)
6 Jul 10
My husband also likes to joke around.Thankfully alot of my friends know how to take him,shame some of them do not know that he is joking around.He loves it when he is out with my daughter as she is always saying who is fit and who is not so fit,so my husband loves to wind her up in return by pipping at people and putting his hand up also by opening her window and giving a whistle to men and letting her get the blame for it as she gets really embarressed.
• United States
6 Jul 10
Thanks for the response =) If it's a friend, they should know by now how to take him but strangers is a different thing!! =)
@natnickeep (2336)
• United States
7 Jul 10
My man isn't a huge jokester. But he does embarrass me sometimes in other ways lol. Like for example with his road rage lol. But I still love him...enough to deal with any embarrassing moments he decides to dish out.
• United States
7 Jul 10
Thanks for your response =) I love my hubby too but he still embarrasses me sometimes, LOL. People apparently think on here that just because your a little embarrassed you don't love the person... Everyone get's embarrassed sometimes, I have had my embarrassing moments too!! =)
• United States
6 Jul 10
well i think we all do things at times that embarrass our spouses at one point or another. I know I have embarrassed my Hubby many time either on purpose or accidentally. I am a free spirit at times and I know he was raised so much more conservatively. He does things also that get me going though it is harder for him to embarrass me..lol comes from a father who loves to embarrass his kids and an Uncle who enjoys helping him.
• United States
6 Jul 10
Hehe. Thanks for the response =) Your right it's not all of the men. It is mostly though LOL just kidding! =)
@Andyvil (793)
• Philippines
7 Jul 10
This has never happened to me before but I guess my previous girlfriends have the same experience as you whenever they were with me. I usually make jokes on people I don't know but most of the time the people involved know that I am just joking.
• United States
7 Jul 10
That's good, at least they know. Not like my husband with Strangers!! One day he's going to get slapped, I know it! LOL =)
@Ezra710 (135)
• United States
7 Jul 10
I used to be one of those guys, just like your husband. Didn't matter to me who I embarrassed and didn't think about if it offended anyone in the slightest way. It was all about getting the laughs. I changed a few years ago, for the better, now I focus my conversation on the other person, my delivery is folksy and easy going. I might joke but not at someone else's expense. I just try to be pleasant and genuine.
• United States
7 Jul 10
Thanks for your response =) That's good that you changed for the better! It's better that it's not at someone else's expense now... Wish my husband would learn a little =) But I love him anyway. =)