📝 AITA for having my husband come with me to try on dresses

By Prior_Lobster_5240 • Score: 7 • April 5, 2025 8:40 PM


This is so dumb but my friend is digging her heels in, insisting I'm some kind of sexual deviant, so here we go

Husband (m43) and I (f39) have been married almost 7 years with two kids, 5 and 3. We both work a lot and with two tiny kids it's a struggle to find time together. We do our best to schedule a date night at least every other Saturday.

Occasionally, what we do is go shopping together. For the first hour, we split up so we can both enjoy some "me" time (again....we work a lot and have small kids, we never get to be alone). He'll wonder around looking at tools or electronics and I'll look through smelly bath stuff and clothes. But after about an hour goes by, he almost always starts looking for me and inevitably finds me looking at dresses at my favorite store. It is a women's only clothing store, but it's not like Victoriaa's Secret or anything. It's just a basic clothing store that sells a lot of boho style dresses that I like.

There is a bench outside the dressing room and usually I'll pick 3-6 dresses and walk out to the bench where he's sitting, he'll say he likes the dress (smart man) and I'll go back in and change into another one. I usually buy whatever dress he says he likes the most, and we go home.

That's it. That's the date.

But him seeing me in all those different outfits usually gets him....eager to take me home, and the night ends with a bang, if you follow me.

I was telling this to a friend because I think it's cute and funny that me simply putting on different dresses, asking "do you like this one?" and him saying "yep" is all it takes for a fun, sexy night out for us. My friend was appalled. She insists that us "doing that in public" is forcing other people to participate in "our kink."

We don't say anything inappropriate. I don't do any sexy dance moves or make bedroom eyes at him. I literally walk out, ask if he likes it, and walk back into the dressing room. The bench is right next to the checkout counter. The store is tiny. Everyone can hear our entire conversation. We never say anything even slightly suggestive. From the outside, it looks like a husband being dragged into a shop just to appease his wife.

But now thanks to my friend's comment z the experience is tainted. My husband asked if I wanted to go shopping at the mall this evening since my parents offered to keep our kids and I just don't know if I can enjoy it anymore.

So I need you people to tell me we're not doing anything wrong because I just don't want one of the few "fun" things we get to do together to be ruined

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