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My boyfriend turned out to be a metal head completely obsessed with these bands

I am 43 year old recently divorced woman. I have a son.



I moved here in this small predominantly white town about a year ago. I moved here because is very near my son's boarding school. About 10 months ago i started dating this 47 year old divorced guy. He is white. He lives with his two teenage daughters. He wears flannels and work jeans. He has guns. I hate all of it. I hate the flannels on him, I hate having a gun around, and I hate the rustic camping he loves. But he is great in bed. Me and my bf are almost the same height. He's maybe a 0.5"-1" taller then me. Makes everything just so convenient. Matched sizes work great for sex, hugging, kissing and play wrestling. On high heels i am taller than him. He loves it . He loves Heavy Metal. He is blasting Metallica, Pantera, Skid Row, Motley Crue, Megadeth. He is always headbanging. I love R n B music. Now that I think about it he was buttering me up to metal from the start, like he'd put down hints he likes it and I'd occasionally see him listening to it, then he'd talk to me about it more often and the great bands and have me listen to some stuff

His mancave is just filled with Metallica, Pantera, Megadeth, Skid Row, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Warrant, Winger, W.A.S.P Poison , Alice Cooper G n R, Aerosmith, like the walls are covered in posters, there's boxes of CDs, he has an electric guitar on the wall. It hit me like a god damn. It is like a shrine dedicated to these bands, honestly I was a bit freaked out but I tried to ignore it.
But I swear it's like the only thing he thinks about when he has free time, he always has heavy metal playing on a speaker, he's always singing (loudly) to some CD, he's constantly telling me about the history of some song or it's meanings. Granted I like him but it's driving me insane!
Please advise, I'm just so awestruck I don't even know how I'm supposed to react. He is a 47 year old man for Christ's sake!
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So he's 47 and grew up liking music you don't.

And...? You think his taste in music should now be Lawrence Welk?
LaLa81 · 41-45, F
@SomeMichGuy No. I just want him to tone it down a little. He takes his heavy metal too seriously
@LaLa81 ? If this was his passion, why did you think that would change?
LaLa81 · 41-45, F
@SomeMichGuy In most other aspects, my boyfriend is a great guy. I REALLY don’t want to be a kind of controlling girlfriend who dictates her boyfriend’s passion for music. But, like I said, this is so extreme it’s very disturbing to me. I just want him to tone it down a little
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LaLa81 · 41-45, F
@SomeMichGuy Thanks. Thanks for your amazing advice. Sometimes a little harsh but what needs to be heard. I love him I really do. He tells me he loves me and I know he does. He says he's tired of the head games. I can see how it wears him out and it makes me feel horrible. Heavy metal is something major in his life and what he needs is support, not his crazy girlfriend flipping out at him over his passion for these bands. Pathetic right? I've given myself panic attacks over nothing really. It's almost a control thing like, "He needs to do this for me so I know he loves me." He's always so reassuring and he's been so patient with me.
@LaLa81 Well...thank you for such huge compliments.

I am honored to have any words I write be of any positive use to others; and you accepted even harsher-soundingwords with graciousness.

Thank you.

And you know that I wish you and he happiness, however that looks for you--together or not. It's like talking with applicants to college and telling them that they want to be at the school which is right for THEM, not a great school for someone ELSE.