we moved into a new flat two months ago. Its the bottom half of a split-level semi. When we moved in the (childless) young couple upstairs said how happy they are, how much they like living here, etc. Inexplicably, they've now just told us they are selling. We haven't fallen out with them, don't have noisy parties or arguments or anything like that. We do have a 20-month old who, like most toddlers, sometimes shouts, cries, screams etc. And sometimes does it in the middle of the night. Whenever she cries at night or even wakes and chatters in her sleep I hear one or the other of them stomping around in a rage as if to let us know how irritated they are. I can only conclude that they're selling because they are bothered by the noise our little one makes.
Now I know rationally that other people's children can be highly irritating to the childless, that its their choice to move and they are doing the responsible thing by extricating themselves from it rather than expecting us to change something we have no control over. But I'm still really upset by it. It feels in some bizarre way like a judgement over me, us, our life and it made me cry. Do I just need to grow up and deal with it or are they being a bit precious and unreasonable to be so disturbed by the noise of a single toddler and to wonder whether everyone else who lives upstairs is going to have a similar reaction.
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to be bizarrely and maybe disproportionately upset by this....
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quesadilla · 07/10/2012 11:05
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