To think some of the things said on here, very few people actually think/do in real life?

“Can you downsize?” to someone with immediate money worries. If they’re £300 short for the mortgage this month because the car needed work (or vice versa) then they can afford to market their house, find another one, pay for surveys and moving costs!

I mean, the never getting pissed off is unrealistic, but my husband does not watch porn (I would have no problem if he had, so he isn't hiding it from me) and drinks moderately and we have a good relationship. I actually find it more annoying that people seem to assume that all men are awful bastards and that women are all downtrodden. I see it a lot on here and I can't fathom it.

Leaving your husband over the most minor of things and cutting out every friend or relative who has once said something vaguely insensitive to you.

I'm amazed people on here have any person left in their life 😂

UPFs. Nobody I know goes on and on and on about them the way people on this site do. Don't get me wrong, obviously too much junk is very bad, but a few crisps aren't going to kill you.

I get pissed off with the posters who tell other posters to just 'leave the bastard' when the husband's annoying her a bit - or behaving a bit shittily. Because when you're married and you've got kids and all your finances are tied up with one another, and your whole lives are enmeshed, and you virtually 50 to 60% depend on him financially and sometimes totally depend on him - (because men usually earn a lot more than money than women,) it's soooooo easy to just walk away isn't it? 🙄

Just go and get yourself a brand new shiny life, it's sooooooooo easy!! Just get a brand new home, a whole new bunch of friends, go and retrain for a new career, get yourself a university degree, and you will be on 100,000 pounds in a year - and you will meet a lovely, wonderful, amazing man with no flaws whatsoever, and who is on £250,000 a year.

Because you know, a woman who's divorced or separated from a man -with kids in tow, and no money or assets, is going to be a real catch for the real top tier of men, isn't she? And top employers will be biting her hand off to employ a woman in a very important role paying £100,000 a year+, who is middle aged with 2+ kids, and has no-one else to help her, and very likely doesn't even have a car!

Really boils my piss how people make out you can just fucking walk away and leave! This isn't Coronation Street.

@XenoBitch yep- that really annoys me. I would honestly rather manage on much much less and eat beans on toast and toasted cheese sandwiches than move to somewhere I don't like knowing no one at all unless there were huge career reasons to do so - not just for a bigger house or cheaper rent

When someone is struggling for money, they always get told to move somewhere cheaper. Just up and leave, away from everything. They can somehow magic up the money for a deposit/move, have a new job lined up, and be ok with no friends around them whatsoever.

This would not happen in real life. I would never tell a friend to move away.

No - because you leave the brush in when you flush and give it a bit of a shake in there too. With a good brush holder you can then dip it back into a few inches of disinfectant cleaning fluid or bleach till next time.

And it's often because he committed the crime of not breathing to his wife's satisfaction so LTB is the advice!

I think you're blind to how awful women can.

I've been a teacher for 25 years. The most vile, nasty bullies I've known have all been girls. The bullying online by girls today is a whole other world of evil. To suggest that awful comments are not made by women is just delusional.

The amount of people who use the phrase no contact baffles me. Yes in extreme cases people do this and rightly so, but its thrown around so casually. SiL annoyed me, DHs best friend said something I don't like etc, and the advice is go no contact. Like cut someone out of your life forever. If I cut out everyone that ever pissed me off I'd have no friends of family. We have to tolerate each other sometimes surely, whether we disagree or not? Maybe keep a wide berth for a while or not extend invitations, but to cause such a rift in a family or group without thinking of the consequences to everyone else is utterly selfish and crazy really.

Amazingly other people chose to live their lives differently to you OP

• toilet brush - never owned one.
• money - is a pretty sensible reason to determine the size of your family
• expecting favours - I agree with you on that
• WFH with children - actually once they get to about age 8 its pretty easy and its usually only for an hour or so after school

When people are being really awful, I tend to suspect that they're male trolls. Yes, I'm sexist.

Most of the time it wasn’t that bad - but you do have to be very organized and you can’t do ‘everything’ - so DH had to step in and do more cooking/cleaning etc.

It was very lovely to be able to be with her all day though. Made up for the times it was stressful.

This site has been a real eye-opener for.

I never realised how awful women can be to each other.

Everyone l know thinks like that.

I only know one Tory voter. All the rest of colleagues, friends and family wanted Corbyn.

Oh, I can tell the difference.

I've projectile vomited once in my life...When I was a teenager, I was sometimes nauseous before I had a period. (No, I wasn't pregnant.)

One time...look away now if too much info....

I always had very irregular periods. (Later found out I had endo. No idea whether that had anything to do with it - sometimes it would be 42 days with no period.)

Period was taking its time to start. I felt rotten. I was so sick that it hit the ceiling. I have no idea how that happened. My poor mother...

Well, many folk have no other option. I'm widowed, so if I don't go out on my own...

I feel like the work from home with kids really does on the age. I think, like you say: babies and toddlers is impossible with the amount of attention they require, but primary school kids can easily entertained themselves for an hour or 2 after school, particularly if they are P3 and up. My kids are late primary/early secondary and someone said I am taking the piss... 🤣

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that’s what I always think

Haha, no normal person doesn’t go and grab a table while the other one queues up.

Or only in the posh part of Islington.😁

You can be 100% sure I will not be forking out for wraparound care for the 1.5hrs after school when I am at home working and my 8yr old lols on the sofa watching TV in the next room.

So yes, I do work at home with my kids here - makes zero difference to me getting work done. I even let them have playdates at the same time 😱

That reminds me of the whole table saving debate. I have never seen a group of adults all queuing together "because it's wrong to send someone to save a table" but the threads on here always seem to be 5050.

I saw on here the other day , OP was saving a chair for her husband at a venue and someone took it. Another poster said she'd have whacked him round the head with it ... yes of course she would 🙄