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Woken up by adult kids AGAIN.... AIBU

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rubberduck68 · 01/03/2025 10:04

My adult son still lives at home (he and his sister who is at Uni are moving in with their dad in the summer) but I just want to check if IABU. He and his GF are both early twenties, and she does stay over sometimes, which I am fine with. I have made the house rules that it's no more than three nights a week, but she's starting working at a nightclub and coming back at 3.00 am and waking me and my dog up. I have asked them both to stop, in fact I got them both up really early the last time they did it and sent her home. She did it again this week and I talked to her about it and she apologised. Last night, 2.30 am out she gets from an Uber and they are banging about downstairs! I spoke to my son who apologised. I've just asked him to send her home now, and he said I am "not very understanding." I feel awkward and uncomfortable in my own bloody home. Historically whenever I have put a boundary down with these two I am called to a meeting by them a few days later where she claims I don't like her, so I've cut that off with him today and said I won't be doing that, it's her behaviour I don't like. My son't argument is that he shouldn't have a curfew as an adult which I agree with, but I made the point that she doesn't live here! AIBU? I would never have dared behave like his in my parent's home at any age!

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Jochef · 15/03/2025 19:37

Codlingmoths · 11/03/2025 12:35

Umm really? Do normal people think that?

what are you referring to ?

Maddy70 · 12/03/2025 11:03

My adult son has a very antisocial job. We live in s small flat. He comes in around 4am. I rarely hear him. He's super quiet makes every effort not to disturb me. Of course I do often wake but I appreciate his consideration
They are being selfish twats

Kolkai · 12/03/2025 07:52

rubberduck68 · 01/03/2025 10:04

My adult son still lives at home (he and his sister who is at Uni are moving in with their dad in the summer) but I just want to check if IABU. He and his GF are both early twenties, and she does stay over sometimes, which I am fine with. I have made the house rules that it's no more than three nights a week, but she's starting working at a nightclub and coming back at 3.00 am and waking me and my dog up. I have asked them both to stop, in fact I got them both up really early the last time they did it and sent her home. She did it again this week and I talked to her about it and she apologised. Last night, 2.30 am out she gets from an Uber and they are banging about downstairs! I spoke to my son who apologised. I've just asked him to send her home now, and he said I am "not very understanding." I feel awkward and uncomfortable in my own bloody home. Historically whenever I have put a boundary down with these two I am called to a meeting by them a few days later where she claims I don't like her, so I've cut that off with him today and said I won't be doing that, it's her behaviour I don't like. My son't argument is that he shouldn't have a curfew as an adult which I agree with, but I made the point that she doesn't live here! AIBU? I would never have dared behave like his in my parent's home at any age!

You are not being unreasonable at all!, she sounds very controlling with that meeting stuff and saying you don't like her, which is making an assumption or just plain old gaslighting for her own benefit.

I'm a very chilled out relaxed parent and I probably let my adult and late teen kids get away with a lot but if they step over the line or I feel they maybe disturbing the neighbours then they know about it.
They also have maximum respect for other people's homes so if I heard they had been like this girl had I would be having some stern words and making them apologise to whomever they had disturbed and been rude too.
That reminds me I need to grab my daughter and take her next door asap so she can face them and apologise for the ridiculous amount of noise she made during the night for a whole week recently. She was on her computer talking to friends the entire night, woke me up and 3.30am, which is when I cut the internet off to her devices until I had had many more hours sleep😂
It is possible to have a great relationship with your kids/adult kids and still have rules and boundaries❤️

bigboykitty · 11/03/2025 12:49

Great update @rubberduck68 💪🏽

Codlingmoths · 11/03/2025 12:35

Jochef · 09/03/2025 11:27

I’d love my son to be around to wake me up in the night. He used to come and tell me about his nights out and I was happy to listen to them.

How you going to feel OP in a couple of months?

GF is probably temporary anyway, either he or she will push on from the relationship but you’ve let her cause a rift.

Umm really? Do normal people think that?

rubberduck68 · 11/03/2025 10:25

LuckySantangelo35 · 10/03/2025 21:53

@Jochef

she’ll haprobably feel happy and relieved she can finally get some sleep

SO happy and relieved. I am like a different person! Of course I will miss him when he moves out, but @jochef, that is not relevant to a post about boundaries, which adult kids do need too. She has certainly not managed to cause a rift because I have dealt with her.

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LuckySantangelo35 · 10/03/2025 21:53

Jochef · 09/03/2025 11:27

I’d love my son to be around to wake me up in the night. He used to come and tell me about his nights out and I was happy to listen to them.

How you going to feel OP in a couple of months?

GF is probably temporary anyway, either he or she will push on from the relationship but you’ve let her cause a rift.

@Jochef

she’ll haprobably feel happy and relieved she can finally get some sleep

Glittertwins · 09/03/2025 12:29

Jochef · 09/03/2025 11:27

I’d love my son to be around to wake me up in the night. He used to come and tell me about his nights out and I was happy to listen to them.

How you going to feel OP in a couple of months?

GF is probably temporary anyway, either he or she will push on from the relationship but you’ve let her cause a rift.

It wasn't her son's nights out that were causing OP the problem, it was the girlfriend treating the house as her own / OP as a problem tenant!!!

doodahdayy · 09/03/2025 11:39

Jochef · 09/03/2025 11:27

I’d love my son to be around to wake me up in the night. He used to come and tell me about his nights out and I was happy to listen to them.

How you going to feel OP in a couple of months?

GF is probably temporary anyway, either he or she will push on from the relationship but you’ve let her cause a rift.

You liked being woken up in the middle of the night? Jeez most people don't. Op seems fully supportive of her ds moving out if he wants to. I'm sure she has her own life to live.

Jochef · 09/03/2025 11:27

I’d love my son to be around to wake me up in the night. He used to come and tell me about his nights out and I was happy to listen to them.

How you going to feel OP in a couple of months?

GF is probably temporary anyway, either he or she will push on from the relationship but you’ve let her cause a rift.

howfartospar · 09/03/2025 11:16

You've given enough chances IMO

AthWat · 09/03/2025 11:00

Notsosure1 · 09/03/2025 08:16

I’m not sure, I see what you’re saying but if you stay at some B&B’s or as a guest in somebody else’s house they can tell you they will be locking the door at a certain time so they can go to bed, thereby giving you a curfew as an adult. He’s old enough to be treated as an adult but it’s still his mum’s house. His gf isn’t even related to OP and she’s the one arriving at silly o’clock. Perfectly acceptable to have imposed a curfew.

This is my point, sorry. I was being sarcastic. B&B owners can't impose anything on you, because if you don't like what they say, you don't stay there.

Similalrly as an adult, if you don't like the rules in someone else's house, you get out.

You can force a child to stay and abide by your rules. As an adult you make a choice to stay and abide by them or leave. That's what you get for being an adult. Not the option of doing what you like in someone else's space.

Notsosure1 · 09/03/2025 08:16

AthWat · 08/03/2025 11:51

He's right, of course. As an adult , nobody can impose conditions like a curfew on him. That's what being an adult is about. Being responsible for your own life.

He absolutely has the right to move out of your house whenever he chooses to and come back to his new home at whatever time he likes.

I’m not sure, I see what you’re saying but if you stay at some B&B’s or as a guest in somebody else’s house they can tell you they will be locking the door at a certain time so they can go to bed, thereby giving you a curfew as an adult. He’s old enough to be treated as an adult but it’s still his mum’s house. His gf isn’t even related to OP and she’s the one arriving at silly o’clock. Perfectly acceptable to have imposed a curfew.

Jayblue141 · 09/03/2025 07:31

The age of entitlement is real. I understand the younger generations are having it hard, low wages, high rent, high house prices, low housing stock. But to call a meeting and tell you what they expect they should be allowed to do in your own home, saying you don't like them, isn't that gaslighting?

pilates · 09/03/2025 06:18

Pinkmoose · 08/03/2025 18:26

Really !!What because I didn't read 400 odd comments and it has all been resolved.Or that my life is so crap at the minute that adult kids coming in late is the least of my worries.

“ See all” is a helpful function by op’s posts

dapsnotplimsolls · 09/03/2025 03:38

I hope OP is fast asleep right now!

doodahdayy · 09/03/2025 03:06

lol people must be on the wind uo now

Devianinc · 09/03/2025 00:12

rubberduck68 · 01/03/2025 10:04

My adult son still lives at home (he and his sister who is at Uni are moving in with their dad in the summer) but I just want to check if IABU. He and his GF are both early twenties, and she does stay over sometimes, which I am fine with. I have made the house rules that it's no more than three nights a week, but she's starting working at a nightclub and coming back at 3.00 am and waking me and my dog up. I have asked them both to stop, in fact I got them both up really early the last time they did it and sent her home. She did it again this week and I talked to her about it and she apologised. Last night, 2.30 am out she gets from an Uber and they are banging about downstairs! I spoke to my son who apologised. I've just asked him to send her home now, and he said I am "not very understanding." I feel awkward and uncomfortable in my own bloody home. Historically whenever I have put a boundary down with these two I am called to a meeting by them a few days later where she claims I don't like her, so I've cut that off with him today and said I won't be doing that, it's her behaviour I don't like. My son't argument is that he shouldn't have a curfew as an adult which I agree with, but I made the point that she doesn't live here! AIBU? I would never have dared behave like his in my parent's home at any age!

Why doesn’t he go to her parents house and wait for her to come home. Why is it your house?

Nanny0gg · 09/03/2025 00:00

Pinkmoose · 08/03/2025 18:26

Really !!What because I didn't read 400 odd comments and it has all been resolved.Or that my life is so crap at the minute that adult kids coming in late is the least of my worries.

That you haven't even bothered to read a few posts up or the OP's updates and that you think after 400+ posts you're saying something new.

It's (imo) quite rude not to read the OP's last couple of posts at least.
Saves so much time.

Codlingmoths · 08/03/2025 23:33

Well done!

dapsnotplimsolls · 08/03/2025 22:18

Zucker · 08/03/2025 22:08

Gosh I wonder if the OP has posted any updates or maybe even a resolution with her son at all? I wonder did her son present her with chocolates for international womens day? We'll never know I guess.

😎

Jesslovesengineering · 08/03/2025 22:16

I'm not sure setting boundaries is temporary.

Zucker · 08/03/2025 22:08

Gosh I wonder if the OP has posted any updates or maybe even a resolution with her son at all? I wonder did her son present her with chocolates for international womens day? We'll never know I guess.

Jesslovesengineering · 08/03/2025 21:35

rubberduck68 · 01/03/2025 11:25

I am a bit worried that if I upset the GF I will lose my son. You hear of that happening, don't you? I also want some decent sleep though and don't want to feel I have to choose between the two.

Oh sweetheart, if reasonable boundaries causes you to "lose him" then I think you're better off. Not that it would be for long. With a girlfriend this "extra", I can imagine he'd soon be back, with his tail between his legs.

Jesslovesengineering · 08/03/2025 21:21

Panterusblackish · 08/03/2025 21:20

Nice misogyny referring to women as bitches

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If only you knew the first thing about me.
And I'm not referring to women here. Just that one silly little bitch.