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Utterly furious with DSIL. A rant!

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JessNic · 15/12/2025 18:11

DSIL is in a ridiculously on off relationship which is toxic and needs to finish for both of their sakes.

Increasingly regularly, after a huge row she will end up at our house and we will have to handhold her until she’s ready to return to face her partner. They usually then make up, have a good few days and the cycle repeats.

On Saturday, she called my DH in tears and said her relationships over and could she stay at ours for the night. No problem - I set up our spare room. Note that it is myself, DH, DD4 and DS6.

Saturday night, she told us she was going out with her friends and we gave her a key to let herself in, and she assured us she wouldn’t be late or loud.

Anyway, we were woken by her making a racket when entering the house at about 1.30am Sunday morning. We then heard her making ‘shush’ noises which was strange. It was then clear she wasn’t alone. DH told me to be quiet and pretend we hadn’t heard her.

No less than 10 minutes later, I heard her making loud, exaggerated moaning noises (it was obvious what was going on). DH pretended he couldn’t hear anything and told me not to say a word.

Not long after the door went again (whoever it was left), and we heard her walk back upstairs.

I was incandescent at this point, how dare she bring a stranger into our home where our DC were sleeping. It could have been anyone.

I confronted her in the morning, in my anger I regrettably used some unwise language and she was really defensive, said it’s someone who works at her gym so not a ‘random’ person. DH tried to diffuse things but it fell on deaf ears, anyway she has refused to apologise and has been acting the guilty party to DH for what I called her.

I stand by that she was massively unreasonable to bring a stranger into our family home. AIBU?

OP posts:
ChavsAreReal · 15/12/2025 20:27

JessNic · 15/12/2025 18:45

We have. She only stayed on Saturday and back to her own house on Sunday.

Accurate.

PollyBell · 15/12/2025 20:27

Why would children need to hear have someone having sex?

couldthisbe2501 · 15/12/2025 20:25

BillieWiper · 15/12/2025 20:23

I don't know. I've not got small children. My lodger used to bring people back all the time and it was annoying. That's why I said it was.

Your lodger, I’m assuming, paid you rent for the room they inhabited and, as you said, there were no small children around. Having loud sex, in someone else’s home, with the possibility of waking their children up is so unbelievably scummy it’s insane.

BillieWiper · 15/12/2025 20:23

couldthisbe2501 · 15/12/2025 20:20

You must have such low standards around what kind of behaviour you allow to surround children within their home if all you think is that it’s ’annoying’.

I don't know. I've not got small children. My lodger used to bring people back all the time and it was annoying. That's why I said it was.

couldthisbe2501 · 15/12/2025 20:20

BillieWiper · 15/12/2025 19:59

You keep calling him a stranger but he wasn't a stranger to her. I get that it was annoying but as an adult I'd accept that if she wants to have sex then that's up to her.

Being noisy and waking you up is annoying though. You could tell her to sleep at a hotel next time as your kids got disturbed. But I wouldn't lecture her on her sex life.

You must have such low standards around what kind of behaviour you allow to surround children within their home if all you think is that it’s ’annoying’.

Livpool · 15/12/2025 20:19

She is a cheeky cow! I am laidback and I wouldn’t be putting up with that! Invite someone back your own house but not your brother’s! Why not go back to his?! I’m

BettysRoasties · 15/12/2025 20:17

Slapper is tame for what would have come out of my mouth.

Man or women I don’t give a shit you bring a random hook up back to my home after I’ve been nice enough to host you to have loud sex id of been walking in mid moan telling them to get the fuck out my house as it isn’t a fucking whorehouse or brothel.

Sleazy disrespectful behaviour regardless of the gender.

Dexysmidnightstroller · 15/12/2025 20:14

Absolutely no one comes into my house without me being asked about it beforehand - tell her to fuck right off. Your DH needs to grow a pair

BauhausOfEliott · 15/12/2025 20:12

Winterwonderwhy · 15/12/2025 18:46

You were not wrong though.

Being a ‘slapper’ isn’t a real thing. It’s made-up misogynistic shite.

OBVIOUSLY the SIL shouldn’t have brought someone back to the OP’s home without asking. It’s beyond rude and presumptuous, especially when there are young kids sleeping in the house. But the issue is that she’s an obnoxious house guest, not that she’s a woman having sex on a casual basis.

It would have been totally fine for her to have a shag anywhere else but the OP’s house. She’s a spoilt brat and her brother is a limp lettuce, but nobody is ‘a slapper’.

somanychristmaslights · 15/12/2025 20:12

Your DH is a wet blanket. Well done you on not letting someone disrespect your home. Good job at least one of you has the guts to do it!! I’d never be letting her stay in my home again.

BillieWiper · 15/12/2025 20:11

99bottlesofkombucha · 15/12/2025 20:02

He is a complete stranger to the op, the ops and their 2 young kids. That is the problem here.

I can see OP isn't happy about that which is fair enough. It's her house.

JanetareyouokareyouokJanet · 15/12/2025 20:06

Yeah that’s grim, bringing a hook up back to someone else’s house! Don’t feel bad, what you called her ain’t that bad. Made me laugh.

Driftingawaynow · 15/12/2025 20:06

You lost the moral high ground by calling her a slapper

gamerchick · 15/12/2025 20:03

I'm glad you pulled her on it OP.

No more handholding or overnight stays. Tell her to fuck off with her woes in future. So disrespectful.

99bottlesofkombucha · 15/12/2025 20:02

BillieWiper · 15/12/2025 19:59

You keep calling him a stranger but he wasn't a stranger to her. I get that it was annoying but as an adult I'd accept that if she wants to have sex then that's up to her.

Being noisy and waking you up is annoying though. You could tell her to sleep at a hotel next time as your kids got disturbed. But I wouldn't lecture her on her sex life.

He is a complete stranger to the op, the ops and their 2 young kids. That is the problem here.

99bottlesofkombucha · 15/12/2025 20:01

I hope you’ve made it quite clear to your dh that he’s been no help at all and if he isn’t on the same page and refuses to let her stay again it will be him who needs to find a place, that you won’t tolerate that in your house and now you know he can’t stand up to her you aren’t going to risk it again.

MummyJ36 · 15/12/2025 19:59

That is so grim and really crossed a line where young children are involved. It’s very disappointing if your DH won’t back you up on this and I would definitely revoke any offers of sleepovers from now on!

BillieWiper · 15/12/2025 19:59

You keep calling him a stranger but he wasn't a stranger to her. I get that it was annoying but as an adult I'd accept that if she wants to have sex then that's up to her.

Being noisy and waking you up is annoying though. You could tell her to sleep at a hotel next time as your kids got disturbed. But I wouldn't lecture her on her sex life.

AngelicKaty · 15/12/2025 19:57

Butchyrestingface · 15/12/2025 19:41

Oooh, just seen it. A FUCKING slapper, no less.

That'll be why she focused in on reasssuring OP the bloke wasn't a total rando she found on a park bench.

Indeed. And given what she was doing, so audibly, the adjective preceding the noun is entirely appropriate! 😂
I can't believe that some PPs are trying to minimise what the SIL did by focussing on the name OP called her after extreme provocation - as someone else said, this is a masterclass in deflection.

StripedVase · 15/12/2025 19:56

Whereismyfleeceblanket · 15/12/2025 19:30

Don't you dare apologise for calling her a slapper!

Just strategically, to secure the moral high ground - !

Climbingrosexx · 15/12/2025 19:53

Definteley not unreasonable and I hope you and dh are united on this

couldthisbe2501 · 15/12/2025 19:50

Bobiverse · 15/12/2025 19:17

Sorry, what is “slappery behaviour?”

I don’t actually think there is any such think a slapper/slut/whore behaviour.

There is disrespectful behaviour, to the OP and her home. There is dangerous and inappropriate behaviour, to the children in the home. There is rudeness, the way she acted in the morning by laughing.

But I’m not sure what makes a woman a slapper? I thought we were past that sort of abuse of women.

The ‘slappery behaviour’ here is the fact that she couldn’t restrict access to her vagina long enough to book a hotel or go back to the equally slappery blokes house. Instead they humped like dogs in a home that isn’t hers with children present. Don’t want to be called a slapper? Then don’t act like one.

ForLoveNotMoney · 15/12/2025 19:43

I am with you OP. I’d have been furious and would have kicked them both out there and then. Calling her a slapper sounds mild!

She would be banned from my house forever more!

Butchyrestingface · 15/12/2025 19:41

AngelicKaty · 15/12/2025 19:38

A "slapper".

Oooh, just seen it. A FUCKING slapper, no less.

That'll be why she focused in on reasssuring OP the bloke wasn't a total rando she found on a park bench.

ThereAreOnlyShadesOfGrey · 15/12/2025 19:40

Somehow I suspect that the reason her relationship is so volatile is because she’s a serial cheat and shags anything and everything that moves.