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AIBU to feel furious after my father ruined my new home?

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Yousernane · 13/04/2026 14:02

To be furious? and hate all men and not want another man in my house ever!!!
i need sound advice because i know im not thinking straight at the minute & my anxiety is through the roof.

I am 4 months out of a 20 year relationship with an abusive emotionally dangerous narcissistic. Spent the last 4 months in with family then emergency accommodation (which was disgusting) out of area with small children.
I have now recently moved into my first home
With nothing but clothes & a few toys. I have spent my last bit of savings on household items, and kindly been gifted some items to make my home a home.
I invited my father to come and visit, i bought and cooked lunch, he had a drink so i offered him to stay over and he has wet himself and then slept on my brand new sofa, all my new throws have had to be binned, he blamed the dog. My rug has had to be thrown out and my babies toy box.
i beleved it was the dog until after i took him home where i could smeall urine, all
my soft furnishings now smell
my car passenger seat too.
to top if off i have found stains on my walls/ ceiling it looks like coke or coffee.

am i overreacting? To be upset/ angry
do i say something or brush it off as an accident?

am i being unreasonable to say i hate men and dont want another man in my house

OP posts:
B33cka8 · 18/04/2026 19:30

Catza · 13/04/2026 14:06

It's unpleasant but also I struggle to think why you needed to throw away rugs and throws and how it happened that the toy box got ruined as well. And how did he get coffee up a ceiling. Something doesn't add up...

It's not like you can throw a large rug in the wash, she'd need to hire a blooming wet carpet cleaner etc to sort that.

WearyAuldWumman · 18/04/2026 19:29

FergoMcFergFace · 14/04/2026 22:24

I can understand why you binned the items, OP. Yes, you could have washed them, and yes your washing machine would have been fine after a hot wash. But you've just come out of a relationship with an abusive man, and furnished your first home, and then another man has come in and pissed all over it - literally and figuratively. I can imagine how it would feel contaminated.

Well done for getting yourself to where you are now. Have a break from your dad and set some serious boundaries if you ever want to invite him in again. 💐

Thank you for expressing this so well.

Anactor · 18/04/2026 19:26

No, you're not being unreasonable. Your father was unreasonable and possibly downright abusive. This was your lovely new home, with new things, and he literally pissed all over it on his first visit.

Your father ruined your stuff; whether he did it consciously or unconsciously, you are not being unreasonable to be bloody furious. You're also not being unreasonable to throw the stuff he ruined out of the house. Why let him hurt you? And it will hurt, every time you look at the lovely throw he pissed on.

I suspect a lot of the posters going 'your Dad needs help/clean the throws' had great fathers who'd only do something like this by accident or through dementia. So they don't get that there are some really lousy Dads out there and that you need to get the stuff he wrecked out and gone.

You're not being unreasonable. You tried. He failed. Don't let him back in your house; he's shown he can't be trusted.

You've got to get on with your own life and protect your kids. A grandfather who wrecks the house the first time he's invited is not the kind of grandfather they need.

Oldwmn · 18/04/2026 19:25

Catza · 13/04/2026 14:06

It's unpleasant but also I struggle to think why you needed to throw away rugs and throws and how it happened that the toy box got ruined as well. And how did he get coffee up a ceiling. Something doesn't add up...

Shit faced pissed. The mess they can make is unreal.

DotAndCarryOne2 · 18/04/2026 19:11

msdiscerning · 18/04/2026 18:44

Is he an alcoholic? My mother has wet herself many times including in restaurants when she used to be well enough to leave the house many years ago. Its disgusting and embarrassing. She then sniggered and expected my sister or I whoever was with her to find it amusing. I would be disgusted if someone did this in my house it shows absolutely no respect. Sounds like you have been through a very traumatic relationship and your father has not shown any respect or consideration in light of this, in your shoes I wouldn’t be inviting him again - ever!

Does your mother have a health condition that causes her to lose control of her bladder ? If so and you find that disgusting and embarrassing, it’s not surprising that she’s trying to make light of it to hide her own distress.

msdiscerning · 18/04/2026 18:44

Is he an alcoholic? My mother has wet herself many times including in restaurants when she used to be well enough to leave the house many years ago. Its disgusting and embarrassing. She then sniggered and expected my sister or I whoever was with her to find it amusing. I would be disgusted if someone did this in my house it shows absolutely no respect. Sounds like you have been through a very traumatic relationship and your father has not shown any respect or consideration in light of this, in your shoes I wouldn’t be inviting him again - ever!

PonyPatter44 · 18/04/2026 18:44

AnnoraFoyle · 18/04/2026 18:29

It's made up.

Prove it.

MarriedTwiceOneGrownUpDaughter · 18/04/2026 18:40

Credittocress · 13/04/2026 14:21

This is gross. I’d feel the need to throw them out too. In the same way some poster don’t like dogs licking plates even if they go in the dishwasher- I couldn’t use these items again happily.

I'd throw them out too. Ick!

AmpleTraybake · 18/04/2026 18:37

Yousernane · 13/04/2026 14:02

To be furious? and hate all men and not want another man in my house ever!!!
i need sound advice because i know im not thinking straight at the minute & my anxiety is through the roof.

I am 4 months out of a 20 year relationship with an abusive emotionally dangerous narcissistic. Spent the last 4 months in with family then emergency accommodation (which was disgusting) out of area with small children.
I have now recently moved into my first home
With nothing but clothes & a few toys. I have spent my last bit of savings on household items, and kindly been gifted some items to make my home a home.
I invited my father to come and visit, i bought and cooked lunch, he had a drink so i offered him to stay over and he has wet himself and then slept on my brand new sofa, all my new throws have had to be binned, he blamed the dog. My rug has had to be thrown out and my babies toy box.
i beleved it was the dog until after i took him home where i could smeall urine, all
my soft furnishings now smell
my car passenger seat too.
to top if off i have found stains on my walls/ ceiling it looks like coke or coffee.

am i overreacting? To be upset/ angry
do i say something or brush it off as an accident?

am i being unreasonable to say i hate men and dont want another man in my house

you get urine cleaner, kids wet carpets and beds
when I looked after my parents before they died I had to clean it. Urine cleaner works wonders.
he needs help not fury.

AnnoraFoyle · 18/04/2026 18:29

Eastie77Returns · 13/04/2026 14:04

I’m sorry this happened. Can I ask, why do you need to throw everything out? If the items you mention are urine stained can you not wash them?

It's made up.

Jesslovesengineering · 18/04/2026 18:28

Am I out of order to wonder whether your dad is the reason you spent 20 years in an abusive relationship? I say this as a woman who didn't realise she was being abused and coercively controlled until 16 years in, whose father was also massively abusive (and mother). Since getting out 3 years ago (after almost 4 years of painstaking exit planning), I've done a lot of "work" and one of the most eye opening things I heard from another survivor is that, if you come from a broken home, you have to worry when you meet someone who makes you feel "at home". Well, I learned that lesson the hard way and yes, I also struggle not to be disgusted by all men, especially in the current climate and that recent site where videos of men drugging their wives was getting 62 million hits 🤢🤮

Madarch · 18/04/2026 18:24

Why is it drunk men are so pissy?!
It's been more common than it ought to have been among the men (no longer) in my life.
Sorry your lovely new home has been tainted, OP. I totally get why you'd want to just bin the lot.
A mate peed himself in a sleeping bag he'd borrowed from me and offered it back after a wash. Horrid. I told him to bin it and get me a new one.

vickylou78 · 18/04/2026 18:16

Could it be that he spilled a full can of cider or something rather than pee everywhere?

Erin1975 · 18/04/2026 18:05

I am baffled. I have on the past drunk ridiculous amounts of alcohol but have never pissed myself.

SpryTaupeTurtle · 18/04/2026 17:56

Yousernane · 13/04/2026 14:23

so he said he slipped on dog wee so i think hes dell with a drink in his hand and its splashed up
there was a large wet wee stain under all the edge of my rug and went onto the bottom of toy box.
then hes slept on the thrown in pissy clothes and made them stink
i have a brand new washing machine i dont want mans piss running through it and i was angry all my lovely new items were ruined thats why i binned them

All you had to do was wash them. Sorry but as upset and angry as you are you could just have put them in the washing machine. It won't care about man's piss

hcee19 · 16/04/2026 08:36

Wow, you are upset. First of all why did you need to throw everything out, bit over the top. Tbh, l would have washed throws before l would use them anyway. They have been made in some factory somewhere by god knows who, anything could be on them. So re the throws l think you are being unreasonable.
You say his home stinks of urine , l think your father may have a medical condition, ranging from a uti to an enlarged prostrate. He maybe very embarrassed about it, scared to see the doctor, who knows, but talk to him, he maybe struggling, last thing he needs is you kicking off at him. Show compassion, and see if you can help. There is a good chance he isn't as aware of it as you may think....This very thing could happen to you one day, think about that. Everything he did ,is fixable and l get after all you have been through you are pissed off, but just calm down and offer a helping hand

DirtyGertiefromno30 · 15/04/2026 18:58

Is this the pee ***

Timetochillnow · 15/04/2026 18:56

Yousernane · 13/04/2026 14:23

so he said he slipped on dog wee so i think hes dell with a drink in his hand and its splashed up
there was a large wet wee stain under all the edge of my rug and went onto the bottom of toy box.
then hes slept on the thrown in pissy clothes and made them stink
i have a brand new washing machine i dont want mans piss running through it and i was angry all my lovely new items were ruined thats why i binned them

be angry that it happened but dont waste your precious money throwing away things that can be washed.
You’re being dramatic - wash the items and then if you must run the machine again on empty t clean the ( already clean ) machine

DotAndCarryOne2 · 15/04/2026 18:49

nomas · 15/04/2026 09:12

How patronising. She is out of a 20 year old abusive relationship, if she wants to vent about men’s dirty piss in her brand new washing machine, she is absolutely entitled to so that. Telling someone to calm down is aimed to make them feel worse.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest that OP should have washed whatever she could, given that it took her a lot of time and effort to get her home together and with a lot of help from others. I can totally sympathise with the knee jerk reaction to throw everything out, but venting is one thing, actually doing it when you can’t afford to replace the stuff that’s perfectly washable is something else entirely.

BusyExpert · 15/04/2026 18:24

I would be furious and given what you have been through I understand why you didn’t wash them and threw them out.

however it won’t do any good for you and your child to brood over it. Put it behind you and start again.

and don’t let him stay over

BeagleSkunk · 15/04/2026 14:18

Jewel52 · 15/04/2026 09:39

I’ll take that as a Yes on the permanently tone deaf

Nope, just an equally valid opinion you don’t agree with. You’ll live babes.

Mangelwurzelfortea · 15/04/2026 10:32

FlyingCatGirl · 14/04/2026 23:09

I think an adult needs to work hard to have a rational balance. I had an ex who was a twat and used to hit me but I left him for another man who im still with 23 years on and I never took up extreme levels of man hate! Screaming I hate all men and I I'm not having man piss in my washer is just not healthy and it's a not a healthy example to set to her kids. Daughter's will grow up treating men like shit because they are being taught that men must all be hated and not even allowed to put clothes in the washer. And if she has any sons how is she going to make them feel. She says her dad isn't an alcoholic, she hasn't said how much he had to drink. She's just explosively hateful to her children's grandfather when normal calm people would be concerned that their elderly father night be getting incontinent and need medical help! As for all the cretins on here calling the father a dirty pig? How do they know whether this guy is starting to have age or even cancer related bladder issues or not.

He's not elderly, he's 58, and he's an ex-drug user. He's not a sweet old man with a health problem. RTFT.

She also hasn't 'screamed' about anything - that's hyperbole - and she's actually entitled to hate all men if she wants to. I don't understand why some women get so upset about women not liking men - especially in cases like this when a woman has been blatantly abused by the men in her life. It's not how I personally feel but I can understand why she and other women would feel that way. Empathy, innit.

Jewel52 · 15/04/2026 09:39

BeagleSkunk · 15/04/2026 07:01

I got out of one too. You don’t get a medal and unreasonable is still unreasonable. And if I threw a tantrum and threw every thing out every time someone disappointed me I’d have nothing left.

So yeah, drama llama.

I’ll take that as a Yes on the permanently tone deaf

PeachyPeachTrees · 15/04/2026 09:12

You've been through so much and stayed strong for so long and finally you get to a good place and relax. Then your Dad literally pisses on everything and you throw out the rug etc in anger. I'd probably do the same in the heat of the moment.

nomas · 15/04/2026 09:12

OldScribbler · 15/04/2026 09:10

Men’s piss - indeed any piss - will be removed by the machine. Calm down. Whether you want him around again is another matter. I’m astonished though. In many decades of enthusiastic drinking I’ve never wet myself.

How patronising. She is out of a 20 year old abusive relationship, if she wants to vent about men’s dirty piss in her brand new washing machine, she is absolutely entitled to so that. Telling someone to calm down is aimed to make them feel worse.