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Spider under pillow

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DearMartha · 25/08/2026 23:21

About to go up to bed and my husband text me from upstairs to say he’d just seen a thick legged, big bodied spider crawl out from under my pillow.
I’m going to have to sleep on the sofa aren’t I?

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TheSandgroper · 26/08/2026 15:28

Shove a squirt of insect killer down the back of the headboard. She’ll be right.

I’m Australian. I’m an expert in this sort of thing 😁

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DearMartha · 26/08/2026 14:54

Limth · 25/08/2026 23:30

If you have a spider phobia, I think your DH is actually a bit of a dick to text/tell you that.

If he knew you had a phobia, he could've just quietly got rid of the spider and let you get on with life none the wiser.

I only have a phobia when I think about them on my face in the night and them dipping a leg (or something) into my mouth to get a drink while I sleep!!

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DearMartha · 26/08/2026 14:51

It got worse. Firstly, it apparently crawled out from under pillow and then quickly scrambled over the headboard into the darkness behind it so couldn’t be caught. I went up to grab my pillow and as I shook it to make sure it was spider- free, another bloody spider ran out from under it. Absolute horror! Slept on blow up bed in kids room and there I shall remain forever!

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Limth · 25/08/2026 23:30

If you have a spider phobia, I think your DH is actually a bit of a dick to text/tell you that.

If he knew you had a phobia, he could've just quietly got rid of the spider and let you get on with life none the wiser.

sweetpickle2 · 25/08/2026 23:28

My husband would know better than to tell me that because he knows I’d never sleep in the bedroom again- he should have just quietly got rid.

Crispynoodle · 25/08/2026 23:27

Yes you are! I once heard (!) a spider crawling across the pillow beside me. Hubby and I slept on the sofa for a whole week while we searched and hoovered the room to be sure

Circe32 · 25/08/2026 23:27

Burn the house down and move into a hotel.

Openmouthinsertfood · 25/08/2026 23:26

I found a dead one at the foot of my bed the other day when changing the sheets.

ToKittyornottoKitty · 25/08/2026 23:25

Did he not get rid of the spider?

ThisAutumnTown · 25/08/2026 23:24

Personally I’d just accept that your house now belongs to the spider and I’d move out 🙃

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