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NIghtmare woman foisted upon you - nip it in the bud or humour for life?

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SilkStalkings · 16/05/2011 16:05

You're out with DP, friends, DP's best mate and his new girlfriend. Over the night you get the overwhelming impression she is a fussy PITA who acts clingy and needy to get attention and will be one of those women always crying in toilets, spoiling plans and whole evenings trying to be centre of attention. Your maternal bullshit detector is pinging and you are wondering why you should have to tolerate it from a grown woman when you wouldn't from your kids. You are imagining if they get married how you will be dealing with this for many years to come.

Do you corner her in the ladies and ask if she's really that flaky or just faking it?

Or what?

(PS this is all hypothetical)

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stillstanding · 16/05/2011 16:08

Wow ... you rush ahead - maybe give it a day week?! DP's mate will surely sort this out in due course.

plantsitter · 16/05/2011 16:10

I guess it depends if the 'overwhelming impression' is based on any evidence or in fact envy. If it is, don't try to nip it in the bud. This type love a drama and you'll find yourself the wicked stepmother to her babe in the wood (sorry for cranky analogy).

SilkStalkings · 16/05/2011 16:11

LOL, she's not real, just wondering how I would deal with her in my head now I'm a parent. Imagine you have PMT and the meal out was crap Grin.

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plantsitter · 16/05/2011 16:15

No I wouldn't. I'd just leave it. Mainly because I don't think I could be bothered to get embroiled in such a conversation and the inevitable fallout and partly, if I'm entirely honest, because I get a sort of sick entertainment watching women like this at work.

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