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PhoboPhobia · 15/11/2021 11:52

I am so irritated and frustrated this morning - nothing on it's own is that bad but everything together is getting on top of me and I'm really just trying to work so could do without stewing.

1 - we have a puppy - he's lovely and I adore him 80% of the time but bloody hell he tires the patience
2 - MIL is in hospital, she's just been transferred to a stroke rehab unit - it's only a half hour drive technically but the traffic is so bad that it can end up being a 3 hour round trip including the hour visiting slot - if I hear SIL (300 miles away) say 'can't you or DH just pop and see her after work/in your lunch break' once more I cannot be responsible for my actions
3 - DS (17) and his phantom upset stomach which miraculosly only occurs on a Monday morning - he's not gone to college today and he's only been for 1 full week since half term
4 - DH and his back problems - he's had 2 surgeries in the past and now a new epsiode has flared up - I am so sad for him and he's in so much pain but it means he isn't taking on his share atm - I don't for one minute resent him for that and would never say anything to him - it's just more pressure
5 - My weight - I am so overweight and have been for so long - I don't feel like I can ever tackle it. I'm 51 and just see myself turning into my very unhappy, very immobile mother

Sorry - I'm wallowing but bloody hell, I could happily go and live in my caravan in the middle of a field right now.

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AIBAnxious · 14/08/2022 14:58

She's also been asking when I'm going back to work full time ... work don't even want me full time (boss says they don't have the budget) and if they did we would have to wait like a year for an extra nursery day so my work would have to want me back full time in roughly one years time but not before ...

Lightning020 · 14/08/2022 15:13

I have a very unreliable friend and after they failed to text yet again to say they could not make it last week I have put them on my archive list on whatsapp. I get too many meaningless whatsapp messages about music and rarely if ever a coherent convo. I need a year off from their gibberish I really do!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/08/2022 15:34

@VeronicaBeccabunga , that reminded me of when dh - on Christmas Eve when I was doing last minute shopping - thought he’d ‘helpfully’ water our large Christmas tree - which I’d already watered. He didn’t bother checking the level in the bucket of gravel, so the overwatering spilt out, down over the red crepe paper I’d fastened around the bucket - and over the floor, where it red-stained for ever our relatively new carpet. 🤬

It was only my (newly widowed) DM who managed to stop a nuclear explosion on my part by gently reminding me that nobody was dead - in the great scheme of things it wasn’t such a massive deal.

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