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[Lentilweaver]

I feel I need to start this. I have so many gripes at the moment, and I just want to moan without the pressure of having to move on to solutions. I am trying to solve them too, but sometimes they can't be easily solved.

Here's my current one: I hate cooking for the family and the mental load that comes with it. Yes, they cook for themselves sometimes, yes, I batch cook sometimes, yes I don't put up with fussiness, yes we do simple meals sometimes, yes yes yes to all of that. But sometimes I still hate it! And I want to be able to moan! Also takeaways have got so expensive and we can't have as many as we used to, so cooking at home all the time.

I'm leaving a job I'm good at partly because of you! I'm not your mum or even a friend, I wasn't employed to support you. You manipulate colleagues and are very selfish. You take up so much of my time with pointless things and I want to scream 'get a grip.' The boss has broken you and you could walk away and feel much better, but you choose not to. I can't pander to you and my replacement is on to you! The bullying boss will leave anyway, then you won't have her protection. I'm over the way the boss treated me and onto better things. I'm just glad I made some good friends during my time there. Phew that was a relief to write!

More ranting... I hate the fact the house is a state, when will it ever be finished?! I could decorate but I'm not 'allowed' - it's painting not sodding brain surgery! I hate the shouting every morning to hurry the kids up, just plan your time better and talk to them clearly. They could be more independent but you won't let them, I know it's a hangover from your childhood but you have to move on. I hate the boring weekends in front of the tv. I hate your 'woe is me' mentality, it's so draining. I hate our parents getting older and their constant talk of their multiple health conditions- it's suffocating. I hate the fact my job has distanced me from my friends and hope it's not too late to reconnect.

My arsehole husband promising to fix things,taking forever, making an absolute mess of it and then refusing to call in a professional. Then acting as if uts all my fault when I lose the rag and call him out!! Wanker! I need a good lawyer.....

The bastard foxes keep pooing in my garden. If I wanted to clean up poo I'd get a dog. Fucking foxes 🦊, scrawny urban mangy fleabags.

No children. We moved from rural Devon (where my colleagues though tesco bought sushi was a 'exotic' and there was one taxi firm for three villages) to Leeds and we are far far happier. There are great schools and terrible schools just like any city.

Healthcare job and have to work over 60 hours every week to have the same quality of life I had 10 years ago working part time!! Yeah I have teenagers now but I also have no childcare costs, it's exhàusting.

People who have no concept of personal space

Really really fed up of single parenting. All the load everyday and a very heavy FT job. Don't get me started on school communications or the PTA. Sick to death of paying for endless afterschool clubs and having to pay a babysitter to go out for a drink with friends or to exercise. Gah.

Final straw this afternoon when I realised I couldn't do the year three maths quiz. I have a PhD FFS.

@GettingMarriedAgain I'm so sorry. I hope you are surrounded by family and friends to help you get through.

Mr Muse has redeemed himself by actually phoning the council. It's only taken 7 months.

I think my 'what is preventing you from doing it?' THREE times at lunch yesterday was the nag that did the job.

Well, I went to MiL’s wretched gathering and the first person I saw when I walked in was DH’s cousin, who neither of us have spoken to for three years because she and her son behaved appallingly towards me and DH backed me up. Mil had invited her and deliberately didn’t tell me she would be there, probably because she knew I wouldn’t come.

I was beyond furious and made an excuse to leave after a few minutes. Apparently, Mil now wishes she hadn’t invited the cousin, but only because she hasn’t asked after her health. Not because the situation made me upset, embarrassed and awkward.

My turn. Tested positive positive for Covid on Monday. Still tested positive today. Quite bored of it now. Have isolated ever since -and haven’t set foot outside the house since last Sunday. Lonely and bored.

Don’t know what to do about work - it’s a new job and I don’t know what their position is so don’t know if I can go back to work tomorrow.

gov.uk says to isolate for 5 days but I can’t see anything about what to do if you still test positive after 5 days.

Pspercuts. So tiny but why so painful?

I am soooooo bored with Christmas shopping. Why can’t everyone have a wish list like I do, so I don’t have to spend weeks thinking of ideas for everyone?!

There are about eleven million topics on MN.

Yet everyone posts in AIBU, relationships or chat ‘for traffic’. About 80% of the topics are tumbleweed, but people consistently fail to understand that if they posted threads in the relevant topics, the topics would appear in Active and Trending and no longer be tumbleweed as well as getting more knowledgable replies.

And there are still people popping up in Site Stuff demanding a topic for a niche subject which only about five people will ever post on before they realise that no-one looks at Niche Topic so they post in AIBU ‘for traffic’.

I would dearly love to remove/merge about 75% of MN topics.