to think neighbours should stop acting like a couple of 5yr olds.

[PinkyMe]

My neighbours have a bit of a volatile relationship.
And were at it again last night. 1am and they're having an almighty row. Apart from the f'ing and blinding, we could here running up and down and loads of banging.
The last time this happened my DH called the police as it sounded like they were killing each other. The police were there for about 2 mins and left. We decided that they must just fight loudly and were not actually hitting each other. Otherwise the police would have been there longer.
So last night we just tried to ignore it. Very difficult given the amount of noise involved.
All quite now but is it unreasonable to expect adults to behave like adults?

YANBU poor you having such pathetic neighbours encroaching into your lives. Bet they think they have one of those passionate volatile relationships. Yuck grow up (them not you).

Tell them to STFU next time you see them.

that sounds awful. i remember hearig my neighbours fighting once and was really worried. but it was only once. i can't imagine what it must be like living next to it all the time.

I used to live in a ground floor flat beneath throwers. Every time they argued the shouting was accompanied by the smashes of things they'd thrown out the window hitting the path below. So apparently YABU

nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors......it could be domestic abuse...

I wish someone had called the police when it was happening to me........ It was my xh trying to get me to hit me. Not that you'd know that if you met him at any other time.

As dragonfly says, you have no idea what's going on.

the police are usually quite good with domestics, if there is any suggestion of violence they will stay to have a chat and sort it out
But if they immediately say, "no officer we weren't having a row" what can the police do.

I would still phone the police if you thought it was getting out of hand.
Me and DH are usually quite amicable but recent stresses have ended up with some blazing rows.

They need to move in next to our speed freak, tweaker neighbour, who likes to crank up the bass on his techno/rave music around 1AM.

Start logging every single time they row like this and disturb you after 11PM.