in noticing that other IPOAT Johnny husband incarnations are better than mine?

[Hullygully]

Huh.

Me too. I think I am tres witty and well imformed on...well everything really. Thing is I always feel a little lost at these events. Like I am pretending to be a stylish grown up. I still feel like the aloof goth who was never going to conform

He is very handsome.

Oh I do that too.
I get all self concious and think a drink will relax me but end up being loud and telling dreadfully inappropraite jokes and vomitting in my clutch bag.

Dh gets very tense before work dos now

Do you tell him he's handsome?

I tell DS all the time, because he really really (unbiased) is. He says, yeah, but you're my mum, it doesn't count.

Oh so handsome!! I would have swooned at school everytime he walked past

auction and Pag's DH

I find the worse thing is that I always say what everyone is clearly thinking but not saying. I can't help it, it's kind of forced from me in some weird way. Then the other person looks terribly uncomfortable.

But what a night we would have were we sat at the same table!!

I can just imagine (am grinning here)

DH is at home with the girls tonight. My friend is a doctor and it's her friends charity so I haven't even got DH to skillfully steer us home if he notices my red cheeks and ruder jokes

Oh I feel a bit sick. My pal is lovely but I am going to be so out of my depth with her friends. How silly I still feel like this. I seem so confident but it's all a facade really.

ROFL at Hullys truth compulsion

You have to think of examples. Is it 'Bloody hell, the vicar is oogling your tits' type stuff?

Yes I do tell the boy. He rools his eyes at me . He has always had a very poor opinion but has spotted girls swooning and following him around shops.Younf girls at not very subtle tbh. He has been with his girlfriend for two years. I think sometimes she worries tbh

Hehe Hully, I would look at you knowingly with a twinkle in my eye at meeting a kindred

awww is his girlfriend lovely Pag?

It's more the kind of situation where someone says something, in a group, and there's one of those sort of little silences that mean everyone is too delicate to challenge what they've said/ask for further information. I can only wait two beats before I go ahead and say/ask it.

Friends say I tell it like it is. I dread to think what others say. I'd rather not know...

Gibbon, you're great. Anyone would be lucky to have you as a friend and proud to have you as a guest at their function. Straight back, shoulders back, and remember you're an IPOAT!

She is very sweet and he is besotted with her but she is very quiet and shy. I think it must be hard when girls are really obvious.

We should all get a table at some gathering or other and see who gets asked to leave first...

Here's an eg, have you seen the AIBU to really want to tell the truth? thread? I wouldn't even ask the question.

Tell the truth and shame the devil. (But not to me in case I get upset).

YY - Hully is right Gibb, they are lucky to have you there.

Ooh I do the gap filling thing but in a very bland 'well isn'tthis nice' way. Dh always mutters to me as we go into parties "don't forget, any silence is not your personal responsibility"

Yes - but they just cry out to be filled, don't they?

Bless you Hully, needed that

OK I'll be fine and have a wonderful time. If I do meet someone who looks at me like I am mad/boring/odd when I say I'm a SAHM, I shall think of you all and add that I also have some insane internet friends and we pretend to get married to dashing made up characters and have demi god children....

So lucky to have this thread and you chaps

yes they do. Silence is bad and my fault.
Dh does not understand

Dhs can be a bit rubbish in this area, I find.

Oh PLEASE tell them that. Tell them that if they ask what you do...

If it gets challenging Gibbon just rend your garments and rip open your bodice.
You know it works

Have to swoon...
Harvest festival awaits and I have to find a tin of beans or kumquats...

Do both Gibbon. rend your garments and talk of demi god offspring. Then swoon...

I do that too Pag. Or grin like a fool when someone glances at me.

My harvest festival offering was a tin of organic kidney beans, how delighted the old person recipient must have been.

Laters.

sorry behind on posts, yes will do that in honour of us all!

have fun at festival Pag x

lol Hully

Just seen time, must swoon too!

MWAH MWAH

Hello all. Sorry to post and run yesterday. I have done something terribly bad and sneaky which DH caught me out on - re-registered on here under his email address to bypass my self-imposed ban. Because I have That Little Willpower. So then because I felt so bad and sneaky I had to do something other than MN all evening to prove I am not a sad addict. V. Bad.

Have been lurking a little (also sneaky)

hully - you are wonderful. But I also empa/sypathise. Had v bad times recently with out-of-control emotional reactions to everything child-related. Really need a job to stop me obsessing- waiting to hear about one.

Gibbon - I know the social angst of which you speak. Best advice someone ever gave me was : don't compare your insides to everyone else's outsides. But you know that.

Pag - DS1 is indeed a handsome fella. Great picture too.