...to expect my husband to return my call in under 8 hours?

[Nicola246]

Having day from hell. Too much to do. Rotten cold. Screamy child. Crushed my sunglasses when folding pushchair. Covered in food at every meal. Had had enough by 10am. Left a message on my husband's voicemail then. Left an enraged, vicious one at 6pm - heavy sarcasm, thanks for returning the call, you're a git sort of thing. Am I being unreasonable? Am literally quivering with irritation.

Have I missed something - is this a wind up??

Wow, you had my sympathy but then rapidly lost it. It's a cold, not the Black Death.

flowers?LOL only is she eat humble pie

Yes you were unreasonable, but then again sometimes we as human beings are driven to unreasonableness.

In your situation I think I'd have done the same. Then after my second message where I called him a git and the rest of it, I'd have started to panic that there was a terrible reason he hadn't responded. He is in hospital, he's dead and no one's noticed etc etc

Then he'd stroll in the door all alive and stuff and I'd be forced to say unreasonable things again.

Another

OP :AIBU?
Posters :YABU
OP: I am sooo not BU. And eff off posters who suggest I am BU. I AM YANBU. YANBU geddit? And just because I posted in AIBU it does not mean that I want your opinions.

Followed by a flounce.

I love MN

crackin thread.esp if you dare disagree you get a gobful and called billy no mates

and a big shout to the sympathetic posters for good measure

love it when it goes tits up

Sometimes at work I don't have enough time to deal with all my work calls and messages, let alone deal with personal stuff. I don't ever look at my phone until I leave work, and messages have come in that I don't know about. Hard to say if it's unreasonable for him not to have responded without know what he does for a living.

Sorry you've had a shit day though.

We seem to be having a few of them recently Missbeehiving......

i love the agree with me or i diss you all threads

so funny

For all OP knows, maybe her DH was doing a sponsored silence

"I don't think it matters if it was an emergency or not. OP was having a crap day and needed some love on the phone from her DH."

I think it does matter if it was an emergency. My employer doesn't pay me to keep checking my phone in case my partner happens to be in need of some love. And lots of people don't have time to take lunchbreaks either.

I particularly like this thread because SM has gone all Dickensian and Christmassy with the use of "crabbit"

Unless you left a message saying it was an emergency, in no way see why DH had to call back if he was very busy just to listen to a rant. YABU and after a good night sleep, hopefully you'll see that.

well she didnt like shrew lets see how crabbit goes down

mind out... she may stamp on that teeny violin...

hmm better a crabbity shrew or a shrewish crab?

Ahhh ladies..she's just feeling fragile cut her some slack...I'm sorry you had a crap day OP...for the record ..I never check my phone I am shit in the extreme about such things and he was at work so cut him some slack too OP..lets just cut everyone some slack !!..it's friday...

people are and will continue to be unreasonable tis human...

I'm on the posters side but from personal experience as my DH works 14 hour days, 5-6 days a week in his kitchen and I am a SAHM who works from home. If I'm having an incredibly crap day and text him to ring me as soon as he can, I expect a quick text back saying 'Ya babe. xx' I'm always in bed when he gets home as well, so not much us time, so a couple of minutes during the day is not unreasonable to ask for to ring your other half.