To think I am just a leetle bit too old to be told off by my mummy?

[D0oinMeCleanin]

I drank too much last night and didn't go to bed. I'd already made arrangements for the kids for today. I don't drink nightly and I don't do this often, when I do it's always when I've pre-arranged for the children to go out with somone the next day.

It's my 'time off'. I don't go out much. I don't get a break much. I do houseworky stuff during the day and work on a night, so once a month or so I think "fuck it" and spend the night drinking and watching shit horror films. Just because I can.

DH got upset and has rung my mum to 'tell of me'

I am almost 30 years old. What did he think dhe was going to do, ground me?

Oooh that's an idea. She ground me and confine me to my room for a week. No school runs, no cleaning, no cooking. Just sleep. I might ring her back and ask her to ground me

Have another drink.

Sorry but I'm with your Mum - I think YABU for having all nighters once a month which mean you can't function the next day. What was DH doing?

Dh has the children today and was in charge last night. I can function the next day. I am functioning. I'm typing and drinking coffee. Typing is a function

I think it only counts if you flounce out of the room and slam the door behind you...

Well as the mum of an almost 30yo...

You are never too old for a telling off

Oh and by the way I got a telling off from my mum today and I'm almost 50

I was in my sixties a bit younger when my mother told me off for the way I washed knives. She caught me with the blade of one facing my hand. I usually do them with the sharp edge of the blade facing away. One never stops being a mother but, because I was aware of how picky she was, I have tried not to be the same with mine.

I think your dh was out of order for ringing your mum!

Why shouldn't she have one night off a month?! It's not like it's every night. Jeez lighten up gin! (oh the irony!)

"DH got upset and has rung my mum to 'tell of me'"
WTAF?

What were you told off for, MrsPresley ?

That was my reaction WhereYouLeftIt. She didn't tell me off. We just had a coffee and a bit of laugh at him. I wonder what I can tell of him for? I might ring MIL up and tell her he doesn't put his dirty washing in the basket so he needs telling off

Yanbu. She doesn't need to have a say in your life if you don't want her to.

Sorry but I think its ridiculous to get shit faced once a month! But then I am nearly old enough to be your mum .

Why did your dh phone your mum? Perhaps he was genuinely worried about you?

Why on earth would your DH ring your mother and get her to tell you off? The dynamics of your relationship sound a bit odd TBH

Your DH can be a bit of an arse at times can't he? I'd drink every night if I had to put up with him, you have the patience of a saint Dooin!

He was genuinely worried that I enjoy a couple of bottles of wine once a month or so?

It's lucky he didn't know me in my early twenties. He'd have had heart failure

My mums words were "DH has text me. He said I have to come round and have words with you about staying up all night drinking"

A bit of an arse Pom? That's the understatement of the year, no?

I wouldn't do it, but that's probably cause I can never get rid of my DCs the next day, and if I could I'd be suffering a shitload of unwarranted guilt for not spending time with them.

So why on earth do you tolerate his behaviour?

There is something wrong with me.

Dooin, what did you watch?

Hmm, taking your mum out of it for now, I wouldn't want to live with someone who stayed up all night drinking so that they couldn't take part in a family weekend. To be honest, I'd think they had some sort of problem.

Re-runs of Supernatural and The Mentalist. I couldn't find any films I wanted to watch.

If it was DP staying up all night drinking so he couldn't help with the kids the next day would everyone still say it was OK??

Ah, and now we get to the real issue, now he is home. He had no-one to help him get the children dressed and he had to buy new swimming shorts because he doesn't know where his are kept. Dd1 had to find dd2's clothes for her and he got stressed. Aw, diddums. Poor, neglected man had no little woman organise him.

Funnily enough I manage to get them ready on school morning without having to buy new items of clothing while he lays in bed because he stayed up half the night playing on FB games. I am struggling to see the difference, to be fair.

To be honest you 2 sound like you deserve each other.