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AIBU?

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AIBU for being upset that my DH used "our phrase" on Facebook?

198 replies

NCForNow · 27/08/2012 23:03

It's a phrase that we used when we had our first DC. A made up one. It's not something that I have ever heard anyone else use and we always said it in relation to our first DD.

Now one of his mates has had a baby and he put our phrase on the friends comments box under the photo of their baby.

I asked him why he'd done this..and he went mad as if I had picked on him for nothing. He said he never knew I'd be upset though he knew it was a phrase which had personal meaning and emotional attachment for me and for him.

I can't understand why he'd say that on stupid FB!! He barely comments on things usually!

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PatFenis · 27/08/2012 23:55

BoneyBack Thanks mate ...its all just come flooding back Grin

NCForNow · 27/08/2012 23:58

Oh Boney I don't know and therein lies the problem. I ASSUMED he knew! It was always said at special or touching moments...moments where I thought we were especially close.

Obv that is not enough for him to grasp that for me...it was a private thing.

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StuntGirl · 27/08/2012 23:59

Not only are you so, completely, ridiculously unreasonable you sound utterly batshit crazy too. Don't blame your hormones, this is all you.

icecold · 28/08/2012 00:00

like mother-fucker?

TellyBug · 28/08/2012 00:01

I reckon your DP heard it from somewhere else before you guys 'made it up'. Maybe.

Share the phrase!

FairhairedandFrustrated · 28/08/2012 00:04

StuntGirl?

A bit much perhaps.

NCForNow · 28/08/2012 00:05

ice wtf are you on about?

Telly...maybe! Yes...I will share it now. But not on here! Grin NOW it IS time for bed.

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Xmasbaby11 · 28/08/2012 00:05

YANBU. You don't share your private jokes. I wouldn't like it either.

NCForNow · 28/08/2012 00:06

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icecold · 28/08/2012 00:07

AF said was it like 'ratbags'?

you said, kind of but more flattering to the mother

I said, like 'mother-fucker'?

NCForNow · 28/08/2012 00:08

Well how is THAT flattering? Confused

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icecold · 28/08/2012 00:12

well, is not really

LoopyLoopsOlympicHoops · 28/08/2012 00:13

OP, YANBU. I know just how you feel.This sounds exactly like the time I stopped speaking to my sister because she bought the same horse magazine as me. Totally reasonable for an 11 year old.

AnyFucker · 28/08/2012 00:14

OP, maybe your H really, really likes babies ?

they are kinda cute, and if this is the baby of a good friend, I think it's rather sweet

unless (going with the "flattering to the mother" theme") the phrase is something like "yay! Massive boobeez!"

< ahem >

StuntGirl · 28/08/2012 00:15

I read the entire thread actually, and I still think you're acting like a loon.

FoofyShmooffer · 28/08/2012 00:17

Aah. The Pirahnas are circling. Surprise.

Yanbu and Yabu but you know that. Grin

and what Mme Lundor said.

gatheringlilac · 28/08/2012 00:18

I'm desperatley thinkig of local colloquialisms and can only come up with "Babby's head" but cannot work that into a charming epithet.

This is like Rumplestiltskin. Do I win your dd if I guess it correctly?

And you're a bit U, but understandably so.

wishiwassingle · 28/08/2012 00:18

Well unless OP's DH said "That is one MILF" then I don't see the problem.

StuntGirl · 28/08/2012 00:19

Wishiwassingle Grin

gatheringlilac · 28/08/2012 00:19

And, yes, I agree with MmeLindor too.

You know, being just mean may be a quick way to get your jollies, but it doesn't produce the glancing and delightful wit that many older posters mourn the passing of ...

NCForNow · 28/08/2012 00:23

{nods at gatheringlilacs words of wisdom}

[Hides thread and loons off to bed]

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Posterofapombear · 28/08/2012 00:24

YABU and bonkers.

I call the dog by DD's pet name sometimes. And the car and once someone else's DH.

Just words innit.

I am most about what the phrase actually is because I bet it's Blackadder or Red Dwarf.

Pandemoniaa · 28/08/2012 00:41

Excuse me but discombobulated is my word.

Sglefrwr · 28/08/2012 00:41

its obviously a very important phrase to the OP, though possibly your husband didnt realise just how personal it was. Men can be like that sometimes you know not knowing hehe

Your obviously upset by it but I think you should calm down it was a honest mistake on his part dont be so harsh on him hunny. kiss and make up spread the love :)

icecold · 28/08/2012 00:48

is it your word pandemoniaa?