AIBUs from parents of fictional children

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AIBU to be concerned about what DCs are up to? Since we moved to Yorkshire they've been hanging around the railway line most days and not made friends with the local children.

DS came home with a bag of coal which he said was "mined" and whilst he looked like he'd been down a coal mine I suspect it was stolen.

And then there's the station porter who seems to be getting very friendly with them - he's a nice man by all accounts but I can't help feeling suspicious.

AIBU to think I should have listened to MNers about Center Parcs and the like.

Here on a long holiday with DH (constantly playing golf) and two teenage DDs. My youngest seems to be constantly hanging round the entertainment team, carrying watt melons an the like, with no regard to her dream to be a UN peacekeeper.

I am so worried about my baby

Luckily DD1 has thrown herself into the holiday spirit and even met a lovely boy who is plannig on becoming a doctor just like DH!

My DP Geoff and I adopted twins last year. He'd like to get hitched up in a civil partnership with me, but there's a few things holding me back. Firstly it's a big commitment. Do I really want to be with this guy the rest of my life? I had loads of boyfriends in the past. Really played around. I've never really planned ahead very far. I want to stay part of he twins' lives, absolutely. I love them to bits, but 'marriage'? For ever?!
And, my DF dosen't really approve of him. He's said some pretty homophobic stuff in the past and I'm worried this might tip him over the edge. My Mums fine, but has never really wanted to know about the "Sex stuff".
AIBU in saying I want to be Geoff's partner, not civil partner? The other problem is I can't actually get to the registry office WHEN I'M STILL NAILED TO THIS FUCKING CROSS!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?! GET ME DOWN FFS!!! IT REALLY STINGS!!!!

Darn. Look at all those typing errors. If it wasn't 1963 I'd blame predictive text.

I wouldn't worry about your baby Yonione. It sounds like she's having the time of her life!

I'm concerned about my son's involvement with a young woman from a noble and very well-connected family. She's not his normal type at all - normally he gets involved with flighty young things, Libyan dancing girls, Syrian flute players etc - but she is something different. Very intelligent, a real lady of class, way out of his league. I have no idea what she sees in him - he lives hand to mouth as an informer and has a flat above a laundry in the least salubrious part of town.

I think he's going to get his heart broken. But what can I do? He's effectively the head of the family, since his dad buggered off and his idiot brother got himself killed in Judaea! I'm just a helpless widow!

MrsAMerrick, if i were you, I'd pack him off to the toughest boarding school you can find. I hope you don't mind me saying so, but I think he could do with a bit of a kick up the arse: last time I saw him, he was crying like a baby at a fairly pedestrian concert. And I hear he's got a bad poetry habit...

They'll soon teach him to stop ordering melon as a pudding, with a great deal of ginger...

Fairphyllis you haven't mentioned the young man, son of the deceased servant who lies in a room off the scullery. Have you noticed he has become rather hot in his late adolescence?

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Grubbybrat, you might well have a point. However, before you cast aspersions on my DS's manliness I wonder if you would care to reflect on whose son it was who acted like a lily-livered girl, lost his head completely when faced with the teeniest little cliff, and had to be rescued by coastguards fetched by his younger sister? Just a thought....

My DGD has just trashed the sitting room. I had given her a lovely day, lots of healthy outdoor fun, and she was having some home made yoghurt as a snack. Suddenly, tuffet goes flying, yoghurt everywhere, screaming the place down. Apparently a "great big spider" came and "sat down beside her". Probably a tiny money spider the size of a lentil.

Children today, they are so used to their television and computer and Nintendo, they can't cope with a harmless bit of Brisitsh wildlife. Ridiculous.

I blame the parents.

saffron Yes, the live-in boy (I feel guilty that we can no longer pay him any wages) has become incredibly hot in his late adolescence. He however has eyes only for my younger DSD, who has completely failed to realise how hot he is. I think it very likely that my sexual frustration stems in part from having this Adonis under my (leaking) roof.

AIU to want my son to stay on at Dotheboys Hall despite the Ofstead report saying it was 'poor' in some areas?

pointythings I'd go off to Scarborough and have a good time, you never know what might happen next - enjoy this week while you can. Just keep the matches away from your ward, he might not be a fire starter but he sounds like just the type to make inflammatory friends.

[Happy sigh, thread is still chuntering on! Could do with a key to the originals in some cases but what matter, such fun! Have nominated for Classics. Hoping for more gems at lunchtime...]

AIBU to be fed up with DS's attitude to my new DH? Bit of a long backstory but when my first DH died (DS's father ) I, well I got rather close to DBIL and we have ended up together. Fantastic sex and we are running the family business together. Couldn't be better except for an aggressive takeover bid from a rival firm and the way Ds keeps moping round, glaring at me and Dh and just taking the shine off everything. It really is time for him to move on. Not helped by the young woman he has taken up with, who clearly has mental health issues.
He said he thought there was something rotten somewhere but I have turned out all the cupboards.

Hope nobody minds, particularly OP, but having stayed up far too late last night trying to work out what some of these are based on - lots sound like stories I would love to read - I have started a thread to reveal the solutions!

Please put me out of my misery here

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Of course, I'm not one to mention the words "sexual identity crisis".

Sophita, well quite. What could go wrong? It's not as though he's going to turn out to be a jealous controlling bastard who rubbishes her work, lies to her and generally tries to keep her under his thumb, is it? At least the hunchback is from a good family, unlike the other boys she has hanging around. I'm still hoping her rich great-aunt will leave her pots of money when she finally pops off, but at the same time said great-aunt keeps going on about my niece's lovely ankles and eyelashes. I frankly disapprove of this licentiousness and I'm a bit jealous of said ankles and eyelashes, but I've got my eye on the main chance so I don't want to offend the great-aunt. WWYD?

AIBU...To think that my cub is somewhat strange, by always talking in rhyme.?

I'm at the end of my tether with DH. I want DS to enter Society and do some work for my slightly dodgy brother on the side. DH keeps interfering and has just dragged him out of school to go and see some crack-pot specialist who keeps banging on about 9 lives. He's not a bloody cat! In the meantime DH has lost all our money and my brother says I'll have to go and live on the Continent. WIBU to LTB? He wants DS to go and work for some completely dreary and boring government organisation that keeps persecuting innocent smugglers like my DB. I suppose it will be a secure job for life with excellent pension, holidays and flexible working, but he's never going to make his fortune in the public sector.

I'm having trouble with my DC. DS is totally obsessed with one of our neighbours. He keeps climbing up a waterfall to visit her, taking her fresh-laid eggs and planning to abduct her when it gets snowy. She comes from a very dodgy family who think they're better than us honest farmers, but they're nothing better than ruffians and they shot my DH. DS has sworn vengeance but I think he'd be better settling down on the farm and marrying his cousin.

DD1, on the other hand, wants to marry a highwayman. I don't approve at all. Why can't my DC fall in love with nice normal people? At least DD2 is too young to marry, even though she drives me mad with her book-learning. She'd be better concentrating on learning how to cook and please a man.

tiggyD - watch out, children can get into all sorts of trouble if you take a day off and don't keep a close eye on them. I seem to remember you live near an orchard? You want to watch out in case they go scrumping for apples or something like that.

Saffronblue - have you thought of packing DS off to England. You could send those two very nice, ambitious middle managers you were telling me about with him. I'm sure they're innovative enough to try to find a solution to your problems. By the way, how are you getting on with choosing the new curtain fabrics? So important that they don't show stains easily, I reckon. How about a nice deep red colour?

Was I U to have slaughtered my daughter Mary's little lamb and cook it ?