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.

I live in a small, remote town in France, My DH and I split up after the tragic death of our daughter and I have formed a new relationship which seemed to be going well until an odd series of events took place.

Our surviving daughter has gone off the rails and got in with a bad crowd at the local hostelry. I blame myself because I have taken a long time to get over the loss of our DD owing to the lack of therapists in our remote town but her behaviour is beyond the pale.

To cap it all our late lamented DD has turned up out of the blue and refuses to believe she is dead. I mean I paid a lot of money for that funeral they could have at least checked that she was in the coffin! Some of her friends look a bit strange and then there is that annoying business about the serial killer who has been on the loose for several years.

Dear Mumsnetters should I:-

Arrange a visit from social services or an exorcist

Demand a refund from the undertaker

Send a complimentary letter to Boden congratulating them on the fact that their clothes still look good after being buried 10 years

Write to a hair products manufacturer offering my dead DD's services in a commercial as she has such beautiful long red hair

Complain to the electricity company about the frequent power cuts

I am thinking of leaving dead DD, bad live DD, EXDH and cocklodger and going to live with my cousin in a charming town in Washington State USA called Twin Peaks. Nothing odd ever happens there she says. It will be just me and her and of course her log.

Good luck driving out of the town, Drudge!

I think I might know you.... DP has always been great with DD, whose father tragically died before she was born, but turns out he has been surveying me on CCTV in our own home all along. This is especially awkward as (please don't judge) I've recently started having sex with dead DP (dd's bio dad). I feel I'm being gaslighted, as (alive)DP says it's only in case I try to kill myself again - would this be a red flag for you?

I am at my wits end with my adult DS. He has dropped out of university and spends all his time brooding in his student digs. Now he's dropped out of uni he's having real money problems and I think he's been caught out by using a loan shark or something, because whenever I try to raise the subject with him he looks very twitchy. I've tried to encourage a hobby or a skill that he could use to get a job, I suggested chopping wood and he did say he was handy with an axe, so maybe that's a good thing?

Also I wish he would move back home, the part of the city he's renting in is very rough, just the other day some poor old dear and her sister were brutally murdered in their own home. I'm so worried about him!

thaliablogs probably best if you allow things to fizzle out with time, perhaps distract your DGD with some cello lessons.

I wonder if you can help me at all; I'm at my wits end. I'm a dad and my only daughter is my pride and joy. She's been hearing these weird voices though, and the thing is I get that too and my wife went mental about it when I mentioned it some years ago. AIBU to tell my DD not to let her mum know about the voices? Also, things have recently got a bit complicated and she's been coopted to work in a sort of clothes archive in central governemnt; our government is corrupt tbh and uses this hit-man to control dissidents. I think she's getting a crush on the hit-man. Would I be unreasonable to give her an expensive bracelet with a poison dart in it just in case everything gets too much?

Also, I keep having this weird hallocination that I'm a greengrocer and my adult DD is a teenager again, it sort of flips in and out. Should I take some time off?

TheOriginalSteamingNit Yes I think we may have met. Don't blame you for reviving romance with revived fiance. Much hotter than that creepy Thomas, what ever did you see in him? I mean there are rebounds and then there are rebounds.

Don't trust that creepy priest either. I know Simon left you at the altar but I thought France was a secular country and you had to get married at the town hall first. But who am I to judge, I didn't even wonder why I produced non identical ginger twins when exDH and I are mousey.

AIBU to wish my son would stop annoying the neighbours. He's eleven years old and we have a constant stream of neighbours complaining about him upsetting their cat, or ruining their prize roses or whatever. He hangs around with a bunch of scruffs called the outlaws and refuses to make friends with the lovely girl up the road who's obviously mad about him and whose parents are absolutely loaded lovely people.

His older brother and sister are no use whatsoever. They just keep saying he's awful and I should have had him adopted at birth. Mind you, they're no great shakes themselves. My son has no job and is constantly mooning after girls from the village who obviously have no interest in him and are just using him to get presents or to make their boyfriends jealous.

His sister has worked her way through every eligible young man in the county at this stage and still shows no signs of settling down. She seems to think that life is just one long picnic on the lake.

I'm fed up of the lot of them.

Whoo hoo we made the roundup!

My DS (9) has been complaining of terrible headaches recently. He suddenly and dramatically looks into the middle distance whilst rubbing a small scar on his forehead.

He also spends time in the girls toilets and has been heard whispering to the walls.

I suspect he may be on LSD. WWYD?

AIBU not to want all her godmothers present at my dd's christening? One of them is very anti social and curses all the time.......

Beside myself with worry! My twins have gone missing. They were on a plane that had to ditch somewhere. The airforce is out looking for them. The problem is, there don't seem to be any adults. They are just a party of English public schoolboys. What kind of boarding school have I been paying for that would leave them unsupervised? Their main skills are choir singing and lacrosse. I hope they get found soon before it all ends in tears!

thalia and Woodhead - Genius!!! I was wondering how on earth to do those, but you've made it look easy...

Anyhow...

AIBU to think that my oldest DD is being very U indeed? As the oldest it is her destiny not to succeed in anything nor to have any kind of glamour in her life, so I have very kindly allowed her to run my successful hat shop so that I can retire.

Now the ungrateful brat has disappeared, and what's worse she has been a bad influence on my other two daughters - they appear to have switched places and one of them has ended up with a very unsuitable man indeed! Meanwhile my oldest seems to have taken on our local supervillain and won, and has now swanned off to live 'happily ever after' with a very odd wizard, who to cap it all off is from another world. WIBU to cut contact even though it may mean never seeing any grandchildren there might be?

pointythings took a while to think up an angle tbh

In terms of your current difficulty; your DD1 is indeed ungrateful, but just rely on karma. Don't cut contact, some of her exploits in the future might be amusing. Alternatively, you could try to nip out into the alternative world that the wizard comes from; you'd probably find his relations empathetic and you could spend a nice afternoon complaining about them all.

pointy, if you succeed in splitting your DD1 up from her DP, could you slip him my number?

AIBU?
Years ago a contact of mine helped me get over writers block by getting me to write him 2000 words a month-any old rubbish really will do-and it did actually work. Thing is that some enormous beast of a bloke has turned up and is refusing to leave my kitchen and is harrassing my DS, DD and their aupair. My wife is a bit annoyed as well. He claims that he needs this month's words, but I SENT THEM. I'm not doing them again, that would be ludicrous, and I'm not giving in to bullies, that would set a bad example.

However, my kids are really getting to me, and just want me to write some more words to get this strange bloke to go away-I'm not being unreasonable to stand my ground am I? It's a point of principle.

PS As an aside, I never quite got around to telling my son he's adopted-plenty of time for that surely?

AIBU to be concerned about the amount of time my son spends with the janitor in our apartment block?
We moved to Japan because of my job & I don't see why he can't just get on with being a normal boy.
He won't just knuckle down, learn a new language & make my life easy though, instead if he is not hanging out with some girl with an overprotective brother who appears to be a bit psychotic, I find he has disappeared off across country on a train with the janitor to visit a temple!
There weren't even any safety railings there (I googled a picture of it)
Now, despite the fact he has never taken a karate class in his life, he apparently wants to enter some national competition.
Should I put my foot down & tell him he can't go?

Woodhead I suggest you keep making the big guy cups of tea and kind of work around him - he isn't going to go away. I understand you wanting to stand your ground though, and the thing is - if you give in, there'll be more like his boss wanting words and you'll never get any work done...

I am delirious with joy over this thread. Would anybody else like to join me in a Diana Wynne Jones -cult- club - we could educate the world about her greatness!

hardtostayfocused I'm in. We can be a proper MN quiche!

Ooh yes, let's be a quiche !!?

I've started a thread here

I am frantic with worry about my DD who seems to have joined a strange cult. She has been attending this boarding school near the Alps and seemed very happy there and had a nice bunch of friends. However, she has now announced that she wants to get engaged to some doctor who works at a sanatorium attached to the school. She's only 17 and we don't even know this guy. Apparently he put his eye on her years ago and has been waiting until she was in the sixth form to pop the question. He sounds like a right perv.
We have tried to reason with her but she is adamant and insists that 'loads of girls in her form' are also planning to marry doctors from this San as soon as they leave school. It is definitely some kind of cult.

DH has contacted Interpol, the Medical Council and the Ministry of Education to try and find out what's going on. Apparently they have had their suspicions about this school/san set up for years but can't get anything definite on them. Anytime the net begins to close they just up sticks and move to a different part of Europe. The doctor who founded the San and the woman who founded the school are married to each other and high tailed it to Australia years ago. But the wife's sister remains close to the school and befriends individual pupils. She targets ones who have no parents or are in dysfunctional situations as there's less likely to be concerned relatives around asking awkward questions. The idea seems to be that these innocent young girls will be brainswashed into having massive families and sending all their daughters to the school to keep it in profit despite it's poor OFSTED showing.

Come to think of it, when DH was missing during an Arctic expedition a couple of years ago DD kept talking about this nice English lady who kept asking her to tea and encouraging her to talk about her problems. Obviously grooming her for some creepy doctor .

I don't know what to do. I could kill mum's friend Mary Lou for recommending the bloody school in the first place

WIBU to dump my DD (6months) on her biological dad and his 2 housemates.

I mean, come on, one of them is an Architect. Its not like they are going to be involved with drugs or anything.

Summerblaze, YANBU. I hear the architect is quite cute, maybe,that'll help your chances.

aibu to stop my kids going in the magic wood and climbing a huge tree they call the faraway tree making friends with a strange thing with a huge round face and a fairy they say there is a different magic land at the top of the tree that they climb through a cloud to get too?