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Original poster

To be wide awake and unable to sleep - so come tell me your secret thoughts that you would only whisper down a deep well at dead of night.

161 replies

Salmotrutta · 11/08/2015 01:03

One of mine is :-

I can't abide one of my colleagues.

This person is loud, wants to be the centre of attention and, whatever the conversation is about, manages to turn it around to them.

OP posts:
Laska42 · 12/08/2015 20:17

I live near a 350 ft cliff.. I often wonder about jumping off it.. I am not depressed or anything but I just wonder what it would actually be like to jump.. However when I am up there on the downs I never think about it , but i would like to hang over the edge..never do though, never go within 6 ft)

Dont worry this is not a suicidical thing, Ii am just strangely drawn to it

Laska42 · 12/08/2015 20:23

oh and I really, really dislike my work collegue.. weve worked together there for 8 years now and everyday i dislike him more.. he is a total self opniniated sexist ignorant prat.. (and I am very intolerant!!) Ah well..

TheGingerBreadWoman · 12/08/2015 20:39

It looks like I've been stood up on a date ???? I feel so stupid

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 12/08/2015 20:50

Sorry gingerbread they're loss if they have. All us MNS are awesome catches. Don't feel stupid. You dodged a bullet if they're that inconsiderate. Lucky escape.

Awadebumbo · 12/08/2015 21:02

I in lust with one of the Directors at work it is totally inappropriate.

daisychain1991 · 12/08/2015 21:07

I really want to get my 4month old out of her cot and cuddle her up next to me in bed. I feel sad that she's moved from the baby bay into the cot... She's growing to quickly.

My DH is unsure if he will want another baby and it makes me sad that I wont have another baby and my DD will not have a sibling to grow up with.

PinkParsnips · 12/08/2015 21:34

My secret is that I am obsessed with the thought that I am going to die soon and always have been since being a child. It's on my mind in some shape or firm every single day and it's exhausting.

jeanmiguelfangio · 12/08/2015 22:13

My dad bought my stepsister (no blood relation) a car for her 18th birthday. For my 18th I got a bunch of flowers. I am insanely jealous and so bloody angry and upset. And I am nearly 30, married with a child of my own. I should know better by now

I'm also watching crap on tv so I dont go to bed, because if I do, the thoughts will come and I wont be able to cope anymore

Original poster
Salmotrutta · 12/08/2015 23:19

Flowers to those with troubles; for their honesty, and for simply managing to put one foot in front of the other and get through the days.

OP posts:
ChampagneTastes · 12/08/2015 23:24

I am a failure in virtually every aspect of my life, apart from my DS who is (inexplicably) a joy and wonder who will clearly grow up to be great.

MrsSippy · 12/08/2015 23:25

PinkParsnips Flowers me too! It's getting worse now I'm approaching 50.

WitchofScots · 12/08/2015 23:26

I'm a f'ing idiot who couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

OfficeGirl1969 · 12/08/2015 23:30

Very often i want to run away. I paint a smile on every day and everyone thinks I'm fine. And right now it's not about me, it's about someone else, so that's the way I'm playing it. And I flatly refuse to cry again, because I know once I start, I'll never stop.

ChampagneTastes · 12/08/2015 23:46

Officegirl

CheezyBlasters · 13/08/2015 00:00

I anthropomorphise everything. Hello desk, tree, cup. It is a burden.

FastWindow · 13/08/2015 00:09

Cheezy. Do you do this so much that you don't have time for the usual stuff? (dishwasher loading. Getting dressed. Etc)

Curious...

I am on the way to seriously disliking a colleague, because she is shitty to other people, not just me (I can take it. Im hard, you know.)

FastWindow · 13/08/2015 00:10

I do apologise to the car, if I take a speed bump too hard, though.

CheezyBlasters · 13/08/2015 00:17

Yes

slicedfinger · 13/08/2015 00:35

I'm driving 600 miles to see my DF this weekend. I know his DP doesn't want us to see him because I refused to employ her convicted paedophile son. I love and miss my DF. I know he has been lonely since DM died, but his new life is making him very sad. I recognise it is his choice though. Sad

9171nannyplum · 13/08/2015 00:40

Sometimes ill pretend to have a headache to get the partner to give me a nap (sometimes I mite evenBlush masterbate

MoiraBrown101 · 13/08/2015 00:40

I feel trapped in my relationship sometimes. DP has fallen off the wagon and DS is 12 weeks old. DSD is 8, she found a bottle of booze hidden in her bedroom the other week. I just don't know what to do. Actually I do know, but more accurately I don't know how to do it without making his problem worse.

FastWindow · 13/08/2015 00:41

Cheezy - that's very interesting. Everyone does this to a certain degree. I think, anyway. If they are alone a lot, - but I apologise to the car for mistreating it, because I do.
Sliced- grab your df and abduct him. (jesting... Almost) What a fubared situation. :(

FastWindow · 13/08/2015 00:45

Moira, what do you want to do?
Alcohol hidden where his 8 yo dd could find it. That's not OK.
DH alcoholic here. He doesn't know. Not fully.

getbusyliving · 13/08/2015 00:53

I'm unsure I have given my child the right name. Some days I love it, other days I don't. With my other children there was never any doubt about their names, so my uncertainty now makes me feel it must be the wrong name.
My dd is now 7 months old

happygirl87 · 13/08/2015 00:53

Cheezy I do it too! DH tells a joke about it - I once got told I anthropormophized things too much- but I just replied "what do you know, you're just a chair" Grin