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Original poster

To have issues with bubbles in my sink?

107 replies

mummytofourbabies · 07/08/2016 17:12

It actually makes me go into a little rage if DP has done dishes and doesn't rinse the sink out afterwards.

Even the tiniest little bit of bubbles left makes me angry, think I'm a little bit ocd actually haha.

Surely I'm not alone?

OP posts:
EvansAndThePrince · 07/08/2016 19:58

If you do indeed spend 4 hours per night scrubbing your kitchen, to start with, then you need professional help and are not in control. Who looks after your four kids during those four hours?

Original poster
mummytofourbabies · 07/08/2016 19:58

My four kids are in bed!!!
Not that It's none of your business where they are.

OP posts:
Furiosa · 07/08/2016 19:59

I have OCD coupled with a few other other compulsive traits (skin picking, hair pulling).

I'm not in the least bit offended by your use of "a little bit OCD".

I'm more annoyed that you've tried to start a "meh" thread and have had an angry response. It's like walking on egg shells here.

Even if you do want people to stop using the term OCD lightly you can as easily mention how wrong they are in in a kind way rather than being rude.

It's just so unnecessary.

EvansAndThePrince · 07/08/2016 20:00

So you stay up particularly late doing this and the other aforementioned things?

Sorry, you said this thread was about your OCD, I'm just trying to help you, love.

Original poster
mummytofourbabies · 07/08/2016 20:01

Furiousa

Thank you :)

It's ridiculous isn't it.
Some people just love a drama

OP posts:
LouSavage · 07/08/2016 20:02

What a horrible read.

Notso · 07/08/2016 20:03

Why wouldn't you get help for something which is having what sounds like a negative impact on your life?
If you had mild asthma symptoms would you just carry on because some people have severe asthma?
If it was your child with OCD would you take them to the doctor?
Get some help OP.

TheGruffaloMother · 07/08/2016 20:04

I think the appropriate response was probably something along the lines of "I didn't mean to offend anyone, I genuinely feel like I have behaviours indicative of OCD and my wording was my attempt to make light of my own compulsions rather than the illness as a whole". As it is, the whole tone of the thread is fucked. But also YABU to expect your DH to get the sink bubble mark free. That's above and beyond for a place that houses bubbles several times a day.

EvansAndThePrince · 07/08/2016 20:04

Some people have had their lives destroyed by OCD...and it hits a nerve when people say "I'm a little bit OCD" because they haven't got the faintest clue how much OCD hurts. It's not a joke as you said early on, it's awful.

Original poster
mummytofourbabies · 07/08/2016 20:04

No Evans

My thread was about bubbles in my sink and all you lot turned it into this, it's ridiculous.

I don't want your help nor did I ask for it! When I decide that professional help would benefit me then I will go and get it myself.
Thank you very much for your concern though
But just so you all know my kids are very well looked after and I don't appreciate them being brought into this.

OP posts:
Amelie10 · 07/08/2016 20:05

This thread has become so ridiculous it's actually funny now. Op don't engage, think some people are just trying to wind you up.

BuonoEstente · 07/08/2016 20:05

Please leave it now everyone, it's getting very nasty and no one should have to present a doctors note or justify an illness on here. OP used an expression a lot of people use every day (rightly or wrongly), you've all made it clear it causes offence. Forcing an apology from someone you have never met for an offence she very clearly did not intend to cause on an internet forum is just not necessary

Original poster
mummytofourbabies · 07/08/2016 20:08

Gruffalo I think you missed part of this thread

"That doesn't say ocd is funny though,
That is me laughing at my own ways..not in any way at anyone else who has ocd"

That just so happens to be maybe my third post on this thread which explains that this was not about other people who have ocd

So al the people since then that have chosen to be offended clearly misunderstood my comment

OP posts:
ButteredToastAndStrawberryJam · 07/08/2016 20:08

It's just so hard to live with others at times.

EvansAndThePrince · 07/08/2016 20:08

That's what this is all about!
*
You lot turned it into this.
*
Okay Hmm

Original poster
mummytofourbabies · 07/08/2016 20:08

So...what did you all have for dinner? GrinGrinGrin

OP posts:
BuonoEstente · 07/08/2016 20:10

Nandos Grin

Noonesfool · 07/08/2016 20:10

Marmite spaghetti

Amelie10 · 07/08/2016 20:11

Veggie lasagne Grin

Original poster
mummytofourbabies · 07/08/2016 20:12

Marmite spaghetti? What's that?

OP posts:
TheGruffaloMother · 07/08/2016 20:13

This is like talking to a brick wall.

Right. I'll try again. Notice how the tone of my version of your answer was far less aggressive than the answer you posted? You got people's backs up by using a much hated term 'a bit OCD' and your replies to people's understandable reactions were quite arsy with no acknowledgement that many people find that language actually offensive.

TheGruffaloMother · 07/08/2016 20:13

Not had any yet. Thinking of sausage and mash.

BuonoEstente · 07/08/2016 20:14

Ooo actually did you mean lunch/dinner or dinner/tea? If the latter than beans and sausages.

exWifebeginsat40 · 07/08/2016 20:15

bubbles.

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