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AIBU?

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AIBU about AIBU

8 replies

lonelymelissa · 08/12/2017 10:09

AIBU or more likely am I being a total bitch....

I have flicked through several topics this morning and feel like screaming "get a life" at the screen,and/or wishing that their problems were all I had to worry about.

I have come across several posts this morning where the OP feels annoyed at an imaginary slight by someone else (usually their MIL) when it seems to me the other person (usually MIL) was being perfectly reasonable. That some casual word or action is taken out of context by the OP and created a huge unecessary argument over nothing. Or that the OP is somehow offended or angry over something that the rest of us take for granted as acceptable. Or worse the normal unwritten rules of society or way of behaving, somehow do not apply to them or their child as they do the rest of us.

Normally, in real life, I understand people can become upset or stressed over minor things, I do, we all do. Usually, in real life I try to be kind and understanding to others and accept we are all different in what things upsets us. But somehow today AIBU isreally winding me up.

It's me isn't it? I know I am a bitch. Serves me right for reading this as an escape from my own problems, I am now even more wound up and should leave!!!

And breathe....

OP posts:
Allthebestnamesareused · 08/12/2017 10:12

You are me. I actually typed get a grip - you are looking for reasons to have a go at your MIL before backspacing and deleting my post!

there are a few this morning where I have gone WTF?....

glow1984 · 08/12/2017 10:14

It’s not you, it’s definitely them :D

mikeyssister · 08/12/2017 10:14

AIBU

Yes

you're wrong I'm not.

Sigh and Breathe

JollyGiraffe · 08/12/2017 10:16

YAB a bit U. And a bit of a hypocrite.

To throw back what you said about people needing to get a life, or the fact that that is all they have to worry about, is this really all you have to worry about?

No?

lonelymelissa · 08/12/2017 10:25

YAB a bit U. And a bit of a hypocrite

I know JollyGiraffe I am a total hypocrite at being so wound up by people and posts that do not affect me personally. That was the real point of my post (between the lines). I am frustrated at myself when I am dealing with real life major issues (my mum died last week) and I am annoyed by the words of a stranger on a screen who is upset by an imagined slight. Even typing this is being hypocritical and like those I have accused, I am creating my own things to be upset about. I'm being ridiculous, I know.

OP posts:
moutonfou · 08/12/2017 10:30

I never judge people for having small problems. Because where does it end? That as long as someone in the world has a bigger problem than you, you have no right to complain? Under that logic only one person on the planet would have the right to complain and AIBU would be empty.

It's just a forum, people like to share/vent and chat to others.

moutonfou · 08/12/2017 10:31

(However I don't think YABU to feel that way after a bereavement. Flowers )

ReturnOfTheMackYesItIs · 08/12/2017 10:33

No it's definitely not just you. MN has a lot of extremely self-absorbed posters who appear to have no insight whatsoever.

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