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To divorce DH?!

31 replies

AyeAyeFishyPie · 07/02/2018 19:26

Disclaimer - I'm 10 weeks pregnant.

DH is on a business trip abroad. We have had eleventy million conversations about him communicating better. It's day three and i had a message saying he landed and a message saying good morning. Is it too much to ask that he replies - even briefly - to a WhatsApp? Even just a 'hope you are snuggling up with a Friends' or something?! He has read my messages. It's not a jam packed trip. I don't even know his flight details. I know it's not that bad and many are worse but he very rarely stays away and I'm feeling hormonal and a bit vulnerable.
Doesn't help that our house is bloody freezing cos he wanted a Victorian job that is barely warmer than outside.

Grrrrrr.

Sorry. As you were.

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AyeAyeFishyPie · 07/02/2018 22:45

Thanks sunshine

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bebealpha · 08/02/2018 11:25

My husband is a constant Texter. Does he reply if you ask a question? I tend to respond to questions but sometimes I'm too busy to reply
I love you too! I try to though because I know it annoys him but it is a source of contention.

SheenaWasAPunkRocker · 08/02/2018 11:57

This sounds like my DH was (even down to the penchant for draughty Victorian houses Grin ). He would always go incommunicado when away. He's otherwise brilliant, but seemingly just got focused on where he was/what he was doing to the exclusion of all else (namely me - pregnant/alone in a new country thousands of miles from home/recently burgled (different occasions)). Pissed me right off.

Anyway, I was very clear how I felt about it. Told him it wasn't on. Turned my phone off and didn't answer anything from him for several days (once he'd decided he'd get round to getting in touch). Made sure I was out (without my phone) for hours and hours when he arrived home, with no way of him knowing or finding out where I was. That kind of thing. He's better now Grin

mummmy2017 · 08/02/2018 12:11

There was an article somewhere about getting people to reply.
Something about leave half open statements..

So hope your having a good trip, I feel like going to do something nice today.... any ideas?

G120810 · 09/02/2018 22:14

Even if your not a texter he read ure message and chose not to reply to u me and my partner would be txting and foning all the time as we would be missing each other and we are used to talking all the time he sounds distant there's no excuse not to talk to

DorisDangleberry · 09/02/2018 22:29

Maybe he doesn’t feel the need to post inane twaddle on WhatsApp.

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