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AIBU?

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Original poster

Done before but it’s fun. So guess the book and the mil

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Seasawride · 17/07/2018 23:41

Help! I have one dd. My mil has lived with us since we have been married.

She is a very strong woman and overruled me on everything. She sends me to bed if I sneeze.

When dd was 2 dh pissed off capturing butterflies in Africa and I havnt heard off him for years. Bastard. So mil got friendly with a wierd lady next door. She has big hair coils round her ears, writes books and has lots of kids.

I am concerned she is also involved in modern slavery as she has a woman living with her called Anna who does everything.

Anyway mil and this wierd Jo woman have colluded to send dd to a boarding school.

Aibu to just want to move away with dd. Start again and have some fun? Grin

Guess the book and keep going. Grin

OP posts:
Tanith · 18/07/2018 15:42

Watership Down?

BevBrook · 18/07/2018 15:44

Oh yes, it must be - and I have read it! Brilliant description.

IwantedtobeEmmaPeel · 18/07/2018 15:51

I'm desperate to lose weight as I am a huge 11 stone. My mother keeps telling me to diet and expects me to keep look after my young sister while she goes out with her ghastly old boyfriend. I am madly in love with the groom where my sister rides and I fantasise that we will be together one day.

Tanith · 18/07/2018 15:59

Miss Snooty, is yours The Little House by Phillippa Gregory?

MrsSnootyPants2018 · 18/07/2018 16:06

@Tanith yes!! Love her books

iismum · 18/07/2018 16:06

Emma - Riders!

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 18/07/2018 16:07

I have just qualified as a solicitor and I have been sent abroad to finalise a property transaction with an aristocratic gentleman. He is very strange and seems to suffer from insomnia. He later travels to England and something very bad happens to my wife's friend. My wife then starts suffering similar symptoms which is a real pain in the neck.

ScrambledSmegs · 18/07/2018 16:08

Dracula! Hi

ScrambledSmegs · 18/07/2018 16:09

Oops got distracted

Urbanbeetler · 18/07/2018 16:09

My mother in law to be is also my grandmother in law to be, on account of her having 4 children with her son. The two boys fought each other, and both died. My father, now the ruler, refused to allow one of the brothers to be buried, as he was fighting on the wrong side.

My wife to be, one of the two sisters wasn’t having that. She was determined to see her shamed brother buried with full rites, and snuck off to do that - even though it came with a death penalty.

She’s now locked up in a sealed cave on a mountain and I am coming to blows with my dad - who is the one who put her there. I am determined to get her out.

Families, eh?

IwantedtobeEmmaPeel · 18/07/2018 16:09

Yes - Riders - just been reading the Jilly Cooper thread.

BevBrook · 18/07/2018 16:11

That sounds like Antigone, Urbanbeetler. I can't remember what her husband was called though.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 18/07/2018 16:11

Scrambled
Correct

iismum · 18/07/2018 16:12

AIBU to be a bit worried about DD's education? We sent her to a decent private school but one of the teachers there is pretty eccentric, and she's taken DD and five other fairly random girls (one of whom is a good friend of DD's but the rest don't seem to have much in common) under her wing. Now DD's in the senior school I thought she might get a fresh start (the teacher is in the junior school) and be excited about the new house system, games, etc., but they all still hang out with their old teacher all the time and will only play golf. I think the teacher might have dodgy political beliefs and there's something odd going on with the art teacher - and maybe the music teacher too! What should I do?!

iismum · 18/07/2018 16:13

Emma - me too!

ScrambledSmegs · 18/07/2018 16:15

My DS is really worrying me. He's going through a really wild teenage phase, he's violent, got some equally violent friends, they all dress oddly and talk in weird slang. At least he seems to like Beethoven, so he's not all bad.

Should I just ignore it in the hope that he'll either grow out of it or get arrested? I'm far too scared of him to actually try to do anything about this.

ScrambledSmegs · 18/07/2018 16:16

Iismum - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?

Urbanbeetler · 18/07/2018 16:16

Bevbeookes Well some - it was Haemon I think!

Urbanbeetler · 18/07/2018 16:17

Sorry - typing while walking

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 18/07/2018 16:18

Scrambled
Clockwork Orange?

BevBrook · 18/07/2018 16:18

My oldest DS is an incredibly talented violinist. He has to travel around a lot and I thought it would just be the greatest thing ever to follow him around the world with my other three children, so we don't split up the family. So I sold our home and off we went.The kids are growing up as citizens of the world! How brilliant is that?! I'm sure there will be absolutely no problems with the youngest three, they definitely won't be homesick or resent trailing around after their brother or want to forge their own path in life. Isn't family the greatest!

ScrambledSmegs · 18/07/2018 16:19

Chazs- Correct!

iismum · 18/07/2018 16:22

scrambled - yes!

Urbanbeetler · 18/07/2018 16:34

My lover is nearly 14 and her mum thinks it’s about time she settled down with a husband but wouldn’t even consider me because they quarrelled with my family so long ago, no one can even remember what the fight was about.

Well I’m going to marry her anyway - what’s the worse that can happen?

anothernameagain000 · 18/07/2018 16:37

My son is really worrying me.
If I’m honest, I’ve never really bonded with him, he was a difficult baby and then grew worse as he got older. My dh says that there’s no issues, he’s just a normal kid - but I don’t trust him around dd- she had bad accident when left alone with him, and I feel like if I don’t get some intervention soon, something awful may happen