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AIBU to think that this was enough for 4 year old and I’m not an utter shit mum

39 replies

Lifecanbeabeach2 · 26/12/2018 23:19

I was told the day before Xmas eve that basically I was
1.acting like a slag that would drop their knickers for anyone ( back history - daughter is 4 I have been with one person since ( not her dad )

  1. That I just buy my daughter stuff for Xmas and birthday but I should be creating memories with her and actually spending time with her/ doing stuff with her. This is what hit me the hardest to be honest
Yes I do get her a lot for Xmas and her birthday BUT I don’t spoil her through out the year, I don’t drink / smoke / go out for dinner / have sky tv / fancy clothes / highlights / nails done or any of that. I try to do as much as I can with her she spends about 50 percent of the time in hospital, so when she is home there is still a lot of cares to be done ( especially overnight night and first half of day ) She has been this year Aquariam, zoo, seaside ( live in a city ), different parks, farms , Lego land, ice skating, boat trip, film premier, winter wonderland, take her to dance class twice a week and camps when they are on, never miss a show or parents watch week. Gone to watch the nutcracker, we bake cakes, paint, get our the house even if it is just for a walk daily. She has never stayed out at anyone’s, if she is in hospital included a admission that lasted over a year I sleep at her bedside and only go home to pick things up. Do people go out every spare day ? Every weekend to different events ?
OP posts:
thisisjustdaft · 27/12/2018 00:06

You know you are doing your best and your dc is happy. That is all that matters.

I agree with the other poster who said to keep this message filed somewhere, and to see whether you get any more. If you do, then you need to report it to the police as harassment.

In the meantime, forget all about it - whoever would such horrible things to a mum looking after a dc with health difficulties? They are despicable and spiteful, so please don't take any of it to heart.

zzzzz · 27/12/2018 00:07

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

donajimena · 27/12/2018 00:10

I have Sky tv. I'm sick of Sky being used to bash people. I'm also fairly skint but I need broadband for my day to day life. YANBU btw

CandyCreeper · 27/12/2018 00:12

I doubt the police will do anything over one message of someone stating their opinion.

Jamiefraserskilt · 27/12/2018 00:19

My initial thought was to say ignore it. However, the evil bitch in me says reply.
"Thank you for your insight into my life with my child. I have ordered an IP trace on this email address so you can look forward to a knock at your door soon."
That is one jealous troll there who has no place in your head.
Watch what you post on social media and check settings for security. How many people know about your date?
You're doing a great job.

FestiveNut · 27/12/2018 00:23

I wouldn't reply because they're looking for a response. If you reply they know you got the message and the attention will please them. That's what they're after. Don't reply and they won't even know that your read it. Also, keep a suspicious eye on anyone who seems unusually interested in how you are and what's been happening over the next few days. They may approach you to revel in your misery/confirm you got the message.

Cheerbear23 · 27/12/2018 00:24

How awful for you, please ignore it. It’s someone who is jealous or has a grudge - a very bitter person.
TBH I’d just be inclined to reply ‘reported to police’, then block them. Even if you don’t report them don’t give them any satisfaction of knowing how much they’ve hurt you.

AppleKatie · 27/12/2018 00:28

If anyone was genuinely concerned for you or your DD this would not be the way to address it.

Therefore they are not concerned. They are clearly trying to hurt you.

Therefore contents of email is demonstrably bollocks. Keep but file away don’t dwell or reread.

Rise above this nonsense.

zzzzz · 27/12/2018 00:30

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Charmatt · 27/12/2018 00:37

We had something similar at work sent about a volunteer. Police advice was to print it out, save it in email folder and report if any more were sent. We were told not to reply under any circumstances.

GabsAlot · 27/12/2018 00:44

as charmatt says save it print it out

wha a callous person-as far as im concerned u cant stay in cuddling all day id say its enough to just be with each other

WellThisIsShit · 27/12/2018 00:53

Sounds like someone doesn’t want you to be happy.

I’m thinking that this kind of vileness says alot more about the person that sent it than it ever says about the person they’ve decided to fixate on. It absolutely isn’t about you, it’s about them.

From what you mention, it sounds like someone has had their nose put out of joint by you perhaps moving on in some way? Moving on to new possibilities, being more confident and sparking interest in a certain maaaaan (!). In fact, this date seems to be a trigger, perhaps someone had a thing for this guy, or a thing for you... or simply a vested interest in you being always single, or ‘not on the market’ for some reason.

Anyway, it will be about them and about how their insecurities have been roused into freakishly raging anger and for some probably irrational reason, they’ve fixated on a situation that you are part of as the cause of all their woes, and they want to make you, a completely innocent and unknowing person, feel bad, so they feel better. It’s revolting and twisted, whoever it is must be such a small and powerless person to get their kicks doing this.

You probably aren’t even the first person they’ve done it to!

So I wouldn’t spend any more time or ‘share of mind’ dwelling on yourself and worrying what about you is so awful to prompt this kind of message.

It’s really not about you so you won’t find answers looking inwards.

Please don’t tear yourself apart trying to find the reason, as there just won’t be one and you’ll make yourself doubt everything about yourself.

And you will of course be a mix of good and wonderful and flawed and human Flowers... because you are, err, a human, I hope anyway, unless mumsmet has become popular with a Martian audience as well!

See, bad jokes are one of my hideous flaws, and not the worst either, this letter writer would have a field day on me!

As an aside, it sounds like you are an amazing mum who has a wonderful bond with their child under very difficult circumstances. I bet the nurses know that at the hospital/s where they must know your faves all too well. I bet they see the love and sacrifice you give willingly every day your darling child has to be there. And i bet the cleaners and health care assistants see you too. I bet the cashier in the local coffee shop near the hospital sees it. And anyone sitting at the bench outside the hospital grounds too. I bet they see the struggles and the pain and the hardship you yourself go through as you do everything to take on your child’s pain and suffering in every way you possibly can. Anyone from that part of yours and dd’s life will see what’s plainly there (... and what I can feel coming through strongly in your posts!).

I don’t know what family or close friends they’ve got, but also, I suspect that anyone who has the privaledge to see the little everyday glances and touches between you and your dd will also be able to see truly the love that’s there. It will be in the little things, not the flagship ‘making memories’ Facebook fodder. It’s subtle, like when she reaches back for you without looking round because she senses you there, or maybe the opposite, it could be when she launches away so confident because she knows her mummy’s arms will always be there to run back into.

I bet anyone with eyes to see will have seen the care and love you have for your dd.

But to see such love you do have to have the eyes to see it and the mind and heart to recognize it... there’s that saying isn’t there, there’s non so blond as those who will not see? Well, some people won’t see what’s there for their own reasons. Again, it’s not to do with what’s there to be seen. It’s to do with the person doing the seeing.

villainousbroodmare · 27/12/2018 00:59

You're doing a magnificent job. Please don't let some horrible cowardly individual occupy a moment in your life. Hugs to your daughter who is lucky to have such a cracking mother.

cheesywotnots · 27/12/2018 13:56

How horrible, some people have such bitterness and jealousy inside them. Don't reply, put it into a file on your computer, print a copy off for your records but don't bother reading it again, if another one arrives contact the police. Emails can often be traced, it may be someone you know or have had contact with for them to have your email address, don't waste time trying to work out who it is and don't mention it to anyone, act as if it doesn't exist. It's just spiteful childish rubbish. Flowers

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