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AIBU to be annoyed and disappointed in Easter weekend?

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CyclingSquirrel · 21/04/2019 23:29

Fair warning, this is long and boring. I am feeling hurt and annoyed and petty. The crux is DP, to be honest.

Firstly, he didn't tell me that he had the long weekend off. He works shifts so I never know when he'll be home, and we could have gone somewhere had I known. He says he forgot because he was tired.

We were invited to a BBQ on Saturday but he didn't want to go because he wasn't feeling up to socialising. So I said fine let's spend the day together and go somewhere? He said OK, we'll go out. Come Saturday he woke up and said he had a headache and didn't want to leave the house, so I ended up going out on my own. I was too embarrassed to go to the BBQ after declining the invite, especially on my own. In the evening we went to the shops and he made me pick out a chocolate egg because he left it until the last minute.

Today we did bugger all. He at least seemed embarrassed by the effort I went to with his egg (giant version of his fave, plus a small army of Lindt bunnies) and with making a nicer dinner.

So just now well 10pm he asks what I would like to do tomorrow and started suggesting going to a local event we have been talking about for a couple of months. Looked hurt and upset when I said that I had made plans to see a friend on Monday.

I'm just so, so annoyed. Each day has been shit and/or boring. We never spend time together as it is because his shifts swallow up whole weekends, and he's tired, which I understand, his work is exhausting. But he likes to be ~spontaneous~ which doesn't really work with full time jobs that need planning around. I can't keep myself available at all times just in case he feels like actually doing something.

I really wanted to go to the thing he suggested but I won't cancel on my friend at the last minute, obviously. And I'm extra annoyed because she wanted to meet on Saturday initially and I suggested Monday instead as I thought we were going out!!

So I've had a shitty, wasted weekend doing nothing and then I'll have to go back to wasting my life at my shitty job and doing nothing.

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SummerInSun · 21/04/2019 23:47

Sorry you are having such a rubbish weekend. There are two May bank holidays coming up. Sit down with DH now, make it clear how you feel, and agree a clear plan for them.

Chilledout11 · 21/04/2019 23:50

Totally understand being angry at this situation. He is taking you for granted but he sounds like a good person and hard worker. But I would learn a lesson from it all. Ask him when he is off again at a weekend & book tickets.

Mitsouko67 · 22/04/2019 00:03

Not long or boring and YANBU. I plan our leisure time or try to. DH likes to make it up as he goes along. Which annoys the heck out of me.

Sounds like you might need to make your own independent plans. Which on a holiday weekend understandably you might prefer not to do.

CyclingSquirrel · 22/04/2019 00:14

Mitsouko67

Sounds like you might need to make your own independent plans. Which on a holiday weekend understandably you might prefer not to do.

I did, I'm seeing a friend tomorrow. I have no problems doing my own thing, I just feel ... very single?? ... recently. Always going to things on my own. Very painfully obvious when surrounded by couples.

But as we never get any time together I wanted to spend the weekend doing something instead of plonked in front of the tv, and yet here we are...

SummerInSun

Good point, I've just asked him and he has one of those Mondays off but is working a day on either side... still I'll try to arrange something. But it's always me arranging, isn't it? Smile

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