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Things you can’t actually say

115 replies

coffeeandrainbows · 28/09/2019 02:48

I haven’t seen a thread like this in a while and I have to let this out before I scream:

S - you are selfish, immature, lazy and a bad mum to your kid. I can’t believe our relationship has come to this. I feel like I have always been there for you and done so much for you. I’m almost happy that you’ve done what you did as I have realised just how little effort you put into our relationship and how little it must mean to you. You only care about yourself and you always have.

D - you enabling fuck, I see you now and I will never be fooled again. You are just as bad as the two of them, if not worse.

That feels better, anyone else holding something in?

OP posts:
StillfuriousStillgrieving · 01/10/2019 11:06

J - I'd never used the f-word in my life and I'd never ever called someone a bastard to their face before but I do NOT regret making an exception for you. Sitting in the relatives' room, less than 30 minutes after my beloved Dad died, all I did was sit silently in the corner with quiet tears in my eyes. You chose that moment to hiss at me to "Cut the histrionics".

All your life, you've been a waste of space. You've sponged off me, sponged off every member of the family, sponged off the taxpayer, because holding down a job for any length of time just gets in the way of your spectacularly unsuccessful career as an always-rejected never-published writer. You are useless, selfish, arrogant. No wonder you live alone.

My DH wants to thump you. I'm holding him back. God only knows why.

PeachandBee · 01/10/2019 11:27

H- I know you think deleting me from social media will prompt me into a confrontation but I'm actually glad you've finally done it. You were always unsupportive and self centred and I'm not really bothered about having you in my life any more.

M- I love you to death but you have a real issue with shopping. You'd be able to pay me back if you stopped buying more bloody shoes! Your kids love you, no matter how much you buy or dont buy.

D,O,A &D- I know I 'chose' to move away but why do I have to make the 100 mile journey each time? 3 small children in tow, £100s on hotels because none of you have the space to put us up for one night and bouncing for house to house so we 'see everyone' is exhausting. Stop whining that I can only do it every 3 months or so and visit ME for once!

ScrommidgeClaryAndSpunt · 01/10/2019 12:12

X: it would be uncontroversial to say that you do not so much suffer from your disabilities as rejoice in them, given how you use them to exert control over others. I would not talk to my dog the way you talk to your husband, who is in his eighties and deserves peace, not constant abuse and belittling. Everyone in your immediate family has been dancing to your tune for over 20 years now but that is about to change, and you are not going to like it one little bit.

MadamHattie · 01/10/2019 12:33

Sil: I know you've never liked me and hated the contact I had with dB but it looks like all the whispering in his ear over the past year or so has done the job and we no longer speak. Thanks for that!

KateK00 · 01/10/2019 12:34

@TheFastandCurious thank you, I really appreciate that.

PaganPriestess · 01/10/2019 12:36

N - Really miss you every single day, I know you would be amazing right now, you would have been amazing through all of everything. We love you and miss you, we'll never forget you.

G - When I ask something really nicely, one would expect you might at least try. It's a joke you secretly help an ex during their time of need, when it comes to me, grief is just stupid. So I'm guessing that's life and I'll figure this out myself.

SecretWitch · 01/10/2019 12:38

My darling S, please please open your eyes and see Jonathan is who you should be with. I’m hoping you understand this before it is too late

E- you are a nice boy. I admire your ability to have survived your horrible upbringing. You are not the best match for my lovely daughter, though.

I am writing this and know it’s not even my place to think such things. I just want my daughter to have the future she deserves.

thecatsthecats · 01/10/2019 12:46

This is like the 2 minute hate. Grotesque, actually.

I mean, if you're going to criticise, at least get your literary references right.

It's like how people use 'Room 101' all wrong - Room 101 is not a collection of random shit that peeves you a bit, it's literally your worst fear that will force you to betray the ones you love, applied on an individual basis. And the two minutes hate was whipped up, public frenzy against a public figure. Not people discreetly venting the things that they, for good reasons, can't say out loud.

ButchBitch · 01/10/2019 13:02

I love these threads.

Mother: You're a selfish, myopic twat and your conversations are boring where you basically list every boring fucking shit video you've watched on YouTube in the last week.

Partner: Stop clearing your throat all the time. It's a habit, you don't know you're doing it but it makes me want to do a murder.

Ex-partner: I stalk you a bit. Your whole entrepreneurial thing is embarrassing and I find you cringy to stalk but I can't help it. You've put on a fuck tonne of weight, you're going bald, and your teeth are yellow. You look like shit. You look like you smell of vinegar.

Colleague: Please learn to speak properly and finish sentences. We all get random thoughts pop into our heads when we're in the middle of sentences but its so off-putting when you say them out-loud in the middle of your sentence. You're basically having a conversation with yourself. It's infuriating. Stop it. Twat.

Person I see dog-walking: Stop taking that ridiculous pitying tone with me and trying to present yourself as richer and more successful than me. Yes, I nearly always look homeless when I walk the dog and, yes, I make jokes that my house looks like a squat because I'm renovating. But I'm pretty confident I'm much richer than you. I don't like comparing with other people because I fundamentally don't give a toss about anyone else but you bring this out of me.

Friend: I don't care about your kid. I'm happy to have a brief update but your kid just seems pretty normal and average rather than the super emotionally-intelligent, spiritual little being you constantly make her out to be.

recklessruby · 01/10/2019 14:07

S - please stop sneezing like a walrus and use the allergy tablets i went out to get when you couldn't be bothered.
E- a spider is not going to hurt you here in England. Please dont scream as if you are being murdered!
E2 stop eating 6 doughnuts at work and then saying its not fair that you re fat as you never eat dinner

seaweedandmarchingbands · 01/10/2019 15:37

thecatsthecats

Hmm I’m not unaware of the origins of that very common reference, which is why I have used it perfectly appropriately.

RachelGreensThanksgivingTrifle · 01/10/2019 16:21

C - Stop using your daughter as an object to regulate your emotions due to your own toxic coping skills and stunted emotional intelligence then blaming everyone else around you for her behaviour.You rejoice in victimhood, manipulate and lie your way through your life, aren't you exhausted living that way? Your social media is a joke, and I'd suggest writing down your lies, as you don't seem to remember them well enough. Btw he will waddle away from you eventually, when he finds out the truth, and then you'll be back to square one, but this time older, more haggard, more evil and with more kids in tow, good luck with that.
M - It's been so difficult to get to this age and realise a lot of my issues are from you. My avoidance, fear, lack of self esteem, never aloud to be angry, overeating as a coping mechanism and many others come from you. It's taken me becoming a mother myself to realise how bad it's been, I'll never let my son be raised like I was, the response to your suicidal daughter "is it really that bad?" and caring more about the death of the cat than my miscarriage was eye opening. Dsf will leave if you keep going on the way you are with your "illnesses" and I'm not going to be there to pick up the pieces.
This was quite therapeutic, thanks OP!

EdersonsSmileyTattoo · 01/10/2019 17:38

J - I think you need to slow down and think of your DC, do they really want to be dragged twenty five miles away from their school and friends so that you can move in with your new bloke? Put them first for once, they’ve taken a back seat since they were born, they are lovely kids and deserve far better. You’ve not known him for a massive amount of time and I just can’t see it ending well. I love you but I’m sorry that’s what I think!

Dontevenstart · 01/10/2019 18:08

KG - you are a money-grabbing, pseudo-liberal fucking moron. How dare you speak about DP as you did. Worth more than your little finger, you piece of shit. I’m waiting for you to cheat on your DH, because pricks like you always get bored and do so. Fucking moron.

recklessruby · 01/10/2019 21:20

M - thank God you left my son. Shame it wasnt before you left him 5k in debt with nowhere to live and having a mental breakdown.
He s doing really well now living with me who you have blocked on social media (sob sob not) and has a lovely new girlfriend.
You are a pathetic immature sponger and i wish to God i could have seen through as his sister did.
Not sure you will ever grow up while you have your stupid knuckle dragging stepdad fighting your battles either.
And stop smoking weed. It makes you even more boring than you are normally.

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