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Yummymummy2020 · 01/12/2019 17:37

May well be me being completely unreasonable (and happy to hear if I am!) my parent died recently, I was heavily pregnant and very ill myself(we didn’t even know if the pregnancy would make it). I was struggling a lot. My parent had been sick for the past year and the passing was quite traumatic, I was staying at the hospital knowing they would pass in a few days to a week. Here is the aibu part. Dh”s parent died a year ago and there was a memorial mass when we were just about to lose my parent. He decided to skip the mass to be with us as his attitude was my parent is dead I can’t help them but I can be here for you. Really nice and I appreciated this but was also due to be admitted to hospital over how ill I was(I was only out for the circumstances as I didn’t want to not be with my parent at this horrible time. Basically dh family is annoyed he didn’t attend the mass, the mass in question was not a personalised one to one individual more a broad mass that the name was mentioned. Am i being unreasonable to think he did in fact do the right thing (even though I never would have asked him to not expect him to) and it’s a bit unfair that he is in the bad books for doing his best for us at the time? I don’t plan or want to say anything to rock the boat but I’m feeling a bit annoyed at what I think is the unfairness of it on dh!

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LucyAutumn · 01/12/2019 20:27

He absolutely did the right thing bit the important thing is that it was his choice and his family need to respect that and get over it. There is no right or wrong way to mourn and you can't and shouldn't force people to mourn your way.

Yummymummy2020 · 02/12/2019 10:02

@LucyAutumn thanks lucy! That’s it like I openly encouraged him to go for fear that he would regret it(he dosent except for the annoyance he is getting directed at him now) although I was so glad he stayed with me as I was in bits!I feel annoyed now as I think it’s unfair on him! When his parent died my parent was also unwell and it was hard for me but I did the same as him and stayed away from mine temporarily to offer my support! So when it was simply a mass as opposed to the actual death it made me feel a bit sad that there was no consideration there! Especially since he was really close to my parent and my parent saw him as a son!

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