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AIBU?

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You didn't get bacon

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BarbiesWorld · 14/01/2021 10:41

Its snowing here. A lot. "D"H pissed off to work this morning despite the snow. I finished the usual morning routine and realised we only had 2 nappies left for the baby so took the kids on to the local shop for nappies.

He's had to come home because of the snow and abandoned his car next to a supermarket amd walk the rest of the way home. I'm now trying to get the baby down for his morning nap after a grand total of 3 hours sleep last night (for me) and he's wandered in asking why I didn't get any bacon.

I had no idea he was coming home.
He parked next to the fucking supermarket. If he wanted bacon he could have got some!

Now I've got homeschooling, teething 11 month old and a uni report due next week while he happily slobs about not contributing to family life because "it's a snow day".

WIBU to bury him under the decking?

OP posts:

picklemewalnuts · 14/01/2021 10:43

Don't bother. Leave him out there to be buried by snow. Or send him out for more nappies.

2021ComeAtMe · 14/01/2021 10:44

Have you told him to get up and contribute, that a snow day doesn't mean everything grinds to a halt in the house?

I'm amazed how many posts there are today about men doing fuck all, and the women are posting about them on here instead of telling them to shape up and be an active member of the family.

MrsSiriusBlack1 · 14/01/2021 10:44

He’s a knob, give him the baby and let him crack on. What is it with the useless partner threads this morning

Godimabitch · 14/01/2021 10:45

I had no idea he was coming home.
He parked next to the fucking supermarket. If he wanted bacon he could have got some!

Say this. And then say "and you're not a fucking child, you dont get a snow day, you're a parent, pick a kid and get on with it."

KarmaStar · 14/01/2021 11:13

Give him a teething ring to shut him up!

Uhhuhoyaye · 14/01/2021 12:41

Why didn't you get bacon? Not that I think you should, just want to know why you didn't?
It's 12.37 -doesn't he have time to trudge out to the supermarket and make everyone one bacon sandwiches for lunch? If he's going can you ask him to but tomatoes and lettuce too. Love a bacon sarnie for breakfast, but has to be a BLT for lunch.

Marmite27 · 14/01/2021 12:43

My DH is stuck on a motorway with our recently potty trained toddler and has been in the car for an hour already.

I stayed at home with the 5 year old and dealt with the coming upto 2 hour power cut.

LochJessMonster · 14/01/2021 12:46

He needs to help with the homeschooling.
Being a parent doesn’t stop because it’s snowing.

EKGEMS · 14/01/2021 12:48

Tell him he's a pig and cannibalism is illegal

MrsGlitterSparklesHun · 14/01/2021 12:51

Missing the point of the thread entirely but where are you to have snow?! Very jealous, it all melted here last week and it's been torrential rain since!

UghNotThisAgain36 · 14/01/2021 12:51

Posts like this and the others we've seen just this morning make me realise that I am fortunate to be a single parent. DP lives alone elsewhere so just me and the DC to deal with. Why do people pick such inept and feckless partners!?

senua · 14/01/2021 12:52

Go and fetch some bacon.
Leave him at home with the homeschooling and teething DC.
It's snowing outside so it may take some hours time until you return.

boredinthouse · 14/01/2021 12:53

What's happened to all the men today? I've read loads of posts about them being useless. Tell him to get his own bacon.

MLM268 · 14/01/2021 12:56

@senua

Go and fetch some bacon. Leave him at home with the homeschooling and teething DC. It's snowing outside so it may take some hours time until you return.

Literally what I'd do 😂😂.

Merryoldgoat · 14/01/2021 12:57

I don’t find these threads funny.

They’re always written in a lighthearted way but the reality is your have a partner who’s checked out of family life or is just a lazy fucker.

I just couldn’t have a relationship like that.

I honestly want to know what’s going wrong with what boys are learning as children to make them think it’s ok to behave like this as a man.

TierFourTears · 14/01/2021 12:58

@MrsGlitterSparklesHun snow around Durham today.

supercee · 14/01/2021 13:01

I can't read anymore of these posts. Seems to be constant at the moment. It's so depressing and it makes me weep for these women.

It reminds me to be happy to be single. In fact it makes me more angry at the women putting up with this shit and posting jokingly on here than telling their partners to shape up or jog on.

supercee · 14/01/2021 13:03

Maybe that's why there is just no decent men anywhere (in my experience). Because they have grown up to see that's what their mothers/women accept and put up with and the cycle continues.

donquixotedelamancha · 14/01/2021 13:03

Now I've got homeschooling, teething 11 month old and a uni report due next week while he happily slobs about not contributing to family life because "it's a snow day"

If that's genuinely what your family life is like YABU to remain in that kind of relationship.

What happens when you ask him to do something?

joystir59 · 14/01/2021 13:05

Send him out for nappies bacon and a fresh white loaf!

contrmary · 14/01/2021 13:08

YABU. What sort of freak doesn't buy bacon when they have the opportunity?

steppemum · 14/01/2021 13:10

either
dump baby in his lap and close ndoor so you and home schooling dc are in one room.

or
leave house and leave him with kids

or hand the home schooling to him and tell him if he doesn't do a bloody good job of it he is sleeping in his car tonight.

Oh, and ask him what he is cooking for dinner?

Once home schooling is over, shut your self in bedroom and work on uni work, leave him to sort kids.

steppemum · 14/01/2021 13:11

@supercee

Maybe that's why there is just no decent men anywhere (in my experience). Because they have grown up to see that's what their mothers/women accept and put up with and the cycle continues.

crap hate all men statements are not helpful.

My dh would not do this.
Neither would my dad, or either of my brothers.
Neither would dh brother or BIL.

But then again.
I would not put up with this
Neither would my mum
nor my SILs

CupoTeap · 14/01/2021 13:11

He's doing fuck all because it's a snow day? Is he always such a wanker?

supercee · 14/01/2021 13:15

I did say 'in my experience' @steppemum.

I don't hate all men, my dad and brother would not do this. But I and my mother would not have put up with this either. However, again relative to me, the majority of men appear to behave like this from what I've seen and the amount of posts on here describing this behaviour is off the scale, especially since lockdown kicked in.

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