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HoboSexualOnslow · 16/02/2021 22:35

Childfree people shouldn't be reading here
If you don't share finances you're not a partnership as all money is family money
Step parents are always evil and not just trying their best in difficult situations

Sparechange · 17/02/2021 08:03

You know those adjoining family rooms in hotels, designed for, and used extensively by families..?

NEVER use them. Your DC will inexplicably get up in the middle of the night and try to make a cup of tea with the teeny little kettle, and scold themselves

Also, get the iron and ironing board removed from the room because they will, equally inexplicably, want to try ironing and burn themselves.

Never mind that they have full access to both a kettle and iron at home and never show the slightest inclination towards to using them

Sparechange · 17/02/2021 08:12

@Dontforgetyourbrolly

Nobody's child has an over night with grandparents until they are 21 years old . Until then how dare they even ask , that child must be attached to your nipples for the next 10 years .

Except the ones who go to grandparents at least once a week every week, because they need that as me time, and posters cannot even comprehend that anyone else has a different set up, or how people are manage with their own children for 7 nights a week

Sparechange · 17/02/2021 08:16

All married couples have sex 3 times a week, even though they would both like it a bit more often.

And if you don’t have sex that often, you’re ‘just flat mates’ and it’s ‘soul destroying’ and the husband will definitely 100% have an affair and it will be all your fault

5128gap · 17/02/2021 11:35

If a woman's partner wants sex more than she does, this is called being 'grim and sleazy' and is a form of abuse.
If a woman's partner wants sex less than she does, this is called 'withholding sex' and is a form of abuse.

SteveBrexit · 17/02/2021 12:09

@Dontforgetyourbrolly

Nobody's child has an over night with grandparents until they are 21 years old . Until then how dare they even ask , that child must be attached to your nipples for the next 10 years .

You must be reading a different MN!

SAHM are completely abused if they dare mentioning wanting to spend time with their own kids. Because no parent can actually enjoy being with their own kids!

Anyone enjoying holidays with their kids must be lying.

Any respectable MN MUST put their kids in childcare from the age of 1 month to teach them social skills and give their mother the independence they need.
Any woman who is staying at home for a family is a lazy deluded liar who is betraying the "sisterhood".

Bloodypunkrockers · 17/02/2021 16:14

@Sparechange

You know those adjoining family rooms in hotels, designed for, and used extensively by families..?

NEVER use them. Your DC will inexplicably get up in the middle of the night and try to make a cup of tea with the teeny little kettle, and scold themselves

Also, get the iron and ironing board removed from the room because they will, equally inexplicably, want to try ironing and burn themselves.

Never mind that they have full access to both a kettle and iron at home and never show the slightest inclination towards to using them

Is that MN cliche?

I don't think I've ever seen that

SteveBrexit · 17/02/2021 16:21

I have never seen that on any thread either.

sparechange · 17/02/2021 17:00

@SteveBrexit

I have never seen that on any thread either.

The upside of no holidays for the last year..?!

It was definitely a thing a few years ago, along with never ever leaving DC in the car when you go to pay for petrol, in case your car catches fire.

Only MNers drive cars that might randomly catch fire, but only while parked on petrol station forecourts

SteveBrexit · 17/02/2021 17:04

That! (the petrol station) I have seen a lot of

always tempted to put the link of youtube videos showing the odd petrol station crash, but it might be a bit mean!

Bloodypunkrockers · 17/02/2021 17:55

Oh yes petrol station is an old MN staple

StillCoughingandLaughing · 17/02/2021 19:07

People offering unsolicited advice on location when being asked what they think of a particular house.

OP: ‘We’re moving to Southend to be near my elderly parents. I have a new job and DH can commute; plus the area we’re looking in is in the catchment area for a great school. The question is, do we stretch ourselves for the perfect house, or buy somewhere cheaper we can do up?’

MN cliche poster: ‘Have you actually visited Southend, OP? It isn’t very nice. Not sure what the job market is like either - and have you given any thought to schools? If you fancy coastal living, why not consider Eastbourne or Hastings?’

Legitimacy · 17/02/2021 19:29

@StillCoughingandLaughing

People offering unsolicited advice on location when being asked what they think of a particular house.

OP: ‘We’re moving to Southend to be near my elderly parents. I have a new job and DH can commute; plus the area we’re looking in is in the catchment area for a great school. The question is, do we stretch ourselves for the perfect house, or buy somewhere cheaper we can do up?’

MN cliche poster: ‘Have you actually visited Southend, OP? It isn’t very nice. Not sure what the job market is like either - and have you given any thought to schools? If you fancy coastal living, why not consider Eastbourne or Hastings?’

Ugh I hate when this happens.

ALongHardWinter · 17/02/2021 21:09

TheLaughingGenome and toconclude
So am I!

LookofEvaBraun · 18/02/2021 07:57

If you tell your partner you love. them

LookofEvaBraun · 18/02/2021 08:00

Sorry pressed post too soon ^^

Meant to type if you're in a relationship less than 2 years and tell your partner you love them. Even if you're mature adults you don't know what love is before 2 years.

tigger001 · 18/02/2021 08:37

People who simply cant comprehend others living differently to them.

If you are a SAHM

You loose yourself - like a job defines you

You dont need intellectually stimulating - as if you dont keep your hand in with your interests, politics, sports, literature, current affairs or whatever is your choice. You do that in your spare time just as anyone else does.

You need adult conversation- as if you are just locked in the house with your child, every hour of everyday and dont have adult friends still

Your partner will be bored of you - like everyone just talks about work and cant understand those that had more to talk about in their relationships than just work before kids.

You are leaching off your partner - cant comprehend that might have own money, may have supported husband for years previously and its give and take.

Your kids need socialising do must attend nursery - like other settings dont exist where this happens daily

All this and more is thrown at SAHM, but if we dare to say its because we want to spend more time with our children, we are jumped on as not being kind.

Blondiney · 18/02/2021 08:37

"Marking my place". Makes them sound like a dog pissing on a lampost.

LouJ85 · 18/02/2021 08:40

@5128gap

If a woman's partner wants sex more than she does, this is called being 'grim and sleazy' and is a form of abuse. If a woman's partner wants sex less than she does, this is called 'withholding sex' and is a form of abuse.

🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

GreenlandTheMovie · 18/02/2021 08:41

People offering unsolicited advice to a poster when they clearly only have a rudimentary knowledge of the subject compared to that poster in general. For example, the poster states she is a size 8/10, and a poster claiming to be a size 14 comes on and starts telling the OP that she has an eating disorder and must do x, y and z to stay slim and improve her nutrition, blah blah, because "a healthy size 14" is the only weight to be, etc.

Posters who get triggered whenever size and weight is mentioned.

LouJ85 · 18/02/2021 08:47

When there's inequality in income in relationships:

Man earns more than woman:
-have people not heard of pooled finances?
-that's just what people do when they love each other, it's give and take

why does everything have to be even anyway?

Woman earns more than man:
-leave the cocklodging bastard!! Immediately.

Covetthee · 18/02/2021 08:50

‘All money is family money’

I find that such an outdated look, unless you’re a SAHM, which is understandable.

I don’t know anyone in my age group who shares a bank account for everything, Everyone has a joint account for bills/house stuff and seperate for their own things.

GreenlandTheMovie · 18/02/2021 09:15

@Covetthee

‘All money is family money’

I find that such an outdated look, unless you’re a SAHM, which is understandable.

I don’t know anyone in my age group who shares a bank account for everything, Everyone has a joint account for bills/house stuff and seperate for their own things.

Me neither. I've always had my own bank account since I started uni at 18 and I would find it bizarre to set up a joint one.

But on mumsnet for some reason if you dare suggest this is pretty standard, yiu are shouted down and told it is "financial abuse".

LouJ85 · 18/02/2021 10:49

I've always had my own bank account since I started uni at 18 and I would find it bizarre to set up a joint one.

Same. I'd feel less in control of my own finances with a joint one. Been happily with DP for close to 6 years but we still each have our own bank accounts.

SteveBrexit · 18/02/2021 10:52

there's a context

It's all well and good to be independent when you both earn similar,
it's starting to be an issue when one earns double or more the other earns, and you end up with thread where one adult has nothing after paying share of bills and childcare, while the other is left with a 1 or 2 thousands of disposable money.

So not having "family money" is very very weird, the dynamic is all wrong.

If you like to be so "independent" that you can't afford a new coat or a pair of shoes after bills, but your partner is going away every weekends with their mates and just buying themselves a new car...good for you, but for most couples it's very wrong.