To be raging following this text?? Lighthearted

[Whitegrenache]

Got no electricity since Friday evening.
Very cold and dc and myself have decamped to PIL to get warm and so I can work.

Got this text from DP

Shall I leave him?

@luinagreine

You aren't weird or odd at all OP. I would hope that a lot of the posters on this thread are being intentionally dense because the alternative is worrying.

The pearl clutching here is bizarre!

ERECTION!!!!

FWIW I found it hilarious OP! And doubly funny his mum told him off! Hope your electric returns soon.

Oh and I told my mates who I'd also told the electricity was back and they found it funny

My mates are also wierd and inappropriate obvs

@MiddleParking

If DH or I ever said the word ‘erection’ in front of his mother all three of us would simply drop dead on the spot. And we would deserve it.

Lol. Indeed.

I wasn't quite sure what to think, OP, apart from 'this text exchange doesn't appear to parse'

Go and have fun with your electricity. It's the wi-fi I miss the most when ours goes off, which maybe shows I'm not that ancient after all.

@Onatree

You shared that with your mother in law?

Wow.

This ^ who would do that 😂

If it is actually funny, ie his erection does get used adequately, it's an amusing joke between husband and wife.

Telling you the electricity is on when it's not, after several days of having to stay with his mother is not funny at all

If there was actual meaning in his "joke" that's not funny either.

I can't imagine sharing any of it with anyone.

@Whitegrenache

Oh and I told my mates who I'd also told the electricity was back and they found it funny

My mates are also wierd and inappropriate obvs

But you said it was partly passive aggressive.

Did you tell your friends that part?

Ah it was a joke on reflection! My DP is not a passive aggressive or even a aggressive person at all.

@Whitegrenache

Ok I'll accept the "odd" comments wholeheartedly

Just thought it worth sharing for a small bit of amusement in a shit week where I have frozen my tits off for 3 nights in minus degree temperatures in a dark house.

Those who think it's odd or not appropriate- why do you use your energy to reply?!

Mumsnet is a very strange place sometimes

But you are the one being strange. I am afraid I also think it really weird that you shared this with MIL. 🥺

Ok I'm strange too

You aren’t weird op

Not wanting to share this with a MIL does not make you a pearl clutcher or narrow minded. If you judge how cool and liberal a person is on their willingness to say erection, you must be very sheltered. Or 12.

What did MiL give him a bollocking for?

Joking the electricity was back on (it is just a joke so OTT to give a bollocking!) or the way he complains about recent lack of sex (massively inappropriate!)?

"MIL is livid and is going to give him a bollocking"

How did he react to his mother doing that?

Well I found it funny OP 🤣, ignore the posters who never mention sex to their relatives, we are a pretty open family and it’s the sort of thing we would do. Ignore the prudes.

It's not the word erection, it's the fact that you shared with your mother-in-law the details of your sex life, that your husband finds it unsatisfying, that he is sexually frustrated, and that she then told him off for it. That's bloody weird.

@Whitegrenache

Ah it was a joke on reflection! My DP is not a passive aggressive or even a aggressive person at all.

If there was no truth in it you'd never have suggested there was. Sorry OP. You can gloss over it if you like but this is the reason it's not funny. Even if it was funny, it's the kind of funny you keep between yourselves.

It's so odd on here sometimes.

I thought from the OP, she got a message from her DH saying (what she thought read as) the electricity being back on.

She was delighted after days without electricity and told everyone thinking woohoo I'm going to be able to go back home with the kids.

Then see's her DH's 'punchline' and it must have actually been upsetting, then having to explain to a very perplexed MIL who has put OP and kids up for the past few days that in fact the electricity was not back on.
So instead of trying to explain she showed her the text. The MIL probably thought her son was being silly 'told him off' for being so silly. Can't think it was a telling off more a rolling eyes you're an idiot type situation, plus son may well be embarrassed his mum saw the text and serves him right from OP's POV.

OP hard hat on. Lol. Honestly some people will now jump on this and analyse your whole relationship with both your MIL and DP. You are not ALLOWED to be lighthearted on MN 🤣.

P.s I would have done exactly the same thing and showed it to my MIL. She would have found it hysterical and told him off in exactly the same way.

Don't let a load off idiots on here make you questions anything or feel like shit xxx

I (am obv also a weirdo) found it quite funny and esp lovely that mil has your back -a rare breed on mn.
Sorry for your terrible week and hope you sorted asap

I laughed! Very funny!

You mean you haven’t left him yet?

It's not the word erection, it's the fact that you shared with your mother-in-law the details of your sex life, that your husband finds it unsatisfying, that he is sexually frustrated, and that she then told him off for it. That's bloody weird.

It's weird that you feel qualified to make judgments on the dynamic of someone else's family.

Well at least he won’t be making these “jokes” anymore hey OP 🤣