Oh FFS. Done an MN flounce and its backfired.

[Sparklfairy]

Just that really. Went to stay with my mum for Christmas, she had a flounce, so I had a flounce, all totally over dramatic and unnecessary.

Now I'm at home and so is she. We've had a delightful phone conversation kind of half discussing plans to now be alone I even told her (and we laughed about) what a ballache it was to get back and the pitfalls I had.

Its stupid. I have to be the bigger person dont I. We only live a few miles apart, there's really no need for all this drama

Aw, go back OP and give your mum a hug.

@TheRedTowel

I'm forever flouncing out my mum's house and then walking back in the next day like nothing happened. I learned it from her, she knows the rules.

Ahh see, this is the art of the perfect flounce etiquette. Take note op and go back and act like nothing's happened.

@DixieSun
Yes. I love flounder's corner for some light entertainment grin

I read that they only go there to fish for compliments.

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Yes. I love flounder's corner for some light entertainment grin

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@Ubiquery

I thought a MN Flounce would be when you flounce off MN.

Same here.

@yeahitlookslike

Isn't an MN flounce when you announce you're leaving, wait for people to beg you to stay, fight bitterly against the four thousand messages calling you an attention-seeking twat and then quietly namechange to stick around?

Ooh I might just do this - sounds like a fun way to get fellow vipers riled up and a bit of tongue-lashing this Xmas season.

What's a ballache? New word to me, evidently of French derivation

Ball ache

@beenthereboughtthetshirt

Leave the reunion til New Years Eve.

Enjoy Christmas at home.

I second this. Christmas can be absolutely dire. Let it rest for a week, then hug at midnight and start the New Year frest.

FRESH, dammit! My best proof reading comes after I hit "Post Message."

My mother is horrible. At the beginning of the year I had 16 counselling sessions and it was all about her and how she has controlled me all my life. (I was so conditioned by her I didn't even realise) she now has dementia and is still horrible to me and my sister. I'm dreading Christmas Day with her. I have incurable cancer but she still expects me to be available every time she rings which can be up to 8 times a day.

@Deborino

My mother is horrible. At the beginning of the year I had 16 counselling sessions and it was all about her and how she has controlled me all my life. (I was so conditioned by her I didn't even realise) she now has dementia and is still horrible to me and my sister. I'm dreading Christmas Day with her. I have incurable cancer but she still expects me to be available every time she rings which can be up to 8 times a day.

Aw, sorry, Deborino that sounds like a rough Christmas for you.

@Huckleberries73

I am now invested Are you back at your mums now??? Did you show her the thread.

No I'm not but I did did show her this thread

Then what happened . . .?

Also invested! We don’t flounce in our family my DM would put the flounder under the patio we just seethe quietly instead, smiling and ‘praying all the time for sinners’ (though I have also been known to text a sibling sitting in the same room about the behaviour of another sibling in the same room)

Have a lovely Christmas @Sparklfairy

I rang her. She was annoyed I woke her up looks like I'm spending Christmas alone!

@Sparklfairy

I rang her. She was annoyed I woke her up looks like I'm spending Christmas alone!

You woke her up, she was a annoyed that you did.....that means you have to spend Christmas alone?

Why?

Cos she didn't welcome me back!

You've shown her the thread? Bit much. Give one another a bit of space.

Am curious about the cause of the original flounce though now

@Sparklfairy

Cos she didn't welcome me back!

As in she says she doesn't eany to spend Christmas with you?

Or she didn't ask you to go back?

This feels like a lot of hard work. 🤣

She is hard work if she doesn't ask that means she isn't asking!

Nothing like a bit of festive psychological warfare.

Could you ask her if she would like company, if she is stubborn.

This is stranger

Two women
Mother and daughter
Neither married
And it would seem no other close family or friends to spend Christmas with
Live 5 minutes from one another

A little tiff
And now both alone

It’s a shame, and it’s a bit odd!

You and your mum seem to be cut from the same cloth - both are hardwork and going around in circles 😂

That said, it sounds like a bit of fun to have someone you can flounce and laugh about it later with. As long as you both know you're both being ridiculous, that is.