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Is my wife BU or am I?

217 replies

lidocaine · 18/08/2022 18:14

We are going away on Saturday and needed the rooftop bag for the car to put everyone's luggage in as the car will be full. She's been asking me for a few weeks to find it as we both thought it was in the loft and she didn't want it left to the last minute. I looked in the loft yesterday and couldn't find it. She said we would need to buy a new one pretty urgently if it couldn't be found and she looked around downstairs (we have a few Kallax units) and said she couldn't find it. I didn't want to spend money on it and she mentioned that she wasn't going to sort the kids clothes and things out until we had found it, because she didn't know what she was going to be packing them into. So I decided to go back into the loft and look for it while she nipped out to get some fish and chips. I couldn't find it and so I looked around again downstairs and there it was, on the top of the tall freezer. So now I'm pissed off because I had to go through the loft for hours to find something that was already downstairs and accessible. I've made it clear I was pissed off and highlighted all the looking I had done and my wife said "So, you didn't see it there yourself before this?" Implying that it wasn't obvious or that she's not got any blame on her for not looking better for it. I can't remember but admittedly I probably put it up there, but she must have walked past it so many times, it's probably been there for a about a year. I'm pissed off and I think she thinks I'm being unreasonable to have a bit of a go at her because of it. But I had to go repeatedly into the loft to find something that was already down here so I think I'm justified in being pissed off and thinking she could have looked a bit harder and found it and I wouldn't have had to do that!

OP posts:
AgnestaVipers · 18/08/2022 19:20

You didn't need to buy a new bag. Win!

MyHusbandIsaRightTwatButILoveHim · 18/08/2022 19:21

MeriPenomause · 18/08/2022 19:19

@MyHusbandIsaRightTwatButILoveHim
He may be some time 😂

At least it won't be on top of the fridge.......

Rainbowshit · 18/08/2022 19:23

FFS are you for real?! Why did you not see it either? Both are equally responsible for not seeing it.

CombatBarbie · 18/08/2022 19:23

But she's been asking you to find it for weeks so how comes you didn't see it.....??

Eunorition · 18/08/2022 19:23

Put your bags in the boot and stop posting nonsense.

KittensWearingWoollyMittens · 18/08/2022 19:23

This has to be a wind-up, surely?! You are being hugely U and very surprised you can't see that. Why is it up to your wife to direct you to find it?! Could you not have taken the lead and looked for it yourself?! Your wife should not have full responsibility for everything to do with a holiday, the kids and packing, surely you can see that?? 🤔

OiFrogg · 18/08/2022 19:24

I find this all hideously depressing. Not only did you feel like that immediately after the incident (bad enough) but still, after reflecting on it, you can't see you're unreasonable. The arrogance is astounding. Why on earth did you not see it if these past few weeks if you're so sure your wife should have?

5128gap · 18/08/2022 19:25

Surely you see it there as often as she does? Everytime you each get something out of the tall freezer to cook?

Newbestmate · 18/08/2022 19:25

Mischance · 18/08/2022 18:22

I used to say to my OH when something went wrong that finding someone to blame was not a necessity.

This is such sound advice. I feel like I need this quote in italics on a jazzy throw pillow

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 18/08/2022 19:26

His tail might not be on top of the fridge but his bollocks should be.

Underanothersky · 18/08/2022 19:27

Is it a common occurrence that she will ask you in plenty of time to do something and then you will leave it to the last minute?

Travis1 · 18/08/2022 19:27

lidocaine · 18/08/2022 18:31

Just to clarify, we aren't having an argument. I've expressed how pissed off I am and had a bit of a go about it, not even that much really but said I was pissed of because it was easy to find and I was right about thinking it wasn't in the loft. She is just walking around with a sad look on her face and not really speaking much to me

Easy to find but you couldn’t find it either?

are you always such a bellend to your wife?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/08/2022 19:31

MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking · 18/08/2022 19:20

So...

You decided to go back into the loft while your wife was out getting food. No one made you do that, that was your choice and now you're feeling cross at yourself because it was downstairs the whole time. You don't like feeling cross at yourself and want to apportion blame on your wife.

Your wife asked you to sort this out and not leave it till the last minute. You left it to the last minute.

Your wife is doing all the packing. You think she also should be reponsible for the mental load of remembering where things are, even though neither of you could remember where it was, it's still apparently her fault.

You think she could be to blame because she wants everything tidy. Is that just her job then too? Do you not tidy?

No wonder she's sad.

Summed up perfectly, @MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking!

I agree with the previous posters who have said that you are being unreasonable, @lidocaine, and you owe your wife an apology. And just fyi - an apology that starts and ends with “I’m sorry I was a knob” - with not even a hint of “….but you should have found it/known where it was, and then I wouldn’t have had to get pissy”.

CherieBabySpliffUp · 18/08/2022 19:31

Hopefully OP is apologising their wife having seen how unreasonable they have been.

Sally99 · 18/08/2022 19:33

OP couldn't you laugh about it? Sounds like a fuss about nothing

waltershite22 · 18/08/2022 19:33

MinnieMountain · 18/08/2022 19:02

“she’s always on at people to tidy things and clear up”, so she’s got the mental load of that AND finding the box to deal with? No wonder she looks sad.

This.

SunnyD44 · 18/08/2022 19:33

I get why you’re annoyed but we’ve all lost things that are right in front of our faces.

The amount of times I’ve put my phone down and then a second later forgotten where I’ve put it.

She could have easily got annoyed with you for leaving something until the last minute.

She didn’t do it on purpose so forget about it and move on and enjoy your holiday.

OldEvilOwl · 18/08/2022 19:35

YABVU

MinglingFlamingo · 18/08/2022 19:36

I also reckon it's a reverse

Why are you only looking for it now when it's been talked about it for weeks. Maybe not actively looking but keeping an eye out for it.

Also on top of the fridge/ freezer seems a very random place to keep it and it isn't the first place that would come to mind to look for a car rack case bag.

Fluffyboo · 18/08/2022 19:37

I'm hoping this is a reverse because surely someone can't be this obtuse?

You most likely put it there but couldn't remember, you are taller than her so would have been more likely to have seen it, you didn't bother looking until right to the last minute so it suddenly became an urgent panic, you were equally responsible for looking and you decided to go into the loft a second time rather than look in the other places YOU may have put it.

YABU and your wife is probably walking around looking sad because you've used her as your (metaphorical) punching bag and made it all her fault

Unanananana · 18/08/2022 19:39

Wow! Your wife is a lucky lady! Your penis is so big, its blocks your eyes!

You sound like a whiny teenager. Hopefully, you'll do your fair share of holiday prep in the next few days and apologise to your wife for having a go at her. She is not the Keeper of All Things.

mathanxiety · 18/08/2022 19:44

YABU and stop pouting.

She asked you to look for it for weeks.

Why didn't you? Now she has to sort and pack at speed.

Why didn't you see it on top of the freezer?

TiredHippo · 18/08/2022 19:45

Stop being such a fucking weeny!!!!!

mathanxiety · 18/08/2022 19:47

She's not really speaking much to you because you're behaving really badly amd she doesnt want to start the family holiday off by sticking a steak knife into your liver.

You need to apologise for having a go at her and for refusing to find the item she needed in order to get the packing started.

I note she's the one doing the packing.

I hope you're packing for yourself.

Sexnotgender · 18/08/2022 19:49

It’s a roof box, surely it’s fucking MASSIVE?

How much shit is in your house that you couldn’t find it?