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Did any of you have a ' I divorced him because he left his cup in the sink ' moment?

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bingoagain · 09/01/2023 15:26

Not sure if that's the exact title of the article but basically it was an article where the wife divorced him because she had enough of his laziness and disrespect despite many pleas for equality and support.
Well, I've just done this and I hope I haven't jumped the gun.
He stayed at my home for days on end and then it ramped up to weeks at a time and did SFA to contribute. He want working at the time.
It came to a head when one evening I came home from work and he had put his empty plastic packaging on top of a tied refuse bag and the kitchen was messy and the dishwasher not filled
It was the last straw of his entitlement and disrespect and of course, I know I didn't need a reason to end the relationship.
I had had a back injury and he would have known I couldn't the refuse bag into the main refuse bin.
I snapped. That was it. I had enough.
He still tells people that I broke up with him because he left his empties on the top of my bin .
Was I too hasty or is this actually reasonable ?

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Imstillmagicdamnit · 10/06/2023 11:34

No idea if this thread is dead but I’ll add to it lol.

I’d been with my ex for 2 years and looking back he was truly a dick head but I had blinders on until Halloween 2008, we’d had a short weekend “break up”(in reality he wanted to test the waters with another woman in a different city unbeknownst to me), we were meant to go to the nightclub I worked at(free drinks) I was really looking forward to it he’d meet my new friends and we’d have a great old time right? Yeah the day of he backs out, he wants to go to a pub where his mates are going but oh I’m not invited, wants me to enjoy myself with my mates not with him(we all know why) anyway I went out with friends instead like he suggested and that’s where I met my now husband, I had no intention of meeting anyone but he was a friend of a friend and stayed with me all night happily chatting away to cheer me up. He made me laugh, like full on belly laughing and at the end of the night I realised something.. I couldn’t remember for the life of me when the last time I’d laughed with my bf was, I scraped my mind trying to remember and I just couldn’t.

I’ve been with my husband ever since. We still belly laugh.

DamnUserName21 · 10/06/2023 12:05

My moment came after given birth to DD. C-Section Saturday. Discharged and bending over pulling wet washing from washing machine to put in dryer on the Monday. Doing all the care for newborn and being called a 'fucking bitch' during an argument over I-can't-remember-what. I also later learned he'd been seen kissing some woman at the pub whilst I was in hospital.

Utter selfish fucker. Anyway, he was gone by the Thursday and we have not seen him since. Over a decade later, DD and I have a very chilled and happy life.

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