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Poo-gate, what to do?

310 replies

notallmenbutalwaysaman · 30/12/2023 05:00

To be honest I just need to rant, I know IANBU but don't know what to do except seethe.

Just before LTB comments start- DH is usually lovely and rarely drinks.

DH went out last night- fine. He had no key and was utterly incoherent when I tried to call/text so I waited up until 2am for him to get home so I could lock up. Then went to bed and he was snoring- I kid you not- like he had some sort of jet engine installed in his chest. He also kept violently shaking and making the bed move like there was some sort of earthquake. He seemed fine medically, just very very drunk. I'm 7 months pregnant, perpetually exhausted, and can barely sleep as it is so obviously couldn't cope with this. He wouldn't stop it or wake up fully when I asked (yelled) at him to go and sleep on the sofa if he was so drunk, and in fact kept telling me to fuck off. So, 2.30am I get my stuff and go sleep on the sofa, which isn't the comfiest when heavily pregnant but is better than a bed installed with earthquake plates.

I must've fallen asleep because at 4am I am awoken by all the lights suddenly being on and an almightly banging in the hallway and kitchen. The washing machine is also inexplicibly on and so obviously the whole living room/kitchen wall has decided to get in on the action and is being as loud as it can possibly be. I try and sleep through it for about 20 minutes before getting up to see what on earth is going on. DH is now fast asleep again, sprawled across the whole bed, but there is a massive stinking pile of poo on the hallway carpet, with splatters leading in to the kitchen. The bathtub is FULL of what I can only describe as poo-confetti. Everything stinks. It's not diarrhea- I'd be a little more understanding of that- but actual solid poo. Now I'm awake (as are, unfortunately, my nostrils) I can't get back to sleep. My back and legs are killing me from sitting/lying on the sofa but absolutely no way do I want to get back in to bed with him (doubt he'd even make room) and I am refusing to clean up on principle but the whole downstairs utterly reeks. He won't clean up- he's still totally incoherent and is refusing to move out of bed.

So now I'm sat here on the sofa, in pain and furious, unable to sleep. What on earth do I do now? I've nowhere to go without a 2+ hour drive which I'm too tired for. What on earth do I do when he wakes up/what is an appropriate punishment/way for him to make up for this? Utterly grossed out and fuming.

OP posts:
Dynamoat · 30/12/2023 21:36

Silver lining is you found this out before baby is born so you can kick him out and not have to worry about looking after a baby AND a full grown human who shits the bed.

Allthatwegotisthispalebluedot · 30/12/2023 21:57

I hope you took photos of the hallway OP. Send them to the OW!

Bestyearever2024 · 30/12/2023 21:58

How awful for you. I'm so sorry. Im really glad he's gone xxx

justasking111 · 30/12/2023 22:01

There are no words. So sorry 😒

MaryHinges · 30/12/2023 22:01

Allthatwegotisthispalebluedot · 30/12/2023 21:57

I hope you took photos of the hallway OP. Send them to the OW!

How do we know it's another woman? I mean the old back passage seemed a bit floppy in the night. Just sayin......

TTC89Njna · 30/12/2023 22:04

Sending you hugs and strength, OP. Better to find out now than post partum I think.

SaucepanRattle · 30/12/2023 22:06

Sometimes drugs are cut with laxatives so I'm wondering if that's the revelation. I'd certainly go nuclear if my DH did coke when I was 7 months pregnant.

Didimum · 30/12/2023 22:08

SaucepanRattle · 30/12/2023 22:06

Sometimes drugs are cut with laxatives so I'm wondering if that's the revelation. I'd certainly go nuclear if my DH did coke when I was 7 months pregnant.

He cheated. Update on previous page.

SaucepanRattle · 30/12/2023 22:11

Didimum · 30/12/2023 22:08

He cheated. Update on previous page.

Just spotted that. That explains why the OP kicked him out. But not why he shat all over the bathroom.

AnneValentine · 30/12/2023 22:30

notallmenbutalwaysaman · 30/12/2023 19:38

Really? I had no idea. Hit me like a tonne of bricks.

For you I’m sure it did. But what you have described here isn’t one off stuff.

QueSyrahSyrah · 30/12/2023 22:42

Fuck me, I'm so sorry to read the update OP.

I too would be taking numerous photos of the shit and sending them to the lucky lady.

How Men like this manage to attract multiple Women will forever be beyond me.

Projectme · 30/12/2023 22:44

He's been having an affair? And you're 7 months pregnant?! Fuck me. OW welcome to him.

I'm so sorry OP; what an awful outcome. Hope you have proper support IRL

Penguin34 · 30/12/2023 22:49

Lovely hotel with a spa with mamma to be treatments - lots of them - on him.
Wait for him to call, say nothing while he talks himself in circles and hopefully be deathly sorry.
Stay another night and say you expect the entire house to have a professional standard of cleaning

LaurieStrode · 30/12/2023 23:01

SaucepanRattle · 30/12/2023 22:06

Sometimes drugs are cut with laxatives so I'm wondering if that's the revelation. I'd certainly go nuclear if my DH did coke when I was 7 months pregnant.

Yes, coke is often cut with baby laxative. If he did a lot of it, it would explain the faecal incontinence.

Father of the Year.

Calliopespa · 30/12/2023 23:02

AnneValentine · 30/12/2023 22:30

For you I’m sure it did. But what you have described here isn’t one off stuff.

Are you the OW? None of us can see a connection. It was just a drunken night out, maybe/ probably drugs. But no connection whatsoever to an affair. I’m not sure what OP is supposed to have noticed.

Confusedmeanderings · 30/12/2023 23:06

OP I am so sorry. You have so much on your plate at the moment. I hope you have someone to look after you.

Calliopespa · 30/12/2023 23:08

Are you close to your parents op? Could you move to them for mat leave?

Katbum · 30/12/2023 23:14

What a scumbag. Leave and don’t look back.

TeaAndToddlers2023 · 30/12/2023 23:16

Oh my god, you don't deserve any of this at all. Have you got friends and family to support you?

As for what to do with him. If it were me, I'd change the locks. I'd then arrange a professional clean of the house, get a replacement washing machine (and replacements for any of your ruined delicates/bed sheets), and send him an invoice for the lot (if not using his credit card, which would be my first choice).

I'd take myself to the spa for the day whilst the professional clean took place. Along with the invoice, I'd also include the contact details of my family solicitor.

So sorry this is happening 💐

Christmaslights21 · 30/12/2023 23:17

Oh god, how awful. I hope you have good support around you, OP. Did he confess this while he was drunk? I can’t even imagine 😞 sending hugs x

AnneValentine · 30/12/2023 23:23

Calliopespa · 30/12/2023 23:02

Are you the OW? None of us can see a connection. It was just a drunken night out, maybe/ probably drugs. But no connection whatsoever to an affair. I’m not sure what OP is supposed to have noticed.

Thats a weird leap. And actually several other posters said there was more to it, drugs suggested for example.

RobertaFirmino · 30/12/2023 23:24

I am a recovered coke addict (nearly 15 years clean!). Not once did I uncontrollably shit all over my house. Verbal diarrhoea, yes but never a dirty protest.

Calliopespa · 30/12/2023 23:26

AnneValentine · 30/12/2023 23:23

Thats a weird leap. And actually several other posters said there was more to it, drugs suggested for example.

The drugs I can see, getting himself in that state. No it was the implication that the affair was obvious.

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No you aren’t the first. I didn’t like to suggest it though in case OP was really going through something. But I don’t know why a poo troll would wind it up with being cheated on when there’s no discernible link (to me anyway) between having sex and pooing all over the house. The way she wrote the original post was amusing though - but I think poor thing could still see the funny side.

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