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To not like nights out anymore?

15 replies

Lottiemum2 · 18/02/2024 09:46

My DH says I am boring and questions why I didnt join my friends on nights out when he see's them posting on SM. I really cannot be fussed with it, would much rather stay, although I love going out for food and would absolutely take that up. Pubs etc just do not do it for me anymore. Am I getting old and boring, im 34. DH has made me feel there is something wrong with me!

Dont get me wrong I love a blow out maybe once/twice a year! haha

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TeaKitten · 18/02/2024 09:48

34 is not old or boring, and that’s actually pretty offensive. But YANBU to like what you like. Does your DH find you boring generally or is this just a joke about nights out?

SgtJuneAckland · 18/02/2024 09:48

I was probably about your age when I stopped enjoying big nights out. I like to be able to hear the people I'm with, have somewhere comfortable to sit and not have men coming up to me.
I do like a nice pub, live music, going out for dinner etc but I'm not up for just going out to bars, clubs etc

AhBiscuits · 18/02/2024 09:52

Yanbu.
Out for dinner, a few drinks. Fine.
I don't want to be out till the early hours or drinking to excess. I'm just over it. I'm 43.
I was out for a 40th birthday last night. 8 until 1. 5 bloody hours. There's nothing I want to do for 5 hours except sleep.
When I rule the world I will draft a statute that nothing can be longer than 2 hours.

Lottiemum2 · 18/02/2024 09:52

It was light hearted, I know I am not old but I just really do not enjoy it anymore. DH is always up for going out with friends, gigs etc, its making me think there is something wrong with me!

I would rather stay in if I am honest, but LOVE nice wine bars, restaurants, bowling, it really does not bother me that my friends are out partying and I am not.

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Lottiemum2 · 18/02/2024 09:53

AhBiscuits · 18/02/2024 09:52

Yanbu.
Out for dinner, a few drinks. Fine.
I don't want to be out till the early hours or drinking to excess. I'm just over it. I'm 43.
I was out for a 40th birthday last night. 8 until 1. 5 bloody hours. There's nothing I want to do for 5 hours except sleep.
When I rule the world I will draft a statute that nothing can be longer than 2 hours.

Haha!!

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Tayegete · 18/02/2024 09:56

Me too - love an afternoon catch up with 1 or 2 friends and then back home before it gets dark. Clubbing into the early hours would fill me with dread!

jelliebelly · 18/02/2024 10:01

Nothing wrong with you - you are just working out what you do and don’t enjoy doing rather than going along with what you are expected to enjoy. What do the two of you enjoy doing together?

PossumintheHouse · 18/02/2024 10:04

I was about your age when I started feeling the same (late 30s now). Love going out to restaurants, bowling, a nice glass of wine, but you’d have to drag me screaming to a nightclub nowadays.

mynameiscalypso · 18/02/2024 10:06

I quite like a mildly boozy lunch, home for a nap by mid-afternoon and no hangover the next day. I loved a club in my youth but mid-thirties was about when I could no longer be bothered.

KimberleyClark · 18/02/2024 10:07

I felt the same at your age. Though I have never enjoyed long pub/bar crawls if there was no food involved. Standing for hours in places where the music is too loud to talk, no thanks.

Hoglet70 · 18/02/2024 10:09

I am the same and can't remember the last time I looked forward to going 'out out' and haven't for years. I'd rather have a good lunch with a couple of drinks and come home and veg. Luckily DH is as boring as me.

vodka4mum · 18/02/2024 10:13

A lazy lunch with day drinking is the way forward for me now. Home in PJs with a cuppa by 8pm

Tagyoureit · 18/02/2024 10:17

I much prefer a nice dinner out where I can hear my friends talk! We actually left a restaurant as they had a exceptionally loud singer there and we just couldn't hear a word said!! It was awful! I want to hear my friends, not Tony's impression of My Way!

Fahbeep · 18/02/2024 10:24

Lottiemum2 · 18/02/2024 09:46

My DH says I am boring and questions why I didnt join my friends on nights out when he see's them posting on SM. I really cannot be fussed with it, would much rather stay, although I love going out for food and would absolutely take that up. Pubs etc just do not do it for me anymore. Am I getting old and boring, im 34. DH has made me feel there is something wrong with me!

Dont get me wrong I love a blow out maybe once/twice a year! haha

You're just growing up. It's normal. Enjoy!

AuntieMarys · 18/02/2024 10:25

We rarely go out at night...only to gigs and theatre.
But I love day drinking/eating and home by 6.

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