Everyone in the house can f*ck off!

[TurnedInTunedoutAndFckedOff]

Relentless last couple of days with the kids.
AIBU to

1. feel like my body is not a climbing frame
2. feel like I've run out of answers to the relentless questions
3. sick of separating fights
4. tired of reasoning, negotiating
5. bored of keeping positive
6. sick of hearing myself talk
7. cba with the constant drudgery
8. feel like I just wanna time alone in a dark, quiet room

43, mum of 3 under 5s, perimenopausal and sipping the vino by 430 😬

I find that industry you speak of deeply fucking patronising. 'Gin-o-clock' for mummies, as though that's somehow vastly more funny/hilarious than 20s day drinkers. Whatevs!

I was going to suggest this and ask where is your DCs dad in all this?

For me personally, I do yoga or half an hour of dance. I might also have a coffee, if I don't feel like moving about. I honestly wasn't having a go at the OP, I just thought that if she was genuinely in the habit of using alcohol as her go-to to unwind, hitting pause on that my be helpful. She clarified that she normally runs, though, which is another thing you can do (although not in this weather!!)

Exactly, I find it really creepy.

I used to take them out in the morning to walk, run themselves ragged. We didn't have any money so I couldn't afford anything nice.

I think I treated them like puppies/dogs. We'd either have sandwiches etc when out or come home for lunch. This did take the edge off their behaviour.

Wet winter days are the devil's invention

Absolute idiot here 👋🏼

My kids are young adults now, but I DEFINITELY experienced those moments and emotions when they were little.

And now I’ve gone and got myself 2 kittens. Through choice. And so it begins again, it’s eerily similar.

OP I remember those days so well, I now have teens/tweens and they still drive me to drink!!

Worked my arse off today WFH before starting annual leave, entered the house to find it looking like a bomb had gone off. Cue half hour of me angry cleaning, slamming every door and drawer I could in pure frustration with it only to be met with "are you alright darling" after I had finished!

Now in a mood, and DH is in a mood with me for me being in a mood which is making more even more moody.

The problem is though, doing yoga or going for a run (obviously great healthy responses to stress) weren’t options in OP’s situation. Part of the reason mums do reach for a glass of wine is it is often literally the only option available to them at that given moment! I’m obviously not condoning alcohol as a perpetual crutch, but honestly days like this can make you feel like running round the house with a bucket on your head hitting it with a ladel. When you physically can’t alter the situation, the quick fix of a glass of wine beats yelling at your kids when there’s no one else to relieve you for half an hour to do something more productive.

Yep I’m here with you OP. I have a 4 year old and a 12 month old, it’s been a looooooong week. Constant questions, the same thing repeated over and over, my answers are never satisfactory, I’m constantly being talked at while chasing my youngest around to stop him from swallowing things or banging his head (he’s learning to walk). My oldest even talks over me when I speak to the Alexa 🥴

Pissed with rain every day, jollying them all into their puddle suits for the umpteenth time is grinding me down. Endless requests for snacks/drinks/toilet. Over to DP now for week 2, all I can say to him is god speed 😄