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AIBU to be in love with my adoptive brother?

478 replies

orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 05/09/2024 13:33

Sorry for the clickbait title - this is actually just a fun thread.

Take the plot of a book and turn it into a AIBU

I'll start.

AIBU to want to marry my adoptive brother that my dad found somewhere and instead of just doing it, acting like a total bitch to him and everyone else even after I'd died?

OP posts:
LilySLE · 06/09/2024 18:16

I’m a teenage girl in charge of my younger siblings because my Dad has disappeared off to goodness knows where and my mum has moved us all up to a strange place. AIBU to wave my underwear at an old bloke I see on the train? I’ve been passing him notes a lot.

NC as I think my Mum has already posted on here 👀

LilySLE · 06/09/2024 18:18

ItsTheTattiesMrsCulfeathers · 05/09/2024 16:35

I work at a publishing company in London and my colleague P seems to think she's in charge of! Anyways I think she's figured out I'm sleeping with our boss - what do I do?!

Introduce her to someone else with thoughtful bits of information about her

LilySLE · 06/09/2024 18:21

Scout2016 · 05/09/2024 20:02

Please help settle this dispute. AIBU? My son recently had this freak accident and long story short he's just not himself lately, physically or mentally. He's kind of flatter and he's started up with some risk taking behaviours like mailing himself off to see his mates. I'm worried it's rubbing off on my youngest too- the other day I caught him using his brother as a kite. Should I be worried? My DH says boys will be boys and I'm a killjoy. I think he just doesn't want to admit there's an issue because he feels guilty about not putting that noticeboard up properly. Wwyd?

Edited

I’ve reported you to social services as I’m worried about poor Stanley

whengodwasarabbit1 · 06/09/2024 18:32

Hi everyone, I've recently married this lovely guy, he's a total dish and completely loaded, I've moved into his big estate house in cornwall, it has its own beach and everything,but the housekeeper Is mega weird and keeps talking about and comparing me to his ex wife who died a few years back. She was totally gorgeous and wonderful and I feel I will never live up to her. He won't sack her. Wwyd?

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 06/09/2024 18:32

AIBU to send DD (8) to boarding school in Europe while my husband and I travel to India and the colonies. Although she only speaks English at the moment she will be expected to learn German and French as lessons will be taught in those subjects. The school is run by a lovely lady and her daughter is one of the pupils.

We may not get to see her until the end of next year but the school seems to specialise in girls whose parents work abroad so would take care of her through Christmas and all the holidays.

Matildalamp · 06/09/2024 18:33

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 05/09/2024 13:53

On a similar theme:

I was in love with my adoptive sister. My parents forced her to marry my brother, but they split up and she then made some poor relationship choices.

She had a daughter and then died of miscellaneous poverty related illness (I blame the Tories for this).

AIBU to brood on this until my adoptive niece is grown up. Then I will fall in love with someone around the same age as said niece, so about twenty years younger than me, basically because she reminds me a bit of my sister.

My niece has now had a child also (DGN) and my new crush is in love with the father of DGN. Should I carry on pursuing my crush and eventually marry her when DGN’s father gets sick of her, or should I get some therapy and marry someone more suitable?

Aw, Sense and Sensibility ❤️

Snoopsteandcooper · 06/09/2024 18:38

AIBU to think my husband’s boss is a miserable old git?

So, it’s Christmas Eve, and my DH's boss, Mr. S, is the absolute worst. He’s been underpaying DH for YEARS, making us all scrimp and save while he hoards his money and sits alone in his cold, creepy house. DH is working all hours, we can barely afford a decent Christmas dinner, and our youngest DS is sick, but does boss care? No!

Anyway, DH comes home today and tells me Mr S has reluctantly let him have Christmas Day off – surely this should be a given?! I'm concerned that DH is being exploited?

Any advice welcome!

Aria999 · 06/09/2024 18:45

LilySLE · 06/09/2024 18:00

AIBU to think this nanny has really overstepped the mark?

I needed someone to look after my two kids as my husband works in the city and I am too busy campaigning for women’s rights to look after them. Admittedly I hired her in a bit of a spur of the moment decision (she had only just flown in from heaven knows where). She does take them out on day trips, but they come back covered in soot, and when they are poorly she seems to think that giving them sweet treats is the answer. AIBU? 🤷‍♀️

On the plus side their room is miraculously tidy

ILoveCats89 · 06/09/2024 18:50

MidYearDiary · 05/09/2024 14:01

AIBU to conceal my four blonde children in my evil disinheriting parents' giant attic, now that their father/my husband (AKA my half-uncle who groomed me) has died, inconveniently leaving me with nothing, so I need to pretend the marriage was childless in order to get my father to put me back into his will? I mean, someone suggested I just get a job, but that doesn't sound very appealing, right? And I should just deal with my mum horsewhipping the teenagers and tarring my daughter's hair, because, after all, her house her rules?

What book is this?!

Beansandneedles · 06/09/2024 18:51

ILoveCats89 · 06/09/2024 18:50

What book is this?!

I think maybe flowers in the attic?

viques · 06/09/2024 18:54

LilySLE · 06/09/2024 18:00

AIBU to think this nanny has really overstepped the mark?

I needed someone to look after my two kids as my husband works in the city and I am too busy campaigning for women’s rights to look after them. Admittedly I hired her in a bit of a spur of the moment decision (she had only just flown in from heaven knows where). She does take them out on day trips, but they come back covered in soot, and when they are poorly she seems to think that giving them sweet treats is the answer. AIBU? 🤷‍♀️

It doesn’t sound as though she is a trained Nanny at all. If you would like to DM me I can give you details of the nanny agency I run I can recommend.

Look us it up on google. McFeeNanniesInc.

viques · 06/09/2024 19:04

The sukebind be in flower in the hedgerow and I am in mortal dread that I will succumb and find myself with child again. Oh woe, oh woe, oh woe is me. Do anyone know how I can resist, I do keep all the windows tight shut in the night, but in the day when I am out and about on the farm I feel such longings that I cannot describe. My sisters in law are the same, we need someone to come and advise us.

Also do anyone know a good vet, another of the cows has lost a leg, and Adam cannot fettle the dishes for the grieving.

Matildalamp · 06/09/2024 19:05

ObelixtheGaul · 06/09/2024 17:59

I had a similar problem. We had to move to Argentina to get away. Unfortunately, my husband is a bit of an idiot and lost the farm we moved to, so we had to go back. He has taken up with the friend again, but at least it gets him out from under my feet...

What was Captain Hastings’ wife’s name. I can’t remember!

LilySLE · 06/09/2024 19:06

AIBU not to give one of my soft toys away because of my stupid brother?

I mean, I do have a penchant for soft toys (I sleep with 7 of them), but he is always losing his belongings, and then expecting me to fix stuff for him. Like today he lost his favourite toy, then somehow it turned up at the school fayre, but some girl bought it and wouldn’t give it back to him. I won an absolutely massive teddy bear and now he wants me to give that to this girl so he can get his toy back. For free.

AIBU to think that he should take better care of his stuff and I should teach him a lesson?

ObelixtheGaul · 06/09/2024 19:07

Matildalamp · 06/09/2024 19:05

What was Captain Hastings’ wife’s name. I can’t remember!

Dulcie Duveen

viques · 06/09/2024 19:09

Snoopsteandcooper · 06/09/2024 18:38

AIBU to think my husband’s boss is a miserable old git?

So, it’s Christmas Eve, and my DH's boss, Mr. S, is the absolute worst. He’s been underpaying DH for YEARS, making us all scrimp and save while he hoards his money and sits alone in his cold, creepy house. DH is working all hours, we can barely afford a decent Christmas dinner, and our youngest DS is sick, but does boss care? No!

Anyway, DH comes home today and tells me Mr S has reluctantly let him have Christmas Day off – surely this should be a given?! I'm concerned that DH is being exploited?

Any advice welcome!

I don’t suppose you have a cheery little crippled child who can charm Mr S out of his grumpiness? Otherwise I suggest you enlist the help of the local Amateur Dramatic Club to plan a disturbing and psychologically painful intervention over several nights to scare the shite out of the old devil.

Twoshoesnewshoes · 06/09/2024 19:16

I’m at a bit of a loose end - was living with great uncle who recently died and left me some cash. My younger sister (non binary) lives with me too - AIBU to get the train to Switzerland and set up a school there?
I don’t have any qualifications or teaching experience but I’m nice and middle class, how hard can it be?

Purplebunnie · 06/09/2024 19:19

AIBU to let my four children camp overnight on an island in the middle of a lake. I've given them cake and tents and they are going to sail there.

Catandsquirrel · 06/09/2024 19:23

Is my DW a gaslighting alcoholic? I got home to a completely empty house. Including all my beers. She's insistent that a giant tiger knocked on the door and devoured absolutely everything. I think she's even got my DD covering for her. Funnily enough the tiger has never been back since we bought a tin of tiger food instead of beer.

x2boys · 06/09/2024 19:24

Aibu my next door neighbour never seems to age he looks the same as he did 30 years ago ,he harping on about a self portrait in the attic.

Elsvieta · 06/09/2024 19:29

Sorry, I'm thick - what's the book where someone's in love with their adoptive brother?

Emiliaswrath · 06/09/2024 19:31

Elsvieta · 06/09/2024 19:29

Sorry, I'm thick - what's the book where someone's in love with their adoptive brother?

Think that one's Wuthering Heights. Loved it as a teen, now its a bit 🤨

Snoopsteandcooper · 06/09/2024 19:36

Re: Neighbour who never ages...He's clearly spending a fortune on Botox and fillers. He'll end up looking like Jocelyn Wildenstein eventually!

Patiosong · 06/09/2024 19:43

I'm an incredibly good looking Spaniard, who keeps being seduced by attractive young women., much to my educated mother's horror.I've been shipwrecked;attacked by various irate husbabds and fathers;had to pretend to be a woman in a harem and forced to leave town again. Currently I hear that a queen has designs on me.

Aibu to feel a bit objectified?

InsolentNoise · 06/09/2024 19:48

Miffylou · 06/09/2024 11:27

My life is crap. My younger brother died. My boarding school was full of phonies so I left. I love my little sister but my parents drive me mad and even my older brother is a phony now. It seems to me that everyone is a phony. AIBU?

Like fun! YANBU

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