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AIBU to be in love with my adoptive brother?

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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:
Miffylou · 07/09/2024 23:44

EthelMcUnready · 07/09/2024 20:44

Mort? Something Terry Pratchett anyway 😁

sorry, wrote in the wrong place

Devilsadvocat · 08/09/2024 06:31

So I am very beautiful and the local farmer has asked to marry me but I told him Im not the marrying kind.
I have just inherited a farm and have taken on said farmer as he had fallen on hard times because all his sheep decided to commit hari kari.
There is an elderly Gentleman who is well off and I know he likes me, I have found an old Valentine card shall I send it to the Gentleman as a joke or am I asking for trouble. Oh and there is a army chap who I have my eye on also. Thanks Beth.

charlieinthehaystack · 08/09/2024 08:12

Well I am done with this world all poverty walking my mums blessed chickens and cows to market; you should see the mess and fuss. have you ever walked a herd of cows down a bypass with artics thundering by?
anyway last week i met this man who promised me something wonderful. he was in the local health food shop very tall bit scruffy long beard amazed how tall must be all the mung beans. he offered me these beans for a bargain price so I could not resist it
happy with my buy I went home and talk about ungrateful my mother went on and on, knew there was a reason I should have moved out years ago. she went on and on saying about how she needed to have her money from the darned cows just to pay for food candles and what not. In the end she threw the darn beans out the window in a fit of pique.
I left her to it and went to bed, when I woke up in the morning I couldn't see anything. the room was so dark so I went to the window and all I could see was leaves!
I started yelling at mum about time she did some gardening while I was trying to break through all these leaves then I realised there was a thick stem so throwing caution to the wind, I decided to see where it was going to.
Must be foreign imagine sun sea and sangria smashing wish me luck I am up to see what is at the top of this foliage!

Catandsquirrel · 08/09/2024 08:13

Devilsadvocat · 08/09/2024 06:31

So I am very beautiful and the local farmer has asked to marry me but I told him Im not the marrying kind.
I have just inherited a farm and have taken on said farmer as he had fallen on hard times because all his sheep decided to commit hari kari.
There is an elderly Gentleman who is well off and I know he likes me, I have found an old Valentine card shall I send it to the Gentleman as a joke or am I asking for trouble. Oh and there is a army chap who I have my eye on also. Thanks Beth.

I don't know if he'll find it funny.

QuiteAnEpicFailure · 08/09/2024 08:18

Toastghost · 05/09/2024 14:04

I’m married to a fox and I can’t stand him. AIBU to gaslight him by hiding his clothes all over the house including in the grandfather clock and the attic?

My dd used to have this book and it used to creep me out! How did all his clothes get into those places including the creepy attic, it was like the start of a poltergeist horror movie!

QuiteAnEpicFailure · 08/09/2024 08:43

I often leave my Ds (8) to look after my elderly DM while I go out, he is more then capable of making her cups of tea and making sure she has her medications, but last week I came home to find he had poisoned her by tricking her into consuming a variety of household goods and animal medicines instead of her usual medication. This led to her growing absolutely enormous and smashing though the roof. I was furious when I got home to find this but DH seemed to find the whole thing hilarious and was actually more interested in encouraging ds to poison animals with the fake ‘medicine’ than worrying about dm, although he did eventually fork out for a crane to hoist her out the roof at my insistence.

DM seemed okay at first although annoyed about having to sleep in the hay barn with mice however DH and ds wouldn’t stop pissing around poisoning animals with weird combinations of household items and DM, who is often confused, accidentally drank another batch and shrank so much that she disappeared.I was really upset but DH and Dd laughed and said mean things about poor DM. DH completely minimised my feelings about my DM disappearing just because she was a big old and grumpy.

I’m so upset about it all. Would you LTB? And what about Ds? I will definitely be banning him from screen time this week but do you think that’s enough of a punishment for poisoning his DGM?

ClockwiseHoneysuckle · 08/09/2024 09:42

Devilsadvocat · 08/09/2024 06:31

So I am very beautiful and the local farmer has asked to marry me but I told him Im not the marrying kind.
I have just inherited a farm and have taken on said farmer as he had fallen on hard times because all his sheep decided to commit hari kari.
There is an elderly Gentleman who is well off and I know he likes me, I have found an old Valentine card shall I send it to the Gentleman as a joke or am I asking for trouble. Oh and there is a army chap who I have my eye on also. Thanks Beth.

Nooo, leave the card alone, no good can come of it. I'd stick with the farmer if I were you.

ClockwiseHoneysuckle · 08/09/2024 09:46

aliasname · 07/09/2024 10:51

I’m a bit worried about my DD (13 - nearly 14) Ever since a recent family party she’s been moody and withdrawn. Keeps gazing into the distance and sighing that No-one understands in a real drama queen way.

DH says it’s just her age, but I’ve had enough of her mooning about like her favourite pop star has just died. Is it just hormones? I know teenagers can be dramatic sometimes, but this whole lovesick nonsense is very wearing.

The other night she wasn’t eating, just toying with her food and when I pointed out that there were starving people in the world she snapped ‘well let them have it then!’ Could she have an eating disorder?

I just hope she doesn’t do anything stupid - she’s taken to staring out of her window - but when I try to talk to her she just rolls her eyes at me.

This is so familiar but I can't think what it is. Put me out of my misery?

Devilsadvocat · 08/09/2024 09:51

QuiteAnEpicFailure · 08/09/2024 08:18

My dd used to have this book and it used to creep me out! How did all his clothes get into those places including the creepy attic, it was like the start of a poltergeist horror movie!

What book is this please.

Beansandneedles · 08/09/2024 10:46

Devilsadvocat · 08/09/2024 09:51

What book is this please.

Foxes Socks 😂

May be Julia Donaldson? Can't remember

Beansandneedles · 08/09/2024 10:48

ClockwiseHoneysuckle · 08/09/2024 09:46

This is so familiar but I can't think what it is. Put me out of my misery?

The bell jar?! I'm struggling too @aliasname

Miffylou · 08/09/2024 11:40

Devilsadvocat · 08/09/2024 06:31

So I am very beautiful and the local farmer has asked to marry me but I told him Im not the marrying kind.
I have just inherited a farm and have taken on said farmer as he had fallen on hard times because all his sheep decided to commit hari kari.
There is an elderly Gentleman who is well off and I know he likes me, I have found an old Valentine card shall I send it to the Gentleman as a joke or am I asking for trouble. Oh and there is a army chap who I have my eye on also. Thanks Beth.

That army chap sounds like a wrong'un to me, and the gentleman sounds like a bit of a bore. I should stick with the sheep expert. You never know when his skills will come in handy.

Toastghost · 08/09/2024 11:42

QuiteAnEpicFailure · 08/09/2024 08:18

My dd used to have this book and it used to creep me out! How did all his clothes get into those places including the creepy attic, it was like the start of a poltergeist horror movie!

The jack in the box in the attic doesn’t help either.

Beansandneedles · 08/09/2024 11:51

Toastghost · 08/09/2024 11:42

The jack in the box in the attic doesn’t help either.

@QuiteAnEpicFailure @Toastghost it's a mark of exactly how absent minded my DH is that it didn't strike me as odd at all 😂 I could easily find socks in the attic...haven't yet, but never say never!

Spent about a fortnight recently looking for the bike pump. Eventually bought a new one (not something I do lightly) only to find it the next day (typical) in the alcove under our decking. This is a small cupboard where I store plant pots in the winter etc. To get to it you have to move the garden furniture and the trampoline. He has zero recollection of putting it there or ideas as to why he would have done it. It's a rollercoaster I tell you!

aliasname · 08/09/2024 18:06

ClockwiseHoneysuckle · 08/09/2024 09:46

This is so familiar but I can't think what it is. Put me out of my misery?

and Beansandneedles

Romeo and Juliet

Uricon2 · 08/09/2024 19:44

AIBU to believe that the plots of some of Mr Thos. Hardy's acclaimed novels would not be out of place in Take a Break?

AmiablePedant · 08/09/2024 20:18

So my dad is really not up to running the business any more and has MH issues. Me and my middle sister stepped up (our youngest sister says and does NOTHING) to look after him and I moved him in to my place. It's been hell. He still wants to rule the roost, he has a bunch of noisy friends, he's sponsoring a really weird guy who does improv and tells unintelligible jokes (except I can tell they are RUDE). Social Services refuse to interfere and DH is useless at sticking up for me. Would I be unreasonable to goad dad into leaving? .

Meditationgame · 08/09/2024 20:19

My dad has had a pea stuck in his ear for 40 years AIBU to take him to A&E?

Meditationgame · 08/09/2024 20:20

My husband has taken himself off on a walk to meet with a lady he once knew. AIBU to leave the bastard?

JamTartLover · 08/09/2024 20:51

Meditationgame · 08/09/2024 20:20

My husband has taken himself off on a walk to meet with a lady he once knew. AIBU to leave the bastard?

Currently reading this atm!

Aria999 · 08/09/2024 20:51

AmiablePedant · 08/09/2024 20:18

So my dad is really not up to running the business any more and has MH issues. Me and my middle sister stepped up (our youngest sister says and does NOTHING) to look after him and I moved him in to my place. It's been hell. He still wants to rule the roost, he has a bunch of noisy friends, he's sponsoring a really weird guy who does improv and tells unintelligible jokes (except I can tell they are RUDE). Social Services refuse to interfere and DH is useless at sticking up for me. Would I be unreasonable to goad dad into leaving? .

I think you should probably at least sort him out somewhere to stay, it will look bad if he ends up wandering round naked in a thunderstorm.

Beansandneedles · 08/09/2024 20:58

Meditationgame · 08/09/2024 20:20

My husband has taken himself off on a walk to meet with a lady he once knew. AIBU to leave the bastard?

Bloody great book!

Meditationgame · 08/09/2024 21:00

JamTartLover · 08/09/2024 20:51

Currently reading this atm!

You're in for a treat

Patiosong · 08/09/2024 21:01

My sister's come to stay. She says she's having a break from work, but doesn't say when she's going back. She's incredibly nervous all the time and my dh reckons she's been at his liquor.

There's quite a lot of tension between my dsis and dh and I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of both of them. I'm pregnant and wanted to tell dsis myself, but dh did it. I'm a bit gutted, tbh but if I say anything, he'll kick off. I just wanted them to like each other.

Aibu to ask my sister to leave?

MrsHamlet · 08/09/2024 22:06

Patiosong · 08/09/2024 21:01

My sister's come to stay. She says she's having a break from work, but doesn't say when she's going back. She's incredibly nervous all the time and my dh reckons she's been at his liquor.

There's quite a lot of tension between my dsis and dh and I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of both of them. I'm pregnant and wanted to tell dsis myself, but dh did it. I'm a bit gutted, tbh but if I say anything, he'll kick off. I just wanted them to like each other.

Aibu to ask my sister to leave?

I've just started teaching this to my y13. Love it.