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AIBU?

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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:
orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 05/09/2024 15:39

HoppityBun · 05/09/2024 15:16

What novel!? I’d like to read this

Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte - it's a classic!

OP posts:
TRACKOK · 05/09/2024 15:41

My child's kidnapping and murder led to a domino effect of several other deaths. WIBU to gang together with various members of my family, friends, staff, family of former staff and various others to kill the ringleader of the kidnappers? We plan to pretend to be strangers and take a train journey together so that nobody knows what we have done.

RedHelenB · 05/09/2024 15:43

LauderSyme · 05/09/2024 14:00

AIBU to eat
one apple 🍎
two pears 🍐 🍐
three plums 🍑🍑🍑
four strawberries 🍓🍓🍓🍓
five oranges 🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊
one piece of chocolate cake 🍫 one ice-cream cone 🍦one pickle 🌶 one slice of Swiss cheese 🧀 one slice of salami 🍕 one lollipop 🍭 one piece of cherry pie 🍒 one sausage 🌭 one cupcake 🎂 one slice of watermelon 🍉 and one nice green leaf 🍃 ?

Disclaimer * items substituted

Up to no. 5 you're a mumsnet dream, it goes downhill fast ice cream and chocolate cake you glutton. Yabu.

IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 05/09/2024 15:44

RedHelenB · 05/09/2024 15:43

Up to no. 5 you're a mumsnet dream, it goes downhill fast ice cream and chocolate cake you glutton. Yabu.

Normal diet day that is. Fruit, fruit, fruit, fruit....ALL THE FOOD.

Miffylou · 05/09/2024 15:45

Tombero · 05/09/2024 15:35

I met this bloke, he was really rude and arrogant. But, against his ‘better judgement’ really fancied me. But as I’ve got good boundaries I told him where to go.
Anyway, just been to stay with my friend and she lives on his estate and it turns out he’s minted.
i don’t have great prospects as my parents had too many of us girls and all dads money will go to a horrible cousin.
I just feel like he’s really growing on me now and I could change him for the better, AIBU to try again?

Edited

Typical - not a thought for your poor neglected, despised sister, who has already posted her problem.

angellinaballerina7 · 05/09/2024 15:45

BendingSpoons · 05/09/2024 13:42

I've had a lazy day at home, the place is a tip and I couldn't be arsed to go to Tesco. AIBU for telling DH a tiger manipulated me into letting him in the house and then trashed the place?

Oh my god 😂

ObelixtheGaul · 05/09/2024 15:46

TRACKOK · 05/09/2024 15:41

My child's kidnapping and murder led to a domino effect of several other deaths. WIBU to gang together with various members of my family, friends, staff, family of former staff and various others to kill the ringleader of the kidnappers? We plan to pretend to be strangers and take a train journey together so that nobody knows what we have done.

Check your fellow passengers out before doing anything. If one of them's a short bloke with a tidy moustache and a Belgian accent, call the plan off. You'll get caught, I promise.

Miffylou · 05/09/2024 15:46

TRACKOK · 05/09/2024 15:41

My child's kidnapping and murder led to a domino effect of several other deaths. WIBU to gang together with various members of my family, friends, staff, family of former staff and various others to kill the ringleader of the kidnappers? We plan to pretend to be strangers and take a train journey together so that nobody knows what we have done.

Beware men with moustaches.

yorktown · 05/09/2024 15:47

I'm 18 (or thereabouts). Met a lovely man (35) in France, married him very quickly, now back at his house in Cornwall, turns out he's not really over his first wife, huge pictures of her all over the walls.
He has a housekeeper and I suspect she's in love with first wife too as she's always going on about her.
Not sure if I should have children with him now or wait a bit longer. WWYD?

Tombero · 05/09/2024 15:51

Miffylou · 05/09/2024 15:45

Typical - not a thought for your poor neglected, despised sister, who has already posted her problem.

OMG Lydia, when did you join mumsnet?
Off to change my username so it’s not too outing when I get advice about your frankly, disgraceful behaviour!

HectorPlasm · 05/09/2024 15:51

Hi mumsnetters. My young son is a certified loon bag who regularly trashes my stuff. AIBU to get him a bow and arrow as a distraction?

Uricon2 · 05/09/2024 15:51

Hi ladies,

Man here, after a womans opinion. I asked my cousin to marry me this morning but she's turned me down. I don't understand it, I've got a good job and mix with the local gentry and I'm due to inherit her father's house.

Would I be unreasonable to propose to her best friend this evening?

TIA.

ObelixtheGaul · 05/09/2024 15:53

yorktown · 05/09/2024 15:47

I'm 18 (or thereabouts). Met a lovely man (35) in France, married him very quickly, now back at his house in Cornwall, turns out he's not really over his first wife, huge pictures of her all over the walls.
He has a housekeeper and I suspect she's in love with first wife too as she's always going on about her.
Not sure if I should have children with him now or wait a bit longer. WWYD?

LTB

Miffylou · 05/09/2024 15:53

Hide the matches.

Tombero · 05/09/2024 15:54

Uricon2 · 05/09/2024 15:51

Hi ladies,

Man here, after a womans opinion. I asked my cousin to marry me this morning but she's turned me down. I don't understand it, I've got a good job and mix with the local gentry and I'm due to inherit her father's house.

Would I be unreasonable to propose to her best friend this evening?

TIA.

You are not the catch you think you are Mr C.
But yes, she’s probably desperate enough!

orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 05/09/2024 15:54

I've got this really pretty, beautiful garden with a young couple living in it.
I told them that the one rule I have for them is that they are not allowed to eat the fruit from this one tree.
The woman ate an apple from the tree and TBH I'm really pissed about.

AIBU to kick them both out, damn them to a life of toil for their food, and greatly increase the pain all women go through in childbirth for the rest of time?

I've put a cherubim and a flaming sword in the way of the tree so they can't do it again.

OP posts:
Miffylou · 05/09/2024 15:55

We need to talk about this.

viques · 05/09/2024 15:55

My new husband and I are trying out best to blend our new family, but I am finding my SD very hard to deal with. My husband is often away for business leaving me to do all the parenting. We are a wealthy family of some standing in the community but my SD behaves as though she is some sort of servant, she won’t even sleep in her bed but insists on sleeping on the floor in the kitchen ,she barely washes herself and is encouraging rodents and other vermin into the house by singing to them. My husband doesn’t seem to think this behaviour is at all odd. I found out today that we have all been invited to a very prestigious event which might have great consequences for my own girls, and I know SD will bring shame on the family by turning up in rags and barefoot. Would it be wrong to pretend she hasn’t been invited and leave her behind on the night doing an important task like separating out dried beans and peas?

ObelixtheGaul · 05/09/2024 15:56

orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 05/09/2024 15:54

I've got this really pretty, beautiful garden with a young couple living in it.
I told them that the one rule I have for them is that they are not allowed to eat the fruit from this one tree.
The woman ate an apple from the tree and TBH I'm really pissed about.

AIBU to kick them both out, damn them to a life of toil for their food, and greatly increase the pain all women go through in childbirth for the rest of time?

I've put a cherubim and a flaming sword in the way of the tree so they can't do it again.

Leave him alone. It's her fault. Don't believe anything she tells you about any talking snakes, either.

Miffylou · 05/09/2024 15:57

Miffylou · 05/09/2024 15:55

We need to talk about this.

Sorry, wrong quote! (But as you are omniscient you knew that.)

GrannyWeatherwaxsBroomstick · 05/09/2024 15:57

Male here looking for female opinion. Met a really HOT woman, well I say met, I saw her in the dock at the Old Bailey. AIBU to get her off the murder charge in return for marrying me?

BloodandGlitter · 05/09/2024 15:57

Cattery · 05/09/2024 15:39

I’m in love with a girl in my class but I have spots and a slovenly mother

You should write her a poem.

Miffylou · 05/09/2024 15:58

HectorPlasm · 05/09/2024 15:51

Hi mumsnetters. My young son is a certified loon bag who regularly trashes my stuff. AIBU to get him a bow and arrow as a distraction?

We need to talk about this.

WestwardHo1 · 05/09/2024 16:00

My DM died when I was young leaving me with two sisters and my DF who's a baronet, and completely obsessed with class. This doesn't interest me, and to be honest it's incredibly embarrassing. My older DSis is a chip off the old block and the younger one is now married into another respectable family locally and has two sons (thank goodness, I mean the less said about her the better - she's an utter hypochondriac and has perpetual FOMO). When I was nineteen I met the most amazing man - not only did he have a pleasing countenance and tastes and pursuits yadda yadda, but he was in the navy and a total hottie. I mean you should have seen him in breeches and tall boots 😍.

We were all set to get married but my DM's friend who tbh has been a sort of godmother figure to me since her death managed to persuade me that it would be a bad idea, that he had no prospects and no fortune so I broke it off. Now eight years later I'm still dreaming of him, and I hear he is in the neighbourhood, and he's rich.

AIBU to be totally pissed off with my godmother? How should I play this now?

Miffylou · 05/09/2024 16:01

DwightDFlysenhower · 05/09/2024 15:28

I'm an apprentice and my supervisor is excellent at the work, but he keeps leaving during the day to go after girls. He can't stop talking about them and can't get any work done until they fall in love with him, then he isn't bothered with them any more.

He's just said the name of latest girl he's going to see, and it's my girlfriend! WIBU to leave the work I'm meant to be doing and get to her first?

Oh and an old lady who says she's my girlfriend's great aunt turned up at work one day and won't leave! She keeps cleaning everything. My boss hadn't said anything about her, so should I just let her get on with it? Some of the things we work with can be quite dangerous...

Michael, you need to check that your girlfriend isn’t actually two sisters (who have swapped identities).

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