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If you could say something out loud you knew you could never say, what would it be?

726 replies

twistandshoutloud · 12/11/2024 20:58

I'll go first.

I wish I could tell my SIL that I dislike her so much and I wish she'd never met my BIL. I hate that she is now part of our family. She came to disrupt our (far from perfect but lovely) family. I hate the way she treats my BIL. I hate how she makes everyone pander to her every whim. How all her messages are passive aggressive and how rude she is to my MIL. I could never say this out loud of course, but I dream of it often.

Feels good getting that out of my chest.

Anyone else feel free to add.

OP posts:
WhatTheKey · 13/11/2024 12:12

Mounjaro has damaged you so much. You're skeletal and pale, and I'm worried about your lack of energy and about the way you're now more obsessed with weight than you ever were. You are abusing the system in order to get your hands on more, and that system is so fucking easy to abuse. I am scared that your organs will start to fail. I am scared that you're allowed to use this drug even with your history of addiction and MH problems, and I want you to know that you were worth just as much when your body was bigger. And I love you.

Margorett · 13/11/2024 12:13

Maria1979 · 13/11/2024 11:48

No, you are not born in the wrong body. It's just horrible being a teenager and feeling like an alien due to your body changing. You can do whatever you want to do in life without changing pronouns. It just make you a PITA to be around.

Big tatoos, lip fillers, botox and fake boobs will make me think that you are not an interesting person to be around. I will be polite but avoid you.

yes I am with you on all this

SunnyHappyPeople · 13/11/2024 12:14

I would say to the over bearing mum in school that no you are not popular, its just that most of the others are scared of you.

GC5 · 13/11/2024 12:14

Daleksatemyshed · 13/11/2024 12:10

I know your DS has SN but please, please stop him hurting his Sister to get his own way. Your DS wants to play alone with you so he hurts her and you send her indoors, you've basically taught him that hurting her gets him his own way, worse still everytime you tell her he didn't mean it. I'm sure being his Dad isn't easy and that you want to keep him calm but it's not fair to your DD

This is so sad. I hope you do feel able to tell him.

Usnone · 13/11/2024 12:23

He doesn't like you, let alone love you. You should split up & I'm tired of pretending to agree with you that things might get better. They won't.

NutellaEllaElla · 13/11/2024 12:23

Who uses typewriters anyway?

Lucy25 · 13/11/2024 12:24

Jeneregretterien9 · 13/11/2024 06:51

This must take the prize for the most heartless comment on the thread. Try asking people who have been left to pickup the pieces & the guilt they feel having not recognised the often well hidden turmoil before it happened.

It wasn’t a heartless comment.Someone just said what they felt.Nobody will ever know what people have been through on this thread, including the poster who made a comment.The point was someone who ends their life isn’t a coward, which is what l understand from the comment.
There are going to be comments others will find upsetting, relatable, it’s not ok to call someone heartless.

Lisanoonan · 13/11/2024 12:24

To my cousin: Fuck you, you cold hearted bitch of a cousin of mine. I'm entitled to see my grandmother just as much as you are.

You're a cold cruel evil cow.

And it wasn't my fault that my dad abandoned me. I was a child when he did it!

And you told me it was my fault.

I have never gotten over what you did. You cruel, cold, nasty person. I didn't deserve it.

ParkedTheBroomstickNowWhat · 13/11/2024 12:26

I'd tell my mum that I know she's telling people I wasn't abused by my Ex-Husband and that all she's doing is giving him more ammunitian to abuse me and my DC. She'll claim she's protecting her GC but she's doing the eaxct opposite.

Nonbio46 · 13/11/2024 12:29

Littlemissgobby · 13/11/2024 11:29

Now that is something you really should be communicating with them, and even if there’s a backlash to it you really should

I think the crux of it is, my auntie tells them she’s fine and they believe her as it’s easier.

SadieGreen · 13/11/2024 12:30

shellyleppard · 12/11/2024 22:04

To my teenage sons.... spraying the bath with hot water does NOT get it clean......it needs shower cleaner and a good scrub!!! There is more toothpaste in the tube, try squeezing from the bottom!!!

It’s actually your job to tell them this. Please tell them asap and save their future partners/flatmates etc from having to do it.

Marabousfy · 13/11/2024 12:32

I would tell my new boss that he is just another in the long line of identikit ex- banker wankers in khaki and plaid that we’ve had who have zero creativity or ideas and that in another year he’ll be gone because we don’t need anymore bean-counting, white, straight public school boys to state the obvious.

He’s not a bad person, he’s just dull, unimaginative, and talks in such corporate bullshit that no/one really knows what he’s on about.
And if doesn’t stop dropping into conversation the time he climbed the mountain, or swam the lake or ran the other thing because he’s such a fucking WINNER one of us will have to tell him that his insecurities are so obvious he may as well be carrying a blank or and a pacifier around with him.
Twat.

RevelryMum · 13/11/2024 12:32

I would tell a close friend she is a horrible person is never happy in any relationship always thinks the grass. Is greener, tricked her now DP into a baby forced him to propose and now is "talking" to her ex (who she cheated on numerous times) while planning a wedding . I can't say anything though as there are children involved and I won't be the cause of their family being torn apart

Gettingbysomehow · 13/11/2024 12:33

I would like to go into the hospital who took me off the waiting list for urgent hip replacement by mistake without telling me thus making me wait another year. I want to go in there and scream the place down and trash everything I see. But unfortunately Im british and we dont do things like that.

RevelryMum · 13/11/2024 12:34

Gettingbysomehow · 13/11/2024 12:33

I would like to go into the hospital who took me off the waiting list for urgent hip replacement by mistake without telling me thus making me wait another year. I want to go in there and scream the place down and trash everything I see. But unfortunately Im british and we dont do things like that.

At least wait until they give you the hip and then trash the place 😂

Marabousfy · 13/11/2024 12:34

Oh, and I would tell BIL to leave her. She’s controlling, unpleasant, difficult and none of us really like her very much. He could do better.

Flumoxed · 13/11/2024 12:36

"Your child is rude and whiny. You let him get away with murder and he treats you and everyone else like garbage. Your lack of discipline is making a rod for your own back. Tell him off when he is being an idiot and stop blaming other people or circumstances for things your child is doing. Nobody made him do it. He is no more "overtired" than any other child. He doesn't have special needs just because he doesn't want to do his homework. The teacher isn't picking on him. His classmates not wanting to play with him is not him being bullied. He is not being deliberately excluded from birthday parties and playdates because of the parents. Your child is rude and awful to other children and other children withdrawing is the consequence of his dreadful attitude and horrible treatment of them. Wake up!"

Gettingbysomehow · 13/11/2024 12:37

RevelryMum · 13/11/2024 12:34

At least wait until they give you the hip and then trash the place 😂

😂😂😂

Rowansiskin · 13/11/2024 12:42

Your job isn’t what you say it is. You’re not in this big, important role it’s a minor version of what you pretend it is. You don’t know that I know. But that is what you both do constantly, exaggerate everything to look like you have more money. You are very insecure I suspect. I also know about you positioning yourselves favourably for the inheritance. There’s more to life than money.

BinkyBeaufort · 13/11/2024 12:43

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Daleksatemyshed · 13/11/2024 12:43

@GC5 I really wish I could but what would I say?

Unicorntearsofgin · 13/11/2024 12:47

To a former friend who it turned out was gaslighting me, making up shit about me and tried to turn everyone I knew against me.

How did that work out for you?

Oh divorced, fat, childless and alone.

Karma is a bitch.

You will die alone because you are a terrible person.

secretrugbyfan · 13/11/2024 12:48

Stop moaning to me about the idiot at work and do something about it. They are crap at their job, they never do any work and they disrupt everything. Manage them out of the role...it's easy given the opportunities you have with their constant lack of performance. I'm sick of hearing about it.

You treat your wife like she's a dishrag, she doesn't deserve it. If only she had the guts to leave you given all of your shagging around, but you control her, constantly checking up on her, ringing her making out you're 'concerned'...it's all bollocks...coercive control, that's what it is...but you won't think about that the next time your in a hotel paid for by the hour shagging the latest one....I hate this word, but you're a proper cunt.

Stop being offended because you're now known as Olivia, when you're clearly still an Oliver. A bad make up job, a dress and false tits do not disguise from the fact YOU'RE STILL A FUCKING MAN!! Stop invading spaces that are only for women. You're not a woman, and you still won't be one even if you have your cock and bollocks chopped off and hormones to make you grow tits. Stop making women suffer just because you think you're something that you're not.

Now that the Archbishop of Canterbury has fell on his sword, it's about time you looked at yourself with what you know about the abuse you've helped to cover up....for once in your life DO THE RIGHT THING! You never will....a long, slow, painful death is too good for you....you're utter scum and you know it, but you hide behind religion and the protection it so wrongly provides for you.

Purplebunnie · 13/11/2024 12:49

@cookiebee "To everyone who thinks the uk is such a shit finished country, literally every other country has the same perceived or real issues, and as far as countries go, we have won the lottery, also sod off with specifically being able to slag off the English and get away with it!"

Thank you. Can we get some megaphones and stand somewhere and shout this loud

momager1 · 13/11/2024 12:49

my not so D exh... you were an abusive asshole. I fed you and your stupid drunk friend dog food in the burgers that you woke me up at 2 am to make for you! you stupid fools did not even know , just gobbled them up. Also, the little sheltie that YOU bought and then said that you were allergic to ? Well , I used to take your pillow and rub it in his pet bed, so you would go sleep on the sofa! That dog and our daughter came with me in the middle of the night when we left you! Daughter is 36 this year and was adopted as a teenager when she had rights by her dad...my husband, who adores dogs and our lovely grandkids. Sorry (not ) to hear that you are living in a horrible little apartment and are unemployed and your family has disowned you (again, not) when you turned your abuse on them when I was no longer your punching bag. rot in hell.