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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:
Pipsquiggle · 13/11/2024 05:47

I wish I could say to a manager at work what a cunt he is, how inept he is as a leader, how everyone thinks he is appalling and how most people who work for him would like him to leave.

He just makes life miserable for people.

PumpkinsAndCoconuts · 13/11/2024 05:49

I would tell my little sister that I am sorry but that I tried. Even though it was not my responsibility to try and that I am feeling like she’s blaming me for the mistakes of our mother. I’d tell her that I wish she‘d either tell me that she wants to go NC. Or that we’d actually put in the effort and work on our relationship.

I would like to tell her that her birth meant the end of my childhood.

I occasionally would like to tell her that our mother was fun, lovely and much more stable before she had her / my little sister.

I don’t think I ever will. Especially not the last two parts (=our mother’s stability, end of my childhood).
That wouldn’t be fair. But it is the truth.

Sorethroatagain2 · 13/11/2024 05:50

I would tell my very unpleasant SIL that buggering off overseas 30 years ago and not caring one jot that we do everything for her now frail but wonderful parents was incredibly selfish. Failing to offer to help EVER and yet coming back one week a year and clicking your fingers for us to visit is NOT ON and I dislike you very much

countrygirl99 · 13/11/2024 05:53

That maybe after 3 paid for assessments you should accept that your child isn't autistic/have ADHD and accept the 3 recommendations of instilling boundaries in your parenting.

Namechanged4today · 13/11/2024 05:55

hailu · 12/11/2024 22:03

I would tell someone I am in love with them and that I know they didn't know about it and went off to another country for their work for a three year posting and came back married but FFS, they can't now show up back in this country and start telling me I'm the most wonderful woman in the world while their fucking new WIFE (who they've only known for a matter of months) is waiting for her paperwork to be sorted out so she can move here.

Fuck my life. It's always the same.

Stay away from this person for your own sanity.

countrygirl99 · 13/11/2024 05:56

I'd also tell my brother that having decided to bog off hours away knowing mum needs care and leaving it to me he doesn't get to criticise. Actually I do say that but I'd like to add in some more swear words!

ItsTheTattiesMrsCulfeathers · 13/11/2024 06:09

You are too good for him, staying with him is damaging your children and we can all see how he is crushing you. We're here for you if you want to break free.

SpaciousHodgePodge · 13/11/2024 06:13

Foostit · 12/11/2024 23:17

To my lovely husband’s bitter ex wife. You look like a bitter old bitch constantly tweeting about how awful he was years after the divorce. If he really was a drunken narcissist then I might have seen at least one sign in the 10+ years we’ve been together now. Maybe consider the fact that you are actually the problem. Funny how his friends and family think you were the problem too. Move on love, you’re an embarrassment! Oh and stop the great mother shit too, good mothers put the kids first regardless of their own feelings and encourage a relationship with their father. They don’t actively sabotage it by spouting bollocks!

The people around me will think that I’m the problem when I leave soon. I married a communal narcissist. Performative empathy. Constantly doing good deeds as long as they are witnessed or talked about. Behind closed doors…. You just don’t know.

Bearjok · 13/11/2024 06:18

LittleRedRidingHoody · 12/11/2024 21:12

I fucking hate being a parent!!

Love DS of course, and have 'won the lottery' in that we're happy, healthy, safe, and I have a good job. DS wants for nothing, I ensure he feels very secure and adored. By any measure, I think I'm 'a good parent'.

But my god, this is so much work 🫠 I'm young, and really resent all the fun I've missed out on and life I could have had if I didn't get pregnant at 21.

I got pregnant at 21 married and everything. Even with a career I am still struggling. He walked out but grateful and love my kid. Wish I never became a parent.

Sunshinedayscomeon · 13/11/2024 06:18

To my mum, you are the person who has hurt me most.

OldTinHat · 13/11/2024 06:21

I'm frustrated with an NHS service provider and a nurse who works alongside them (not the same department) visited me yesterday.

I said I just wanted to swear out loud about how useless they are. She told me to go for it, so I did! I used almost every swear word I know and, by the end of my rant, we were both laughing so hard!

It was great to say everything I was thinking but felt I couldn't express.

Persianpaws · 13/11/2024 06:22

You don’t have two daughters, you have two confused teenage sons that believe they are girls because you have pushed your own agenda on them their whole lives.

Your children didn’t want to wear nail varnish at school or make up, it was your protest against the school not theirs.
They worked out quickly as young children that they got extra praise and attention for choosing the clothes and toys from the girls section and insisted it was their choice to have long hair when you were always complimenting them and praising them for growing it.

You have gaslighted them their whole lives that they might not know what gender they are till they were older or that sex isn’t binary. Now the youngest has only decided he is a girl after seeing how happy it made you when your eldest said he was. Can you not see that all he has done has change his name and still completely presents as a boy?! He is so confused about his identity but all he focused on was how proud you were of him when he said he was a girl and after years of being told he can choose his own gender he believed he was making a choice you wanted.

I wish you would stop bragging about how proud you are of your “queer” household, there is no absolutely nothing wrong about feeling pride about your own sexuality but its a shame you think it’s the only thing that defines you and never talk about anything else. Your sons didn’t need their whole lives to be about celebrating it and they would have benefited from spending more time with kids their own age when they were young rather then being dragged on protests and rallies or festivals.

The people who have tried to tell you and who you have cut out of your lives were brave in calling you out as abusive for applauding a teenager who has worked two jobs and saved every penny for hormones and surgery, the people who have refused to donate to your crowdfunding have refused from concern not spite. Your son could have been going out with friends and treating himself with his birthday and Christmas money, not spending every spare waking moment at work or on the internet obsessing over surgery that I suspect he would never have even considered with a different mother.

Your ex husband and your sons father agrees with all of this and has tried to tell you but then had to go back on everything so he could still see his boys. He is still desperately worried but has given up trying to bring up any concerns because he just gets called a bigot or transphobe. Unfortunately you have so much support or people forced to go along with it that he was never going to be able to get through to you.

I hope your son doesn’t go through with his surgery next year, I hope something happens to get him to question this path he’s hell bent on staying on until he does irreversible damage. I really wish you could let both of your sons know you love and value them no matter what sex they are - like you should have always done. I never understood what was in it for you?

Jeneregretterien9 · 13/11/2024 06:31

I'd shout from the rooftops how false it is posting on Facebook what you did on your birthday just so you receive hundreds of gushing happy birthday messages from people you hardly know or haven't mixed with in 10,20,30 yrs & never would.

Worse still adding 'beautiful' & 'gorgeous' to photos when the person has posted a hugely unflattering photo yet the people who post genuinely beautiful photos hardly get a mention. I'm shouting louder for the people at the back.😂

the7Vabo · 13/11/2024 06:37

Ohhbaby · 13/11/2024 04:45

No Suzy you're children do not only have an hour of screen time a day. They have like 7. Stop lying to yourself. And us. And yes, yes , it is impacting their behaviour

Also ever time you're in a restaurant and a mum says 'oh they only have ipad at restaurants'. No, no they don't.

Also to the mum posting on her Whatsapp story a photo of her 3 month old in front of the TV with the caption. 'hogging the tv :)'. Thats harmful and disgusting.

Also to half of all the women choosing to get a C-section 'just because' or 'because they don't think they'll cope with natural labour" or whatever else shitty excuse, stop it. Just woman up and birth your baby!!!

To the last point, I had a c section for medical reasons and was sick of people like you being judgmental or feeling they had a right to ask why. My body, my baby, my life. Nothing to do with you at all.

stuckinthemiddlewithyou1 · 13/11/2024 06:43

To my BIL who has bullied my husband into caring for him and providing for him financially most of his adult life… your cancer seems like a good time to look in the mirror and realise who is responsible for the way your life has turned out. But since we know you relish in your victim mentality you will probably die thinking that you’ve been hard done by by us and that’s ok because we know the truth even if everyone else doesn’t.

Jeneregretterien9 · 13/11/2024 06:51

UmbrellaEllaEllaElla · 12/11/2024 22:34

I think people who commit suicide are brave.

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.

Thebellofstclements · 13/11/2024 06:53

tulippa · 12/11/2024 21:08

That the world would benefit so much if the human race died out and we should all stop having children. I came to this way of thinking about 10 years after my own DCs were born so everyone would think I was an insane hypocrite (maybe I am) if I voiced this out loud. I really worry about the world and the society I've condemned my DCs to live in.

This is so true, yet few of us are willing to start the ball rolling by not protecting or ending our own lives. Instead we stand against observing the situation while continuing to live with cars, flights, etc. In hospital I was shocked at the sheer amount of single use plastic hypodermics, canulas etc, but I didn't stop the treatment.
My father said how overpopulated the planet was and that reducing death in childbirth wasn't helping. I pointed out that I was grateful to have been saved in childbirth as we're a couple of my friends. He was flummoxed, he didn't mean Europeans. But westerners are the ones causing the majority of the problems.

Twiglets1 · 13/11/2024 06:55

To my MIL you are a horrible person and I dislike you intensely. I hope you die soon because you are a dark cloud that is making everyone around you miserable especially your husband.

You have caused forever damage to your children with your narcissistic personality, particularly your daughter. Your 3 children all pretend to love you but none of them do. I can't believe you claim to be a Christian when you are most selfish person I know.

CountFucula · 13/11/2024 06:56
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I think your inflated lips look ridiculous. It marks you out as a moron and a fool who has mutilated their face.

Mrsredlipstick · 13/11/2024 07:03

I'd love to tell the headhunters I can't do five twelve hour days in London because I'm disabled. I hide it under the hybrid banner so I don't have to explain I walk on a stick. I'd also like like to say I left my last job as my ex army boss threatened to kill me.

I have already told my violent sister to fuck off. She beat me as a child and broke my arm, nose and finger.

Squirrelsnut · 13/11/2024 07:07

bathofbeans · 12/11/2024 22:59

Stop asking everyone in the room to state their pronouns while you tell us all you are he/him. We can see that you big, hairy arsed, stubble covered twat!!!

😂

ConkerGame · 13/11/2024 07:08

OP are you me?! I would say exactly the same! 😂Or maybe you are my SIL wanting to say the same things to me! 🤣

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 13/11/2024 07:09

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.

Do we have the same SIL?

2021x · 13/11/2024 07:12

Being an introvert/scatty/tired at the end of a 40 work week/ stressed at life does not mean you have ADD or ASD. This conditions are incredibly disabling, and are very easy to diagnose. Stop utilising them as an excuse as to why you can’t sort out your life. Cut out the large cups of coffee a day, get some exercise and get some decent sleep…. then decide if you have a neurological disorder.

adorablecat · 13/11/2024 07:19

collation · 13/11/2024 00:28

I don't like cats!

It's ok to not like cats. I like cats, but cat people are not evangelists like those weird dog people.

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