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Dh has walked off and left me alone at 1am in the street. 2 miles from home

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Boopadoop90 · 16/11/2024 00:59

Just that really. We were out with friends, going back to theirs. Dh refused to back to theirs but I don't know why. The others left in a cab. I couldn't leave dh alone in the pub. I I said I'm going home. He said OK. Followed me out in a fit and angry, cos he felt obliged to follow me. He's walked home. I'm 2 miles away from homre and sitting in the cold shivering
He messaged me to ask if I got an uber home. I said no, he said good we've spent £x on uber tonight.

He's walked home and I'm sitting on the kerb, 2 miles away in the dark, cold.

OP posts:
Silvers11 · 16/11/2024 09:54

CalicoPusscat · 16/11/2024 09:38

I've nearly forgotten how to spell kerb by the end of this

🤣😂🤣 Me too!!

Fupoffyagrasshole · 16/11/2024 09:57

Bat shit you should have took an Uber to your friends

Butchyrestingface · 16/11/2024 09:57

Some posters clearly haven’t read OP’s 03;00 update. She had walked home by then. So she’ll have been comatose for a good 6 hours at least.

And she 51, not 5, 12, 14 or any of the other suggestions on this thread. So hopefully her nearly grown offspring can bring her a nice sugary cup of tea in bed this morning she’ll need it. 😀

Fluffington9 · 16/11/2024 09:58

Sounds pretty standard after having an argument to me.

In regards to the taxi fare that’s ridiculous. This is why I don’t like the 100% shared money thing cos people get pissy about how’s it’s spent. Not sure if this is the case or not. If so, both of you have some of your own money!

Telling you not to spend £ on taxi fare - your husband is not your Dad so pull yourself out of the ‘little girl’ dynamic where you are ‘unable’ to get home without his ‘permission’!

TrumpsTan · 16/11/2024 09:58

I had a boyfriend who did this to me in Brighton when we were on a short holiday…

Its one of 5he reasons I dumped him when I got home.

Applesonthelawn · 16/11/2024 09:59

You don't communicate properly with your dh. You need to work on that or your relationship will always be drama.

Oblomov24 · 16/11/2024 10:00

Yes, @Butchyrestingface, Many of did read the later post that she eventually walked home. How did that later part change the fact that the earlier part was incredibly silly?

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 16/11/2024 10:00

Boopadoop90 · 16/11/2024 01:17

He left me in the street. He didn't want to walk after me when I said was going home. He felt like he HAD to. Stuff that

This makes you sounds like incredibly hard work. If he wasn’t ready to leave then why would he have wanted to walk after you. He still did you. Your expectations of him are unrealistic/ unreasonable

FlibbertyGibbitt · 16/11/2024 10:00

Kerbzilla 🤣

Completelyjo · 16/11/2024 10:02

Boopadoop90 · 16/11/2024 01:10

I'm now sleeping the night on the kurb
He can see my location my clearly doesn't care

What a drama queen. Maybe he’s over all the theatrics.
You told him not to bother following you, you didnt think it was good enough that he went with you because he felt like he had to even though you feel like he did have to.
Stop with the teenage mixed messages and tests and grow up.

Butchyrestingface · 16/11/2024 10:03

Oblomov24 · 16/11/2024 10:00

Yes, @Butchyrestingface, Many of did read the later post that she eventually walked home. How did that later part change the fact that the earlier part was incredibly silly?

Then I’m obviously not talking to those who read the thread, am I? I’m talking to the ones who were asking why she’s still there.

And who said anything about her being home now changing the fact that what she did earlier was nuts (not “silly”, btw, plain nuts)?

Meepspeeps · 16/11/2024 10:04

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HappyToSmile · 16/11/2024 10:05

I'm so confused.
I'm glad you're home.
But why didn't you just walk home like you were doing originally? Even if he walked a few paces ahead, you were walking home anyway?
I'm going to guess you have other issues going on in your marriage that need discussing when you're both sober and not cold

Blondeshavemorefun · 16/11/2024 10:06

Wow. Drama larma

And I never say things like that !!

You could have

gone with friends

left dh alone in pub

Walked home with dh

Got an Uber

Instead uou tried to play mind games with him - if he checked your location. He prob went to bed

Why on Earth would you say going to sleep on the kerb rather then go home

Obv you did go home

Butchyrestingface · 16/11/2024 10:07

@Meepspeeps You need to start your own thread. This OP will be in no position to advise when she wakes up like a bear with a sore head later. 🙂

Meepspeeps · 16/11/2024 10:09

So sorry, I meant to start my own thread!

SnoopysHoose · 16/11/2024 10:09

This is controlling behaviour, lying on a pavement at 3am to somehow force your DP to retrieve you and if he doesn't he will be harangued for not caring.
Very very manipulative, this is a horrible way to behave.

Butchyrestingface · 16/11/2024 10:10

Meepspeeps · 16/11/2024 10:09

So sorry, I meant to start my own thread!

Just ask MN to remove it and start a new one. 🙂. Use the report function.

Starlight7080 · 16/11/2024 10:10

This makes no sense. I take it you had drank too?
Why didn't you call a taxi or just walk.
Yes walking is scary and not fun. But sitting on a kerb for over a hour is just as bad .
You are responsible for yourself at the end of the day .
And expecting a drunk man to bail you out is foolish .
Whatever test it was was pointless. He was obviously going to fail

runningonberocca · 16/11/2024 10:11

I really don’t understand your actions. Why couldn’t your husband stay in the pub on his own and you go back to your friends? Why when he did leave with you did you just sit on the bloody kerb for ages instead of a) going to your friends b) going home in an Uber, c) walking home
2 miles isn’t particularly far. And if you felt you would be vulnerable walking you are a lot more vulnerable sitting alone on a pavement in the middle of the night.
This is the sort of behaviour I’d expect from an immature teen. I’m assuming you were very drunk and that where the irrational behaviour came from. I wouldn’t have been impressed if my DP took off without me in a huff late at night so I do understand why you were upset but there were more adult ways of managing that situation

downwindofyou · 16/11/2024 10:13

Is this some sort of weird creative writing exercise. It's not good. Makes no sense.

At best I think it means he followed you reluctantly so you got in a strop and sat down refusing to walk. So he walked home. And you continued to sit there petulantly hoping he'd come back but he didn't.

Ok

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BlueMum16 · 16/11/2024 10:18

Boopadoop90 · 16/11/2024 03:00

I walked home. V cold ! And dark

You left the pub at 11.45 saying you were going home. You told DP he didn't need to come with you.

Why did you not go straight home?

Why not call and Uber and get home safely?

Why sit on the kerb for over an hour before deciding to walk home?

This appears to be about wanting attention from DP and not getting it.

There must be more background to this.

Glad you finally walked home and safe and warm now.

jannier · 16/11/2024 10:19

Boopadoop90 · 16/11/2024 01:04

He was in a huff but don't know why. I said I'm going home, he v reluctantly followed me I said don't bother. He said he wanted to walk home alone. So I let him. I'm in the cold, shivering, a good 2 miles away

So you didn't want to leave him alone in a pub then did, he was following you but you said don't bother so he did what you said then you sat down waiting for what?

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