Curtains open or closed in the dark

[ZaphodandMimi]

Changed my mind, sorry.

Stop staring into your neighbours homes

Open

You know we can see the edit history?

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I wouldn't like doing that myself, but I feel creeped out at the idea of someone watching me if I were only sitting and reading. If it doesn't bother her, there is not much you can do about it.

I didn’t know that, but I’ve never worked out how to get to the edit function.

After you post your comment there’s three buttons on the top right (across from where your username is). Edit is there, but I think there’s only a short window where you can make changes. You can’t come back in an hour and change your whole post for example.

Stop watching your neighbour breastfeed if it bothers you that much. And no, it’s not remotely ‘like flashing”. What’s wrong with you?

If your curtains are closed, you won’t be able to see her.

So a woman is feeding her baby in the comfort of her own home . I litterally don’t see the issue .

my kitchen is on the front with no curtains I close them at the back for heat purposes

If I was sitting in my own home breastfeeding my baby, no, I wouldn't be closing my curtains, breastfeeding in the 'dark' I'm not a fucking mole!

id wish my nosey neighbour wouldn't keep staring in though.

as an adult I can deal with weirdos myself, I don't need nosey neighbour (NN) sticking her nose into imaginary weirdos. Just stop, mind her own business & shut her own curtains.

It's almost flashing??? Don't be so ridiculous. She's in her own house breastfeeding her child.

You're the problem - not her

Closed because it helps with insulation.

I suspect she’s knackered and hasn’t even thought about it

She breastfeeding, in her own home, and provides not thinking about nosy neighbours staring in. She's really not the problem.

I always have curtains open, never closed, even in the bedroom. But then I'm not overlooked in any way, and it's countryside out there anyway. I don't like the feeling of being shut in.

People are allowed to go about their normal business in their own homes, including breastfeeding, getting showered or dressed etc. If you happen to look in and don't like it, then stop looking!

Oh bloody hell, close your fucking curtains and stop being such a prude!

I love to see a woman breastfeeding - I loved it when I did it myself.

I was dead impressed when I was in Rome last week to see a young woman breastfeeding on an escalator!! I thought, wow, that takes some talent! I was never brave enough or skilled enough (when the boobs came out I could never manage discreet!!) to feed in public but I managed to feed my first two for a year each and my 3rd for 22 months!

I actually despair of people - sometimes posts in this forum thoroughly depress me and I wonder what kind of world my kids have grown up in! Fortunately I don't believe this microcosm of human life here is representative of the population generally - I have to believe that!!

As for curtains, I like mine closed when it's getting dark. I don't want to watch the boring neighbours watch TV every evening from the same positions on the sofa and I daresay they don't want to see us boring neighbours do the same. I don't want the selfish parking wars neighbours to see anything because I am still too cross with them, even though after a couple of years the situation may be resolved!!

Gotta love some fake concern. 'it's more for her sake'. So it's for your sake too then.

As a previous poster said, if you prefer your curtains/blinds closed when it's dark, then there's nothing for you to see.

I'd say closed if they were like my ex neighbour who used to sit in his front window naked and wanking. A woman feeding her baby wouldn't be in that category though.

If you are offended at a woman breastfeeding in her own home then you would have hated me "flashing" at the cafe, pub, supermarket, on the train, a park bench etc etc when I was breastfeeding.

If you don't want to see it then don't look .

I thought I had deleted this. Obviously not. The replies are what i expected, and why I deleted it.
On this entire road of about 100 houses, very very few have curtains/blind open after dark. So that in itself is unusual. My blinds at the front are always closed (I have secondary curtains, which are only decorative). I am not staring out of the window -- but things catch your eye sometimes - don't they? Maybe I am especially odd.
The road is as I said, quite narrow. The front "gardens" are about 8 feet from the pavement. My house is not quite opposite - due to how it is built, it is slightly elevated. As I turn to go down the path and to my car (on the road), the brightly lit large window is impossible to miss, however fleetingly.
I just cannot imagine it being a comfortable or relaxing experience to sit on a sofa facing a window into which people OTHER than me, can see. There are people far weirder than me around here.
I certainly do not care about the BF aspect - blinds open, bright lights, and everyone/anyone being able to see as they WALK PAST would give me the creeps.

Thanks though for predictable replies. I shan't be coming back to the thread.

I wouldn't have shut my curtains breastfeeding twins. Want to know what you see when you look in a room with a woman breastfeeding twins? EVERYTHING! Shut your own curtains, love.

I wish you would have read the comment properly.
My blinds in that direction are always closed ---- mainly because of proximity to the passers-by. My blinds are cream, so don't make it dark - and is open plan/not overlooked to the rear, so plenty of light from patio doors and through the kitchen.
I am - to repeat - not offended by the sight - just puzzled why someone would do it in this neighbourhood.
It is all visible from the road/pavement (regardless of breastfeeding), stands out more because it's after dark and one of very few houses who don't close the blinds that they obviously have..
I am not suggesting and have not suggested that anyone sits in the dark to feed their baby; anyone taking that from what I have said is being deliberately obtuse.