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Stop fucking touching me

62 replies

BeatleBattleInABottle · 10/04/2025 08:31

Like seriously, stop it.

I am waking up with sore hips because you can't let me sleep without being all over me, I can't craft in the evening because you won't leave me along, I walk anywhere in the house and you follow me. I come out of the toilet to you standing at the door waiting. If I get a bath, you insist on coming to check that is what Im doing and then talking to me until I shout for help. I woke up last night because twice you drapped yourself over my face stopping me from breathing, I pushed you off only for you to do it again.

If I go away, you behave perfectly reasonably with other people. You don't insist on always touching them or having their attention. You don't give them "love bites" when they try to reas next to you. You don't pull their hair until they get up to make you breakfast.

Cat, I love you but please find someone else's lap.

OP posts:
TigerRag · 10/04/2025 12:09

BeatleBattleInABottle · 10/04/2025 12:03

Oh my God, the staring at you!
When she kneeds me, she states at me without blinking, like a maniac. It makes me feel really uncomfortable! 🤣
Last night, I refused to let her on my lap. She head butted, licked and pawed at me for literally 15mins while I pushed her away or blocked her. When she eventually gave up she sat upright next to me as close as she could and stared at me for over an hour.

I once woke up to find my parents dog stood on me just staring at me. My parents found it hilarious. As much as I love her, it's not what I really appreciate waking up to!

Discoprincess6 · 10/04/2025 12:16

I love mine to bits but the sqwarking is non stop from 6 am.

But I’ve babied her so it’s my fault. Little floofy menace.

Discoprincess6 · 10/04/2025 12:16

TigerRag · 10/04/2025 12:09

I once woke up to find my parents dog stood on me just staring at me. My parents found it hilarious. As much as I love her, it's not what I really appreciate waking up to!

Least it was a dog and not a ghost!

Eggsboxedandmelting · 10/04/2025 12:24

You are The Chosen One.

Accept your fate or dcat will replace you....

BellissimoGecko · 10/04/2025 12:28

Shut the cat in the kitchen overnight so it doesn’t disturb your sleep.

MinistryofThyme · 10/04/2025 12:30

JandamiHash · 10/04/2025 08:39

Ah it was edited after my comment 😂

Don’t lie and make it worse 😂

80smonster · 10/04/2025 13:01

Don’t you have a door/series of doors? I find that works very well in our house. Ground floor is where the kitchen, cat food bowls and cat flap are located. Having said that, our previous cat would howl like a banshee/new born if he was locked out our bedroom (at anytime time of day or night).

Caerulea · 10/04/2025 13:16

SpringIsSpringing25 · 10/04/2025 09:11

I'm not sure if I'm more envious of your colleagues or the fact that you were still asleep at that time??

Haha, I don't even notice now. They stealth-mode onto the bed the moment DH gets up for work. I do tend to wake when the velcro one tries to crawl underneath my face though.

Caerulea · 10/04/2025 13:19

FindingNemosBall · 10/04/2025 09:26

I feel you! Every time I use the bathroom there is a black lab, a tabby moggie and an 8 month old fighting through the door and watching me.

Oh to pee in peace, what luxury that would be.

Oh this! Though it's my son's cat who has to protect me on the toilet so I end up with two collies poking their head round the door being batted at by the cat.

Sometimes one collie is already in with me before the cat, so the cat stalks in & the dog has no clue what to do cos there's no room for him to leave.

If the cat is out, my velcro collie is already waiting by the toilet itself before I've finished the sentence 'I'm just going to the loo'

Caerulea · 10/04/2025 13:22

KatyaKabanova · 10/04/2025 09:12

Her colleagues were in there, too?!

Thankfully I work alone!!

Discombobble · 10/04/2025 14:28

buffyajp · 10/04/2025 10:45

What a charming response. Women who have been abused do not need to get a grip thanks. You don’t get to tell them they are over reacting. Hopefully your never in the position to find out.

It’s a post about a cat. If you can’t deal with it, don’t read it. Lots of people have trauma in their lives, they can’t expect the rest of the world to stop turning. It was not a personal attack on anyone

Baninarama · 10/04/2025 14:52

I feel for you, OP. It's warm here today so I just made the mistake of going on a work Teams call (I wfh) with bare feet. It's hard to concentrate on spreadsheets when a tabby menace is under the table, licking between your toes with a sandpaper tongue.

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