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Petty/Savage revenge tricks?

16 replies

PettyBetty55 · 06/06/2025 19:26

I’m in the process of splitting up with husband who in all honesty is an absolute c*unt.
I cant leave right now due to house needing to be sold and neither can he. We’re financially stuck for the present.
But I just cannot stand how he behaves and have started to silently get my own back.
For instance….He vapes 🤮 and his vape had fallen onto the floor (an expensive all singing & dancing thing).
When he left the room I kicked it under the sofa. Now he can’t find it, oh dear. He’s asked me if it’s in my car, have I got it etc. and it’s driving him mad. I know it’s incredibly petty but it’s giving me such an internal giggle in the midst of what is an awful situation.
Am I just too petty or have you done similar or even more savage?
Please be kind, and don’t lecture me about leaving - I wish I could but not doable until the house is sold and the situation is very difficult.

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Fingerpie · 06/06/2025 19:32

Any children?

I’d save my energy for my new life with out him

Fingerpie · 06/06/2025 19:32

Have you actually split from him yet?

MsPug · 06/06/2025 19:34

The best one I heard was sewing prawns in curtain lining 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Funkytuna · 06/06/2025 19:35

I’m not usually the sensible one but trying to instigate arguments in the middle of a split could end badly for you.

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 06/06/2025 19:39

Yanbu 🤭

PettyBetty55 · 06/06/2025 19:39

I’m looking at houses to buy for myself and he wants a divorce so yeah, splitting!
No kids at home.

We barely speak so definitely not arguing 🙂

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Fingerpie · 06/06/2025 19:41

House on the market?

NeymeChenge · 06/06/2025 19:47

I had a terrible relationship with my step dad, so I used to put chewed gum or dog poo right outside his car door for him to step in, and leave his cereal boxes open so it would get stale.

I tried moving his things around (for instance, if he normally put his watch down on his nightstand, I’d go and put it on the bathroom counter so it looked like he just left it there) so that he had to look for them, but he ended up just asking my mum and she would sigh and go and find it for him. So I stopped

frontwoman001 · 06/06/2025 19:53

Ran up a huge electricity bill then fucked off and left my ex to pay it. 🤭 Left allll my rubbish there, including months of 'doomsday prep' food, some of which had expired and was attracting mice. 😆

(Actually, that's what he did to me.)

DinoLil · 06/06/2025 20:17

Cleaned the toilet with his toothbrush, put itching powder in all of his underwear, added a little weedkiller in his expensive aftershave.

Got a removal company in to take out every bit of furniture apart from a single bed. I had paid for everything tbh.

He was XH1. I was 24, we were married 3yrs. I had a miscarriage whilst he was shagging someone who worked in a hotel he stayed in for work. He said 'you've not lost a baby, it was just a bunch of nothing'. I was 13 weeks.

Karma waved her magic wand in the end. I heard from a third party (his uncle, actually, who couldn't stand XH1 and used to send me info via a shared accountant) that he was all set to marry again. The day before, he decided to ditch the wedding and go to to US to marry a woman he'd been dating there during work trips. Guess what? Both women found out about each other, UK wedding was off and the US woman cut him off too!

DelboytrottersDnecklace · 06/06/2025 20:33

I'm going back 17/18 years when my ex ran off with my best mate

I honestly thought if be with him forever and she was like my sister (looking back he was a cocklodger who did fuck all all day apart from watch porn and play on his xbox all day and she had 'issues' she would go after your fella just to prove she could)

Anyway,I'd just had his baby and wasn't up for being a porn star in the evenings,so he fucked off with her,(after beating the hell out of me) while rewriting history as they left

He had the nerve to tell me he wanted his stuff back and I had to pay to get it to him

So I sweetly bagged it all up,asked my brother to run it to him like he'd demanded and to put the brand new,latest release xbox and games on the front seat (wrapped up and put in the footwell) and said to sell it

I said that whatever he got for it would cover the cost of his petrol and time

He flogged it to his mate for a few quid,he made a profit on what he'd spent on petrol,his mate was delighted to get a brand new xbox and games for pennies and ex blew up that I hadn't sent it along

Fuck all he could do (and he tried-he even tried to have me arrested for theft) as I had the bank statements to prove I'd bought the lot

He's never forgiven me (I don't care!)

And they only lasted about 6 weeks after running off together-her mother knew a cocklodger when she saw one and talked her dd out of the relationship (after burning their house down-long story)

BerfyTigot · 06/06/2025 21:41

Fell out with an aunt when my mum died.

Absolutely not my fault.

Aunt needs to stay with my family for a few days soon, and I'm planning to not bother changing guest room bedding but just giving it a quick squirt with ironing spray

Nerdynerdynerd · 06/06/2025 23:33

Work on yourself, be happy, move on.

Fingerpie · 07/06/2025 06:17

I’d be spending that energy in to making the house as perfect as possible - sorting, tidying, fixing anything…. so will sell as quickly as possible. I’d be ebaying or sorting for charity all the crap that has accumulated that I know neither of us will want when we move, and basically day dreaming about my new abode.

DontTouchRoach · 09/06/2025 10:21

Not revenge on an ex, but when I was at school I had an absolutely vile headmistress who also taught me for one of my A-level subjects. She was such an awful woman and I loathed her so much that I signed her up, using her work address, to every embarrassing mailing list I could find. This was pre-Internet so it was all things like catalogues, newsletters, free gifts etc. I signed her up for mail on sex toys, incontinence products, Scientology, swingers’ meet-ups, embarrassing health conditions, the lot.

Bdavas · 09/06/2025 10:31

DontTouchRoach · 09/06/2025 10:21

Not revenge on an ex, but when I was at school I had an absolutely vile headmistress who also taught me for one of my A-level subjects. She was such an awful woman and I loathed her so much that I signed her up, using her work address, to every embarrassing mailing list I could find. This was pre-Internet so it was all things like catalogues, newsletters, free gifts etc. I signed her up for mail on sex toys, incontinence products, Scientology, swingers’ meet-ups, embarrassing health conditions, the lot.

Dammmmmmm. What did she do to you that was so bad?

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