To want to just be left the fuck alone??

[ButteredRadishes]

I'm ill, hot, ratty, all touched and needed out!

I'm trying to lie down for a bit in the cool bedroom, with instructions to "LEAVE ME ALONE, Mum is ill"

It's been 20 minutes, the child had been in twice, DH has been in asking where some random items are. Then DD wants a cuddle. I suggest he takes her swimming and it's ..." oh aren't you coming?/mummy I want you to come".

Just all fuck offffffff.

I'm going to have to go out in my own in a bit, just to stop them harassing meeeeee.

Lock yourself in the bathroom with a good book.

I’ve been a ratbag for the past few days, must be the moon, I blame that.

I often identified, and still often do, with The Large Family story Five Minutes Peace.

My mum loved that when I was little!

Never turn a child away.

Appalling take. Mums aren’t robots. We’re women, we’re people and deserve to be treated as such.

Ask DH to put up a Do Not Disturb notice on your door, to bring you a glass of ice, some earplugs and a glass of Paracetamol and to not only leave you alone for the rest of the day but to ward off any noisy intruder child.

If he fails give him another chance to practise the same tomorrow, and the next day, until you are well.

I used to have a long bath. There is a lock on the door and if anyone asked me for help I could say yes but Im naked at the moment and I have to wash and dry and get dressed before I can get started on the help. They mostly buggered off and found a sibling or DH to help or worked it out themselves rather than wait for me.

You know there's no character limit on here don't you?

Get yourself out for a couple of hours OP, we can't be on duty all of the time.

Have you tried typing actual words like a grown up?

She signed up to be a parent and a partner. Not a 24 hour a day nursemaid who has no entitlement to 20 minutes peace when she’s feeling ill.

Choosing not to use half the alphabet is one thing. Choosing not to read it is something else.

I cant even poo in peace!

Great strategies 🤣

You will have done. But you don't see it as harassment, because she's your mum, and all kids think their mum should be available to them at all times (because, let's face it, you usually are!)

But that is exactly why dad needs to step the fuck up and entertain them, take them out, do whatever is needed to give mum a rest. A phrase I hate on this site is "you have a DH problem not a DC problem" but my word is it true here.

My adult daughter has this with her cat !

This is me today and DH who has been at work all week, in a lovely adult environment doing what he loves and trained his whole life to do…is of course fully of the mindset that I am the problem!

It's chapter 2 of my FAFO book. Chapter 1 was You Interfere, You Volunteer.

I will buy this!!!

Yeah, fuck that. Being a 24/7 mummy martyr helps nobody.

It's ok to want a bit of time to yourself in your bedroom from time to time.

My sons are grown men now and for any new mummies looking at their gorgeous baby and thinking nothing in the world will ever make me take my eyes off you you are my sun my moon my everything you are all that matters from this day forth my life belongs to you anything less than everything being about you is child abuse...

Yeah. When they grow up I guarantee they're not sobbing into their hanky as they tell the therapist about that time you were lying down one Sunday because it was hot and they were left in the care of their... insert sinister music here... father.

This thread reminded me of OP on holidays trying to read a book and unable to do so because of constant interruptions,Finally she snapped and chased them out to sea. When she lifted her head the whole family was “bobbing on the sea like shitty mermaids”looking at her with longing.
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She's bloody ILL you tiresome Gobshite

Your DH is the problem here.

Sounds like your child is very young. He needs to be putting effort into keeping her away from you and entertaining her with a tiring but hear appropriate activity like the swimming you suggested. No excuse to just laze about hoping your DC will disturb you instead of him!

Brilliant strategy!

Howling with laughter now!

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