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I want to leave my husband and kids 6 & 9

60 replies

WotdoIknow · 21/08/2025 16:33

Kids at school, husband’s a nice guy and has afairly good job. No mortgage (he inherited a big house in posh area) I have 2 single friends who have a great time clubbing etc. and I want that, not boring mum.

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MatildaTheCat · 21/08/2025 17:16

Remember this:

The grass is greenest where you water it.

Then decide where your priorities lie. Also have a Quick Look at what you could afford to live in and do some sums.

Netcurtainnelly · 21/08/2025 17:20

Go on then who cares, your lookout.
Nothing to do with us.

Allswellthatendswelll · 21/08/2025 17:20

This is obviously a wind up. Why can't you go clubbing with a 6 year old? It's hardly a small breastfed baby.

TigerMum8 · 21/08/2025 17:21

Surely this is just to wind people up? If not, are you that impressionable as to think that your friends are having that much of an ‘amazing time?’ I assume you can still go out clubbing from time to time, but, being married, perhaps you can’t partake in all of the delights on offer when you go out? Is that really more important than your family?

Badgerandfox227 · 21/08/2025 17:22

No one wants to leave their husband and kids so they can go clubbing, this has to be a wind up.

AgnesX · 21/08/2025 17:23

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 21/08/2025 17:07

Another bored, boring, attention seeking poster🙄

Is the poster about 12 maybe?

It's not long til the end of the school hols.

OnlyMabelInTheBuilding · 21/08/2025 17:24

2/10

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 21/08/2025 17:25

OnlyMabelInTheBuilding · 21/08/2025 17:24

2/10

Very generous of you!

Cat3059 · 21/08/2025 17:27

Oh god I went clubbing when I was 30 - I felt old enough to be everyone's flipping mother. It was grim. I bet at least one of those single friends would give her right arm for what you've got.

PInkyStarfish · 21/08/2025 17:27

Why being children into the world if you plan on abandoning them?

You should have thought about your preferring a single life with no accountability or responsibilities before having children.

AgathaCristina · 21/08/2025 17:27

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BettysRoasties · 21/08/2025 17:28

Being generous here.

You’d be far over the stupid line to give up a happy marriage mortgage free and children to go single clubbing.

Your clubbing friends go home to empty homes and empty beds or ons. They pay 100% of their bills. You’d have that plus children eow and maintenance to pay. The pool of good single men isn’t huge and then if you found the unicorn your be back to what you just left.

Anonomoso · 21/08/2025 17:29

Although do remember your DH may fight for you to have the DC at weekends..

That'll be Friday/Saturday night clubbing buggered for you.

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 21/08/2025 17:30

AgnesX · 21/08/2025 17:23

Is the poster about 12 maybe?

It's not long til the end of the school hols.

Maybe she's Scottish and bored because the kids are already back here 😂

3luckystars · 21/08/2025 17:31

Cat3059 · 21/08/2025 17:27

Oh god I went clubbing when I was 30 - I felt old enough to be everyone's flipping mother. It was grim. I bet at least one of those single friends would give her right arm for what you've got.

Yeah I would go out and have fun, then go out again next week and don’t drink and see how you get on. You are missing nothing and clubbing is a pile of shite.

cheesycheesy · 21/08/2025 17:31

Get a hobby

Rosscameasdoody · 21/08/2025 17:33

WotdoIknow · 21/08/2025 16:33

Kids at school, husband’s a nice guy and has afairly good job. No mortgage (he inherited a big house in posh area) I have 2 single friends who have a great time clubbing etc. and I want that, not boring mum.

And you think going clubbing is going to be easy as a single mum of two young children ? Or is the intention to simply leave them with your DH.

I suspect this is a wind up.

Dangermoo · 21/08/2025 17:33

Not that I'm trying to make you feel like shit but there's a sad case about a wife and mother and her two young children. She was depressed with her husband dying, she ended it for all of them. Be thankful for the priceless things in life.

SuziQuinto · 21/08/2025 17:34

Go for it. Your husband could afford to pay for a housekeeper and childcare.
Have fun 🤘

CyanDreamer · 21/08/2025 17:35

You are a mum, nothing you can do will change that. You can be a great mum or a shit mum though. It's not a child that makes you a boring mum, it's yourself.

KTSl1964 · 21/08/2025 17:36

If this is genuinec Go clubbing - but if that's more important than your children they are better off without you.
Bored are we!!!!!!!

HamSandwichKiller · 21/08/2025 17:37

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Bobbieiris · 21/08/2025 17:37

Oh god I get it today, I really do! I love being a mum and it’s the best thing thats ever happened to me, but mum life is mundane , hard and let’s face it can be boring and lonely sometimes. Sounds to me like you need to arrange a girls night asap! I’m a boring mid thirties oldie but I am dying for a night out. Just a meal and a few bars with friends. I love a night out with my partner but sometimes you just need that girl time

Enigma54 · 21/08/2025 17:38

Well aren’t you an ungrateful one! Go on then…..off you go!

PamIsAVolleyballChamp · 21/08/2025 17:38

WotdoIknow · 21/08/2025 16:33

Kids at school, husband’s a nice guy and has afairly good job. No mortgage (he inherited a big house in posh area) I have 2 single friends who have a great time clubbing etc. and I want that, not boring mum.

Off you pop then, how will you fund your amazing new life? Oh and pay CM?