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AIBU to worry about husband using a digger near young children?

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Internationalwomendayheadquarters · 05/05/2026 21:42

We are doing work in the garden. I come home from work at around 6pm. DH says that he wants to do work in the garden and has hired a digger for Thursday. He collects our 3 children at 3:05 and has said he’ll be then working in the garden. Kids are 5, 7 and 10. I’m fuming but he has said he won’t budge and that ‘the job needs to be done’. As I’m not home until 6, that’s nearly three hours of the children playing in the garden while he’s on the machine. He could also do it while they are at school, as he’s not working at the moment. Am I being neurotic?

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Overbooked · 05/05/2026 23:17

It only takes the 5YO popping outside to ask your DH something when he is distracted for them to be run over.

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