Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

DP 'told' me and DCs to leave the house for the weekend

269 replies

iwouldgoouttonight · 09/11/2009 09:54

I genuinely can't work out whether I'm being unreasonable and uptight or whether DP is being unreasonable. A couple of months ago he got chatting to three of his friends who live all over the country to arrange to meet up for a 'lads weekend'. Which is fine because with one thing and another they don't get to see each other very often. But then a few weeks ago DP said he'd asked his friends to come to our house for the weekend. I asked where they were all going to sleep and he said in the DCs rooms. So I asked where the DCs were going to sleep and he said, oh yes, I was hoping you could go away for the weekend and take the kids.

I thought this was a bit cheeky and at first thought he was joking, especially as DD is only 9 months and he knows I'm knackered from getting up in the night, etc. So he started to sulk and said he'll tell them not to come then. So I then obviously felt bad and so I found a friend who had enough room to put me and the DCs up for two nights but it does mean driving a long way on my own with them.

Anyway, I'd forgotten about it for a while but its happening this coming weekend and now I keep getting really annoyed when I think about it. The last time he met up with these friends they all went to a strip club and had a private dance. I've asked him if they're planning on doing this again and he's said no, but he's unlikely to say yes as he knows I was upset about it last time.

Also I know when I get back after the weekend I'm going to have loads of sheets to change and washing to do. He said he'll clean up after them, but I know his standards are slightly different to mine!

I've been feeling really run down and a bit down recently so I can't work out whether I'm getting worked up about it unreasonably just because I'm tired, or whether DP is taking the p*ss a bit. What do you think?

OP posts:
pigletmania · 12/11/2009 15:26
Biscuit
BlingLoving · 12/11/2009 15:35

thesecondcoming, I agree with your statements but you've got Marantha's views wrong - it's not that she thinks the little woman should be dutiful and not challenge the husband, it's that she thinks men are weak and spineless and that they should not be allowed out on weekends alone because they're inherently unfaithful, can only think with their dicks and are therefore likely to get drunk, use drugs, and shag anything that moves given half the chance.

You, therefore, are of course in a situation where you don't have a true relationship because a) you're in denial about what your DH may be doing when he's not with you and b) obviously, you're so independent that you've kept him at arm's length and he will never truly be your soul mate.

I hope I've cleared that up for you? Ready to go and assess your relationship now? Perhaps consider counselling? or moving on? Perhaps I should join you because DH is clearly also spineless and I was wrong to have no issues with him heading out to stay at a friends on a Saturday two weeks ago - they probably whored their way around London while I was at home giving myself a manicure....

marantha · 12/11/2009 15:44

BlingLoving, Well, yeah. You've just about summed my feelings up for me.
Thank you for sorting out the dutiful, challenging bit and making it clear that I certainly do NOT think women should acquiesce to men because I most certainly do not.
We ARE genetically the stronger sex emotionally and it is up to us to control their behaviour and not let them push us and our children out of our homes because they want to bring their friends around!

Malificence · 12/11/2009 15:51

Marantha , are you married?

You sound like a man hating fruitloop now.

Most men are grown ups , yes, the OP's bloke sounds like a twat but the majority of men are decent and loving and secure, with self respect and a sense of morality, just like most women.

BlingLoving · 12/11/2009 15:52

that's frightening Marantha. And frankly, a little sad. I like that I live with a partner, not a child.

MmeLindt · 12/11/2009 15:56

We ARE genetically the stronger sex emotionally and it is up to us to control their behaviour

Ok, you are scaring me now, Marantha. Are you taking the mickey or is that your true opinion?

pigletmania · 12/11/2009 15:57

My dh is not like that at all! They went on a stag do to a strip joint whereby dh was offered a private dance, he refused . I just think that he did not want to part with his cash lol. I had to practically drag him to go on his friends stag do this month kicking and screaming, just want him out of the house for a few hours lol

thesecondcoming · 12/11/2009 16:03

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

BlingLoving · 12/11/2009 16:07

I think you were just overwhelmed by some of the other comments - you missed all the ones on the same page as you. I was the first woman to admit to kicking DH out for a girls night but it took about five more pages before anyone else picked up on my comment or any others.n

These kinds of oldfashioned/completely bonkers/contradictory ideas are so shocking it's easy to miss what everyone else has said. [frankly, I was starting to worry people wouldn't catch my sarcasm]

claw3 · 12/11/2009 16:07

Pegletmania - Your ds must be gay

claw3 · 12/11/2009 16:08

sorry meant dh, not ds!

pigletmania · 12/11/2009 16:09

oh dear lol TSC, they need their willies tying up, oh dear that actually sounds a bit ooh. TSC dh actually demonstrated what he did when the lapdancer came near him, he shooed her away and showed her his wedding ring as if to say im married I would not minded if he had its a bit of fun after all and this was before our dd came along.

pigletmania · 12/11/2009 16:10

No hes not gay, just a bit of a geek, a computer one at that.

marantha · 12/11/2009 16:11

MmeLindt, Yes, OK I am joking just a little but, you know what, the opinion here that it is OK for a woman and baby for an entire weekend so her partner/husband can have a few friends around is so ridiculous to my sense of how things should be that it sends me a little loopy.
Yet the bizarre thing is this: I am the one who gets accused of acquiescing to men and their needs!
I express an opinion that it is probably not a good idea for men to visit strip clubs, get drunk and be around flirtatious women ('cause at the end of the day men AND women- can succumb to moments of sexual weakness) with the opposite sex and all I get is smug replies along the lines of "My partner would never do that". Yet brothels are full of men whose wives/partners say EXACTLY that.
How can anyone be 100% sure that their partner would never succumb to a moment of sexual weakness? None of us are perfect.
Crikey, does no-one else here get that asking a woman and her small child to leave their home is far, far worse than mere sex?

pigletmania · 12/11/2009 16:12

No he is very much ladies man, just loves MY tits and bum at the end of the day not some plastic rakes. Well he is forever groping them at most opportune moments.

claw3 · 12/11/2009 16:12

Clearly a man who can resist the urge to pork every women in sight, after a few beers is gay!

pigletmania · 12/11/2009 16:13

Claw not every man is like that, there are some decent and respectable men about who think with their brains and not their willies

BlingLoving · 12/11/2009 16:17

Marantha - you said that men shouldn't go away for weekends or spend time with their friends for longer than a pint at the pub because the temptation to cheat etc would be too great. So yes, at that point, a whole lot of us told you that you were being ridiculous. A man who is going to cheat, will cheat. Doesn't matter whether he goes away with friends or not. If he doesn't, he'll cheat at work. Or he'll say he's at the pub when he's not. Simplu going out with a group of men, for longer than a few hours, does not mean that a perfectly normaly and normally monogomous man is going to suddenly become a cheater and start pulling women left right and centre.

As for going back to the OP - I intriniscally disagree that it's a problem, but each to his own. DH and I find it astonishing that so many men won't organise so much as a pint without checking in with the wife first. Whatever. Each to their own.

claw3 · 12/11/2009 16:17

I know, i was pulling your leg Piglet, i have my own gay dp, who i trust with my life and in a strip club too

MmeLindt · 12/11/2009 16:20

Marantha
Ok, the strip club I would not be happy with but going out and getting drunk, even being around flirtatious women - I do not mind that.

I go out with friends, we have a drink, I might even flirt with a guy. I would no more shag him in an alley than sprout wings to fly home.

I also do not think that all men would love to go to strip clubs. DH was disgusted with one of his business acquaintances as he wanted to go to one when they were on a business trip and he expressed interest in visiting a brothel. He was upset by this as he knew this man's family, his children and he found it all so seedy.

Malificence · 12/11/2009 16:22

I think that marantha (manhatar?) would make a great living as a dominatrix. That's some real contempt she has for men going there.

One can only assume that she's been badly let down by men in the past because she keeps picking wrong uns?

pigletmania · 12/11/2009 16:24

oh claw lol thats good i was taking you quite literally

marantha · 12/11/2009 16:27

I have no contempt for men at all, actually. I prefer them to women, everytime. As a rule,
hey're more honest and less smug- a bloke does not think he is so great that his wife would NEVER cheat on him. He is at least aware that, in the right circumstances, it could happen.

thesecondcoming · 12/11/2009 16:28

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

claw3 · 12/11/2009 16:31

Marantha - 'in the right circumstances, anything could happen' are you suggesting we keep our men folk on a very tight leash, just in case?

What about trust?