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AIBU?

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To think they could have planned this better?

181 replies

bilandsildrivemecrazy · 20/04/2010 18:03

Have been stewing on this for a while and finally decided to brave AIBU with this

So, we have 2 DC and their birthdays are v close, less than 3 weeks apart.

We fell out with BIL and SIL a few years ago and none of us have any contact.

Also have a rocky relationship with PIL mainly due to their interfering behaviour but things are ok with them at the moment.

Anyway, BIL and SIL are having a 2nd child and the due date is slap bang in between my DC's birthdays, two days before my eldest birthday in fact!

I can just see years of conflict over PIL attending birthday parties etc and don't really understand why they absolutely had to plan it so they have a baby at this time, considering all the other months in the year there are!

So, AIBU?

OP posts:
mamsnet · 20/04/2010 19:53

Sorry for your loss, Siblingrivalry.

It's heartening to see somebody who is human and generous in their reactions..

Just makes the OP look so bloody selfish. Not just batty..

JaneS · 20/04/2010 19:53

So sorry for you loss, siblingrivalry.

bilandsildrivemecrazy · 20/04/2010 19:55

I'm sorry for your loss too siblingrivalry, that is truly terrible.

OP posts:
compo · 20/04/2010 19:55

siblingrivalry, don't forget to post on here , we'll be here for you xxx

compo · 20/04/2010 19:56

op - neither my parents or my inlaws have ever attended my children's birthdays

parties are for the children's friends imo

you can always get yourself over there for cake and a cuppa, they don't need to come to you

why did you fall out anyway?

nickytwotimes · 20/04/2010 19:57

sibling - sorry for your dreadful loss.

To the OP -
I had the audacity to give birth to ds the day before bil's birthday and the day after my best friend. This baby may well be born on my Dad's anniversary. Or even worse on my sil's birthday! How very dare I, eh!

AnyFucker · 20/04/2010 19:59

OP...no little twinge of conscience in you there ?

At all ?

I still think you are a regular, and, tbh, it might be best if you didn't out yourself now

DuelingFanjo · 20/04/2010 20:02

I don't remember any of my grandparents being at my birthdays.

LunaticFringe · 20/04/2010 20:05

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DorotheaPlenticlew · 20/04/2010 20:07

OP, you are certifiable.

siblingrivalryisrelative · 20/04/2010 20:08

AnyFucker I'm so glad you asked about her conscience.

BIL - unfuckingbelievable that all you can say is sorry for my loss rather than 'ok yes you're right I'm being a twat'

RecycledIcicle · 20/04/2010 20:11

My collegues actually thought I had DS the time I did to avoid the busy period at work....!

OP if you are serious, you are as mad as a bag of snakes

AnyFucker · 20/04/2010 20:19

sibling...your example of an appropriate response to your post would have been the one I expected too

LF... I think your response is highly appropriate too

perspective...fucking shocking, isn't it

bilandsildrivemecrazy · 20/04/2010 20:38

Right well, thanks all for your character assassinations thoughts.

Here endeth this thread.

OP posts:
AnyFucker · 20/04/2010 20:42

you didn't need us to assassinate your character, love

cheerio

emkana · 20/04/2010 20:42

no it doesn't

ShadeofViolet · 20/04/2010 20:48

Is it a full moon?

mamsnet · 20/04/2010 20:48

Ah, but herein lies the beauty of MN. YOu came on here and had your say. Now we will have ours.

Probably for quite a while.

zapostrophe · 20/04/2010 20:49

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runnybottom · 20/04/2010 20:52

see, world doesn't revolve around you, and neither does MN. Don't tell the rest of us to stop posting on your bonkers AIBU.

Actually I think this one might get a nomination for the Most Unreasonable AIBU of the month award.

SpringyThingy · 20/04/2010 20:54

So, I've read it all...was it really not a troll??? Cant' quite believe that, but you'd on up to trolling this wouldn't you??

SpringyThingy · 20/04/2010 20:55

own up

LunaticFringe · 20/04/2010 20:55

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StewieGriffinsMom · 20/04/2010 20:56

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FrazzleRock · 20/04/2010 20:59

Who the hell can plan when they give birth?

Do you even know how difficult it is to conceive?
Not just for me (PCOS) but for regular fertile people?

You're a fucking loonatic