if I leave DH and encourage my mother to throw my father out

[IHeartKittensAndWine]

...for the duration of the World Cup ?

Background: my football mad father decided he needed an ally in a family full of women and has converted my lovely metrosexual husband into a sports maniac, lager loving, fart boasting lout. They've been texting each other about football about five times a day. My mother has joked that they are having an emotional affair and this is their "glue". If this continues or escalates I'll be a divorcee and mum'll be a widow.

So are we being unreasonable if I move back in with my mother and she sends my father to DH for the duration? Obviously, there are problems with this - DH may fail to go to work, they might die of malnutrition. But those are small prices to pay for sanity!

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable plan to me

A memorable holiday all round.

yanbu

might it be better to get DH to move into your parent's house though?

I'm just thinking of 4 weeks of dirty dishes and the state of the bathroom when you move back in....

good point bumpy - another effect of father's influence is that DH has become progressively less domestic - a bit like housetraining a puppy but in reverse.

Perhaps we should divert my parents cleaner to the flat once a week (with an increase for "danger money)

Has anyone else found the relationship between their dad and DH similarly disturbing? It's like he tried to "groom" his SILs - but mainly worked with DH. My other sister's girlfriend is a massive disappointment to him for being v girly, and still he keeps trying!

we don't live near my parents, Dad hasn't had much chance to groom DH

FIL on the other hand regularly turns up with a tupperware box for me to fill with cake. I think he's groomed me

sounds like an excellent plan to me! Can I send my DH over to join them?

Genius.

send all your DH's over - maybe if enough of us club together we can afford a nanny to take care of them !

dear lord, why didn't we think of this before?

set up some kind of hostel, for the men to move into. (empty boarding schools if their term has finished). big screen TVs, a matron to send them off to work & make them clean behind their ears.

when there isn't a game on, they could be evicted, with strict instructions to take their wife/dp some flowers & play with the kids.

then allowed back in, if their wife/dp gives them a satisfactory report.

cleaning done at the end of the world cup.

they could pay per game that they stay there for.

does 200 quid a game sound reasonable?

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could be worse, my dad converted dp into a techie. They talk processing chips and DDR RAM constantly. It hurts my head and it has no season... therefore no off season.