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Irritated by parents already😩

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Bellyblueboy · 24/12/2025 00:11

I am an awful person. My parents are staying for Christmas - only arrived today - and I am already irritated.

The constant passive aggressive questions - the long, boring stories about people I don’t know - the complete lack of interest in my life

All my Electrical appliances have been unplugged so the remote controls no longer work. I will have to crawl under the Christmas trees now to turn them back on (don’t know how my dad managed to get under there, he is 80!).

the TV is up so loud I can’t think. They brought the contents of their fridge with them - I had to put most of it in the bin!

my mum keeps asking me are we having (fill in some obscure food item she never mentioned before) then looking disappointed when I say I didn’t know she wanted it. I went to Tesco to try and find Turkish delight with no chocolate because apparently it just isn’t Christmas without it.

i am already so irritated I could scream. They are elderly. They can’t help it. But in fairness they have always been a bit annoying, they have just lost their filter.

I am trying to find it funny. But failing. Every time I move my dad asks me what I am doing. Where I am going. Aggghhhh

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CrazyGoatLady · 28/12/2025 21:31

WiddlinDiddlin · 28/12/2025 21:08

Oh yep, she died when I was 27, it was like being released from a prison I didn't know I was in really! I was still sad, for many many reasons, but the overwhelming emotion was relief!

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I'm glad you are free of being treated so horribly. Obviously it's always complicated when an abusive parent or relative dies, as there are parts of them we may have loved, but little Widdlin didn't deserve any of that. 💐

SBGM247 · 29/12/2025 10:14

Bellyblueboy · 24/12/2025 00:11

I am an awful person. My parents are staying for Christmas - only arrived today - and I am already irritated.

The constant passive aggressive questions - the long, boring stories about people I don’t know - the complete lack of interest in my life

All my Electrical appliances have been unplugged so the remote controls no longer work. I will have to crawl under the Christmas trees now to turn them back on (don’t know how my dad managed to get under there, he is 80!).

the TV is up so loud I can’t think. They brought the contents of their fridge with them - I had to put most of it in the bin!

my mum keeps asking me are we having (fill in some obscure food item she never mentioned before) then looking disappointed when I say I didn’t know she wanted it. I went to Tesco to try and find Turkish delight with no chocolate because apparently it just isn’t Christmas without it.

i am already so irritated I could scream. They are elderly. They can’t help it. But in fairness they have always been a bit annoying, they have just lost their filter.

I am trying to find it funny. But failing. Every time I move my dad asks me what I am doing. Where I am going. Aggghhhh

@Bellyblueboy sorry to find this so funny. It's written so well! 😂

TorroFerney · 01/01/2026 08:55

springtimemagic · 27/12/2025 20:41

Wonder how you’ll feel once they have died…

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Relieved.

TorroFerney · 01/01/2026 08:58

springtimemagic · 27/12/2025 21:24

I can’t believe someone would feel relieved at fhe death of the people who brought them into this world. You owe them your life.

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Can you really not believe that? Even if you think really hard. They had sex, it’s not altruistic, it’s a biological imperative.

BlueLegume · 01/01/2026 09:02

@TorroFerney ignore @springtimemagic professional thread derailer

thepariscrimefiles · 01/01/2026 09:26

springtimemagic · 28/12/2025 12:13

Ashamed of what? Filial piety?

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Ashamed of your sanctimonious fucking piety and total lack of empathy and inability to put yourself in someone else's shoes.

NavyTurtle · 06/01/2026 16:19

Bellyblueboy · 24/12/2025 00:11

I am an awful person. My parents are staying for Christmas - only arrived today - and I am already irritated.

The constant passive aggressive questions - the long, boring stories about people I don’t know - the complete lack of interest in my life

All my Electrical appliances have been unplugged so the remote controls no longer work. I will have to crawl under the Christmas trees now to turn them back on (don’t know how my dad managed to get under there, he is 80!).

the TV is up so loud I can’t think. They brought the contents of their fridge with them - I had to put most of it in the bin!

my mum keeps asking me are we having (fill in some obscure food item she never mentioned before) then looking disappointed when I say I didn’t know she wanted it. I went to Tesco to try and find Turkish delight with no chocolate because apparently it just isn’t Christmas without it.

i am already so irritated I could scream. They are elderly. They can’t help it. But in fairness they have always been a bit annoying, they have just lost their filter.

I am trying to find it funny. But failing. Every time I move my dad asks me what I am doing. Where I am going. Aggghhhh

Are you Julia from Motherland?

HideousKinky · 06/01/2026 16:45

springtimemagic you have a lot to learn about life and the huge variety of experience people have of family.

I loved my father, but he was overwhelming in many ways and by the time he died (when I was 60) I was exhausted by the whole relationship

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