How did you stop swearing?

[Bawoon]

It's crept into almost every sentence when I'm stressed 😔😔😔

So what?

Anyone?

I think it depends why you want to do swearing. Do you believe it's inherently wrong? Are you offending people? Do you think you aren't expressing yourself clearly?

OK well I have a 1 year old who's learning to talk and 98% of the time I'm fine, when on a bad day (rare) I'm foul, not swearing at DS but about situations I'm in etc, like if I've stubbed my toe, spilt the milk etc etc

I realised that I was swearing more and more when someone unexpectedly commented on it. It gave me jolt because I wasn't aware just how often I was doing it. It was a simple My, you are sweary today comment so nothing nasty or negative but it made me think. I started to try and be more aware of the words that I was using in certain situations and that spilled over in to the rest of my life. I do still swear but not overly and I am much more aware of when I do it.

Yesterday was a particularly bad day, I found I swore all day (quietly) not shouting like at something or other that was tipping me over.

Blame someone! When you spill the milk, instead of Oh Bugger, or whatever, say oh Bobby. F word could be Oh Fred!!!

Someone I worked with said 'oh swear words'. I quite liked that one. Btw my DD said the f word as a toddler and I was mortified. She had heard DH . She has never sworn since and she is 9

Thanks, I like the blaming someone idea...might blame a duck as that's probably still going to be relatively satisfying 🤔 or Chuck ?!

Blame the ducks. And sugar.

Oh course, you'll still have the DC say very seriously to you when they're about 4 'I do know that you mean Fuck and Shit, mummy', but at least they'll be making it clear that they also know the words they can and can't use.

I wouldn't use duck!
Your DD will start saying "oh DUCK". Very loudly. In the doctor's waiting room.

Try LIMONE. As in li-moan-at
My DS9 still believes this is a terrible swear word. It's quite satisfying when said with anger...or cuntflaps. That's my DH swear word of choice 🙄

FLAMINGOES

I want to. But I don't have a real reason to, it doesn't offend me, bother me, I just think I should do it less.

Oh sugar
Bother
Friggin /flipping

I have tried to cut down on my swearing to as it is easy for it to creep in when it's not necessarily so I have taken to using quite long words that would normally make me smile.
Oh Paddington!
Ah spaghetti hoops
flipping toadstools

Though if you're really cross and say them all in one sentence you do get some baffles looks* * .

Oh Paddington he made a right spaghetti hoop out of that and created some real toadstools 😁

I quite like swearing. In my experience, sleazy psychopaths are often very well spoken, whereas people who swear tend to speak the truth.

@Alcemeg - I agree 😆

Although slightly concerned about your experience of sleazy psychopaths...

Oh crickets

If you barely ever swear, then I wouldn't worry. Swearing helps de-stress you. It releases tension. I swear when I'm stressed too. I felt bad if I did it in front of my children too. But as a mother, I was never away from my children. They even came into the bathroom!. None ever swore because it was so rare to hear me swear. I wouldn't let it get to me if I did swear. My children know that I swear, when I'm mad as hell, or if I see a massive spider.

You've

I’ve given up giving up swearing

Agree with above, you know where you are with sweary people

Those twee “fiddlesticks” lot freak me out

You've got to think of satisfying alternatives / gradual step-downs and then form a new habit.

I like the following (not that all of these are exactly ideal but I find my swearing is quite refractory so these are hopefully all better than saying f*ck constantly)

"Oh for five minutes" (instead of for f*cks sake)
"Oh my gosh/goodness" (I'm not actually religious but I did feel disconcerted when my toddler started copying "Oh my God")
"Rats arses"
"Bottoms"
"Bugger"
Swearing in foreign languages instead of English
"blasted"
"mother trucker"
"fungus"

I swear in front of my kids and always have done... Although about situations rather than AT them, Ifswim. I have a massive vocabulary and by swearing it's extended by 10 or so words.

They're young teens now and rarely swear themselves and is they do it's in context.

I think the whole "fiddle sticks" thing is unbearably twee and why is it any better? Fuck etc are good Anglo-Saxon words.

I like swearing, but I know it’s not very polite and a lot of people don’t like it.

My DGF's non-swearing swear was famously:

"Oh, jam and butter the floody muddy thing and plaster it with pitch"

Very satisfying.

Although I mainly stick to fuck, shit and bastard; that one's for special occasions