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Mental health

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I just want to vent.

7 replies

TheOriginalFAB · 24/04/2011 17:18

Trying to get some peace to read a book which is helping me with problems. Kids keep coming in. Have given up. DD just hit DS2 on the head after saying she was going to do it because he had done it to her. She has been rude. DH and I are getting fed up of the constant fighting and arguing. It is 98% of the time. Plus they never clear up after themselves. I know it is all my fault and I have done a crap job but I am knackered, ill, struggling with stuff no one knows about and need sleep.

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dingdongmrs · 24/04/2011 17:24

Dont for one second think that their behaviour is your fault. Children fight, they fall out and they have tiffs, sometimes it feels like that is all they do, but it isnt your fault and you cant help being ill and tired at the moment.

try to have time for you, to relax and re-energise, maybe once they are in bed you can have a bath and read your book with some peace.

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TheOriginalFAB · 24/04/2011 17:27

It is the majority of the time though and it is so frustrating and makes me think we did the wrong thing having more than the 1 child.

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purplepidjin · 24/04/2011 17:28

That just sounds like kids to me - you feel scratchy so they play up more!

Any chance you can leave DH in charge and sod off to the pub for an hour with your book? Then you can recharge your batteries and take over from him for an hour when you get home [busmile]

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TheOriginalFAB · 24/04/2011 17:29

DH has tried but they just want me.

No pub.

Got my book but trying to hide the title.

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purplepidjin · 24/04/2011 19:52

If it's a hard back, you need a charity shop copy of War & Peace or something equally intellectual to put the kids off [buwink]

Pub was just a suggestion of somewhere you could get a coffee and sit down for a bit that would be open on a Sunday evening. If you weren't physically present, the daddy would have to do!

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TheOriginalFAB · 24/04/2011 20:06

DS2 asked me to put him to bed 10 minutes ago so he is down, dd is reading in bed and ds1 is watching tv with dh so I am in my room reading more of my book (not for pleasure book) inbetween short breaks for mumsnetting. We have plans tomorrow morning but then I am having a couple of hours to go shopping on my own.

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purplepidjin · 24/04/2011 20:45

Whoop [bugrin]

Your new mantra should be "This too shall pass" lol

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