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Awful weekend, feel like terrible mum

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Mamajulo · 09/11/2022 14:25

First time posting so bear with me …

Decided to take the kids away for a caravan break and visit my parents from Friday to Sunday, left DH at home to catch up on some sleep (works back shift).
On Saturday morning 2yo DD3 burnt her finger on the straighteners - felt so awful and guilty as I’d left them to cool and stupidly thought they were out of reach. Cried herself to sleep so left her with 18yo DD1 to nip to the shop …. Got in a car crash on my way back. Brother was driving and his brakes literally just failed, thankfully only doing 20mph but had DD2 age 6 in the back and she ended up in A&E with a concussion and shock. Had to stay overnight and by time we got discharged next morning it was time to check out. By this time I just wanted to get bloody home. During the car accident drama, a very inebriated DH is frantically trying to get an answer from my phone but obviously I’m dealing with a crisis. He left so many voice messages with a sarcastic tone asking me to please call him back if I get a minute and it wouldn’t have happened if he were driving. I was so upset as he was just being nasty and unhelpful when I really needed support.
fast forward three days, the shock has worn off and DD2 has an epic black eye. DD3 has a nasty burn from the straighteners but it’s healing. DH sees the blister has burst and starts asking how exactly she got burnt by straighteners and how it wouldn’t have happened on his watch. I feel really shit. I feel guilty enough in the first place and after the weekend we had it just broke me a little tbh. He said he wasn’t blaming me but it certainly felt like he was 😞

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PinkButtercups · 09/11/2022 14:32

I'm sorry you had a tough weekend.

Your husband is being a total ass wipe with his comments. Maybe next time instead of being able to stay at home, catch up on sleep and do as he pleases he could come along. Asshole.

MolliciousIntent · 09/11/2022 14:56

Honestly it sounds like you had a big run of bad luck, so don't feel guilty about that.

Your DH sounds like he had a really terrible evening not knowing what had happened to his kid. To be perfectly honest with you if my DH had taken our 3 kids away and 2 of them came back with significant injuries (for little kids) I'd be pretty unimpressed too.

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