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Why do I find my parents so irritating

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PollyD123 · 12/05/2025 15:03

I’m currently 24 weeks pregnant so unsure if it’s the raging hormones but it’s easy to blame them when I’ve felt like this for the past ten years. Being around my parents makes me feel so agitated and irritable, I start to get really angry and I don’t know why, even by the way they both eat, they constantly moan and are negative and I’m starting to wonder if this is why I have the mental health issues I do, depression/anxiety. Just recently I’ve just wanted to be by myself and have kind of locked myself away. I feel incredibly guilty as their both mid sixties and neither are in the best health, my mum has just found she has heart failure and whilst that makes me feel so sad I just literally cannot stand to be around them for more than an hour or so. Even my partner has noticed that when we go to theirs I come out a horrible snappy agitated mess. I feel incredibly guilty especially as my partner is deployed and away on exercise quite often so they’re really the only support I have, that and two sisters who don’t really bother with me. Has anyone else felt like this? Is it normal?

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PurpleTurtleMoose · 12/05/2025 17:42

Hiya, I'm also 24 weeks (and also with 2 sisters, so nice to meet my twin 😂) and certainly more emotional than I usually am, so I do wonder if that could have something to do with it.

How did you feel about your parents before? I wonder if there could be some repressed anger/resentment etc, which is now being taken out on the smaller things? X

PollyD123 · 12/05/2025 19:00

PurpleTurtleMoose · 12/05/2025 17:42

Hiya, I'm also 24 weeks (and also with 2 sisters, so nice to meet my twin 😂) and certainly more emotional than I usually am, so I do wonder if that could have something to do with it.

How did you feel about your parents before? I wonder if there could be some repressed anger/resentment etc, which is now being taken out on the smaller things? X

Tbh I felt the same way, there’s always been thoughts in my head that something wasn’t quite right within our relationship but then I thought is that me being silly? I lived at home with my son until I was 22 and me and mum constantly argued all the time, my son lives with my parents as when I were younger I struggled with depression which got worse. I’m starting to find my feet and get better and things are better, a loving partner, my own home and a baby on the way but I always feel I’ve resented my mum as I feel she took over when I had my son, I couldn’t even dress him without her making remarks about it. My dad is a very angry man and we grew up on eggshells as he would just explode so I think maybe these feelings are something to do with my child hood and recent years. i was telling my family
how when i have this baby I don’t want people around straight away (other than my son obviously) and my mum
straight away said about coming to the hospital after I had had her and to be honest, I can’t think of anything worse. No one has really bothered with me during this pregnancy and I feel like once I have the baby they’re all going to want to be around me and I’m just starting to realise that I don’t want that. Sorry for the essay 😂

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