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Welcome to The Dating Thread. Number 40.

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JulietteMontague · 08/02/2013 17:39

The next chapter...

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JulietteMontague · 10/02/2013 21:05

I deliberately didn't include Ikea. I have now got it down to a fine art and can actually to there and leave with just what I came for. If I had a partner, they could go with a list*. I will never have to go there again. In return, I would do quite a lot.

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VoiceofUnreason · 10/02/2013 21:06

Sounds like we should form a MN Dating Thread commune. Ike can do all the DIY, we can send Velvet to Homebase and Ikea, Jules to Waitrose and Bant to Boots for everyone's cosmetics.

watchoutforthatsnail · 10/02/2013 21:08

ive not been to ikea for years. maybe thats what i need instead of a man?

ike1 · 10/02/2013 21:08

I'd quite like to live in a commune actually...Im game! What are the others gonna be doing?????

Snapespeare · 10/02/2013 21:10

Ikea has the best apple pie. It is better than sex. Even the soul-gazing eye-open stuff.

And as my super-power is breaking glasses, IKEA also has a practical, non sexual function,

VoiceofUnreason · 10/02/2013 21:11

Watch, OWW and Lubey will be responsible for going to the off licence on a weekly basis. We'll need to send three people just to keep Ike afloat.

Snape will be decorating.

watchoutforthatsnail · 10/02/2013 21:12

ahem, i get discount at waitrose

VelvetSpoon · 10/02/2013 21:12

I can't get to Ikea as I can't drive. Haven't been for about 3 years. I do actually miss it!

Bant · 10/02/2013 21:13

Nc. I can't speak for why other men did what they did, I do think a lot of men don't want to open up emotionally though. Sex more than once risks that, so that's when men pull back. Or they see it as having to make a choice - settling for this one or keep trying to pull the next one. That's more of a drive for us cos of biology. I dunno. Maybe.

Watch. Problem with massive fireworks is that they fizzle out sooner

ike1 · 10/02/2013 21:13

Now ....Voice....it has been my birthday week!

Snapespeare · 10/02/2013 21:14

I will be directing a team of scantily clad polish builders to decorate on my behalf. :)

watchoutforthatsnail · 10/02/2013 21:15

im letting myself be chat up by a 26 year old window cleaner.
whos danish.

and so, we are back to the drawing board.

also, bloody ignoring goat face who is also online on the site and appearing as a chat thing above my mails. along with fucking ywk.

there needs to be more than a block button, but a blast from the face of the earth button.

ike1 · 10/02/2013 21:15

Am liking the plan Snape....can they do the DIY as well????

Snapespeare · 10/02/2013 21:15

velv next time I have to go because i have smashed all my glasses would you like to tag team? Happy to lift you and drop you back home. :)

BeforeAndAfter · 10/02/2013 21:16

Nc I think 'some' men have been so hurt/disappointed in early relationships and don't seek to understand what happened that they avoid the risk of being exposed to this type of hurt again by bailing out the minute their vasopressin starts doing its job for fear of feeling the same pain again. Clearly, 'some' women do this too.

I'm now lobbing in the generalisation hand-grenade as I think that most relationships end because the woman has had enough [caveat for Bant, Voice et al] for whatever reason and some of these break-ups result in screwed up husbands and wives where the women are more likely to seek advice/help/counselling than 'some' men. So my hypothesis, as yet unproven, is that the separated/divorced man is more likely to be fucked up than the separated woman once the main hurt of separation is over. Hence we keep tripping over fucked up non-committal twunts [insert twuntettes if you're equality antennae are twitching and you want to involve the European Court of Human Rights].

The trouble is we're human. We're programmed to hunt and programmed to mate with the best, despite the back-drop of monogamy that society instills, so we keep going back for more ...

Right that's my head blown off before it disappears below the parapet ...

VoiceofUnreason · 10/02/2013 21:16

OK, Watch is doing the Waitrose run and Jules takes her place at the off licence.

Apologies, Ike, I must have missed that announcement on the relevant day.

KinNora · 10/02/2013 21:16

I think the commune sounds alright ( as long as there's no fighting ). What job do I get ?

watchoutforthatsnail · 10/02/2013 21:17

and AND the damn buddist has also rejoined on there. and is now popping up, you know, he of good first date, said he wanted to see me again, chatted for 2 weeks or so. then vanished. i hope his karma bit him on the arse.

Snapespeare · 10/02/2013 21:17

ike I think their primary function is to have abs.. But I'm sure they old manage to splash a bit of bodily fluids paint around,

VelvetSpoon · 10/02/2013 21:17

Snape aw that's the best offer I have had in weeks! years thank you!! Grin

I will happily pay for petrol just to wander the aisles for a little while... :)

ike1 · 10/02/2013 21:18

Oh dear Watch I couldnt help but laugh at that sorry.....yeah bloody annoying those chat icons showing all the previous encounters...

ike1 · 10/02/2013 21:19

Bloody hell Voice how could you have missed the insane pissed gushing and repeated shouts of 'its Ikeday'

VoiceofUnreason · 10/02/2013 21:20

Nora - you're the referee when Bant and Watch have one of their regular arguments! Wink

VoiceofUnreason · 10/02/2013 21:21

Ike I was AWOL from here for a couple of days. Sorry. Have a belated bunch of Thanks

ike1 · 10/02/2013 21:22

Ta, Voice , they had better not be from a petrol station!