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Dp and I had terrible fight in front of Dc

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familyissue · 22/10/2019 18:53

I feel awful. It sounds stupid, do over reacted.

I made a passing comment to dp...basically I was carving a chicken and he kept reaching over me and taking bits of chicken/skin off. I asked him to stop then as I was serving the food he took a big spoon of stuffing that was swimming in the chicken fat and I said 'that's disgusting, it's all fat'.

He lost it! Started shouting at me saying i won't speak to him like that and when I brushed him off saying he was being silly he got more annoyed and started shouting and pointing finger in my face 😰

He was saying my attitude is horrible and I won't put him down like that. Then I was shouting at him to stop and I slammed down my knife and fork on table and stormed up stairs upset. I feel awful on poor kids. They looked so scared.

Ds10 came after me a while later to check on me. I went back down and he started again. Ds 9 said to him are you not going to apolagise and do kept saying' your mam has to apologize!!' He was mimicking me too.

Wtf is wrong with him? This will go on for a week now because he won't 'give in' and neither will I. I said to him 'you won't ever do that to me again' and poor ds wrote a message on my notepad in phone 'are you and dad going to break up?'

Wtf how can something escalate over something so stupid.

He said he was annoyed as earlier we were discussing kids and I said hat he bagged them too much over stupid things and it knocks their confidence.

He is a normal guy, how can he treat me like that just because he's in bad form!

OP posts:
TomPinch · 28/10/2019 02:27

Without justifying his behaviour, which was poor (I'd be pretty annoyed if I was carving a chicken and someone kept nicking bits even if I hadn't told them to stop, and the rest is way worse) I would ask what you think may have brought it on. It's not normal for a person to lose it like that for no reason.

He is a normal guy, how can he treat me like that just because he's in bad form!

If what you say is correct, he's not normal. This is not normal.

But if you constantly upbraid a person about this and that over time, even a saint will snap eventually. You are quite critical of him in your other posts, which also indicate you have your moments. I don't blame you for that, given how he behaved, but if that's how you feel about him generally, well, the average person is going to notice. You say he has 'moods' but you don't say what's causing them. Not that they will be a justification but they might explain things.

The fact that your kids appear to side with you is irrelevant. I would simply be keeping them out of this.

SerafinaPekkola · 28/10/2019 02:34

“ Of course we still fight but we understand and respect our kids, and continue our fight in our bedroom now.”
No of course about it. Why be with someone you fight with?

AgentJohnson · 28/10/2019 04:57

Bad form = controlling twatery.

Tinkerbell456 · 28/10/2019 05:34

From where I sit ( on my couch in Tasmania) I don’t think either of you covered yourselves in glory. You shouldn’t have made that comment and in no way should he have reacted the way he did. Possible to apologise to each other in front of the kids? Apologise to the kids for fighting like that in front of them and explain that sometimes adults stuff up and don’t behave well too? Seems silly to let something o essentially fairly petty cause a week long drama. I know pride can be a strong thing but pick your battles, and I don’t think this should be a die in the ditch one.

pusspuss9 · 28/10/2019 11:39

@poppythetroll

Very sensible and well balanced post.

Whenthereslovethereshope · 28/10/2019 15:48

'No of course about it. Why be with someone you fight with?'
@SerafinaPekkola By fight I mean arguing not a wrestling or boxing 'fight' as you put it. Everyone fights/argues. If you're saying that you as a couple (or even as any other form of relationship you share with anyone) you don't fight/argue Halloween Hmm then please share your magical secret with me and rest of the world so that we can be the same!

8BumbleBee8 · 28/10/2019 20:56

Maybe he loves chicken fat.
That's what he wanted.

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