Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Relationships

Mumsnet has not checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. If you need help urgently or expert advice, please see our domestic violence webguide and/or relationships webguide. Many Mumsnetters experiencing domestic abuse have found this thread helpful: Listen up, everybody

Exactly how bad was me saying this?

10 replies

Intrrds · 26/06/2022 09:31

Every so often throughout pregnancy my exdp would accuse me of tampering with contraception. We were using condoms.

One one occasion after a huge fall out, I text his dad/brother to say it was causing me huge stress that he kept doing this and that we’d used a physical barrier which he had opened.

I never heard back from them and didn’t necessarily expect to. But I wonder if it’s why they’ve had no interest ever in their grandchild… feel shit about it often.

OP posts:
hashbrownsandwich · 26/06/2022 09:33

🫣

AnneLovesGilbert · 26/06/2022 09:34

Pretty bad. What were you thinking?!

Cakeandcoffee93 · 26/06/2022 09:35

Throughout pregnancy? Whaaaat?? He does know you can’t get pregnant again right

BiscoffSundae · 26/06/2022 09:35

Yeh that was odd.

Intrrds · 26/06/2022 09:36

We had effectively broken up by this point and I was at my wits end. I think I wanted them to know how he’d been.

OP posts:
Intrrds · 26/06/2022 09:37

@Cakeandcoffee93 no he kept referring to that time every so often

OP posts:
ClocksGoingBackwards · 26/06/2022 09:38

Did you tamper with the contraception?

Intrrds · 26/06/2022 09:39

@ClocksGoingBackwards no we only ever used condoms and he usually bought them

OP posts:
5128gap · 26/06/2022 09:43

If they were interested in their grandchild they wouldn't be put off by your text, so don't take on the responsibility for their choices.
Obviously it wasn't the most well thought out thing you've ever done as it's really inappropriate to involve family members like this, but if their desire to see your child rests on this one action, your child is better off without them.

Gazelda · 26/06/2022 09:43

You shouldn't have said it. It's not their business.

However their behaviour is far, far worse by not keeping in touch with their grandchild and the child's mother.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread