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Messy night out feeling bad

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FlakyJadeSnail · 15/12/2024 12:30

Been with DH for some years now. I don’t really go out, I don’t drink very much either. I was a mad wildchild in my youth and I’m retired from that life. I’ve been out twice this year socially without DH, my choice to rarely go out and he wouldn’t tell me not to. We don’t drink together much either, it’s not part of our social lives. DH can go out whenever he wants to, but he doesn’t much and usually we each just go to our annual work Christmas party and the other person stays sober and provides lifts.

I went on my work do last night. DH offered to pick me up afterwards. It got late and everyone wanted to keep on partying so we went to a night club. DH was fine about this. I said it was fine I would make my own way home and I was in a group. We FaceTimed him so he saw who I was with. He went to sleep but he left his phone on ‘loud’ in case I needed a lift, I didn’t realise this as it’s always on silent and I had told him to go to sleep, so in my drunkenness I sent him loads of soppy romantic texts which he said kept waking him up to check if I was ok. I got back at an absolutely ridiculous time this morning in the early hours. I then climbed all over him in what I thought was a sexy way (it wasn’t), woke him up and spilled all the water he had left by the bed all over the floor. I then snored and took up the whole bed so he had to go decamp into the spare room. He then got up and got me food this morning while I am still looking like Ursula the sea witch.

He is so nice to me, he has had little sleep due to me being a knob and I feel very bad about it. He isn’t acting pissed off at me at all but why do I feel so bad? I read posts on here all the time about men who do this to their poor wives and I am now one of those men! I said all those things, ‘I won’t drink much’ ‘I won’t be late’ then coming home at stupid time of the morning and causing drunken chaos and then the whole next day is a write off.

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grimmeeper · 15/12/2024 13:43

Ha I thought you were gonna say you copped off with a colleague or got arrested or something
Someone from the works night out I was on last night got in a fight with the CEO and now doesn't have a job.
You haven't done anything wrong

Womanontop · 15/12/2024 13:44

I totally understand. I get this even after quite a quiet one!

Hanxiety, and with me I think it's a throwback to my teens/early twenties when I actually had done something mortifying, so I automatically assume the worst!

Have a nice relaxing day and you'll be fine tomorrow.

user2848502016 · 15/12/2024 15:12

Laugh it off honestly it doesn't sound that bad! It's not like it's every weekend.
Treat him to a nice takeaway or something tonight to make up for it

FlakyJadeSnail · 15/12/2024 20:47

I worried all day about this and I did speak to him. He looked awful when he woke up so this contributed to me feeling bad. He said it was fine, I said ok I just don’t want to find out in 6 months you were annoyed all along, he said no it’s fine.

We do need to get some of the romance back between us though. I feel like we get no good quality time together. We just work and kids and house and pets. We never go away just us, we never go on dates much. Problem is the pets, they are such a tie you cannot do anything spontaneous at all and I told him this when he really wanted them.

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Onetimeonly2024 · 15/12/2024 21:19

@FlakyJadeSnail i was going to say this is normal. DH and I go out separately for a “big night” with friends a couple of times a year (the rest of the time, we go out together with mutual friends ) Most of the time those “big nights” end up with stupid texts, aborted sex and general talking of shite. Usually about how much we luuurrvveee each other 🤣🤣🤣
No resentment either side, we pick up the slack while the other recovers and that’s that.
But, we also do a lot of couple things, just us. The kids are adult now, but we always have. And we have also always had a lot of pets. You need to find a trusted pet sitter, sort child care and go.
My dogs are the love of my life (I would honestly struggle to choose between them and DH 🤣) but you also need to invest time in your relationship.

FlakyJadeSnail · 16/12/2024 09:36

@Onetimeonly2024 thanks. Yeah we need to do more. We can get childcare and pet sitters but DH feels bad asking as we heavily rely on his parents most days due to work and school runs. They also help with the pets, so come the weekend feel like it’s taking the piss to ask them to do more. This means weekends are usually watching TV, cleaning and stuff nothing exciting.

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