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I've really upset dh and don't know if I can make it up to him :(

155 replies

TheRedSalamander · 20/05/2010 13:37

Dh and I had a row on Tuesday night and I don't know how to even begin to make things better. It was about the fact that I had to get up very early on weds morning to drive 5 hours to get to a meeting, and that I wanted him to help me get the childrens things ready for the morning (book bag, school lunch and nursery bags, uniform etc), he was doing the school run instead of me. I was upset that he wouldn't, when I had just done all the above (as usual) for the last two days plus two evenings of bath and bedtime as he was either playing golf or having drinks with friends after work.

None of that excuses how I behaved however.

When he refused to acknowledge the fact that I had a problem with this and basically ignored me, looking at the computer, I got more and more irate until he finally spat the words "ok I'll f*g do it just stop f*g going on about it" I guess I should have stopped there and be satisfied that he was at least going to help.

But I kept on wanting to talk about why (I felt) he was being so unkind- I even helped him get his golf kit together that morning before work ffs- blah blah blah blah snipe snipe etc. I was being rather controlled and reasonable about this however I didn't rant and rave. More of the same from dh, ie he continued totally ignoring me unless to say shut the f* up I am doing what you want fgs now go away.

Not proud of this but I was holding a towel and ds2's nursery bag and slapped his back with the towel a few times and chucked the bag at him, totally out of anger and frustration before storming off. So unlike me I don't know what happened.

He refused to come to bed that night, slept in the spare room and has refused to talk to me bar the odd text telling me how angry he is that I lashed out at him ever since

I feel so remorseful and ashamed about this, as he points out if the shoe was on the other foot (which it never has been- I trust him 100% not to be violent towards me) this would have been a hideous event. Although it didn't hurt him physically I've obviously really done some damage. What's nearly the worse thing is that I didn't even realise until he told me that it was the fact that I'd lashed out that was winding him up. "If you were a bloke you'd feel sorry for your wife" is what dh said and he's right.

He still doesn't want to talk to me or see me (we work fairly close by to each other and I wanted to see him at lunch time, plus I stayed in a hotel last might as planned because of my meeting on the other side of the country)

Am I able to make this up to him? I feel dirty and scared about this and don't know what to do next

OP posts:
thumbwitch · 20/05/2010 15:29

fair enough foxy - but you would accept that being slapped with a towel is in no way the same as being e.g. punched in the face?

I cannot see that the 'victim' in this instance can have actually been hurt - shocked, yes, upset, yes, but not actually physically hurt. So maybe that's the difference I'm feeling.

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 15:30

Foxy fgs, shut the fuck up and piss off this thread.

There. Does that make you want to slap me with a towel, then apologise to me profusely and feel sick to the stomach for your outrageous abuse, or would you rather come to my house and punch me?

Hullygully · 20/05/2010 15:33

The more I think about this, the more incensed I become. He is behaving like a spoilt sulky brat, firstly refusing to respond to you as an adult, and then being delighted at the excuse to strop off and punish you because you threw a bag at him. What a great baby. Put him in pull-ups and let him get on with it. And take his compute away until he learns to treat you with respect and acts like an adult.

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 15:34

Exactly.

Hullygully · 20/05/2010 15:37
Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 15:40

OP

Hullygully · 20/05/2010 15:44

Little tip for OP's hubbykins

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 15:46

violent OP

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 15:47

at hully

thumbwitch · 20/05/2010 15:48

Hully my love, do you fancy coming and airing your sweary muscles over here? - the OP needs some creative but easy-to-remember sweary insults and for some reason I thought you might be good at it

Actually, UA - you too!

Hullygully · 20/05/2010 15:49

He might be smiling now...

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 16:03
Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 16:05

OP's injured hubbykins afer being slapped with a towel

Hullygully · 20/05/2010 16:07

He is well cross, but he still has his puter, she needs to take his puter.

Hullygully · 20/05/2010 16:08

On a slightly more serious note - OP I hope this makes you see how ridiculous your baby hubby is being.

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 16:09

Can I just say, my great friend hit her DH (lightly but meaningfully) with a frying pan for being a lazy computer-obsessed arse.

He said afterwards that he fully deserved it.

They have four children and have been married 16 years.

Hullygully · 20/05/2010 16:11

'lightly but meaningfully.' Fab.

thumbwitch · 20/05/2010 16:17

crikey, how would you hit someone lightly with a frying pan?? I couldn't help but do damage if I hit DH with a frying pan (I threaten sometimes but never would and he knows I wouldn't)

Snorbs · 20/05/2010 16:19

Ah, this is turning into one of those rare but unpleasant mumsnet things where male-on-female violence is abhorrent, illegal and totally unacceptable but female-on-male is provoked, deserved, acceptable and something the man should just grow a pair about.

As the male victim survivor of a violent woman, I'm going to bow out now.

Hullygully · 20/05/2010 16:21

She flicked him with a towel ffs. Can we maintain some perspective here?

And the equivalent behaviour from a man would elicit the same response from myself at least.

thumbwitch · 20/05/2010 16:21

it's not Snorbs, it's not acceptable!

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 16:22

snorbs when did you bow in?

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 16:23

And why haven't you commented directly on the OPs post with your opinion instead of responding only to the posts you disagree with?

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 16:24

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WombFrootShoot · 20/05/2010 16:31

UA - you are so going to get deleted.

OP hasn't returned to the thread once, which is weird isn't it?

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