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Rant needed

Sorry for long post So I need to rant which isn’t usually like me however it’s getting ridiculous and I want to know I’m not the only one going through it. My partner is constantly on his phone, ignores my LO even when she brings him a book or toy, I tell him to just watch her whilst I do something (for example pu...

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I made my BD mad. This morning he very much wanted to do some things. But I was rocking the baby to sleep. He was literally humping me, and trying force himself in me while I tending to his child. I got up, and told him “dude, I’m busy.”

All HELL broke loose. He gets up cussing me out. Telling me if he were Johnny depp or some dead ex of mine I’d be all for it.

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MIL

So my MIL was up yesterday after months of previously her not coming up… My daughter turned around and went “who’s that” I did correct her and say gran because she doesn’t see her as such or she would have said. Whenever my MIL was saying gran or granny to her my daughter was just giving her a blank look to be fair ...

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Opinions please

So my partner and I have a 4 week baby, I also have a 3 yr old from a previous relationship. Since Friday he has been out 3 nights not home till after 11. Texted me this afternoon saying he was out tonight. Am I wrong to be annoyed? Feel like I’m here looking after the kids and he’s just out with his friends. I’m al...

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How to tell sil she isn’t welcome to interact with my children

My husbands sister and I don’t talk at all, this is from years of disrespect and bullying. But when we are at family functions, she starts interacting with my kids (one Inc a 3 month old) when I’m on the other side of the room etc. So how can I address this with her? I only see her at family functions. How do I go...

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Husband being lazy ?

So I'm having a really hard time not getting super irritated and frustrated at my husband and step daughter even. I'm almost 2 weeks post partum. It feels like I'm doing almost everything by myself. I'm doing the dishes, laundry, picking up all the garbage they leave around on the counter and throughout the house....

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Am I being overly sensitive here?

So my child's pre-school closes at 3pm. I've never been late, and I know for a fact I was standing in the line around 2:55pm. This is my daughters third week at school (she's goes in 3 days a week). She's never been upset during drop-off or pick-up time, even on her first day. Today I went to pick her up and I coul...

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Why does my husband blow so hot & cold with trying for another baby?

Basically, I have spoke to him several times about having another baby, no pressure on it. But it frustrates me that he blows hot and cold about it, one minute he's like "I wonder what our oldest would be like as a bro" "anything can happen in life, lifes too short not to", Saying baby names he likes and asking if I...

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I just need to VENT 😭

Omg I'm soooo irritated ! So my fiance works graveyard so he's asleep most of the day & I have 3 boys ages 3,2, & 10 months ... && I'm 17 weeks pregnant 🥱🥱😮‍💨 sooo when it's time for the older two to take their naps I usually get tired as well , but that's when the 10 month old wakes up from his nap & wants to get…

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The nerve of this man

Tell me why my partner invites his sister to come see our baby during his nap, when he’s been so colic that it takes a lot of effort to put him down. I just got off my phone appointment with my therapist and have yet to get dressed. I’m recovering from a cold and on my heaviest day of my period! The bathroom is a me...

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is this hella annoying or do my friends just not understand what it’s like to have a baby

i need to rant! so my husband is in the air force and three years ago we moved across the country. since then we’ve had a baby and friends and family have come down to meet him. i made it very clear i was not traveling with the baby for the first at least year of his life. now with our babies being/almost being six ...

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Am i in the wrong long post!

Please tell me is this okay! So i have two children with my (partner) have been together 4 years any way he has done enough stuff wrong that i would of been long gone if i didnt have my babies and no where for us to live. so I don’t work because my children are under two and no childcare i get like 700 a month UC an...

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Family constantly asking to have my son! - genuinely interested In answers…

How often does everyone let their 3 year old stay over night etc? I don’t want to sound ungrateful as I am lucky to have family that are keen to see my son but it’s getting too much! My dad and sister have always been overly keen and they live a different lives to us, constantly going to Cornwall in their caravan...

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Oven cleaning tips

In my 12 years of living on my own I have never cleaned my oven… I never used it much but now that I bake a lot I really need to clean mine! Can y’all drop some tips to clean a gas oven? I’ll take any; nontoxic, toxic. Gimmie the tips 🤣

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Mum guilt

I feel so guilty, i had my baby (6m) on my bed with his blanket underneath him, he was playing and at one point he was kicking me I was on my phone for literally 2 seconds, I said woah baby that’s allot of kicking so my husband looked at him, he had a corner of the blanket over his face and now I feel terrible like ...

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Relationship struggles..

So me and my partner have two children 2&4 and are due to get married next year. We have recently just come home from a long weekend away which was an awful weekend away with the little ones. The first day we arrived we stopped off at a pub as it had a lovely garden for the children to run around in. On arrival my p...

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