Would this hack you off - or am I just *old*?
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Stepson - 18yo - nearly 19 ... girlfriend of two months who is 17. He works three days a week, starting at about 3.30 - she works one or two nights a week ...
She stays over here about 3, sometimes 4, nights a week in his room. Not my idea of course and I'm not sure I would have allowed it in any case from the off but his mother agreed ONCE and now of course, it happens all the time (or so it seems)
When they are here, they just *exist* in his room, I don't get to see him - except when he comes down to cook bacon (at about midday), raid the fridge and make tea - I never see her at all ... sometimes when she leaves.
I have seen her downstiars once though, traipsing about our kitchen in her pyjamas at 1.30 in the afternoon ...
Now. Should I be happy he's not out til all hours, drunk somewhere and shooting up or should I be expect more somehow - ie he actually spends time actively pursuing for a job where he works normal hours instead of the *go to bed at 2am - get up at midday* routine?
I just think him (and her) treat the place like a hotel - meals in their rooms, never coming out etc. He does f
ka ll round the house and if I so much as request that maybe he could bring the plates down and wash them up, it's as though I have asked him to run a marathon.
Or am I just a grumpy bast@rd? He rarely stays at her house I might add. In fact he suggested due to some trouble with her mum, she move in here - ffs!!
To cap it all off though - last night - 1am - I am working downstairs and I hear them friggin' at it - banging headboard, groans, grunts, the lot ... I fell like I can't move about in me own house sometimes.
She stays over here about 3, sometimes 4, nights a week in his room. Not my idea of course and I'm not sure I would have allowed it in any case from the off but his mother agreed ONCE and now of course, it happens all the time (or so it seems)
When they are here, they just *exist* in his room, I don't get to see him - except when he comes down to cook bacon (at about midday), raid the fridge and make tea - I never see her at all ... sometimes when she leaves.
I have seen her downstiars once though, traipsing about our kitchen in her pyjamas at 1.30 in the afternoon ...
Now. Should I be happy he's not out til all hours, drunk somewhere and shooting up or should I be expect more somehow - ie he actually spends time actively pursuing for a job where he works normal hours instead of the *go to bed at 2am - get up at midday* routine?
I just think him (and her) treat the place like a hotel - meals in their rooms, never coming out etc. He does f
ka ll round the house and if I so much as request that maybe he could bring the plates down and wash them up, it's as though I have asked him to run a marathon.Or am I just a grumpy bast@rd? He rarely stays at her house I might add. In fact he suggested due to some trouble with her mum, she move in here - ffs!!
To cap it all off though - last night - 1am - I am working downstairs and I hear them friggin' at it - banging headboard, groans, grunts, the lot ... I fell like I can't move about in me own house sometimes.
What, we have managed to get this far into a thread and no mention of towers to do with oxo, or back doors being kicked in, PH is going to the dogs
Oh, and yes, it would piss me off, as it did with my dad when i did it to him. He read me the riot act, and made it perfectly clear what he would do if i didnt sort myself out
Oh, and yes, it would piss me off, as it did with my dad when i did it to him. He read me the riot act, and made it perfectly clear what he would do if i didnt sort myself out
Edited by snowy slopes on Thursday 11th February 16:01
rocksteadyeddie said:
I think they're all like this at this age. Mine certainly were. Son still is. Daughter is now a delight at 23 having been the highest maintenance, pain in the arse, bh the world has ever seen for many years. Deep breaths and tongue biting work well.
Strange,that could be our house....h the world has ever seen for many years. Deep breaths and tongue biting work well. rocksteadyeddie said:
I think they're all like this at this age. Mine certainly were. Son still is. Daughter is now a delight at 23 having been the highest maintenance, pain in the arse, bh the world has ever seen for many years. Deep breaths and tongue biting work well.
Kids are just a tiny revision version of their parents though, right? h the world has ever seen for many years. Deep breaths and tongue biting work well. 
snowy slopes said:
What, we have managed to get this far into a thread and no mention of towers to do with oxo, or back doors being kicked in, PH is going to the dogs
Worst "no-one's mentioned the usual crappy, unfunny, tired old cliches yet so I'll get in with a 'hold on a cotton-pickin minute, this isn't normal for PH'" post...... EVER!Oh. s
t.
to be honest, it sounds like a lot of teenagers... they do that, i.e. nothing (except whoopy time). I think you should lay down some rules but don't push it too far.
They also have a bad habit of showing you it's better the devil you know. (i'm not a parent, have just observed as an adult how my folks have delt with me and my brother, they moan at him for doing nothing but never moaned at me and i was always out getting in trouble).
They also have a bad habit of showing you it's better the devil you know. (i'm not a parent, have just observed as an adult how my folks have delt with me and my brother, they moan at him for doing nothing but never moaned at me and i was always out getting in trouble).
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