Classic Mumsnet thread...
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This is a tragic story, but is also a classic Mumsnet thread.
Guy posts on Mumsnet... says he is looking for a female perspective.... explains he is married with three young children. His wife is a stay-at-home mum. He is the main "breadwinner".
He says his wife wanted a luxury holiday to Dubai, so he generously books it for them all. Then he fortuitously realises that his buddy will be in Dubai at the same time, so he plans to spend one afternoon going with him to play golf. His wife says "no", which he thinks is unreasonable, so he posts on Mumsnet looking for some moral support....
After a dozen or so pages of bitter women, posting mostly bile based on their own failed relationships, his wife finds the thread, and posts to give her own perspective, using her main Mumsnet account. Explains she is a golf-widow, how he is always playing golf etc etc, how she feels tired and unappreciated. So probably everything you would have expected her to say.
But she doesn't seem to remember that she posted back in 2021 how her husband had a gambling addiction, was a bit of a loser, and how she was debating online whether she should divorce him, or stay with him, even though she didn't want to, just to have more children (which she desperately wanted).
Quite an embarrassing situation ... a group of strangers now picking over the bones of their toxic relationship, with both husband and wife reading the content....
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonab...
Guy posts on Mumsnet... says he is looking for a female perspective.... explains he is married with three young children. His wife is a stay-at-home mum. He is the main "breadwinner".
He says his wife wanted a luxury holiday to Dubai, so he generously books it for them all. Then he fortuitously realises that his buddy will be in Dubai at the same time, so he plans to spend one afternoon going with him to play golf. His wife says "no", which he thinks is unreasonable, so he posts on Mumsnet looking for some moral support....
After a dozen or so pages of bitter women, posting mostly bile based on their own failed relationships, his wife finds the thread, and posts to give her own perspective, using her main Mumsnet account. Explains she is a golf-widow, how he is always playing golf etc etc, how she feels tired and unappreciated. So probably everything you would have expected her to say.
But she doesn't seem to remember that she posted back in 2021 how her husband had a gambling addiction, was a bit of a loser, and how she was debating online whether she should divorce him, or stay with him, even though she didn't want to, just to have more children (which she desperately wanted).
Quite an embarrassing situation ... a group of strangers now picking over the bones of their toxic relationship, with both husband and wife reading the content....
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonab...
t isn't it ?
bigandclever said:
It's alright but it's no penis beaker is it.
Just looked for that on Google.... oh dear 
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1875...
happytobealive said:
This is a tragic story, but is also a classic Mumsnet thread.
Guy posts on Mumsnet... says he is looking for a female perspective.... explains he is married with three young children. His wife is a stay-at-home mum. He is the main "breadwinner".
He says his wife wanted a luxury holiday to Dubai, so he generously books it for them all. Then he fortuitously realises that his buddy will be in Dubai at the same time, so he plans to spend one afternoon going with him to play golf. His wife says "no", which he thinks is unreasonable, so he posts on Mumsnet looking for some moral support....
After a dozen or so pages of bitter women, posting mostly bile based on their own failed relationships, his wife finds the thread, and posts to give her own perspective, using her main Mumsnet account. Explains she is a golf-widow, how he is always playing golf etc etc, how she feels tired and unappreciated. So probably everything you would have expected her to say.
But she doesn't seem to remember that she posted back in 2021 how her husband had a gambling addiction, was a bit of a loser, and how she was debating online whether she should divorce him, or stay with him, even though she didn't want to, just to have more children (which she desperately wanted).
Quite an embarrassing situation ... a group of strangers now picking over the bones of their toxic relationship, with both husband and wife reading the content....
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonab...
WTF are you doing on Mumsnet ya weirdo ?Guy posts on Mumsnet... says he is looking for a female perspective.... explains he is married with three young children. His wife is a stay-at-home mum. He is the main "breadwinner".
He says his wife wanted a luxury holiday to Dubai, so he generously books it for them all. Then he fortuitously realises that his buddy will be in Dubai at the same time, so he plans to spend one afternoon going with him to play golf. His wife says "no", which he thinks is unreasonable, so he posts on Mumsnet looking for some moral support....
After a dozen or so pages of bitter women, posting mostly bile based on their own failed relationships, his wife finds the thread, and posts to give her own perspective, using her main Mumsnet account. Explains she is a golf-widow, how he is always playing golf etc etc, how she feels tired and unappreciated. So probably everything you would have expected her to say.
But she doesn't seem to remember that she posted back in 2021 how her husband had a gambling addiction, was a bit of a loser, and how she was debating online whether she should divorce him, or stay with him, even though she didn't want to, just to have more children (which she desperately wanted).
Quite an embarrassing situation ... a group of strangers now picking over the bones of their toxic relationship, with both husband and wife reading the content....
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonab...
. Some seriously unpleasant people. Nothingtoseehere said:
It's got to be a windup. I only read some of the first post... but what man uses "AIBU", or would write that content, in that style, and on that website 
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Well, its on the AIBU sub-forum on Mumsnet so that's not unreasonable. The first two replies were OK, but did warn him of what would follow. But the guy was really throwing himself to the wolves posting that question..I asked a female colleague for her thoughts, and she avoids it like the plague because of the number of vicious harridans on there. It's their NP&E.
the cueball said:
Smollet said:
Mumsnet makes he happy I m that I m a bloke.
Some of the posts, if true, make me ashamed to be a bloke.The sheer amount of abuse, both mental and physical as well as maintenance sex so their partner doesn t sulk is truly abhorrent.
As an anecdote, the well known saying happy wife, happy life can easily be interpreted to if a wife doesn t get her own way she makes everybody else s life miserable ..
Edited by steveatesh on Sunday 8th February 08:57
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