Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 27, 2020 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,753 |
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Cambion
Funny how Moos think they deserve a six-figure salary for what they do, but someone else placed in charge of their kids to do the very same work doesn't deserve a cent. Interesting how that seems to work.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 28, 2020 | Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 202 |
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About a year into the relationship, I decided that I had become unhappy and lost a lot of my identity in the relationship. I was so stressed with my own workload that I barely made time to see my own friends and my self care was miserable. After the breakup and some solo traveling , I moved back to my home state and found identity and satisfaction in being single and spending time with my friends who are my chosen family and likeminded people. My ex at the time and I would talk often and express sentiments about missing one another. Long story short, he came to visit and somehow I ended up pregnant. He was opposed to keeping it but I felt a strong bond and couldn’t do so. I decided to move back to CO and try to make the relationships work.
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I tried posting in the assistance sub but apparently I don’t have enough activity to request help. I get wic but we’re out for the month. Food stamps come in on Monday. No friends or family to ask. The last resort is literally standing on the side of the road asking for change.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 28, 2020 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,112 |
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Moo
What is with this generation of men refusing to be providers? I do everything else, I gotta do this too? It’s not just benefiting me, asshole. I can’t go because I don’t even have fucking shoes to walk in the snow with. All I have is house slippers.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 29, 2020 | Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 202 |
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 29, 2020 | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 12,456 |
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toraneko
Considering what a burden birth control, sterilization, childbirth, etc is for women, I side with the moos in this instance. It is a minor inconvenience for a male, but major surgery for a female to become sterilized. Besides, men escape responsibility for birth control too easily already.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 29, 2020 | Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 202 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 02, 2020 | Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 202 |
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My son has mentioned "Mr. Bob" giving him swats before, but today he went into more detail. Since he's only 4, I asked if it was actual swats that hurt or more like the butt pats mom gives him when she's being silly. He said it hurts and he gets them for not listening, which is something we've been working on. He also mentioned that Mr. Bob gives other kids swats, too, but it's never when the head teacher is around. I'm going to ask his teacher about this, as calmly as I can tomorrow, but, guys, I need advice. How would you handle this? What do I say?
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He's always so absorbed into his stupid phone. She's always talking to him and saying look at me! But he rarely even responds to her. If i say anything to him he is just defensive and nothing changes. He tells me I am on my phone too. Which yeah I am..but I actually acknowledge my kid when she's talking to me. I am still aware of what she's saying and doing. I'll put my phone down to interact with her. But him.. The house could be burning down around him and he'd have no clue.
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Last night we got into an argument over parenting and how to handle DD (3) when she’s crying and upset about a consequence. I encourage holding space, affirming her feelings, and explaining that her favorite movie was turned off because she wasn’t listening once she’s calm. Husband thinks by doing this I coddle and encourage crying. He wants to basically patronize her into stopping, or yell, or talk to her like she’s 15 and can understand everything with an extremely irritated tone when she doesn’t. Or bribe her.
I told him he needed to stop trying to get her to stop crying which turned into a parenting argument where I said we needed to get on the same page but he refuses to read anything I send him or flag for him in a book. He said he doesn’t need to read a fucking book to be a parent and can find 12 articles that disagree with what I say. He said he’s wrong no matter what. I said we needed to actually talk about this instead of just argue when it comes up. 3 years in and we are nowhere. The truth is, he is just wrong. It’s plain and fucking simple. And he is always going to be wrong because he just parents without intention and or repeats everything his parents did, which raised a handful of fucked up kids who have incredibly unhealthy relationships with their parents, or none at all and have cut them or completely.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 02, 2020 | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 12,456 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 02, 2020 | Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 202 |
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I took 15 weeks off for maternity leave and just came back to work.
We work on a “on call” rotation, so every third week in on call for a week straight. Obviously I haven’t been on call during my maternity leave.
Yesterday my coworker asked if I could cover her call this weekend - Friday through Sunday. I made plans for my partners 30th birthday on Saturday, so I declined taking call that day. She said, well I mean we all have had to miss things because you’ve been gone.
Then I asked my boss today if he would mind covering Saturday since I had already made plans. “Well, I’ve been on call quite a bit and honestly I think I’m gonna leave on vacation soon and you’re going to get the brunt of call while I’m gone.”
I’ve always been a team player. I very rarely say no to covering call, and I rarely ask for my call to be covered. And I feel like they’re going to be guilt tripping me for taking maternity leave for the next few months every time call comes up. I’m more than happy to do my fair share - but do you think it’s fair I’m expected to do more than my share because I was gone?
I dk. I’m wanting to be really bitchy about it and decline any extra call at all if they’re gonna be rude about me being gone.
I could honestly take another 9 weeks of leave if I wanted to and leave them struggling through the holidays. I want to. But I won’t.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 02, 2020 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,253 |
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You didn't just take 15 weeks off because you felt like it. You took a break from your career to raise a child and recover from childbirth. Then having to be on call while you were off is NOT YOUR PROBLEM. I mean jeez, they had, what, 7 months to prepare for you being off? I was off from November 2nd - August 28th on maternity leave, and guess what, my company coped without me.
DO NOT LET THEM GUILT YOU BECAUSE YOU HAD A CHILD. Now you're back, you should be treated like every other employee.
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I just wish they didn’t act like it was an “of course she will say yes because we covered for her for months”.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 02, 2020 | Registered: 16 years ago Posts: 1,998 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 03, 2020 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,112 |
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Asshole
You didn't just take 15 weeks off because you felt like it. You took a break from your career to raise a child and recover from childbirth.
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Moo
I’ve always been a team player. I very rarely say no to covering call, and I rarely ask for my call to be covered. And I feel like they’re going to be guilt tripping me for taking maternity leave for the next few months every time call comes up. I’m more than happy to do my fair share - but do you think it’s fair I’m expected to do more than my share because I was gone?
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Another Moo
And why were you asking the boss to cover someone else’s call? You might need to start telling people to eff off, but politely.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 03, 2020 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,112 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 05, 2020 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,112 |
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Moo
I came home from work yesterday tired and frustrated and sore. Fed my 2 year old, gave her a bath, rocked her to sleep, and put her in bed. She is used to sleeping with me, so she woke up a couple times and I laid with her until she fell back asleep.
She wakes up again and I am over it. I just want some peace and to relax. I seriously need it as I do not get a break. I tell her it’s bed time and she has to stay in bed. She screams and cries and keeps trying to get up, and I keep putting her in bed. She is sobbing and asks me to rock her but I tell her no, she has to stay in bed. She asks me to change her diaper, so I do, and put her back in bed.
After about 45 mins of fighting her to stay in bed, I get in bed and rock her and just cry because I feel so bad and I’m so stressed out and depressed. I hope I didn’t mess her up or give her anxiety or something. I just needed a break.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 06, 2020 | Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 202 |
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When I went on maternity leave, no one did shit to cover me. I spent months preparing everyone, training, and even wrote a fucking reference manual for the shit only I know how to do just in case. Did anyone work on any of my projects? Nope. Did anyone crack open the manual? Nope. Did they actively push off new work for when I got back? Yep.
Well in the haze of sleep deprivation, with cracked nipples, in the height of a pandemic, and desperate for money from a completely unpaid and too short maternity leave, I came back to an obscene amount of work and angry clients. It took me 3 months of work from home, from a laptop balanced on my husband's sleeping back at 3am while nursing my new baby to dig myself the fuck out of everyone else's incompetence. Things are finally slowing down.
Well now that I am not just reacting any more because I can breathe...fuck this job. I can never forgive how much they've epically fucked up my first year as a mom. I'm literally there for the pay check, and I'm not interested in being ambitious or going above and beyond ever again. On top of that it's the good old boys club anyway so it's not like I'm respected because I guess having a dick makes you somehow know shit? Nevermind I'm the highest educated person there and no doubt work the hardest. Their loss, idiots.
So fuck it. I'm just going to coast while I pursue my passions and hopefully in a few years I will be working for myself anyway. My boss thinks we're friends lolololol. Worst part is that being expected to be treated like a human is called "entitlement" with these folks. Yeah? How entitled are they? Basically all of their wives are single-handedly supporting their careers and like, what they eat for lunch, what they wear to work, and every other facet of their sad, one-dimensional lives. Babies. Hardest part of it all is holding my tongue and having to be friendly when I want to just tell every cuntwaffle I work with to gag on a fresh bushel of sticky dicks.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 06, 2020 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,253 |
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Well now that I am not just reacting any more because I can breathe...fuck this job. I can never forgive how much they've epically fucked up my first year as a mom.
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Worst part is that being expected to be treated like a human is called "entitlement" with these folks
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 06, 2020 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 5,718 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 09, 2020 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,112 |
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Dipshit
After each of our kids my fiance gets post partum depression that spans nearly a year. During this year he barely helps, needs a lot of time to himself (or he spirals) and when asked to help with basics will blame me with favored tag lines such as 'we always have to do things when YOU want them done' but if left to him, it doesn't get done at all.
He refuses to see anyone about it and is moody and bitter. Watching one of our three kids is rough for him and when asked to do anything more (ie, watch the kids AND unpack the dishwasher) he gets upset and goes I'M watching the kids! Like yeah, I get it, I watch them in the day and manage basics! How do you think I get their breakfast and lunch done? No one but me to watch them while I make it.
He really doesn't want to hear it when I try to communicate it and I've tried every which way that isn't nagging but I'm honestly at that stage. Why do I have to be in tears before he will help?! Before he will meet the bare minimum?!
He works full time and I stay at home, and he does make an effort for me to have either a sleep in or a nap on the weekends plus get away to the store once a week or so. But the consequence of him watching them on the weekend is that the place gets trashed and he makes zero effort in that time. Usually sits on the couch on his phone while the kids watch TV! He sees me do that a lot but he doesn't realise what our day looks like when he isn't around. We go outside a lot, we have home made ice blocks, I play with them on the ground, I help my eldest (5) learn to write etc etc.
I just don't know what to do any more and I'm so tired. When we don't have a baby under 1 he's so much better, he keeps up with the kitchen mostly and that's literally all I need to be able to keep on top of everything else. At the same time I get how hard ppd is. I just don't know that I can live like this much longer
I just don't know what to do anymore.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 10, 2020 | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 7,776 |
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YOU want them done' but if left to him, it doesn't get done at all.
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I just don't know what to do anymore.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 10, 2020 | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 12,456 |
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 10, 2020 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,253 |
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A Breaking Moo question: What is his personality like when you don’t have a young baby in the family?
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OP
He's cheeky, flirty, affectionate, if I ask for help he usually gets up and does it like it's nothing and if he doesn't want to he'll just say he doesn't want to instead of the current thing which is sulking after refusing. He's not much more helpful tbh but it is just enough that I can manage.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 10, 2020 | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 12,456 |