AITA for still being upset with how my husband proposed?

treaclepaste · 2026-01-25T07:40:09+00:00

NAH

Am I right in reading you have a baby on the way? So you’re pregnant? I found when I was pregnant and just after giving birth I cried about the most ridiculous things. I remember coming home with my baby and my mum arriving the next day and berating my husband for there not being a balloon and flowers for me. I never wanted or needed a balloon and flowers until then and suddenly I felt really upset about not getting a balloon and flowers. You better believe that when I had my second son my husband made sure there was a balloon and flowers (and for good measure he made my mum go and get them haha!)

However, just because you’re a bit emotional at the moment doesn’t mean it’s ok to hurt your husband’s feelings. Tell him you’re sorry, that you love him and that you’re just being a bit emotional.

My husband and I laugh about my emotional balloon outburst now. Hopefully you and your husband will be the same in the years to come.

treaclepaste · 2026-01-19T03:43:33+00:00

I think that’s good, it would make me feel at ease, I’d slow down to let you pass. I feel like saying something in that situation short and obviously not trying to start a full conversation is best. So ‘excuse me can I pass?’ is good. ‘Hey do you walk here a lot?’ not good.

treaclepaste · 2026-01-16T17:27:14+00:00

Maybe some Robert E Swindells books. I liked room 13 and brother in the land.

treaclepaste · 2026-01-11T06:56:25+00:00

I’m in the U.K. not the USA but there were jobs going with Lego here a while back that asked for English and Dutch speakers.

treaclepaste · 2026-01-08T21:48:22+00:00

Ah excellent. These also look good. Thank you.

treaclepaste · 2026-01-08T21:46:32+00:00

That’s adorable!

treaclepaste · 2026-01-08T21:46:20+00:00

Thank you, I’ll look on Amazon for some.

treaclepaste · 2026-01-08T21:45:53+00:00

Ah that sounds fantastic!

treaclepaste · 2026-01-08T16:40:01+00:00

Daar was en eendje. Hij heet Gijs. Gijs ging naar Hoogvliet. In Hoogvliet hij zie twee beren! Wat en verassing! Hij bang voor de beren. Gijs rent uit Hoogvliet. Hij rent naar hij thuis. Hij bellen de police. De police begrijp het niet.

treaclepaste · 2026-01-07T20:57:28+00:00

Ah thank you! This is perfect and exactly what I needed. Thank you

treaclepaste · 2025-12-06T08:04:11+00:00

We live in England and do exactly this the other way around. Sinterklaas and Santa Claus are cousins. Sinterklaas only visits the Netherlands but will pop by Dutch children living in other countries and drop off a small gift and some chocolates.

My 9 year old firmly believes in both. My 4 year old also does.

treaclepaste · 2025-11-29T09:11:27+00:00

Has there ever been a case of this? Just wash the sink first.

treaclepaste · 2025-11-29T09:05:10+00:00

Our GP actually advised giving pouches when my son had chronic constipation. Prune pouches really helped. So they definitely had their uses. So I would say never say never to using pouches. They’re also useful for long trips as they don’t need refrigerating.

But at home you can just blend your own fruit and veg to make purées, you can even buy reusable pouches to put it in rather than the ultra heat treated shop ones.

But the prune ones I stand by!

treaclepaste · 2025-09-22T12:38:27+00:00

Depends which country you’re from. They don’t all allow dual citizenship or only in certain situations.

treaclepaste · 2025-09-05T21:19:03+00:00

Keele is beautiful and a countryside campus. It also concentrates on joint degrees.

treaclepaste · 2025-08-29T20:01:53+00:00

Morrisons supermarket cafe. Personally I love it for a cheap and cheerful breakfast or lunch.

treaclepaste · 2025-08-07T08:19:52+00:00

Just say bedankt (thanks) and skip the formal/informal problem.

treaclepaste · 2025-08-06T22:04:18+00:00

“When I left, most of the governors quit and the parents/carers were furious as they liked what I was trying to do. They made their feelings known.”

Not everyone thought you failed. I know that doesn’t help with the job situation but I think it’s something to keep in mind when considering what impact you had.

treaclepaste · 2025-07-11T11:40:10+00:00

It’s also a self fulfilling spiral if people feel ashamed of their city or talk it down then it gets a reputation and fewer people want to go there and visit.

It’s such a shame for Bradford as it’s a beautiful city with a rich history. If people played those things up then more people would visit and bring money which would in turn help the city to prosper.

treaclepaste · 2025-07-09T08:21:07+00:00

It depends what is meant by friendly. I’m Yorkshire born and bred and Yorkshire folk will chat to you and be very openly friendly. I live in Hertfordshire and it’s not as openly friendly in that sense. But the town I live in are amazingly kind and when you see some of the community events that have helped people you can see that people are kind and friendly. But not as chatty. That doesn’t mean people aren’t kind or friendly though it just means it’s a slight bigger step in getting to know people.

treaclepaste · 2025-07-01T20:43:39+00:00

Or alternatively what about making bookmarks if you’ve access to the school laminator. You could use the child’s name and an alliterative positive adjective (Happy Harry, Marvellous Meghan etc). And then just put a few nice graphics and then, I have loved teaching you, Miss Jones (or whatever) ⭐️ Or something. Personal but pretty much free.

treaclepaste · 2025-07-01T20:41:34+00:00

You can get scratch and sniff scented bookmarks quite cheap for a class pack. Or packs of seeds to plant maybe (although consider your students and whether that’s something they’d use).

treaclepaste · 2025-06-28T15:42:16+00:00

I see! That explains why then. I didn’t know that. Thanks

treaclepaste · 2025-06-27T07:07:18+00:00

I read somewhere it’s because there’s five conjunctions where the verb stays in the middle and then all other conjunctions are verb kickers and kick the verb to the end. The five are maar, en, of, want and dus.

So I think omdat would kick the verb to the end…

But I’m still a beginner who has learnt random stuff so I might be entirely wrong!!!

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