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Bangalore, Mar 9: Former India batsman GR Viswanath felt Rahul Dravid could have continued for a couple of years more. When Viswanath asked Dravid to continue, his reply was that he did not want to block an youngster.
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"In the West Indies and England, where he was the only batsman to get runs, he batted exceptionally well in difficult conditions against some quality bowling. So, I wanted him to continue for some more time. But he was firm on his decision. He told me 'no sir, I have already made up mind. I don"t want to block an youngster coming and establishing a career in the team." That shows the character and selfless attitude of the person. You don"t see many players leaving the scene when people are still asking why now?"
Viswanath, who played 91 Tests for India and scored 6,080 runs, praised Dravid's technique.
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This story and any subsequent stories about George and Ted will never contain Lemons, sexual innuendo, or references to them as a pairing. Although I'm not opposed to lemons I don't envision these two in that respect and I never will, their relationship is based on typical father/son relationship and any references that might look like innuendo (or any of the above) are not meant to be taken in such way.
This story as like most of my stories is 'character centric' in other words I focus on the two people I personally enjoy writing about most, in this case most of my stories will centre around George and Ted. If you don't like reading stories centring around two characters then do not read on, you have been warned.
In this story I reference the words son/father, as I most likely will in my other stories about Ted/George. I am aware that George is a monkey and that Ted is a human and that in all reality to call him his son and/or for George to call him his father would be physically impossible to conceive. I merely, though, am using these such words to describe to the reader the sheer bond that George and Ted have, an almost father son bond that is unbreakable...maybe.
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I base my stories from the Television show(s) and the films I've never read the books.
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It didn't matter what time it was George was adamant that he was going to watch that scary film right to the end no matter what The Man with the Yellow Hat said. He wriggled his back deeper into the sofa between the cushions on the floor of the man's apartment building. George liked watching scary films they made him giggle and sometimes stand up and scream at the top of his lungs.
"Rawwwwwww!" Along with the mighty monster.
"George…" His voice…Ted's voice…Could be heard clearly down the hallway as he made his way from the backroom to the front of the apartment.
"What have I told you about scary films?"
"Aww…" George sighed as the screen went to black and The Man with the Yellow Hat came along and scooped him up into his arms, carrying him from the front to the bathroom next door.
"Brush your teeth and get into bed…If you're quick I'll read you a bed time story." He smiled as he left the monkey to carry out the minor tasks set before him, knowing full well that George would complete it in record time.
As the man left the room George picked up his dinosaur shaped toothbrush and mock played with it, squirting the toothpaste onto the brush before making an arrangement of monkey noises to suit.
"Oooo…" He laughed to himself as he rinsed and replaced the toothbrush dashing into the bedroom and diving under the covers from the feet end and sliding all the way up to the pillow with the blankets to his shoulders.
Ted hadn't been far away and he'd heard George make his way from bathroom to bedroom always neglecting to switch off the light when he was done. Ted was used to it though, the routine he kept was George proof, bed at 7:30, teeth brushed by 7:45, flip the light off in the bathroom at 7:46 and read a story till 8:15 which could almost be guaranteed as George's time to fall asleep.
The monkey listened intently as The Man with the Yellow Hat spoke stories from one of his favourite books 'Cruising the Seven Isles with Captain Shamus.' The book only reaffirmed George's need to sneak back into the other room and watch the rest of the film, the big monster had just destroyed a cruise ship and was about to throw its remnants into the buildings by the harbour.
George closed his eyes in hopes of getting the man to leave so he could face the sneaky possibility of getting out before getting caught and watching the rest of the film. Luckily the man was falling for it and George sneakily peaked to watch him go.
Ted took a moment harbouring every second with this precious monkey who he cared so deeply for watching him in endless moments before gently shutting the door.
George was free.
He waited for a few moments hoping the man would get distracted…To his absolute joy the door knocked three times and he heard him speaking to the doorman for a few moments before the ruffle of his coat caught George's ears and the door slowly closing shut.
This was George's moment and if he was lucky he would be able to get back and watch the last part of the film before the man came back. He leapt out of bed doing his best 'ROAR' before he crept down the hallway on the edge of his toes making sure the coast was clear before he dived back into the chair.
Luckily The Man with the Yellow Hat had been gone for quite a while and whilst George had been brave and watched the WHOLE film in the dark, he now realized he was too afraid to get up and go turn the light on.
George glanced over his shoulder and hoped to some extent that the light would just flip itself on long enough for George to dash down the hall and dive into his room and into bed…
Not a chance.
Looking around George spotted the man's golf club and thankfully it was just long enough to reach the light switch from his current position. George sighed with relief but silently bit his bottom lip as the door began to slide open… "Uh…Oh…."
George dropped the golf club where it lay and dashed more than ran down the hall trying not to slam the bedroom door on his way in as he dived into bed not a second too soon…
The door creaked open just as he had the blanket to his shoulders George quickly closed his eyes and mocked a gentle snoring sound. Ted had been fooled.
George was satisfied. He'd watched the film and survived and he wasn't going to have nightmares, he was a BIG monkey now and big monkeys didn't have nightmares…Well according to Betsy anyway.
He snuggled down and let his eyes drift slowly into the land of slumber.
Ted had too gone to sleep although his mind drifted to the work he had set out for tomorrow he couldn't help but let his mind drift to the monkey only down the hallway. Time had just flown by since George had come here, since they had met and since they had found out they couldn't survive without the other.
George was like a son to him…The most precious thing in his life although George would rarely see this kind of affection from him…Ted didn't want him to think ALL people were this way, it could make him very vulnerable to outside influence, there were a lot of people who'd pay a lot of money to get a monkey like George especially one so well educated and well mannered.
Ted was tough and made strict house rules but it suited George and it suited him.
Ted let his heavy head sink back towards the pillows as his left arm reached out fumbling for the cord on the bedside table light for now all was peaceful in the apartment.
George had been asleep for about two hours…Or so he thought...That's when the bad thoughts started rushing into his dreams, so bad and terrifying George wondered in his sleep what was happening.
The monsters came into his bedroom and tried to get him and when George ran out of his bedroom they chased him all over the apartment…George dived into the man's room trying to find him but all the while he kept leaving…George entered the room and the man exited he went after him to find him leaving the apartment without even a notice.
George called out for him but the man wouldn't turn to face him so George carried on running after him always one step behind, always out of reach when finally he caught up with The Man with the Yellow Hat he pushed George away and falling into the mouth of the monster….
"Arghhh!" George screamed as he sat bolt upright in the bed, sweat beads at his brow and his nightmare still flashing before his eyes, he couldn't think straight he was scared stiff and his body felt almost too rigid to move…
Ted was never too far away though and he knew when his monkey needed him, as soon as George had let forth that blood curdling scream Ted was already on his way to his door at full pace.
"George!" Ted threw the door open and ran to his side. "George are you okay? What's the matter?"
George wouldn't respond his whole body trembled in fear he felt red hot and rushing shivers at the same time, he gripped the sheets so tightly his knuckles were whiter than usual and even though the man was sat in front of him George was almost oblivious to his presence he was so terrified with fear.
"George?" Ted questioned again seeing the pale fear in the monkey's eyes, what was wrong with him? Why wasn't he responding? "George? Speak to me…" He tried touching the monkey's arm softly. George's reaction was harsh and tough he could barely believe it was the same monkey. George pulled his arm away and grabbed his pillow running out of the room and into the closet by the front door.
Once inside he hid his head under the pillow and cowered. Ted once again ran after him more worried about him than ever. "George…" He called out but heard no response other than quivering monkey's voice, which he followed until he found George in the closet.
"George what happened are you okay?" He asked again even more gently this time a little wary of reaching out to him. George started to realize that maybe the man wasn't a monster, he started to become more aware of himself and his surroundings, his grip of the pillow relaxed and the tears started to fall from his eyes.
Ted didn't need to be a master at monkeys to know George had a nightmare. He knew George like the back of his hand and no sooner had George begun to cry than had Ted reached out and finally grabbed his monkey paws, releasing their grips into his hands and pulling the monkey from under the pillow and into his arms.
George was so relieved to see him and to feel that love surround his frame that he buried his head into the man's chest and curled as deep as he could into his lap. By now Ted was sat leaning against the doorframe of the closet with his head resting gently against the monkeys shoulder.
"It's alright George I'm here…" He whispered and smoothed the nape of his neck. George sniffled and tried in vain to get closer to the man Ted simply tightened his hold of the little monkey and kissed his tiny head.
George had rarely seen this kind of emotion or this kind of affection from the man, he was more of a 'get up and get on with it' type of person George thought.
Ted loved him though, he loved him like a son. In a way Ted felt he was his parent and mentor along with his tutor. He was incredibly attached to him and couldn't imagine existing without him. He cradled that monkey with all of his love and heart and held him close until George was soothed enough to pull his head slightly back from the man's shoulder.
"Didn't I tell you that you'd have nightmares?" He asked George knowing full well that film was the cause of all this.
George nodded knowingly "uh-huh…" He whispered in monkey language.
"Do you think you can go back to bed now?"
George looked over his shoulder and down the hallway with trepidation there was no way he was going back in there tonight…Maybe tomorrow. He shook his head up at the man.
"Well George you need to sleep and I can't exactly fit you with me in my bed…" He looked at George. George's face melted his heart and in a way George knew it. He had Ted wrapped around his tiny monkey finger.
"Oo-oo." George said gently pointing towards the balcony.
"Oh alright…But just tonight I mean it." He looked at him as he struggled to stand with the monkey still clinging to him. Walking over to the laundry room he took out an extra big blanket and wrapped it around his shoulders and George's before he moved across the living room area and pushed open the doors.
The breeze was a little chilly but George and the man barely noticed as they snuggled down with their backs to the doors and looked up at the warm summer night lit sky, George now sat with his back to the man's chest.
The man and George both knew this was the only way George would go off to sleep again as it reminded him of the first night they'd spent together under the stars in the park when he'd followed him home from Africa.
"Better?" Ted whispered to his monkey but George was already asleep. Ted considered taking George to bed but couldn't resist reminiscing through the photo album in his memory of their first days together.
"Goodnight son." He kissed the top of George's head one final time and snuggles George as close to his heart as he could.


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What a bitch, seriously.
But it's okay, here's something you can read about in the mean time.
Apparently, members of Anonymous have taken control of the Norway killer's twitter account, and used the account to encourage people to forget the killer.
The tweets (now deleted) read "We want Anders to be forgotten. Labels like 'monster' or 'maniac' won't do either," and "Media should call him pathetic; a nothing. #Forgethim."
While I do not always approve of or agree with Anonymous' actions, I think this is a rather fitting approach to dealing with this tragedy, and one that echoes the statement by the Norwegian Prime Minister that Norway's answer to the tragedy would be "more democracy, more openness, and more humanity".
Also rather telling is the statement by Norway's police chief Oystein Maeland that:
"We do not want barbed wire, roadblocks and weapons as part of everyday life in Norway", (link)
and that of Janne Kristiansen (head of the Police Security Service) who said:
"I don't think even the East German Stasi would have caught this guy, simply because he hadn't broken the law before". (link)
This, my friends, is how you respond to a terrorist; by refusing to compromise your ideals, acknowledging that you can't prevent everything, and striving to (for lack of a better expression) be the better person and to not rise to the bait.
With the scale of the tragedies surprisingly comparable in terms of casualties as a proportion of national population, it is interesting to see how the response to terrorism has matured since 9/11.
I think this is largely attributable to the realisation that the goal of terrorism is not to kill people. I'm going to repeat that, because it merits repeating: the goal of terrorism is not to kill people.
The reason terrorists carry out atrocities is to draw attention to their cause.
They want people to talk about them, and give them publicity, usually because they're so far from sane that they can't get support any other way. The only reason they try to kill as many people as they can, is that a higher body count means more coverage.
This is why I find Anonymous' statements interesting and fitting; because they make sense. The best thing to do with someone like Breivik, is to put them away for a long, long time, and simply forget about them. Let them fade into obscurity, as though they never existed, and take their causes with them.
I often wonder what state the world would be in had the United States responded to the 9/11 attacks by simply rebuilding the twin towers, and carrying on, treating al Qaeda as so insignificant as to not be worth acknowledging with a military response. Sure, learn the security lessons, and step up counterterrorism practices, and absolutely mourn the tragic loss of life.
But why legitmise the existence of some pissant little terrorist group by waging a war of vengeance, when you could instead shrug off the damage and rebuild? Imagine if an attack designed to show the target's weakness and vulnerability instead only showed its strength and resilience.
Where the United States chose to sacrifice some individual liberties and freedoms in the name of secrecy and security, Norway's commitment to openness and democracy has never been stronger, having chosen not to fight terrorism with guns on the streets, but with words, ideas, and flowers. That's strength and resilience if I ever saw it.
As for the individual terrorists, there is no harsher punishment than to have your life's aims amount to absolutely nothing, and to vanish so thoroughly from memory that you might as well never have existed.
For a terrorist, to be forgotten and ignored is to have failed. And so as the victims of the massacre in Norway are mourned, I ask the question: Anders who?
Huzzah for shiny new toys, and for the old scratched ones too.
Until now, I'd owned four different mobile phones, each of which I was rather attached to.
The first of my children was the good old Nokia 5110.
Oh yeah, she was a behemoth of a thing. See those little white things kids? Those are called 'buttons'. We used to have them on our phones, and we used them to 'dial' other people's 'numbers'. Those were the days.
Yep, that one menu key, smack bang in the middle, and that Nokia ringtone.
I'm just going to throw it out there, but if you never had that as a ringtone, you don't know shit about mobile phones.
Ah, but the memories.
That battered hand-me-down lasted me a year; a year in which I suffered the heinous indignity of having the same phone as all the middle-aged soccer mums.
God was I keen to move on.
Then, lo and behold: salvation was at hand.
Sing it with me people: IN-DE-STRUCTIBLE.
Meet the Nokia 5210. This thing right here was - nay, remains - one of the most incredible pieces of technology I've ever owned.
Gone were the days of the green backlight; this phone heralded the start of the orange era. Sure, mine was another hand-me-down, but you weren't going to see any soccer mums toting around one of these bad boys.
'Cause this was no dainty, ladies' phone. Oh no. This fucker was for real men. Sure, you had your basic functions; calls, SMS, the usual. But with the invention of the detachable 'Xpress-On' shell came something unseen in the consumer phone market: durability.
This thing was dropped, crushed, kicked, scratched... you name it. It took your punishment, and then laughed at your feeble attempts to impair its function.
There are two simple examples I always use to express my love for this phone, and the durability that helped it survive two years at college:
I once threw it at a friend, and missed. It slammed into the brick wall, bounced off, and down the concrete and brick stairwell. It clattered down two flights of stairs before it came to a rest, at which point I picked it up, put the battery back in, clipped the shell back on, and went about my business as usual. Not a scratch.
The other great tale of survival is of the time I did some washing. This being a rare event for a college student, I had naturally forgotten that it's usually advisable to remove things like wallets and phones from your pockets before they go in the washing machine.
Note: usually.
5210 laughs at your puny washing machines. 5210 takes a casual bath in that soapy water, and makes sure to wash under its shell. A mere 24 hours to dry, and 5210 resumes functioning as intended.
Find me an iPhone that feels like taking a soapy dip - I need a new paperweight.
But alas, this bromance was not to last, for on the day of my 21st birthday, my beloved hero was to be parted with, relegated to 'the spare pile'.
Katie had arrived.
Oh Katie, Katie, you gave me your answer true. Yes, I was half crazy, all for the love of you.
The Sony Ericsson K800i, which I christened 'Katie' - as in, K8i - was one hell of a step up from the old world of monochrome phones with mono ringtones.
This svelte maiden in her finest evening black won me over with one simple feature; her beautiful eyes.
It's a lot harder these days to track down a phone built around a camera's functionality. All you need to do to take a photo with a K800i is slide the protective cover back, point, and shoot.
That's it.
But that's not the half of it, oh no.
Buy a phone these days with a camera, and you know what to expect: digital zoom, shitty focus, and some piece of crap lens.
But not this lady.
Sure, 3.2 megapixels is a bit under-endowed by today's standards. But Katie had her secrets. See that flash? That's a real xenon flash. Not some bullshit little LED, oh no.
And that lens? Sure, okay, not stunning. But I'd be willing to bet its photos still look a damn sight better than a whole lot of those 5+ megapixel smartphone cameras.
Oh yes, Katie had stunning eyes. But alas, for as she reached middle age, her memory started to go. Contact details were lost, SMSes were illegible, and finally, I just had to move on.
But I've always had a soft spot for that camera.
We parted ways after but one short year, and I moved on to my next crush: Elizabeth.
Elizabeth was a Nokia E63. I'd gone back to my Nokia roots, but I still had my wounds from the break-up with Katie, so I felt I needed a name for her replacement.
I settled on Elizabeth; I once had a friend called Elizabeth, who everyone called 'Ebe'. I decided 'E63' was sufficiently close to 'EbE' to make the name work, and sure enough, it was.
Elizabeth was a change from my usual type; she had a hell of a body. She was a QWERTY, with all her buttons arranged in nice little easy-to-press rows.
And boy, was she smart.
Suddenly a phone wasn't just calls and messages; emails, web browsing, and even Skype were carried around in my pocket.
It still pained me to downgrade the camera; Elizabeth was a mere 2 megapixels, and with one of those aforementioned 'bullshit little LED's. But it was this little LED, alongside the sheer functionality of a hardware QWERTY keypad, that eventually won me over.
You might not be able to see it, but on the E63's space bar, there's a little picture of a flashlight. It's probably the most ingenious idea I've seen on a phone in a long time; it's simple too. Just hold down the space bar, and the camera flash LED lights up.
So when stumbling around in the dark, all you needed to do was pull out your phone, and hold one button: bam, instant illumination.
And oh, dat keypad.
The keys are all slightly domed, giving you what I like to call 'analogue tactile feedback'. You'd think that with 39 keys crammed into a 1x2 inch space you'd hit the wrong ones all the time, right? Well, that's where the domed keys come in. You didn't aim for the key you wanted; you aimed for the space between it and the next key, then slightly rolled your thumb either to the left or the right, on to the key you wanted.
Sheer typing bliss.
Oh, how I loved Elizabeth.
But time wore on. Two years passed, in which I am extremely proud to say, not a single scratch scarred her shiny screen. Yet gradually, my philandering eyes started to get the better of me. Jealousy set in.
I wanted a new phone.
I tried to hold out; I really did. I'd set my mind on a hardware keypad, but time wore on, and all I saw was the HTC Desire Z - and its keyboard layout just didn't do it for me.
I laughed at iPhone users.
I flirted with the idea of a Windows Phone 7, because goddamnit that tile interface is pretty.
In the end though, I couldn't overcome my tinkering nature. I wanted something I could play with, and customise.
And so it came to this:
The Google (/Samsung) Nexus S.
Deep down, I have my lingering regrets. It doesn't have Katie's eyes, or Elizabeth's body. It (probably) doesn't have the 5210's durability - I'm not willing to test it, either.
But everywhere from there to the surface, I'm in love.
Sure, it may not have that QWERTY keyboard, but boy does this thing have curves.
And smart? The thing is off the charts. I've been on a 48 hour app binge, downloading this, tweaking that; Tweeting here, facebooking there. Smart doesn't even begin to cover it.
I think I've moved beyond naming my phones, and into a place where it's not just a toy with a name any more. Finally, I'm starting to appreciate phones as pieces of engineered technology. And you know what? I like it.
Sure, I'm probably still in the honeymoon period - I've only had the thing two days. And sure, I have my little niggles: I miss getting three days out of a single charge of the battery.
But I get the feeling this is the beginning of a long and beautiful friendship.
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Partner has different personality when woken in morning... starting to really bother me.(152 Posts)
Ok, my partner and I have been together for just over a year, not living together, although he regularly stays over and me and my son both adore him. The problem is his attitude/behaviour when he wakes up. In normal, everyday life, he is the most kind, sweet, generous, gentle and loving man I've ever known. He has been my rock through a hellish year and is an excellent role model for my son. We were friends for years before deciding to take things further, and I've never been happier.
However, when he wakes up in the morning, he becomes a totally different person. A bit of background - he had insomnia for quite a long time and still has very unusual sleeping habits. He struggles to sleep. He has worked irregular shifts for many years, so has never developed a good routine. He's recently been offered a new job which offers slightly more usual hours, so he's trying to gradually train himself to wake up earlier. Anything before 10 is very early to him. It takes a very, very long time for him to wake up. He is unable to speak and doesn't have any memory of what's happened. On the few occasions I've made him get up, he has behaved very aggressively and it's taken at least ten minutes for him to respond and move. He sometimes falls over when he gets up and seems totally disorientated. I, on the other hand, love getting up early and getting things done, so I usually just leave him to get on with it.
There are three incidents in particular which are bothering me.
1 - I felt unwell and asked him to get up in the night as my son was crying. He was unresponsive and seemed totally uncaring, so i shook him to try and get a response. He then elbowed me twice in the stomach before storming out of the house. He only vaguely remembers this happening, but said that he thought I'd hit him when I touched him.
2 - Earlier this week, I was struggling to get my son ready for school. I suffer with depression and had an uncharacteristically bad morning after my son's (useless) father told me I'm a terrible parent. I was upset, so went upstairs and asked for help. He very angrily got up and went to the toilet. While he was in there, I lay on the bed because I was crying. He came back in and grabbed me by the wrist and ankle, telling me that I couldn't ask him to get up and then go back to bed. I was crying on and off for a little while. I discussed his with him yesterday and he didn't even realise that I was crying. It's like he's no longer human...
3 - This morning, his alarm went off at 8.30am, which is the time he's been trying to get out of bed. My son was happily sort of bouncing all over him, trying to get him up. He got angry and shoved him. It looked as though he meant to push him onto the bed because he was hurting him, but his hand caught him quite hard. I made him apologise and then took my son to school. When I came back, he was getting his stuff together to leave. I briefly discussed this with him and asked whether he remembered it. He said that he only had a vague memory of it, apologised and seemed very withdrawn and ashamed.
As he was leaving, I told him that he either sorts himself out or won't be staying overnight again as I wont have anybody treat us that way. He said that he understood and left.
I know it sounds as though I'm making a big deal of nothing, but it is so out of character for him and I don't really know what to do about it. It's as though he's still in a state of semi-consciousness for a long time after waking. Any advice?
You do know you can go to another GP? Ask for a second opinion if she is not helpful. Good luck with getting some help with it.
I'm sorry the OP has gone but at least the thread has helped someone.
I'm with Mimi on it sounds like a disorder, which needs to be dealt with.
Get him also to check his sugars as my hypoglaecemic DN was very aggressive when woken (which was v hard to do). And no, it wasn't diabetes but did need controlling. ( can't recall how they did it, sorry)
Basically DN thought he was being attacked or abused when woken, and was in a daze for the first hour +.
Heston, I'm sorry, it was me who reported the post as it was just horrible and appalling. I didn't want it to stand unchecked - but I should have asked you.
I agree it said far more about the person who posted it than it did about you.
Hey hi!
Just to clarify by 'last resort' I really only meant that people only bother posting their problems when they have had a bit of a gutful already. People don't generally post at the first sign of trouble...that's all I was saying. Last resort was too strong a term to use.
@rooneymara absolutely no need to apologise. Thank you for thinking it might offend.
@pictish thanks for the clarification. I am sure you are right that by the time people post here they have been through enough already.
Hello, I don't know whether any of you are still around... I had no idea I'd had this many replies! I don't check back regularly and often don't stay on top of email. I'm very sorry sorry if anybody was offended by this.... slanging match? I'd just like to state that no, this was not my last resort. I have spoken to my partner about this, but often find it useful to hear what others think. I don't have a wide circle of friends in real life, so mumsnet it is Just to clarify, my previous partners haven't really been physically abusive, but things weren't right. My partner (yes, I would rather refer to him as a partner than a boyfriend, thank you!) has not regularly shared a bed with anybody else before, so, no, he was not aware of this until I told him. I'm not older, I've just turned 25 and he is the same age. When he thought I'd hit him in the night, he didn't really remember exactly what had happened, but he knew that he'd been jolted awake by a pain. I don't think he can tell the difference between a gentle or hard touch. I didn't come here because I suspected he was abusive, it was more that I wondered whether anybody else had been in a similar situation and was looking for practical suggestions. No, he didn't profusely apologise or get down on his knees and beg for my forgiveness. He is often reluctant to speak candidly about things which I think are important, but I think it's partly because I do it so often and can be quite pushy about it. I'm used to dealing with things and can't stand for things to be brushed under the carpet, whereas he has never been in this situation before and is naturally very quiet anyway. Finally, thank you so much to everyone who took the time to find information and give detailed responses - it is very much appreciated. He has now started work and has been coping far better than I expected with the early mornings.
"No, he didn't profusely apologise or get down on his knees and beg for my forgiveness."
Why not? You know he hit you on purpose.
He hit your son too.
Is your BOYFRIEND sleeping back at your house again already then? [Hmm]
He's not your partner. Stop attributing titles that have not been earned, and don't actually apply.
You are 25, OK, so you accept you have a lot to learn, but you really have to understand that you have no clue of what risks you are taking and the harm you are doing your DS.
It's not your job to fix him, and it's not fair to place yourself and your son at risk until he does decide to say sorry, and look into tackling whatever issues he has.
Use of the word Partner, at your age, in these circumstances, when you are a newish couple, a very young one too just shrieks insecurity.
You allowing someone to hit you, shove your son underlines that.
If I knew you in RL, I'd consider contacting SS. I really would.
"He is often reluctant to speak candidly about things which I think are important, but I think it's partly because I do it so often and can be quite pushy about it. I'm used to dealing with things and can't stand for things to be brushed under the carpet, whereas he has never been in this situation before and is naturally very quiet anyway."
Sleep problems or not, this hardly strikes me as a match made in heaven. I think a few months down the road this incompatibilty is going to drive you nuts
The fact that he has been coping well with the new early mornings implies that It's less of a sleep disorder and more a problem with you waking him up to do things he doesn't really want to do. Just saying.
I've been lurking on this thread. Not liking what I'm reading at all. Sounds like the very early stages of an abusive relationship to me. And of course you'll talk yourself out of it but I wouldn't be at all surprised if you don't see some more of this behaviour in the future.
So he only actually has a problem with you or your son waking him up? Going to work is fine? That means he can make a choice and he knows what he's doing. Be very careful OP.
Thanks to everybody who has given real advice. I'm gobsmacked that one poster thinks it appropriate to bandy around talk of reporting me to social services or to read into a few posts and declare me insecure. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
What's happening with things now starareshining is he still sleeping over? Has he been to his GP?
OP I also prefer referring to long term relationships as partners rather than boyfriends (not that I've had lots), there's nothing really in it other than boyfriend feels a bit odd when you're in your 20s or 30s, with child & he is quite involved.
I think what you've written sounds quite alarming, you've talked of him being violent however small, and even if was in some sort of half asleep state and going by all you've said I think some people aren't convinced it's sleep related, more just him being a grumpy sod when woken up.
Here we have a totally deluded woman, seemingly with low esteem, unable to see that her boyfriend, a bloke she has known only for a year, is violent on occasions, but when her attention is drawn to it, is forced to admit that he hasn't apologised to her or to her son, and what is more, he's not expected to.
Too flaming right is this a matter of concern from a child protection perspective. But your son is too young to ask for help. He just relies on your judgement.
When you allow your son to be shoved by some penis with overflow of entitlement, anger, resentment and out and out violence, when you KNOW that he hit you TWICE knowingly and on purpose, and you say it's all good, cos he's your PAAAARRRRTTNER, the one that should be ashamed of herself is YOU. If that is not insecure then the dictionary needs re-writing.
There is no man on earth, not even his own father that would come near my son if angry. I don't even HAVE angry people in my life. If my boyfriend of a year was even verbally aggressive to my son, the door wouldn't even hit him on the arse as he flew through it. There is no need for me to think about this, he would be history. I'm not unique in this, it's what good parents do.
Attacking me for wanting to see you step up and be there for your son is just farcical. It's not me that you should be angry with, it's the bloke who hits you and your son.
I protect my son. I am proud of myself. I have every right to be.
Your son has been shoved, you have been elbowed and it's OK with you.
Well you are 25, you think you know it all.
You most certainly don't and I feel sorry for you and more importantly your son. At least when I was in my 20s, my woeful lack of judgement never affected a child.
I hope you have switched on family around you that can help you out, that you can talk this through with, because you are totally out of your depth.
You are in an abusive relationship and, by default, so is your son.
Have to agree with you hissy although I don't think it's helped that so many people have come on saying he's got a sleep disorder.
I agree with you, too, Hissy. I thought perhaps sleep disorder, at the beginning of the threat, but it's obvious now that he is violent and abusive when he doesn't want to be woken, since he's okay getting up for work.
God how incredibly fucking rude and patronising you are Hissy. Feel better now do you?
He needs to see a sleep expert. I saw one for sleep apnoea, but they deal with all sorts of sleep disorders and can work wonders. His GP should be able to refer him. This is a serious issue that will have life limiting effects. This kind of thing does happen and this is the extreme end of 'sometimes I wake up grumpy and sometimes I let him sleep!' My sister is foul first thing in the morning - worse if she has to be woken. Nothing on this scale but we all learnt not to talk to her till after she'd been up for half an hour and the second cup of tea
I'm sorry, but all of you shouting about abuse - can you tell me if you have lived with someone with a recognised sleep disorder?
I shout, scream, thrash, have punched DH in the head, kicked him out of bed, I sleeptalk, sleepwalk, and take at least an hour to wake and be functional in the mornings. I cook, clean, do laundry and have been known to cut the grass in the garden at 3am, all while asleep. I patrol the house, going into every room and telling the DC's I am looking for burglars. I have been known to interrogate DH about affairs, whether he is a murderer. He, obviously is neither an adulteror or a murderer.
The cat jumped on my bed one morning while I was waking up, and I threw it across the room as I thought it was a goblin. This is what made me go to my GP, as when DH told me about it I was mortified and thought, what if it had been one of my DC's?
I have a sleep disorder in which my concious brain wakes up at a different rate to my physical brain and I am not aware of the behaviour
The problems that I have are induced by stress and a disrupted sleep pattern, so this sounds very similar to your situation OP - new relationship, new job, new sleep pattern, adjusting to life with a young family in unfamiliar surroundings.
Please, ask your DP to go to a GP and ask for a referral to a sleep clinic. They did wonders for me, both with medication and with coping mechanisms to minimise the problems starting in the first place.
And dont let him stay over until he has done this.
The point is ModreB, the OP's boyfriend seems to be fine getting up for work. He can control it when he wants to. Its only when he's asked for help by the OP or woken by her son that he decides that lashing out is a good idea and then pretends to remember nothing. Apart from what he finds convenient to remember. That's why people think its abuse and not a sleep disorder.
But yes, he still shouldn't be staying over.
Modre, you hurt the cat and you went to your GP. OP's partner hurt her and her child and he hasn't gone anywhere for help. You don't remember what you do - because you're asleep. The OP's partner does - however allegedly vaguely. He even remembers his thought process at the time - he knows that he hit the OP because he thought she hit him (anyone see a problem with that thought process?!). And his problem appears only when woken by specific people. I would be willing to bet that is not the same in your case. His also conveniently enough gets him out of waking up to help with a small child.
It's kind for people who have a sleep disorder to empathise but please look for the differences here rather than just the similarities. They're very revealing.
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When picking up after school, if you need to park and leave your vehicle, please use the lined parking stalls in either the upper or lower parking lots. The length of curb by the fence between the two lots is intended for busses during drop off and pick up times. However, to assist efficient pick up, parents may park here with the understanding that they stay with their vehicles, move up when someone ahead leaves, and move away when busses come, either to a parking stall or drive around so that any busses can move forward.
For safety reasons, please do not stop by the left side curb. It is too dangerous for students to cross over. If parked in a stall on the far side of the parking lots, please escort your child across for the same reason.
On some days, when busses do not need to service the Regional Schools before us, they will come at 3:30pm. On these days, called "reverse pick up days", notice will be given asking parents to come promptly at 3:10 and to leave by 3:25pm. From 3:25 to 3:45 the passage between the upper and lower parking lots will be closed off because busses need to park on both the right and left side curbs.
On inclement weather days, more parents tend to pick up children rather than let then take the bus. Please realize this prolongs the process of getting children to cars and traffic often backs up into Bunn Drive. If your child has an activity after school, you may need to come before 3:15 on such days to check her/him out to avoid the delays typical of such bad weather days.
Valid from 02/10/2012