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Any chance you could get the flatmate to go out for the day? Or could he be trusted to not mention that you've split up?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 21:20, 1 reply, 17 years ago)

He'll either be working or
will not co-operate; he thinks I should have told them some time ago and will not lie; it's not in his nature. It's either that or I go to see them which I don't want to do either...
( Maladicta, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 21:39, Reply)

Just out of interest
do you think you'd be able to keep this hidden from your parents indefinitely if you had to? What if flatmate moves out, or you get a shiny new BF?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 21:52, Reply)

Doubtful on both counts.
We've just renewed for another year in the flat, but I know they can't not find out. It's my father's inevitable "I TOLD YOU SO NOW STOP BEING SO STUPID AND COME HOME" that I'm dreading...
( Maladicta, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 21:54, Reply)

Does your dad have any thoughts on what you'd do with your life if you lived with him
apart from being an elaborate ornament?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 21:57, Reply)

Enjoy the delights of garden centres, nice long walks in the country,
jacket potatoes for dinner every night and being forced to watch shit soaps. Oh, and teach him German without complaining and under no circumstances have sex with anyone.
( Maladicta, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 22:01, Reply)

Why don't you suggest your dad gets a toy dog
If he dresses it in your clothes, he may never realise the difference and forget it's not you, while you'd be living it up large in Kent.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 22:11, Reply)

Could well work.
Except the toy dog won't cry when he yells at it.
( Maladicta, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 22:14, Reply)

.
You could install a device that secretes water when the ambient volume becomes too high. It could re-fill by absorbing atmospheric moisture.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 22:16, Reply)

I like that.
On a similar note, you'd think he'd have figured out it's his behaviour that pushed me away by now, surely?
( Maladicta, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 22:19, Reply)

Were you relying on him to figure it out
or have you tried telling him that?

Perhaps you could tell him via the medium of a looped message in your toy dog?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 22:28, Reply)

I don't know.
I've never really got on with him since I was about 14 and I think he just thinks I'm a stupid little girl who doesn't know what she's doing. I'm sort of relying on my mum to snap him out of it and cunt him in the fuck.

Or skywriting?
( Maladicta, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 22:32, Reply)

Perhaps
you could try and keep your contact with your parents as minimal as possible. Then after many years, if you apologise, they might see sense and be thankful you're re-establishing contact. However, this is more likely to work on mums than dads.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 23:53, Reply)