AW: I am my mother! N3TR

SweetieShellieH · August 2014

I remember when I was young, if she could not get a hold of me or my brothers, and had no idea where we were, she would FREAK OUT, full on panic attack mode. She'd assume the absolute worst possible thing happened (which usually amounted to "someone must have pushed them onto the subway tracks").

Here I am typing this, absolutely relieved that my DH finally answered his cell phone. He drove to Niagara Falls (about an hour and a half away) to go see his mom and do an oil change on my car (because she has a huge property, and we don't have a garage or a driveway). I was working nights so I did not go. I woke up around 4pm, 8 hours after he left, and called him to see where he was and he didn't answer. Instead of thinking "oh, he's driving home, and doesn't want to answer while driving" my mind started freaking out that he got into a car accident either on the way there, or on the way back. Should I call his mom, should I not? What am I supposed to do with the rest of my life if he's gone?? I can't live here in our house alone, I'd die. The babies, the life we planned, all gone. All the while not sure if I should call again (because you know, that call just might confirm my worst fears!).

He answered the second time I called about 45 minutes later and is currently at Best Buy returning something he bought last week. Oh thank goodness.

Not the first time I've done this either with him. Hell, I've even done it with our cats. Once DH had accidentally locked one of them in the closet over night (but he still didn't know he had done it), which she was fine with because she never cried for us to let her out even when we were looking for her everywhere the next morning, me panicking the WHOLE TIME. When I opened that door and she ran out, I cried!! DH looked at me and said what the heck am I going to do when we have kids? (this was before the whole IF thing, which in and of itself probably adds a whole other layer to my craziness)

I just needed to vent my crazy anxieties... thanks for listening!

curve31 · August 2014

I've always been that way. It was SO much worse before cell phones. I've been known to call the police and ask about recent accidents...shameful.

SweetieShellieH · August 2014

glad to know I'm not alone!

jencity9 · August 2014

Hehe I can totally relate! And it does scare me a little how bad I imagine it will be if we ever have kids!

jessimi06 · August 2014

I can definitely relate. DH is really bad about answering/ forgetting his phone and I have little freak out sometimes if he's traveling and I can't get a hold of him for an extended amount of time. I've also realized, that I am more like my mother than I thought I'd ever be

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