'She said you treat her like sh#t'
- Sonny's Dad
- Mar 21, 2023
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 5, 2023
A classic example of Margaret interfering and her ability to skew the reality of a scenario was shortly after Sonny was born.
Sarah was in hospital recovering from the birth and Sonny was with her, she was there for a few days. I was staying at Sarah's house as I naturally hadn't gone back to Manchester. In the day I would spend all day at the hospital and the evening go back to her house. At this point we weren't in a relationship, we were in a strange no man's land.
This particular day my Dad had drove over from Manchester to stay the evening them come to the hospital the next day
He met me when I got back from the hospital, so I quickly got changed and we went across the road from Sarah's house for a quick drink.
Shortly after we got there I received a call from Sarah asking me where I was - I replied I was in the pub with my Dad having a quick drink. Sarah exploded, she was not happy.
The issue for her seemed to be that she was in hospital having just had Sonny so I should be sat in the house. I didn't agree with her - I was only having a couple of drinks and told her that I'd be at the hospital first thing for visiting the next day. She wasn't satisfied with this and preceded to rant down the phone about why I shouldn't be in the pub. The call ended, I was mildly embarrassed that she was behaving like this.
Next up, Margaret - 'Sarah has been on the phone crying and saying your in the pub and that you treat her like sh#t' - WHAT?! what was I hearing. I tried to explain to Margaret the situation, that I'd come to the pub as my Dad had drove over from Manchester. Margaret wasn't interested and was, as usual, taking Sarah's word as gospel.
My Dad took the phone and tried to appease Margaret by assuring her he was sat next to me during the conversation and nothing untoward had been said other than what I've already explained. The call ended and I was annoyed.
I was annoyed because of what Sarah had said to Margaret. To this day I will never accept I ever treated Sarah in a bad way. The relationship may not have lasted between us but I was never ever a bad person to her.
That's simply because I'm not a bad person and there isn't one ex girlfriend that could ever say I was. Perfect, I'm not - but bad person - nah I'm not having that.
I rang Sarah straight away and asked why she had told her Mum that I treated her like sh#t - her response, "I never said that" - "you never said that? Then why is your Mum saying you are" - " I don't know" - "You don't know, so you are saying your Mum made it up and she's lying about what you said" - "Yes" she said!
At this point I 'd had enough of the call but I said if what Sarah was saying to me was true then I'll take it up with Margaret tomorrow as the last thing we needed was her interfering telling lies.
The next day I got to the hospital, I asked her "did you tell you Mum I treat you like sh#t" - "No I didn't" - "Do you think I treat you like sh#t" - "No" - "Ok, well when you're Mum walks in I'm going to ask to speak to her outside about why she is telling lies, so one last time - did you tell her I treat you like sh#t? -
"Yes"
Finally she admitted it - "You did, why?" - "because I was angry with you" - apparently she was angry because I didn't go home to bed.
Lying in temper was something that was an issue for me with Sarah and one of the reason's we were not suited in a relationship. It bothered me a lot that she would lie like this.
I asked that she speak to Margaret and explain what she had done, whether she did or didn't I don't know.
Unsurprisingly Margaret never mentioned it again - And no apology came my way.
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