Feeling free
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Anonymous
| Our amazing nanny has been with us for 10 years and this is her last week with us. My kids are older and she’s not really the right person for help with homeschooling. I am teleworking for the foreseeable future so the time was right. I’m sad she’s leaving, I will miss her and so will my kids. But I feel so free to no longer have to worry about another person. Over the past 10 years she’s had a major surgery, a job loss for her spouse, and an IRS audit that we ended up helping resolve. I’m just glad to be done with this phase... |
Anonymous
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Good for you? So your affection and concern for this woman is over now and you’re free?
You are a horrid woman. |
Anonymous
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So your worry for the woman who loved and cared for your children ends when you stop paying her? You’re a phony, OP.
My nanny growing up stayed in our lives until she passed away. She and my mom were true friends. My brother and i both spoke at her funeral. When you love someone, it’s forever. |
Anonymous
No, not at all! I will always care for her and she will always be in our lives (she’s now going to work for a good friend of ours who is like family). I’m just saying that it is a freeing feeling to no longer have another person I’m responsible for. We would always help her in a pinch because we love her, but it no longer impacts my childcare and I’m glad I’ve moved On from this stage! |
Anonymous
Ugh. NP here and you are truly vile. I hope to God I don’t know you IRL. |
Anonymous
| I get it, OP. We love our long-time nanny but she seems to go from one personal crisis to another due to her attraction to charming but undependable men, lack of financial sense and dysfunctional relatives. She has even said we are like the parents she never had. |
Anonymous
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Such a cruel post to mark the end of your nanny’s ten years of service and love for your children.
I hope your nanny never reads what you wrote about her. So heartless. |
Anonymous
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Wow so fake-wait till it come back and bite you in the ass
Cannot stand these fake employers.....favorite line we love You You’re doing such great job with John etc Oh please Nannies are no fools Keep your fake love and compassion She maybe more happy to leave your fake and pretending household |
Anonymous
I doubt she will - we don’t live in the DC area and I don’t think she knows this forum exists. |
Anonymous
| Wicked |
Anonymous
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I also get it OP. Our first nanny was beloved, and is still a part of our lives and very close with our kids. But she relied on us for so much outside the parameters of the job (help when car broke down, taking her to urgent care when sick, helping her find a new apartment and then helping her move, helping her with taxes/insurance decisions, etc...)
We loved her like family and with that came a level of responsibility and concern far beyond typical employment. In fact, she still has that kind of pull on us (I spent an hour with her this weekend trying to help her w/ a current job search.) Congrats on a wonderfully long and positive tenure - and enjoy the stress relief of no longer feeling responsible for her! (Though know that probably won't fully go away!) 
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Anonymous
| Sad |
Anonymous
Oh please. It's like being relieved when your kid grows up and moves out. You love them but it's a weight off your shoulders. One less person to consider for meals, one less person's dr appointments to keep track of, one less person moving things in the house, etc. |
Anonymous
| This person was loyal and icing to your family for 10 YEARS and this is how you feel when she leaves. Free? You didn’t deserve her, but your kids are Lily they had her influence. Imagine just growing up with a cold person like you as their mother figure. |
Anonymous
| *loving not icing! |