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Cultured difficult child and the money....how do I respond?
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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 358230" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>Its not a gift, Tia. The horse was a gift. And is not impacted.</p><p> </p><p>If she were in our home more, she'd have been made to fess up and tell the truth to everyone in front of everyone and probably had some other small punishment (she certainly wouldn't have been loaned money to buy an ipod), and the weekend event wouldn't be impacted. As it is, I will only see her for maybe an hour before the event - so the first thing she will see of me after having used me to avoid being in trouble with mom is me handing over cash and time for her to do something special with me. Its not a gift or special occassion, its to help her get started in mounted shooting because she wants to join this sport with me. But as with anyone, even tho its no strings attached, I don't want to be around her if she's going to treat me like that. Know what I mean?? There's strings, and then there's boundaries. And she's crossed this one more than once. To me, it seems to scream, 'you can walk on me, I don't mind.' </p><p> </p><p>And I def will, Wend. I'll probably tell her that I told her mom some of the stories she's told us, too (some of the stuff she says mom does I'm 95% certain is true...like the saddle - I verified that with mom. But some is koi she makes up, too. Like she's not allowed to drink milk or eat fruit. Yeah, right....) and that I plan to continue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 358230, member: 1848"] Its not a gift, Tia. The horse was a gift. And is not impacted. If she were in our home more, she'd have been made to fess up and tell the truth to everyone in front of everyone and probably had some other small punishment (she certainly wouldn't have been loaned money to buy an ipod), and the weekend event wouldn't be impacted. As it is, I will only see her for maybe an hour before the event - so the first thing she will see of me after having used me to avoid being in trouble with mom is me handing over cash and time for her to do something special with me. Its not a gift or special occassion, its to help her get started in mounted shooting because she wants to join this sport with me. But as with anyone, even tho its no strings attached, I don't want to be around her if she's going to treat me like that. Know what I mean?? There's strings, and then there's boundaries. And she's crossed this one more than once. To me, it seems to scream, 'you can walk on me, I don't mind.' And I def will, Wend. I'll probably tell her that I told her mom some of the stories she's told us, too (some of the stuff she says mom does I'm 95% certain is true...like the saddle - I verified that with mom. But some is koi she makes up, too. Like she's not allowed to drink milk or eat fruit. Yeah, right....) and that I plan to continue. [/QUOTE]
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