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<blockquote data-quote="rejectedmom" data-source="post: 232361" data-attributes="member: 2315"><p>husband is not a team player especially when he screws up. When that happens he goes on the defensive and tells me that I should just do things myself cause he can't ever do things right... bla bla bla. After 36 years of his blustering everytime I try to point out a better way of handling things I know and accept that he will not change. I still speak my mind but I know it falls on deaf ears. He is a narcissistwhich means he is never wrong, always misunderstood, Joe nice guy to the world and somwhat less than that to me. I have long ago given up on him.</p><p></p><p>In order to move on I just droped it and got to thinking about how to best get some work out of difficult child before he once again gets something for nothing.</p><p></p><p>I thoought about it and came up with a few ideas and talked to husband about them. We decided that instead of a bunch of little chores we would just have difficult child strip the paint off the carriage house to ready it for fresh paint in the spring. This way he is not in my house and he can get it done in about a week and maybe I won't end up with nothing to show for my efforts at helping him. I will also tell him that if he stays out of trouble he can have the job of painting it later on in exchange for more debt reversal. This way difficult child has something to work toward after this chore is done. -RM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rejectedmom, post: 232361, member: 2315"] husband is not a team player especially when he screws up. When that happens he goes on the defensive and tells me that I should just do things myself cause he can't ever do things right... bla bla bla. After 36 years of his blustering everytime I try to point out a better way of handling things I know and accept that he will not change. I still speak my mind but I know it falls on deaf ears. He is a narcissistwhich means he is never wrong, always misunderstood, Joe nice guy to the world and somwhat less than that to me. I have long ago given up on him. In order to move on I just droped it and got to thinking about how to best get some work out of difficult child before he once again gets something for nothing. I thoought about it and came up with a few ideas and talked to husband about them. We decided that instead of a bunch of little chores we would just have difficult child strip the paint off the carriage house to ready it for fresh paint in the spring. This way he is not in my house and he can get it done in about a week and maybe I won't end up with nothing to show for my efforts at helping him. I will also tell him that if he stays out of trouble he can have the job of painting it later on in exchange for more debt reversal. This way difficult child has something to work toward after this chore is done. -RM [/QUOTE]
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