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<blockquote data-quote="HereWeGoAgain" data-source="post: 186395" data-attributes="member: 3485"><p>Well, difficult child canceled. Yesterday, wife decided against having her come to the house at all, and instead set up a brunch date at a restaurant for today while easy child 1 was at school. difficult child called this morning and said she couldn't make it.</p><p></p><p>According to the conversation with wife yesterday, difficult child is working for this man whose family she is currently living with, doing cleanup at construction sites. Supposedly he is a recovering alcoholic with 19 years sobriety* who offered her the job and place to stay, and told her about the facility she is scheduled to do the phone assessment with. She can stay at his place until a bed opens up, then come back afterwards until she can get into a sober house or an apartment. How much of this is true I don't know. To me it sounds too pat and too much like what she thinks we would want to hear. She implied that the man is married and has children (she is living with "his family"). Myself, I find it hard to imagine that his wife would be cool with him rescuing good-looking twenty-somethings and bringing them home. Anything's possible, I suppose, but like I said, color me skeptical.</p><p></p><p>Today difficult child said they had to be at the site early and that he couldn't take time out to deliver and fetch her from the brunch date. She said she'd call back later in the week, maybe we could do something Friday or Saturday? I think she's angling to get a nice meal and home visit with easy child 1, and opportunity to try to wheedle some money, out of this. wife is standing firm against it. Every passing day offers new evidence that she has turned a corner on detaching from difficult child's manipulations.</p><p></p><p>* Interestingly, that number has cropped up before. When she has wanted to impress us with a new sponsor/rescuer she has hooked up with, they always seem to have exactly 19 years of sobriety. wife's and my relationship has lasted 19 years. Do you suppose she subconsciously bases her idea of a long-term commitment on her mother's and my marriage?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HereWeGoAgain, post: 186395, member: 3485"] Well, difficult child canceled. Yesterday, wife decided against having her come to the house at all, and instead set up a brunch date at a restaurant for today while easy child 1 was at school. difficult child called this morning and said she couldn't make it. According to the conversation with wife yesterday, difficult child is working for this man whose family she is currently living with, doing cleanup at construction sites. Supposedly he is a recovering alcoholic with 19 years sobriety* who offered her the job and place to stay, and told her about the facility she is scheduled to do the phone assessment with. She can stay at his place until a bed opens up, then come back afterwards until she can get into a sober house or an apartment. How much of this is true I don't know. To me it sounds too pat and too much like what she thinks we would want to hear. She implied that the man is married and has children (she is living with "his family"). Myself, I find it hard to imagine that his wife would be cool with him rescuing good-looking twenty-somethings and bringing them home. Anything's possible, I suppose, but like I said, color me skeptical. Today difficult child said they had to be at the site early and that he couldn't take time out to deliver and fetch her from the brunch date. She said she'd call back later in the week, maybe we could do something Friday or Saturday? I think she's angling to get a nice meal and home visit with easy child 1, and opportunity to try to wheedle some money, out of this. wife is standing firm against it. Every passing day offers new evidence that she has turned a corner on detaching from difficult child's manipulations. * Interestingly, that number has cropped up before. When she has wanted to impress us with a new sponsor/rescuer she has hooked up with, they always seem to have exactly 19 years of sobriety. wife's and my relationship has lasted 19 years. Do you suppose she subconsciously bases her idea of a long-term commitment on her mother's and my marriage? [/QUOTE]
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