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difficult child's joblessness is getting to me. Not sure where to go from here
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<blockquote data-quote="Calamity Jane" data-source="post: 551722" data-attributes="member: 13882"><p>Dash,</p><p>I think you did the right thing, and your offer to drop her off, go shopping and pick her up was generous in my opinion. Rejecting your offer of a lift and insisting on taking her own car, despite having no gas, could mean that she had no intention of job hunting - the dress up may have just been an act to appease you while conning gas money from you. (I'm living in difficult child world, so I'm hyper-suspicious, mind you.)</p><p>If she claims she didn't make it there, and ran out of gas, that's on her, not you. If she tells you she was mad at you because you wouldn't give her gas money, again that's on her. You offered a ride there and back, which is thoughtful and kind. If she was bound and determined to job hunt today, she should've set her pride aside and taken a ride from you. Unfortunately, difficult children want what they want when they want it, are impulsive and generally don't think proactively.</p><p>I hope I'm wrong about this - my "baloney" meter is always running; I wish it wasn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calamity Jane, post: 551722, member: 13882"] Dash, I think you did the right thing, and your offer to drop her off, go shopping and pick her up was generous in my opinion. Rejecting your offer of a lift and insisting on taking her own car, despite having no gas, could mean that she had no intention of job hunting - the dress up may have just been an act to appease you while conning gas money from you. (I'm living in difficult child world, so I'm hyper-suspicious, mind you.) If she claims she didn't make it there, and ran out of gas, that's on her, not you. If she tells you she was mad at you because you wouldn't give her gas money, again that's on her. You offered a ride there and back, which is thoughtful and kind. If she was bound and determined to job hunt today, she should've set her pride aside and taken a ride from you. Unfortunately, difficult children want what they want when they want it, are impulsive and generally don't think proactively. I hope I'm wrong about this - my "baloney" meter is always running; I wish it wasn't. [/QUOTE]
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