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Don't know if difficult child will have a birthday dinner
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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 325586" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>Janet, difficult child is always alone with-me when he does the physical stuff.</p><p>He will argue with-me when husband is present, but he never threatens me physically. </p><p> </p><p>husband is not the confrontational/physical type anyway, and one of the things we went to counseling for was to get him to react quickly and decisively with-difficult child when difficult child would smart-mouth me on something small, for ex., "Five min. til dinner. Please turn off the TV, wash your hands and set the table. This is your second time." (We try to alert him in 5 min. increments.) difficult child will curl his lip and say, "Shut up." husband will just sit there. So I fly across the room and turn off the TV. I think husband should do it because he is bigger and stronger--I hate to stereotype, but there IS a difference between men and women.</p><p>husband complains that I don't give him a chance. I have waited and stared at him and told him out loud, "Hey, do something," and he's very slow on the uptake. Then he gets upset because I'm mad at <em>him.</em></p><p>Really crummy dynamics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 325586, member: 3419"] Janet, difficult child is always alone with-me when he does the physical stuff. He will argue with-me when husband is present, but he never threatens me physically. husband is not the confrontational/physical type anyway, and one of the things we went to counseling for was to get him to react quickly and decisively with-difficult child when difficult child would smart-mouth me on something small, for ex., "Five min. til dinner. Please turn off the TV, wash your hands and set the table. This is your second time." (We try to alert him in 5 min. increments.) difficult child will curl his lip and say, "Shut up." husband will just sit there. So I fly across the room and turn off the TV. I think husband should do it because he is bigger and stronger--I hate to stereotype, but there IS a difference between men and women. husband complains that I don't give him a chance. I have waited and stared at him and told him out loud, "Hey, do something," and he's very slow on the uptake. Then he gets upset because I'm mad at [I]him.[/I] Really crummy dynamics. [/QUOTE]
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