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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyFace" data-source="post: 246444" data-attributes="member: 6546"><p>Mstang--</p><p> </p><p>When I read your post....it reminded me a lot of my husband's attitude--that is, BEFORE he was a lot more involved with difficult child. I'm not sure that this is the situation in your household...but my husband used to work incredibly long hours. So he was never home for the getting-ready-for-school hassles in the morning, nor the getting-home-from-school hassles in the afternoon, nor the homework battles, nor the chore battles, nor the please-for-the-love-of-God-take-a-shower battles. At the end of the day he would listen to my venting and ranting and raving and seem to understand--but he was aboslutely positive that we could fix it.</p><p> </p><p>Then, husband was laid off....and so I went to work. And suddenly, everything was on husband. At first, he was still very sure that he could "fix" everything....and because he wasn't working, he had plenty of time and patience to try. </p><p> </p><p>But now that he is back to work (and due to schedules HE is the one that is there for the getting-ready-for-school hassles, and the chore battles and on and on and on) he is finally experiencing first-hand the STRESS I have been complaining about all these years. He is finally experiencing the constant "wrench in the works" from difficult child's non-compliance at every little thing.</p><p> </p><p>And FINALLY--he gets it!!!!</p><p> </p><p>So, it seems to me that you need to arrange to take an e-x-t-e-n-d-e-d v-a-c-a-t-i-o-n somewhere (go stay at a friend's house for a month)....and let husband come home every day to the crusted egg mess, and to clean the kitchen and the dishes after difficult child every day, fix difficult child dinner every day, and do difficult child's laundry everyday and all the other chores that go into taking care of the household--and then let him deal with difficult child's ungrateful attitude, the treating the house like a dump, the laying around doind nothing, etc etc.</p><p> </p><p>Ten bucks says difficult child's suitcases will be on the front porch before you even return home....</p><p> </p><p>--DaisyF</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyFace, post: 246444, member: 6546"] Mstang-- When I read your post....it reminded me a lot of my husband's attitude--that is, BEFORE he was a lot more involved with difficult child. I'm not sure that this is the situation in your household...but my husband used to work incredibly long hours. So he was never home for the getting-ready-for-school hassles in the morning, nor the getting-home-from-school hassles in the afternoon, nor the homework battles, nor the chore battles, nor the please-for-the-love-of-God-take-a-shower battles. At the end of the day he would listen to my venting and ranting and raving and seem to understand--but he was aboslutely positive that we could fix it. Then, husband was laid off....and so I went to work. And suddenly, everything was on husband. At first, he was still very sure that he could "fix" everything....and because he wasn't working, he had plenty of time and patience to try. But now that he is back to work (and due to schedules HE is the one that is there for the getting-ready-for-school hassles, and the chore battles and on and on and on) he is finally experiencing first-hand the STRESS I have been complaining about all these years. He is finally experiencing the constant "wrench in the works" from difficult child's non-compliance at every little thing. And FINALLY--he gets it!!!! So, it seems to me that you need to arrange to take an e-x-t-e-n-d-e-d v-a-c-a-t-i-o-n somewhere (go stay at a friend's house for a month)....and let husband come home every day to the crusted egg mess, and to clean the kitchen and the dishes after difficult child every day, fix difficult child dinner every day, and do difficult child's laundry everyday and all the other chores that go into taking care of the household--and then let him deal with difficult child's ungrateful attitude, the treating the house like a dump, the laying around doind nothing, etc etc. Ten bucks says difficult child's suitcases will be on the front porch before you even return home.... --DaisyF [/QUOTE]
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