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Give difficult child grandpa's watch or not to? About trust and self-preservation
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 563128" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Okay, adfter mulling this through from all points of views I could come up with and which you all offered (again, thank you for that) and visualising all kinds of scenarios, especially the bad ones, I have decided to act against my best judgement. I came to understand that giving that watch to him, honouring our family line in it all uniqueness, is more important to me than that watch. And if he breaks, looses or sells it, I can live with that. I may not be able to live with husband's "I told you so"'s but that is a bridge I will cross if it comes to that.</p><p></p><p>So I have decided to offer difficult child three options to choose from when it comes to his present:</p><p>1. He can have the grandpa's watch</p><p>2. He can have a new watch of about equal value of his choosing, if he doesn't want grandpa's watch for one reason or another</p><p>3. He can have grandpa's watch, but it stays mostly where it is, in my safety deposit box. After all, it is a dress watch (nowadays, when new it was worn every day but times and watches have changed) and difficult child doesn't 'dress' often. Those few times a year when he does, I could get the watch for him to use and after that it would go back to the bank. But because I do get that this would be the lamest gift ever, I would be happy to add something that would bring difficult child joy currently. I do know from his social media that he has been salivating over all kinds of fancy headphones. Not enough that he would had bought them to himself (price range of the models he seems to envy from others is somewhere around 250-300 dollars and he could afford that, but seems to be saving his money to other things), but it sounds like he would like them very much.</p><p></p><p>Okay, as you probably noticed, the third one is kind of 'have a your cake and eat it too' option for me, but there is nothing wrong in trying <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 563128, member: 14557"] Okay, adfter mulling this through from all points of views I could come up with and which you all offered (again, thank you for that) and visualising all kinds of scenarios, especially the bad ones, I have decided to act against my best judgement. I came to understand that giving that watch to him, honouring our family line in it all uniqueness, is more important to me than that watch. And if he breaks, looses or sells it, I can live with that. I may not be able to live with husband's "I told you so"'s but that is a bridge I will cross if it comes to that. So I have decided to offer difficult child three options to choose from when it comes to his present: 1. He can have the grandpa's watch 2. He can have a new watch of about equal value of his choosing, if he doesn't want grandpa's watch for one reason or another 3. He can have grandpa's watch, but it stays mostly where it is, in my safety deposit box. After all, it is a dress watch (nowadays, when new it was worn every day but times and watches have changed) and difficult child doesn't 'dress' often. Those few times a year when he does, I could get the watch for him to use and after that it would go back to the bank. But because I do get that this would be the lamest gift ever, I would be happy to add something that would bring difficult child joy currently. I do know from his social media that he has been salivating over all kinds of fancy headphones. Not enough that he would had bought them to himself (price range of the models he seems to envy from others is somewhere around 250-300 dollars and he could afford that, but seems to be saving his money to other things), but it sounds like he would like them very much. Okay, as you probably noticed, the third one is kind of 'have a your cake and eat it too' option for me, but there is nothing wrong in trying :winking: [/QUOTE]
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