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<blockquote data-quote="Marty Gilroy" data-source="post: 697335" data-attributes="member: 20650"><p>Your suggestions and advice are so appreciated! I called the MFCC last night and requested an appointment for me. Clearly, I need to learn and understand much more, as well as, get much needed support. I suspect that he & I both feel quite alone dealing with his daughter's Aspergers. I think the MFCC will be very helpful (fingers crossed). When I get some resolution, I'll see if the MFCC would be agreeable to meeting with both of us as a couple, so we can forge ahead making joint decisions. He and I need to work together on this stuff.</p><p></p><p>I have no kids; however, I grew up in a blue collar family of ten. I was trained early in life to get off my rear end and step up to the plate. There were simply too many of us in the house, too much work to be done. All of us had to contribute and my father was not a man of great patience. Each of us was held accountable for our actions & decisions. There wasn't a lot of money, so if we wanted something, we got an allowance and/or took a job delivering newspapers, watering a neighbor's garden, babysitting, etc. We were taught to be responsible, respectful, pay our bills and to remember that not everyone had as much as we had. When I was on my own and ran low on money, I ate beans the rest of the week until my pay check arrived. My husband grew up with an older sister and may have been a bit indulged. My husband knew my mother before she died, but not my dad, as he died 20 years earlier. My mother absolutely adored my husband. Both his parents are still alive, though elderly. Clearly, he & I were raised differently, as he never felt the back of his father's hand or was yelled at when he didn't do something he was told to do. Perhaps that each of us have qualities the other would like to have may be what drew us together originally - who knows?</p><p></p><p>Last, the fact that his middle daughter polished off nearly two quarts of vodka sola in 7-10 days is pretty scary. He should be concerned about that, in my opinion. That's an awful lot of vodka to consume in a short period of time. I'll bring this up with the MFCC and, moving forward, will be sure to lock up any/all wine or booze if/when she stays with us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marty Gilroy, post: 697335, member: 20650"] Your suggestions and advice are so appreciated! I called the MFCC last night and requested an appointment for me. Clearly, I need to learn and understand much more, as well as, get much needed support. I suspect that he & I both feel quite alone dealing with his daughter's Aspergers. I think the MFCC will be very helpful (fingers crossed). When I get some resolution, I'll see if the MFCC would be agreeable to meeting with both of us as a couple, so we can forge ahead making joint decisions. He and I need to work together on this stuff. I have no kids; however, I grew up in a blue collar family of ten. I was trained early in life to get off my rear end and step up to the plate. There were simply too many of us in the house, too much work to be done. All of us had to contribute and my father was not a man of great patience. Each of us was held accountable for our actions & decisions. There wasn't a lot of money, so if we wanted something, we got an allowance and/or took a job delivering newspapers, watering a neighbor's garden, babysitting, etc. We were taught to be responsible, respectful, pay our bills and to remember that not everyone had as much as we had. When I was on my own and ran low on money, I ate beans the rest of the week until my pay check arrived. My husband grew up with an older sister and may have been a bit indulged. My husband knew my mother before she died, but not my dad, as he died 20 years earlier. My mother absolutely adored my husband. Both his parents are still alive, though elderly. Clearly, he & I were raised differently, as he never felt the back of his father's hand or was yelled at when he didn't do something he was told to do. Perhaps that each of us have qualities the other would like to have may be what drew us together originally - who knows? Last, the fact that his middle daughter polished off nearly two quarts of vodka sola in 7-10 days is pretty scary. He should be concerned about that, in my opinion. That's an awful lot of vodka to consume in a short period of time. I'll bring this up with the MFCC and, moving forward, will be sure to lock up any/all wine or booze if/when she stays with us. [/QUOTE]
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