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Things have been very weird lately - some good things and some things I just wish weren't possible

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These last couple of weeks have been kind of a blur of stress and weirdness in our house. FDH got a call two Mondays ago from the online school saying that SD needed to be done with her coursework by this past Monday, which he wasn't expecting. Apparently, what the woman who is in charge of SD's stuff at the school failed to mention in November AND during that phone call two Mondays ago was that SD needed to finish up the first half of her school year by the 14th.

Know what else I'm sick of?

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FDH and SD interrupt me CONSTANTLY. There have been a few times when I will start speaking in the course of a conversation with either of them, yet, I try to always wait for a lull in what they are saying before I talk. Sometimes, it doesn't work, but most of the time it does.

But then, they get all indignant that I interrupted them.

SD is still trying to situate herself as an adult in the house

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Like that's any different from these past two weeks. Or the past five years.

She came home from counseling this afternoon and told FDH that her therapist thinks that when there's a problem in the house, all three of us should sit down and talk about it and that she agrees with him (which makes me think she's being dishonest about what goes on in our house because that is what we do ALMOST every time - save for one time when SD had to apologzie to me when FDH was sleeping and the hullabaloo with the dog).

Some baby steps, though I think FDH keeps wanting leaps and bounds

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Yesterday was another counseling session that got devoted to the SD hullabaloo rather than focusing on me and the reasons why I'm in therapy. It's hard not to resent the fact that so much of what is supposed to be time for me to deal with my own crap gets devoted to SD and FDH's antics in relation to her anymore. It's necessary right now, but, it would be nice to have a week where I can just work on my anxiety and the crap from my family of origin.

What's wrong, FDH, SD isn't the perfect angel you thought she was???

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FDH told me last night and again this morning that SD is getting on his nerves. And to that I say "GOOD!" because she's being really annoying and acting like GUBM lately. Hell, she's been on my nerves for this whole past week. This might be the right way to lead him into seeing that bending over backwards for her happiness is making things WORSE rather than better. The last two visits, he didn't do this and SD was completely tolerable at her worst and completely enjoyable at her best. Now, she's barely even tolerable at her best.

What the hell, seriously??

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FDH and I had a date tonight and when we came home, FDH noticed something on SD's arm. She wrote all over her arm in blue sharpie "Shut up" repeatedly.

Seriously?

She tried to make the claim that it's three days old which is just yet another lie because a) she was wearing a t-shirt last night and had no such markings on her arm and b) she was in a t-shirt all day today and had no such markings on her arms. So she did those tonight.

So much for the positive posts...

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I apologize in advance because this is a long one. It would figure that after I posted something positive that happened between SD and myself that SD would then put on her mega princess pants and start acting like an insufferable brat. FDH and I are both fed up with this behavior from her. If she doesn't get her way, even if it is her own fault that she doesn't get her way, she acts like we're the two biggest assholes on the face of the earth. She still can't take criticism and she especially doesn't take any from me no matter how nicely I deliver it.

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