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Submitted by Rags on Sat, 04/18/2020 - 12:39am

DW and I have had an amazing run of very connected closeness.  But... open mouth insert foot..... apparently.

My SIL made a post on FB about working to lose weight.  I made a congratulatory comment then took  look at her FB pics to check out the new and improved SIL.  No pics. As I was exiting I noticed her profile, specifically about the line "Interested in: Men and Women."

Sigh. The idiots are spreading this virus wholesale.

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Submitted by Rags on Wed, 04/01/2020 - 4:58pm

My DW has been working from home for a week and a half with the exception for a few hours on Sat and half a day today.  Her firm has bee notified that it is a critical business and can remain open.  Due to the virus the office has been closed to the public that sam eweek and a half and employees have been given the option of working either at the office or at home.  The business is not set up for telecommuting but my DW took our personal laptop to work and got it set up to access the systems and office network remotely.

Pet emergencies during the quarantine.

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Submitted by Rags on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 1:57pm

Got a call from my mom and dad yesterday AM, they were outside doing yard work and had their dog, Bichon, on top of the bed cover of dad's truck.

A 10yo little girl was walking her family's pit bull and was passing in front of my parent's home when the Bichon started barking at the pit bull.  The pit dragged the little girl to the truck, jumped up l, grabbed the Bichon by the head and proceeded to drag him off of the truck and shake him like a rag doll.  My dad, who is recovering from surgery, grabbed the pit and dragged him off of their Bichon.

Obient children and confident parents and adults.

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Submitted by Rags on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 3:08pm

5 minutes of parenting brilliance. 

Give it a watch. It wraps up my parenting philosophy in a very effective 5 minutes.

Kids are not the equal of adults and for damned sure not the equal of parents. And they should not be treated as equals. They are to be loved, cared for, raised effectively and should have no choice but to be obedient.  It is on the adult to establish and enforce this absolute fact.

IMHO of course.

Enjoy.

https://www.prageru.com/video/how-to-get-kids-to-listen/

Quite an exhausting month.

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Submitted by Rags on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 5:34pm

I may have shared earlier that my dad got a Dx of prostate cancer in early Jan.   His prostate removal surgery was scheduled for late Jan but had to be delayed when he fell through the ceiling of the living room while putting away the Christmas tree in the attic.

He severely bruised several ribs, tweaked his back and gouged a chunk of meat out of the back of his left arm.   

So, his surgery was postponed until Feb 11.  Not a great way to celebrate my birthday let me tell ya.

Just stop already.

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Submitted by Rags on Sat, 02/08/2020 - 1:40pm

It is time for people in relationships with the master creators of toxic progeny to just stop, extricate their heads from their own asses, and get out.

No more grasping at the straws of non existent positive qualities, no more enabling, no more making excuses, no more. Just no more.

Please people.  Have some testicular fortitude, have some self respect, grab hold of some element of sanity, take off the rose colored glasses of the tingly feeling that the creator of toxic progeny creates in  you, and just stop already.

Why?

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Submitted by Rags on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 2:09pm

Why is it that so many in blended family/Step marriages engage in so much self delusion in their blended family relationships?

Toxic ill behaved manipulative Skids who while creating havoc in the lives of blended families and in many cases direct that crappy behavior at their SParent only to have that SParent tolerate it and ascribe qualities to that kid that just are not there.  The kid is a "good" kid at heart, "sweet", "Loving", etc, etc, etc........ Yet evil, manipulative, toxic, illbehaved, etc, etc....

A great day, then... the screaming and shreeking commences.

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Submitted by Rags on Sun, 02/02/2020 - 2:12pm

We left mid AM to mail gifts to my wife's sister and cousin and tax docs to my MIL and my wife's aunt.

Then the indecisive selection of a restaurant for breakfast commenced.  Eventually we ended up at a good breakfast place we ate at once about a year and half of ago.  The restaurant is about 15miles from our home.  After breakfast I asked DW which way she wanted to go as we left the parking lot.  She said "Left".

Isolation as manipulation.

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Submitted by Rags on Thu, 01/09/2020 - 5:47pm

My DW's first cousin (on her BioDad's side) has been Dx'd with breast cancer and will have a lumpectomy and bilateral breast reduction done today.  I am hopeful that her surgery and recovery are successful.

The comprehensive gene study the cousins doctors performed  found no indication of the Braca gene which is great news for her, my wife and the three nieces.  The nieces are the three daughters of the other first cousin (the cancer patients sister) who sadly is a crack head and has been absent from the picture for a decade or more cycling in and out of jail and homeless camps.

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