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A month without Skids...it was glorious!

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Submitted by strugglingSM on Mon, 01/14/2019 - 7:27am

DH and I had some travel plans to see my family on his last visitation weekend and instead of switching weekends, we asked MIL to take the kids for the weekend. That means we have had two weekends in a row without SSs. It was glorious! DH and I spent time together and even enjoyed our time doing nothing together. It gave me a glimpse into how wonderful our relationship could be if there were no Skids. <sigh>

 

Disney Dad’s enabling behavior

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Submitted by strugglingSM on Mon, 12/31/2018 - 11:17pm

My SSs (both in middle school) are completely helpless. They have only recently learned to cut their own food (thanks to several lessons from me), but still need help more often than you’d expect. 

They also can’t keep track of anything...even things that are important to them.

For Christmas, they got new ski goggles and new ski gloves. They complained that their ski goggles fogged up, yet could not be expected to wipe them off. One has also already lost one of his new ski gloves.

SS’s Christmas tantrum

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Submitted by strugglingSM on Tue, 12/25/2018 - 10:37am

On December 21st, SS sends DH a text “are you getting me something for Christmas?!” “I want this” with a picture of some $80 paintball harness of sorts.

DH doesn’t reply because this year for Christmas, both SSs got ski season passes, ski rentals for the season, new helmets, new ski pants, new ski gloves, new ski goggles. I don’t even want to type how much that cost us, but it’s something for us all to do together, so away we go.

The least wonderful time of the year

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Submitted by strugglingSM on Mon, 12/17/2018 - 12:18am

For those of you with high conflict, manipulative BMs, do you ever wonder how your DH managed to get into such a terrible relationship in the first place and why he stayed long enough to have kids?

I used to, but now I’ve realized that MIL had normalized all the vindictive, manipulative behavior so much for DH that he didn’t even realize that BM was treating him badly.

So over the drama

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Submitted by strugglingSM on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 6:44pm

I posted previously about how SS12 forgot his golf clubs at our house. I saw them in the garage after DH left to take him home. 

What I didn't know was that DH didn't even know they were at our house. MIL brought SS to our house at 10pm on Friday and she let herself in with SS and put the clubs in our garage. 

Neither of us know that SS had a golf tournament today, because why would we, BM never tells us anything. 

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