A good friend of mine told me this yesterday:
If you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, he will jump out immediately. However, if you put the same frog in a pot of regular water and slowly heat it up, the frog will just stay in until it burns to death.

This was mentioned in an earlier post and I thought it deserved its own entry.
My SIL said this to me back in December when I told her I was at my breaking point. The really funny thing was a couple of weeks later, DH took skids to visit her and the skids grandmother for five days. I stayed home due to work (thank heavens for work sometimes), two days in SIL calls me and basically begs me to take them back, said she couldn't tolerate it any longer, that she was not cut out to be a mother, and needed her life back. This was after two days of having my SD stay with her.

I don't want to get into the details.. but after seven months of unhappiness getting worse and worse my DH is finally hearing me. He is shocked at my unhappiness, shocked that I would consider leaving... It's like watching an accident happen in front of my face, not being able to stop it.
We almost split up last night.
I am hanging by a thread.

My birthday was on saturday. It was the worst birthday I have ever had, not because anything bad happened, but b/c nothing happened. It would have been a fine day had it not been my bday. My DH had to remind the skids to say happy birthday to me. They didn't even make me a card or anything. I have lived with them for 2 years. My DH had been sick with the flu for the three days prior which he says interfered with all of his surprise plans for me. So he took me out to a store to buy a pair of shoes I had wanted and we went to breakfast. He did try but he had been so sick before.