Good day fellow STalkers,

Just wanted to share a little tidbit from this weekend. For those of you that have followed my postings, you probably remember that my SD17 recently went to live with her bio-daddy, providing much needed relief from stress in my household. DW is on board, but like a junkie, will occassionaly "relapse" with Child Adoration for SD17.

Things have been going pretty smoothly at home, and last week got even better when I found out that I had received a promotion, effective this summer. I already travel a lot for work (75% of the year), but with the promotion, DW will be able to quit her job and travel along with me. Since SD is already out of the house, the logistical problems associated with DW traveling with me are actually pretty minimal. The one area of difficulty, though, is summer visitation with SD17.

Under the arrangement that DW signed when SD17 went to live with her father, DW gets SD17 all but three weeks of the summer. Since I will be busy familiarizing myself with a new job this summer, and working a lot of hours, I just assumed that DW knew that she would need to stay home with SD17 during the summer break, and wait until SD17 goes back to her father's before DW starts traveling with me. When I am on the road, I will be tired and probably pretty stressed from work, so when I come back to the hotel at night, I will need a supportive environment (i.e. one that does not include a smart-mouthed, lazy, entitled teenager laying on the couch and monopolizing DW's time). I made a comment to DW about it probably being better that I will be on my own during the summer, since I will be so busy learning the new job, and DW said the following:

"What are you talking about? SD17 will be traveling with us this summer."

I nearly shit my pants when she said that. There is NO WAY IN HELL that I will be spending my summer with SD17, especially when I will be routinely working 75+ hours a week! I need to relax and recharge during my time off, not deal with SD17. I explained this to DW, who blew up and said:

"Fine! Just be a dictator!"

With that, she just huffed off. After a few hours, she calmed down, and I pointed out that, in addition to needing a quiet environment in the hotel after work, I also could not guarantee what kind of hotel room I would get. Sometimes it is a two-room suite, but most of the time it is a single-room efficiency. If that was the case, SD17 would be sleeping in the same room as us, so no privacy (or nookie) all summer. DW thought about this, and finally realized that it would be a bad idea for SD17 to travel with me during the summer. We agreed that DW would come see me during the three weeks that SD17 is at her father's, but that she would have to stay home the rest of the summer.

I love my DW, and I really want to spend time with her, but sometimes I wonder where her head is. After all of the acrimony with SD17 over the years, I can't believe that she would even **entertain** the idea of having the three of us cooped up in the same room all summer. It's flabbergasting that it would even cross her mind. She backed off of it pretty quick, but I worry about what she might try next. Hopefully, over time, she will be able to break her "addiction" to SD17, and stop trying these things.