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Submitted by Cover1W on Sat, 07/15/2023 - 10:34am

YSD17 is arriving today around 11:30, leaving early tomorrow evening. DH called BM yesterday because YSD wouldn't return his calls/texts. I still don't think he should go to BM personally but I'm glad she's showing up... we'll see how her attitude is. I'll bet it's under duress. BM wants college money of course!

Talk with his sisters is in a couple hours, before she arrives.

PAS & SDs - long update

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Submitted by Cover1W on Wed, 07/12/2023 - 5:06pm

OSD19 has been at BM’s for a bit after her freshman year of college ended. DH found out from YSD17 who quietly told him OSD was there. DH has been extremely upset about this since OSD has not contacted him at all and it set off his mild depression (which he’s had since a teen). He is on medication for it (doesn’t need much at least) and has a therapist and a psychiatrist who he sees regularly and he tries to take care of himself.

ok, I'm not imagining it

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Submitted by Cover1W on Tue, 06/27/2023 - 2:37pm

So I was going to make my whole wheat bread this morning, go to get the molasses and it's GONE. I know there was an almost new bottle in the cupboard the last time because I had used up the opened one and just opened this new bottle. And I always put stuff on the grocery list when I run out - as that's what I do. I use the molasses often enough for bread I don't want to run out. Well, zero sight of the newish bottle, zero note on the grocery list. YSD17. She has taken it before, as she has taken the home-made blackberry jam. And a few other things.

No Reschedule

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Submitted by Cover1W on Thu, 06/22/2023 - 10:10am

The other day I was talking with DH about plans for some friends who are coming over for a day, and maybe a night, in early July (decided about 2 weeks ago now). We've been trying to get together since May and amazingly found a weekend that works. DH said something about YSD17 NOT coming over the weekend before this one and I said I'm not cancelling this for her whim.

Next day DH asks me if we could do a different weekend with our friends because YSD17 is for certain coming the same weekend. Note she's not been here for over a month. Because only her schedule matters.

out for a me day!

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Submitted by Cover1W on Sat, 05/20/2023 - 3:09pm

DH has been in a funk especially with YSD not coming AGAIN for the fourth weekend in a row. With another flimsy excuse. So she won't be here for at least another three weeks due to plans. DH and I were supposed to go do fun stuff today and he was up so late, has a toothache (I made him call dentist for emergency appointment on Monday because he's leaving town Tuesday for over a week). 

podcast, alienation, good listening

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Submitted by Cover1W on Sat, 04/01/2023 - 3:48pm

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cO0m4vyCu38vQB2Yj5IAj

Radical Stepmom Podcast latest episode, Season 6, episode 9, A Story of Alienation...

Just wow. So many parallels, minus the 'ours baby', different people, different locations but so amazing how Parental Alienation takes hold from the alienated home perspective.

We are not crazy.

DH and travel

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Submitted by Cover1W on Thu, 02/23/2023 - 11:53am

So DH loves to travel, as do I. I however have had more difficulty doing so in my life due to $$ and jobs where I could actually take a good chunk of time off were few. However, now I could but my elderly cat with kidney disease is going against two vet prognosis and is still happy and healthy (you wouldn't know he was sick if you saw him) 4 months after his predicted decline and end of life. He is on several weekly meds that are easy, but also gets fluids 2x per week and does NOT do well left alone for more than a night. He's a happy senior cat who loves his people.

YSD and fun facts

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Submitted by Cover1W on Sat, 02/18/2023 - 10:29am

She got her driver's license! Shocking! But didn't come over that entire weekend because of the driving test. She's not exited at all about it, or at least around us. I told her now she can go to the beach or to the store whenever she wants to. "Yeah, I guess."

She also broke our toaster, said nothing (as she does) and we discovered it two days later. DH went and got a new one.

Off-Topic - My Sister, the BM

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Submitted by Cover1W on Mon, 01/09/2023 - 11:46am

So my sister was divorced, a GREAT thing since she was with an abuser, 2 years ago (divorce was final a year ago, but they split a year earlier). She got her own place and my niece finished up high school then, she's now 19.5.  And she's now got issues that we are all familiar with and I'm advising her as best I can, with as much honesty as I can from an outside perspective!

 

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