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It's Lt. Dad Fireside Chat Time: Welcome to Our Newbies, Prepare for Honesty

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Welcome, come right in, have a seat next to the fire. Aniki is mixing up some cocktails in the study and has provided us a nice assortment of "forn". Veterans members, go ahead and get your two cents ready and we'll pass the donation box shortly.

Well, I'm a FT Stepmom Now...

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You read that right.

Eternal Teenager voluntarily handed over custody of YSS.

Without giving away too many details, YSS had a mental health crisis earlier this week. DH now has him in therapy. ET is also dealing with having to move ASAP, so she and her DH are moving about an hour away to somewhere they can afford.

OSS is Here, and ET Makes a Funny

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He came home from college today and is staying with us for break! He actually told Eternal Teenager! She didn't throw a fit (at least to any of us)!

Miracle of f**king miracles!

Now, ready to hear the funniest thing I've heard in a LONG time?

OSS has the opportunity to do something through the university during his junior year so long as he doesn't change majors (highly doubtful he will). There is a cost associated, so OSS wanted to talk to DH and I and ET about it.

OT - Coming to terms with my mom being the bad guy...

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I am a COD. My mom and dad split when I was 14ish. Writing had been on the walls for years. My parents were just two VERY different people, and I'm not entirely sure what made them get together in the first place.

My mom has mental health issues. Always has. Growing up, I had just assumed it was depression. She is an only child and my grandparents died in the 90s. Mix in an unhappy marriage and a soul-draining job, and it was easy to see why she was the way she was.

It's SOOOOOO tempting...

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Why am I nice at all to my MIL? Why can't I just tell her to fly a kite and priss off?

OSS has a performance tonight. I sent her the link to the stream. She said thanks and asks if DH and I are going to attend. I said no, we weren't going because of COVID.

Her response?

"Well, at least ET and YSS will be there."

No electricity = YSS staying with us

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Eternal Teenager had her electricity shut off AGAIN. This is the second time in a year. I don't understand how two working adults, one of whom receives $1,000 in CS each month and whose kids have nearly all their expenses covered and the other that works a trade, can't manage to keep their lights on.

So now YSS is with us until probably Monday because it's DH's weekend anyway. It's for the best, but it so annoys me. At least she was smart this time and didn't ask DH for money...

OT - Fertility Updates from Anti-Canada

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Quick recap: DH had a vasectomy reversal May 2019. Surgery went well, and by December, he had noticeable improvement in sperm quality/quantity. Win for us.

While things were improving, they weren't getting out of the "unassisted pregnancy" category. DH was supposed to have follow-up testing in March, but COVID. I still wasn't getting pregnant, and I was tracking my side hardcore. Lose for us.

I'll be forever thankful when YSS graduates HS...

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DH has been trying for MONTHS to get added to YSS's online parent platform for school. He'd call, someone said he'd get a call back, he never did, etc. Eternal Teenager would forward him information, so it wasn't too much of an issue.

Well, that is until YSS started doing precisely zero school work while with ET. He has a hybrid schedule, so half of his schooling is entirely online and somewhat self-paced. He needs the structure of in-person learning OR at least having someone give him a timeframe daily of what needs to happen.

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