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Movie Request...really?!

Cover1W's picture

So SD12 asked DP to get movie tickets for her and asked me to take her to see it.
I'm going to talk with DP and tell him, NO - HE can take her. She's done NOTHING to deserve it from me at all, nothing.

1) Took my stuff from laundry room, lied about it. So now I'm locking some of my things up in my own house. DP did nothing about it, even used the same excuse he did with the broken kitchen drawers...

2) Borrowed some of my stuff (with my permission) but did not put it back and damaged it. This is going to be locked up from now on.

3) Room is a disaster, DP hasn't worked with her on this issue at all. I decided to not trash bag anything, but I will go in, pick out the household stuff, dump all contents in her room or on her bed. NO respecting household items other people need? Fine. I'll take it back. This is my dream really, not sure about it...as it may be engaging...but I NEED MY KITCHEN BOWLS.

4) All 4 (yes 4!) of her lunch bags are in the kitchen, full of half-rotten food. I'll do the same dump if they are still like that when she leaves on Friday. She's expecting someone else to do it for her.

5) DP took out all SDs trash from their rooms and bathroom AGAIN. And he hasn't yet replaced the household rubbing alcohol he gave SD. I'm taking his CC to the store this weekend if he's not with me and I'm replacing that and my sewing kit on his dime.

6) I haven't make SD9s lunch the last two times she's been with us (not movie related) but it's because she hasn't done her part of it - it's clear that if she does Angel then I will assist with (b). If not, no lunch made for her.

And he wonders why they don't do anything? And treat him like cr@p? They do anything they want most of the time and then won't so something simple he asks them to do? Well, DP, you have created them now you can deal with them.

They will be with us tonight and tomorrow and how convenient I am busy AGAIN tonight and won't be home until bed time. DARN IT. Tomorrow I'll be there alone with SD12 for a couple hours, but nope, not making her dinner. I'm going to be doing MY laundry and cleaning MY stuff up...no time. }:)

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twoviewpoints's picture

"I'm going to talk with DP and tell him, NO - HE can take her. She's done NOTHING to deserve it from me at all, nothing."

She's done nothing to earn a trip to the movies period. Why would Dad even agree to tickets regardless of who takes her?

Cover1W's picture

Yeah, I know.
But I cannot prevent him from buying the tickets - I can refuse to take her. Doing what I can to not participate.

See, DP does not understand or even want to render "consequences" - "responsibility" is a foreign word as well. So he doesn't connect paying for a movie as a "reward" - there's no rewards or penalties, there's just "is what it is."

Shaman29's picture

Dealing with this now and H's D is 20 years old.

She jerk his chain, he doesn't do anything about it and can't figure why she continues the behavior.

My H needs dumba$$ tattooed backwards on his forehead.

robin333's picture

What the h*ll is so hard about emptying a lunchbox? Most first graders have that mastered.

Cover1W's picture

But when daddy and mommy do it for you all the time (not Cover though) how do you ever learn? Neither BM nor DP have any rules/chores/learning to do things themselves.

I mean, for instance, they didn't start wearing underwear until they were 8 and 10. And since I've completely removed myself from the showering/cleanliness discussions (of which there are none now) neither one will shower. SD12 doesn't have any clean underwear at all, SD9 - almost 10 - changed her underwear 2x in the last 5 days she was with us. And she smelled on the last day. Nope, not going there.

So no one is teaching them to do it. And I, at this point, cannot do it.

WalkOnBy's picture

BabyVoice won't do it. But she sure can complain when there aren't any containers to take - lol!

tough shit sister, maybe if you took them out of your lunch bag when you got home from school and put them in the dishwasher, they would be clean.

I take containers in my lunch bag every day. I come home, take off my coat and boots, grab the mail, then I take my dirty containers out of my bag and put them in the dishwasher. I never have trouble finding clean containers Smile