I also think you're right about the replay. More of that is going on again. The new clothes thing, talking about new motorcycle all the time, only interested in his toys.
In fact even though money has been tight because his retirement money is not completely worked out, and even though H claims that he didn't tell me about tenant moving out of our rental apt because he didn't want me to worry about the money sit, H told me last week and confirmed last weekend that he was going to spend $300 to rent a different Harley for 3 days as his birthday present. Definitely MLC kind of logic.
But as I reminded myself today, it is all about him. And in his mind he's doing what he has to do to take care of himself. But I wonder where he thinks he'd be today if I had taken that attitude. Neither his parents nor his brother even visited him after a 10-hr operation or when he was in the National Rehabilitation Hospital (in DC) for a month in 05, and BIL works right in DC and both live right in the area. Does he think any of them would have taken care of him when he got out? None of them even offered to help.
Well, that was then, this is now. Later, gators.
In4ride Me 50, H 55, M 17 yrs 1st Bomb Drop 12/7/03 Separated mostly in house Come back together/H breaks back 9/04 Piecing, surgeries, recovery, H retires 2nd Bomb Drop 9/3/07 H moves out 20 min later