MH - don't feel bad. My friends all call me "Betty" - because my house is cleaner than most of my mom friends, and we talk about the best steamer to use to clean tile floors, I cook, etc.
MH - don't feel bad. My friends all call me "Betty" - because my house is cleaner than most of my mom friends, and we talk about the best steamer to use to clean tile floors, I cook, etc.
Look out MH you've got competition
Both 50 S14 M 16 yrs (his 3rd; my 1st)
ILYBINILWY - 24 Dec 2012 H moved out - 27 Jun 2013 Legally separated - 6 Sep 2013 Closing the door and changing the locks
Funny, just last night (or the wee hours of this morning) I was telling someone how I was looking for a new sewing kit, because W took ours, and I'm the one who did all the button repairs and stitched up repairs and such.
My mom taught all her kids to sew, even us boys. I have long since lost any skills with a machine, but I can do a fair job by hand. Of course they do have manly sewing kits, in camouflage patterns and the like. Geared for hunting/fishing/camping repairs.
Good skill to have when you split the seam up the backside of your pants at work, too. I worked with a guy who kept a little kit in his desk drawer after an accident of that nature.
Now we've done it. From movies to food to sewing... Look out JonF, things are getting crazy around here!
Hmmm poor Kelela - we've gone and hijacked her thread .
MH, funny you should say about you being the one doing all the button repairs. My H can put a button back on and the clothing item would fall apart before the button fell off. He stitched the cap badge onto my son's Cadet beret as well - the ones on his tunic I have done by a "professional" sewer. My dad can also sew and knit better than I can. His mom always told him and his brother that they wouldn't always have her around and may not have a wife to look after them - and they were both ended up being widowed and having to fend for themselves. Guess my gran knew what she was talking about.
I'm teaching my son to cook for the same reason. I won't always be there to cook for him. He will sometimes cook dinner on Cadet nights so that it is ready when I get in - when I don't use the crockpot that it.
Both 50 S14 M 16 yrs (his 3rd; my 1st)
ILYBINILWY - 24 Dec 2012 H moved out - 27 Jun 2013 Legally separated - 6 Sep 2013 Closing the door and changing the locks
Sorry K for hijacking your thread but I'm sure you won't mind After all it's all positive fun MH, you talk about sewing kits being in manly colours, I'm after a toolkit in pink for Christmas Oops there I go again mentioning the C word lol. Now let's continue all this over on my thread, you know I don't mind being hijacked
H47 me48 T22 M21 S20 - Got high functioning autism 3/2000 H admits to OW and moves out to live with her 11/2000 H moves back home 2/4/13 H moves out H tells me he wants D 6/13, but now he can't afford to!
I'm sorry 180 and NQ I know I haven't been on for awhile but I have a very interesting thing to share with you all this past Thursday morning my H texted me at 3am and had asked if i was awake? ( i was like are you kidding me I have to be up in 3 hours to get my boys ready for school) in texted back and told him no I'm in bed and what did he wanted this early in the morning his next text was I'll call you tomorrow. Oh boy i was so hot i couldn't go back to bed so needless to say I was up from 3am till I went to my evening of fun. Which made my night so much better cause I got to hang out with my coworkers. Oh by the way he did call the next day he actually told me how much he miss our family and he had asked me to not to give up on him and our marriage. but he still needs some time to work on himself and he has been. meeting with a paster. He said that he had a heart to heart talk with our oldest son and what our oldest told him had broken his heart just hearing how our oldest feel about what's going on in our family; and every since he moved out he has not stopped thinking about me and our boys and he would really want to come home to us but he needs to work on himself. From what I'm heard from my MIL she had told me that in the last several weeks she and H have been have lots of heart to heart talks between them and he has been tell his mother that he had made the biggest mistake on leaving his family and he is not very happy in his current situation. Yes I know I can't believe what he says at this time but I'm still having that small hope that we will be able to be a family again. And I feel so much closer to my MIL now more then before she has been helping me through this whole thing; she and I had our heart to heart talk about everything and now I fully understand what she was doing all this time for the past 13 years cause now with me looking back I always thought she just wanted to run my life but she was actually helping me she actually saw our marriage going down hill from her point of view and she was trying to help us from ending up they way we are now but neither myself or my H wanted your in put. I told her that from here on end I will start taking your advice more to heart now cause I now know that when she is trying to give me an advice its only to help me and not to hurt me. And since I have been actually listening to her advice I have improved in so many ways and its only been little over a month since h had moved out and she had finally seen how much I have changed since now I have been listening and take her advice to heart. She also had told me that she was scared for me because she had thought that I would keep being the same way I have been for the last 13 years but I had surprised her by finally stepping up and making sure that my boys are taking care of and I had proved to her that I am able to provide for my boys and myself. She also told me if my H and I do get back together I will have to be the one to put my foot down and not to let him run the show the way we use to be. And I should take over all the financial situation and to stop trying to. live above our means. The most important thing in our family will be the boys to make sure they have a roof over their heads and food on the table every night and they have clothes on their back everything else is secondary. And now I understand what she has always been trying to tell me all these years ago. So I'm still holding on to hope on saving myarriage but I'm still going to keep doing what I have been doing for the last month and a half just keeping living my life as best as I can for myself and my boys. I'll keep you all posted and I'll try to get back on here more often. I'll make suee to stop by on your pages to see how you all are doing. Thank you so much for always being there for me.
M:42 H:37 M:14yrs S:13; S:9 Found out PA:8/2012 2nd PA & still w/OW:4/2013 H asked for D:6/2013 H moved out: 8/2013 H & OW moved in together: 8/2013
That's good news K. Just remember baby steps and don't read too much into his words yet. Also, although you and your MIL are getting on, be careful what you do say to her.
Both 50 S14 M 16 yrs (his 3rd; my 1st)
ILYBINILWY - 24 Dec 2012 H moved out - 27 Jun 2013 Legally separated - 6 Sep 2013 Closing the door and changing the locks
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