I tell her I will be home at 5pm. I get home to find she and kids are not home. I find my S10 down at the neighborhood park and he tells me W and S8 are at the mall.
Where I live, a parent could lose their kids for doing something like she's done. Is she insane? Leaving a ten year old kid alone in the park? I really hope this is different from how it reads.
I should clarify S10 was at park with neighborhood/classmates. In her defense, she typically keeps me informed where S8 and S10 are afterschool (if they not doing organized activities); but yesterday she must have been so upset that ignoring was the better choice.
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For the time being, and since you have not told her it is a boundary, can you think of something else?
I have read the post on boundaries. I think I have been reactive more than anything and having trouble defining my boundaries. As shared, I am innately (and culturally raised) to go with the flow (hate to admit it but.. be a doormap.. avoid conflict). So speaking up for what I want/need and following through has not been me. Darn-it, this is something W knows too well about me.. that I do not follow through.. (she's got me by the ba!!s here).
