Moving Ahead in UK - pt17 - been here so long!

[Huddy]

It's funny. When you don't conform to what your W wants you to do, they go all huffy and act like you've just stolen their last pound!

Kids have been over for tea and I ask if the kids are coming Thursday (normal when it's not my weekend to have them) when W tells me she's bringing them on Friday as 'you're having them for the weekend'. There is, however, a fly in this tightly packed ointment, as I am going to a retirement 'do' on Friday night. I told W I couldn't have them on Friday and W went from being a fairly pleasant person in to being a huffy, uncontrollably narky person in an instant.

Apart from being questioned as to where I was going (I just said I wasn't going to be in) she stomped out of the flat. In the past few weeks, she's been saying 'hiya' and 'see you' when she comes and goes, but today, when she left, she couldn't even look me in the eye. I told her to bring the kids on Saturday morning instead. I know she's working Saturday, but she hadn't asked and just expected.

So, what was this an example of? Manipulation; loss of control? Don't know, but she seemed mighty miffed that I wasn't doing her bidding for her.