W was at a store with me and the kids, W tells me about needing grass in her new back yard, She tells me that her Dad told her to just get seed. We just did this to our house in the summer, we chose sod and her Dad did the same at his house and he choose seed. Seed needs way more care, takes way longer. I tell W are you going to have time to look after seed? Just get sod, you can put a tarp in your car and put it in your trunk.
W doesn't say anything.
Then later she says it wont fit in her trunk she needs a lot of it. And starts saying I would have to pick it up using a trailer. I say hold on you didn't say you needed that much grass. I thought you were talking about a small area.
I then said that she can still get a lot in her trunk, the seats fold down. Then I also said that she can borrow the trailer if she needs it.
Haven't talked about it since.
But you can see how her mind works. The lying by not telling me the size of area , then hooking me into it. She know about sod just as much as me.
It did come out that her dad will be at her new place for a week doing all this work for her (widow coverings, towel racks shelves) then she tells me she doesn't know if he will have enough time to do all the work. Then she tells me that I am lucky that my place doesn't need any work. How does she know she has never seen it.
She was setting me up to volunteer to help. But she left it at that.
I like the boundary idea of not being taken advantage of. Because that is what it is.
We move out at the end of May. I have some time to figure this out.
Me late 30's W mid 30's T 15, M 10 S4, S7 ILYBNILWY June 2015 In house S July 2015 W rings off Oct 2015 My ring off Feb 2015 Separate houses June 2016