Uncharted Waters

[HaWho]

2T - LOL - when the kids ask my h why his door is locked, my h says innocently "oh it locks itself automatically." When I heard that, my eyes rolled so far to the back of my head, it took them all day to roll back to the front.

The beauty of this forum is that we get to see all the different ways these MLCers go crazy. Mine, unfortunately, is *literally* going nuts.

It's interesting to me that your h is still just sane enough to hold onto this business meanwhile making all sorts of other completely insane decisions. The way he brought on his brother so that he can run off and play? It's interesting to see the way he's making logic based decisions with pure emotions.

It reminds me of this story my h told early in replay. He had bombed me at this point. I had learned this was MLC. We were out with our kids and my h told this story about an old boss he had; a very successful individual. The guy had no kids and no wife, thankfully! One LBS spared here. Anyway, one day, the boss walks into work and up and quits a great job that pays well. He is almost 50. And, he becomes a monk and gives away EVERYTHING! Every last penny and material item.

So, not yet knowing to zip it, I said "know what that is boys? A midlife crisis!" H gets really huffy and retorts "no, sometimes people just want to change their lives." (He had been saying this a lot: that HE wanted to change his life.) So I say, "oh yeah? So how did it turn out for him at the monastery?" Long silence. H: "two years later he showed up at the office out of the blue (!) and asked for his job back." Imagine waking up to that? And he had worked his whole life for that security! Ouch.

Point is, there was a time where my h would have recognized the insanity of this! But that day he did not. To him, what this guy did was just a mere recalibration, a tweak. But my kids, then 9 and 11, even knew this was nutty.

Nice job with all those darts! Good luck in hosting your live-in teen!!