Bee - so true! He is patting himself on the back for standing outside a bus and waving for 30 seconds and yet he has come into the boys' rooms FIVE times in 2 YEARS! And bedtime is when all my kids' concerns/issues arise. Of course, judging from all that is going on in h's room at "bedtime," it's the same for him.
Bttrfly - LOL! Love the Russian send off.
Ginger - yes, I see all that. And I get it, finally; I really do. You are so sharp. And I want to thank you for all the help you've given me on my thread.
Job - I am SO done re-apologizing for issues. Honestly, he just has little self awareness. I think it's been lacking for many years and it's worsened in MLC. Unfortunately, I see now that I accidentally enabled it to worsen, further, by taking flak and apologizing for the sake of keeping peace. BIG mistake with his personality type + the addition of MLC. I should have been doing the exact opposite. I needed to kindly, but firmly build strong, strong boundaries based on his personality type.
Today I woke up and wanted to create a profile for him on Match.com. Slap his smiling picture on there, give a quick (but brutally honest) bio, show a picture of his living quarters and release him to the single ladies of the world. How funny would that be if he suddenly started receiving calls out of the blue? And based on the true bio I would write (he has his bathroom cleaned TWICE a YEAR!!!), I would LOVE to see who responds. He thinks he is the cat's meow.
Me 41, H 47, M 15 yrs, S11, S13 BD 1: 11/4/14 we work on it; really I pretzel myself BD 2: 3/31/15 H goes down to "dorm room" 8/15: H back to MBR 10/15: H back in dorm room 1/18: H files, now divorced