Help - Setting Boundaries, WW in EA - Thread #3

[Woke_Up]

Journaling, TLDR:

Sunday:
More running about looking for those bloody gate hinges. Spent time with D5. At one point, I found D5 in her room watching W’s phone while W was doing some other stuff outside. D5 started having a tantrum about something, then slamming her door. I told her if she kept slamming the door, I would take the phone away. So I did. D5 had a major meltdown, messed her room up by emptying her drawers and toy boxes everywhere (she does when she is upset. I remember doing similar when I was little) – I just let her get on with it until she was ready to be calm and rejoin. If only I could apply boundaries and consequences in the same way with my WW.

Got some more paint and some food for dinner. Had to crack on with the gates without the right hinges – used some spare wood to make the bottom hinges fit flush, and got the largest of the gates hung, reasonably happy with the result. I've never been much of a DIYer - used to try and have things go wrong, which used to put the fear of trying into me. Losing that fear of trying things now. WW painted the other gates. I will get those hung next weekend.

We had dinner, although W chased me up for working outside – she started dinner off, and then I finished it. Nothing major happened after that, some minor grumpiness from both of us, mostly out of frustration about the time running away so much during the day. W was feeling ill again, coming down with a virus. She & D had a bath, I did reading and story with D.

W texted me from bed to say she was feeling really ill and to wish me good night.