Not Sure Where This Is Going

[Niall11]

WASs are like blood hounds. They can sniff this stuff out like a rabbit with a yeast infection. Trying to manipulate her into not doing things you don't like is not the removal of pressure. Further, do not be surprised if in the future she ends up getting a sitter or someone else to come stay with D2 just so she can still go out and do what she wants to do despite your plans. WWs especially have no boundaries. I know you think you were setting one, but trust me, the next time she will amp it up a level. WWs are a special breed. NOTHING and I mean NOTHING will stand in their way of doing and getting what they want. That is why we tell LBHs to clear the decks and let them do what they want because even if you tried you couldn't control them.

I definitely wasn't trying to manipulate her into going out. She goes out all the time and we started to make a calendar. Saturday from 1 to 4 was her time, new BFF's birthday party with our D2. Saturday evening was my time to go to the movie. She went to the party without D2, my idea, and came home at nearly 8 instead of 4. I couldn't go to a movie until later, and I was not going to be home before midnight, period.

The sitter is an interesting question. D2 is, at the moment, awful with other people she doesn't know. W has said no to various suggestions of potential sitters because she wants to get D2 a little more prepared first. Obviously she may be more, ahem, motivated if it means something she wants to go. But W already has skipped things she really wanted to go to because I wasn't available and she wasn't OK with the sitter option. We'll see.

At this point I really don't care where she goes as long as she doesn't leave me home as the "sitter" every night and I have no life of my own.