She makes a valid point, but when I offered it last month she turned it down. Now my dad has it.
I got my dad to agree to pick up the kid at her place on the cold days and drive him to school. But she doesn't want to see my dad. She only wants the car.
Doesn't sound like she's in a position to negotiate. I would tell her she has two choices, A) allow your dad to drive him or B) figure it out herself. She wants the car? Tough, that's no longer an option because SHE decided she didn't want it and you made other arrangements as a result, and now that can't be undone. What is she going to do, rant and rave and be crazy? She's already doing that!
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Whenever I would reason with her in the past, she acted like she had it all planned. Now that its collapsing - like we all knew it would - she is even crazier.
And you can't fix that. You could go out and buy her a new car and she'd find reasons to be mad about it. It's not good enough, it doesn't get good enough mileage, doesn't have the options she wants, etc. etc. Point being, you CAN'T appease her so don't try.
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Man, we should we very careful who we decide to have kids with. I thought I was, but human beings are great at hiding the dark side. Until they don't.
So true, but some of these men and women described here (like your W) sound so vastly different than they were before that I'm not sure you could have predicted their future behavior.
