Dink, I am not sure if you are reading the responses here or not. It feels like you read one response then go into a defensive, justification mode. Just an observation. I grew up with a father like that. The minute he felt that someone was questioning him, he would go into victim mode and give a million reasons why he said or did what he said or did.
Our responses and questions are for you to think and consider. You do not owe any of us any explanations for why you did or said what you did or said. This is your situation, you have to own. All we can do is respond to what you post here, and try to get you to see a better way of moving forward. Many of us have asked you direct questions, to which you never even acknowledged or responded. That is fine. But it kind of like the rules of engagement I repeated in a previous post, if you are not interested in answering or changing how you communicate with her, then just tell me that so I stop repeating myself. I honestly do not know if you ignore the advice because you want to, or because you never even read it!
Dink, this is difficult. We all get that. You thought things were going great, though I wonder how true this is based on your exchanges with your sister-in-law and admitting to walking on egg-shells for years. But the only way you can change things is to change the dynamics involved. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result. Please read the responses and consider them. And resist the urge to jump to defensive justifications for everything you've already posted. As we say in euchre, a card laid is a card played.
M(53), W(54),D(19) M-23, T-25 Bomb Drop - Dec.23, 2017 Ring and Piecing since March 2018
