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Oh, I didn't think you did! Just trying to point out that you will more likely get a better reaction out of him if you are totally clear, and don't bicker with him unnecessarily (like over having D call him while you're gone, etc.).




I have never bickered with him over this stuff. But...

Last year on our world travels, I was the other side of the world, and getting D to phone him was difficult, being in opposite time zones (day and night) and staying with friends - I didn't want to use their phone for long distance international calls - so having to get to public phones etc. Once there, at unearthly hours, H's phone would either just ring and ring (not home) or he would be on the internet, as he doesn't have broadband. So we wouldn't get through. Then H would send an obnoxious email with a rant in it. He never gave me the benefit of the doubt. Once he emailed D that "your mother probably didn't show you my email"! What a guy!

I am tired of him being rude and abusive, and me having to tip toe around.

Other problem - my sister is so NOT enamoured by H, that she doesn't like me using HER hone to ring him, thinks HE should ring to speak to his daughter. I can sort of see her point, she gets abused in her own home, then has to have her phone used to ring him? I am piggy in the middle as usual.

Livnlearn

PS Manners sure do go a long way! Should I tell H that? Does he not know that by now?

"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates