Hi All:

Got back from a trip today. WAW dropped me at the airport and picked me up. On return MIL had arrived a couple days back and we all (D3, WAW, MIL and me) went to dinner afterwards. WAW said during dinner "I am sure glad you are back" because D3 was a handful. Hmm....But it was said as one "friend" would say to another. Go figure...I will take what I can get though.

Well, and then this morning a mini-bomb was dropped on me and I had to do my best DBing....So, apparently my MIL wants to move up here to live and has already been meeting with realtors. , blaaah, ran out of emoticons....

Yeah, you read that right. That was my reaction exactly. You might have just connected me to a lightning rod directly. Talk about a curve ball. I was not wearing a crotch guard and it just went straight for my you-know-what, zzingg, thwack. (Sorry ladies, I am sure the guys can identify more clearly on what I mean by excruciating pain when I describe it that way).

So, how did I react on the telephone when my WAW disclosed this minor tidbit to me on the telephone, you ask? Well, I just said "That's great, this will be excellent for MIL (who IS lonely where she lives by herself) and for D3. Is she planning on renting or buying?" Now, how is that for detachment, huh? A+? Thanks, you do know I am a 2-year survivor of this MLC-WAW disease dont you?

Actually, I actually get along with MIL. I am able to sort of take a lot of things about her in stride. I dont have a real problem with her moving here. It will be change, but that is not what prompted the rapidly-rotating-baseball-to-painful-parts analogy. More because they (WAW and MIL) have apparently been discussing this for a while now (weeks/months) and I was only casually intimated regarding this today????

Well, just when I though my WAW was doing the baby-step thing, this was popped on me. There were also several "I/me/mine" statements from WAW on the phone which were distressing. Well, it all left me scratching my head in total bewilderment all day. I dont know where we are going here folks. I dont know crapola from shinola these days, huh??

I need a PMA fix.

UD




The 3 laws of DBing: 1. PMA is critical to DBing. 2. Since drop in WAW's PMA leads to drop in LBS's PMA and vice-versa detachment is critical. 3. Validate to raise WAW's PMA and GAL to raise LBS's.