Quote: I figure the uncle who is in his 70s and got a 30-year mortgage probably thinks he pulled one over the financial institution
With his family genes, he will live to be 100. His 15 year younger wife will have to pay it off if they don't have insurance coverage.
Quote: "black hole syndrome" because they tend to suck the light and life from the surrounding area.
Good way to put it and yes BB's glass is almost always the most empty one of the bunch.
Quote: can let her know that you can't handle the negativity right now and ask if she would stop and then calmly remove yourself from it if she chooses not to do so.
I have done that a couple of times. I get the "can't I say what is on my mind?"
Quote: unless she is right there with you helping*. Even if it is just handing you the tools.
Works on paper Mrs NOP, but I don't think I could take her moans and sighs. Besides that is mans work.
Quote: What is *she* doing while you're doing all this physical labor?
GunSmoke, Bewitched, Bonanza reruns, minding the pets, and 24/7 news.
Quote: Mr. Pee Pants have access to only one or two rooms...... then get a few child-gates to keep them out. Would she argue about that
Already have 2 gates. Sometimes they get left open, sometimes something new gets placed on the floor in the dog area. It gets marked. This happens about 2 to 4 times a month that I know of. Other times I see something sticky and grainy on things and assume "weiner boy" hit.
Quote: If she's not fighting your verbal as well as non-verbal control, she might stop her teenaged-type push to go against Lou and might develop some financial restraint.
I know I am not helping her if I would die tomorrow, BB would be out in left field about the finances.
Quote: I wonder that you are doing as much damage to your own feelings toward her by placing yourself in that position as you would if you just let her go.
I brought up the separate finances but I think BB took it as one step closer to me leaving. I also said anytime she wants to buy her own condo, go ahead. I will not stop her, there are movers advertised in the newspaper.
BB replied that if just want to control her and what I need is some sex nymphomaniac with out a mind of her own so I can control her and have sex anytime I want it.
A couple of minuets later she asked if I was thinking of leaving her and staying on vacation permantely then she put her arm around me.
Thanks for the replies. I can't do many more posts. I have to pack for vacation. Not the vacation I exactly wanted.
Three of the 5 sisters/sisters-in-laws are not in good health and the last time I saw all of them together was 1986. I have to go play helper for a couple of days to two of them. That is what happens when you are the last born. I lived with some of them when I was a kid and in a way they are more like aunts than sisters. The sister-in-law is almost like a foster mother.
