GGB, Howdy friend! We do our shopping with all 3 of the kids. Need I tell you what a fun experience that is. Well, I could not leave the rope alone and wrote him this morn and asked about attending the marriage encounter at the end of the month. He replied that his mother had already volunteered to watch the kids for it. I said, WHY didn't you tell me about it? There is one crazy dynamic in our M. If I insist on something, even to the point of having to get bitchy about it, he'll do it and then be so dang glad that we did. But it has to be me initiating it and *insisting* on it. Gol, it drives me nuts.
Cobra, Parentified, huh. Well this would certainly apply to him. His father had a job where he was gone for 13 weeks at a time. Then home for a couple weeks and back out in the field. H was the oldest boy and the pressure was on him to be a 'fill in' until his dad got home. His niche in his family was to be the perfect son. The altar boy, boy scout, everything to everyone.
