I get real snappy with them in the evenings, especially when they interrupt what prescious few moments W and I have to chat. Like while we're doing dishes together, the kid's eavesdrop, and interrupt and it just makes me homicidal so I very abruptly and angrily tell them to mind their own business and not interrupt. I know it's not attractive when I do that, but it's very frustrating when we get interrupted. So I've got to find a better way, I've tried talking to the kid's and I think they need a little refresher. I'll try that tonight. Maybe I'll speak to each one privately so they get the importance of it.
COG, maybe they just want some of that attention as well. They see the attention you lavish on your wife and just want to be part of it. Perhaps the 180 would be to welcome them into the conversation. Put that lightheartedness to good use. Be silly and funny with them. Don't save all that for just your wife. My wife says that it's attractive to her (and actually turns her on) to see me getting along well and being loving towards her children. I'm just throwing that out there.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
