Confession...

[twoplustwo]

While C was in Iraq last year I went to see his family and catch a red wings game for my birthday. However, I do not like to call them. Weird.

My vent, I am so freaking over C being in school. He was in DS school for 9 weeks, he is in another school for 6 weeks, and won't be home until the 15th of this month. Then we are moving two weeks after that.

I love my son, but I am so over dealing with him with no help. I just want to sleep a few hours in peace.

[brandienee]

I won't hang out with my ILs without DH. They are nice enough, but I don't feel like I am "in" with the family and I am not sure I want to be.

[Jam]

Jun 6, 2012 8:41:50 GMT -5 brandienee said:

I won't hang out with my ILs without DH. They are nice enough, but I don't feel like I am "in" with the family and I am not sure I want to be.

This is sort of how I feel.

Honestly, I don't dislike my in-laws and I know they don't dislike me but I just don't go out of my way to talk to MIL. When H and I dated her and I had many heartfelt talks but I feel like these days she's competing with me for her son. She gives her opinion and tries to tell us how to do things so that gets under my skin.

It'd be more productive if I just told her the things that bothered me but she's getting senile and has major depression issues. I avoid her so that I don't end up telling her to STFU.

I also don't like how his family is constantly stressing DH out. He was home all of one week and they started calling him with family problems and how MIL was making "odd" statements. Meh.

[Dory1988]

Sookie, I felt that way about my job at the dry cleaner a lot. A job is a job and it wasn't like I thought it was beneath me but it was aggravating that it seemed like I went to school for nothing. It usually just made me feel like a jerk, except for when my boss was acting like a turd but, I had to remember it was only temporary.

[ilovecandy]

I am so frustrated with management's dismanagement at my job right now.

Also I talk and see my ils without H. I don't talk to his dad as much because he annoys me. But I love his mom. I actually had to have H call them the day he left cause he hadn't told them he was leaving. I was all what? H doesn't have a close relationship with them at all because his dad very much played favorites and H wasn't one.

[ilovelamp]

Jun 6, 2012 10:51:27 GMT -5 ilovecandy said:

I am so frustrated with management's dismanagement at my job right now.

Also I talk and see my ils without H. I don't talk to his dad as much because he annoys me. But I love his mom. I actually had to have H call them the day he left cause he hadn't told them he was leaving. I was all what? H doesn't have a close relationship with them at all because his dad very much played favorites and H wasn't one.

How the fuck can a parent have favorites??

[ilovelamp]

My confession is I'm jealous that DH is in summer classes to get his EMT certification. I start nursing school this fall but I miss school so much (even though I just finished up spring semester). Something is wrong with me, most students love to have summer break off.

[Dumbledork]

I always think TwoPlusTwo is TwoTrue with a new sn. Then I start reading and see a bunch of 'he this' 'he that' and it completely throws me.

To be clear, I don't think those of you that are close to your in-laws are weird. I just think it's interesting because it's so opposite from what I know.

[sookie]

Jun 6, 2012 8:41:50 GMT -5 brandienee said:

I won't hang out with my ILs without DH. They are nice enough, but I don't feel like I am "in" with the family and I am not sure I want to be.

I think I have the opposite problem. I'm "in" the family enough, in that his mom treats me like her daughter, but the problem is she's very overbearing (even with my SIL). She also talks bad about my SIL and her H to me occasionally so I know she's doing that to me and S with my SIL.

Side story: my MIL once commented that I'd probably never been to NY before (because you know, it's Greece?) and I replied that I had multiple times even though I'm from TX. She questioned me on why I'd been there and I mentioned my XBF's grandparents were in NY and we'd visited them one Christmas and then he went to USMA. She turned around when I left and told my SIL I'd cheat on S one day because I still talked about my XBF.

I sort of lucked out in that I married the baby, only boy, and everyone else in the family lives within 30 minutes of each other but we live two driving days away (yay for no random pop-ins!).

My FIL isn't so bad, and I do sort of like him, but really I'd be down to hang out with my SIL and S's grandparents way before I visited my ILs on my own.

[sookie]

Jun 6, 2012 11:44:32 GMT -5 Dumbledork said:

I always think TwoPlusTwo is TwoTrue with a new sn. Then I start reading and see a bunch of 'he this' 'he that' and it completely throws me.

Ha, me too!

[ilovecandy]

Jun 6, 2012 11:07:41 GMT -5 ilovelamp said:

Jun 6, 2012 10:51:27 GMT -5 ilovecandy said:

I am so frustrated with management's dismanagement at my job right now.

Also I talk and see my ils without H. I don't talk to his dad as much because he annoys me. But I love his mom. I actually had to have H call them the day he left cause he hadn't told them he was leaving. I was all what? H doesn't have a close relationship with them at all because his dad very much played favorites and H wasn't one.

How the fuck can a parent have favorites??

He has basically treated H like Cinderella. It has gotten a little bit better in recent years. I don't know if that is because H joined the Army and his dad thinks that makes him special to have a son in the Army, or just because we live so far and see them about once a year.

[twoplustwo]

Jun 6, 2012 12:48:37 GMT -5 sookie said:

Jun 6, 2012 11:44:32 GMT -5 Dumbledork said:

I always think TwoPlusTwo is TwoTrue with a new sn. Then I start reading and see a bunch of 'he this' 'he that' and it completely throws me.

Ha, me too!

Well crap. My nestie name was Mrs.RedWings, which was close to Mrs.Redrox, so I was trying for something that wouldn't be confused with someone else.

Fail on my part.