Posted on 03/15/2013 10:16:41 AM PDT by Cajun Jihad
Edited on 03/15/2013 10:18:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
DP had comprehensive coverage on his truck, fortunately.
As I’ve said before, my son and I were always very close until this marriage, and he seems to have lost all desire to have any contact with me, or tries to make any contact as minimalistic as possible.
I wish I could feel “remote and removed” but I can’t. It stinks.
You really didn’t miss much. My son is alive and the truck isn’t but he will make the best of it, if I know him.
Thanks for the wishes!
Once I get road service insurance, I will probably have to upgrade the insurance to comprehensive, but it’s better than being stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Oh, yes, you definitely need the road service plan. Anoreth learned that in the Iowa Truck Catastrophe two summers ago!
I know a little bit about how you feel, but from the other side. My parents threatened to disown me when I announced my engagement to my wife. Although they changed their minds, the relationship between her and them has never been good, which puts me in the middle. When in the middle of such a situation, I have to side with my wife, but it’s painful.
I can’t know why your DiL is being a pain as I’m sure you never threatened to disown anyone, but it’s probably really tough on your son, too. If I could have given my mother any advice (and she never listened to me) it would have been to swollow everything she thought she didn’t like about my wife for a few years so my wife could be comfortable with visiting. In the end, that is the part that matters. It matters whether I can visit my mom, not whether she and my wife like each other a lot.
Of course, if my mom had remained civil I would have had to do a lot of talking to my wife to do the same. But my mom was supposed to be the adult.
That’s the problem with the boomers. I know only my Dad was the adult in our family.
I think there is a certain amount of “jealousy” on the part of my DiL, but she has covered it well with wily manipulation of my son. He has no idea what her motives are, just that he hangs on every word, and seems to think she is smarter than anyone else in the entire world.
I see her for what she is. She is out to re-make him in her own image, and that disturbs me. She is slowly but surely driving a wedge between my son and I, and I think she is pleased about it.
No good can come of it in the long run, but I have never given her reason to dislike me. I have always been cordial and polite, and swallowed any feelings of hurt and/or hostility that have arisen with some of the things she has done.
My son is oblivious.
Yeah, sorry about that. We men can be pretty stupid in the presence of a skirt that we’re not related to.
It’s apparently genetic.
Me thinks your socks and sweaters have been genetically altered. Am is afraid to ask I.
I wear generic socks and sweaters. Is that what you mean?
Pardon me, are you certain you are dealing with sane socks?
I'll wager that I will have a dream about socks this week.
I shouldn't have said anything.
Now, I'm caught in a black hole, and I can't get out...
5.56mm
His luck with women has been almost as disastrous as mine has been with men, but at least I learned something. He makes me think he’s out chasing butterflies without a care in the world.
But I’m not going to interfere or tell him how I feel about what his wife is doing to him and me. It would serve no purpose.
I get that a lot, along with “404, page not found” and “socket timeout.”
I have no idea what any of it means, but it really gripes my cookies if I’m about to get to a new level in my thinking game and get one of those.
P.S. My thinking game is not a first-person shooter. No CGI get hurt. However, some logic has been known to be left bloody on the floor.
A sneeze usually takes care of that for me. If you aren't allergic to anything today try shaking pepper in your face.
Not cayenne pepper, black pepper.
Probably wise.
Now the big question. If something goes wrong and he decides he made a huge mistake in marrying her, are you going to let him suffer for his stupidity (so he can learn) or take the brunt off his shoulders?
I know that’s not an easy choice, but it’s an important one and you need to be prepared for what you will do.
Unless you think he’s suffering from a mental illness, which I know I am whenever a skirt is around.
Papa is saying what was that all about? I may have to take a week to explain this to Papa. ArGee, any advice? Something simple, for Papa, he be not very knowledgeable about ‘puters and neither am I.
Same request from Papa as last, ArGee.
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