Not that anyone still reads..
Man, so I’m reading a Nora Roberts book. I’m not big on romance, but I guess I do read a lot of chick lit. I like light, airy novels and movies. I don’t like horror, I don’t like suspense, I don’t like action. I just like to chill and go somewhere else for a while. I like to relax. I like to get out of my own life and chill the eff out. MY reality is dramatic enough that I don’t feel the need to get all wound up over something fake. I’d rather take in something funny, something sweet, something cute, something light… something fun, nice, pretty, romantic…
But I’m starting to feel like Im setting myself up for disappointment. I’m reading "Red Lily" which is the third book in the garden series, if any of you are big Nora Roberts fans… anyways, it’s really sweet. This girl is a single mom whose baby has no contact with her real father (he doesn’t even know about the pregnancy/baby.) and she falls in love with her boss’s son and he swoops in and is an amazing dad to the daughter, and they get married and have another baby together and they all take his last name (even the daughter from the previous relationship) and live happily ever after.
Well, fuck. Isn’t that nice? That must be LOVELY. But I wouldn’t know.
Ross and I have been fighting alllllllllllllllllllllllllll fucking weekend. He says things to me like "you simply refuse to do anything to help me." and "cleaning up after the three of you is so fucking exhausting." and so and so on. Here’s the story: I don’t do much housework. Ross keeps everything the way he wants it, I can never even find my stuff, he washes cups before I’m even done drinking out of them, he moves all my shit so that I can’t EVER find it, and then swears he never touched it. He rearranges furniture, pictures, clocks, books, clothes, hampers, dishes, boxed/canned goods, everything ALL THE TIME. He puts shit away in a different spot every time he touches it. It makes me INSANE.
But I’m to a point with it where I just sit back and let it go. I just let him do his thing. But that means I’m not touching any of it. He can just do it his way. He doesn’t let me control anything in the house, so he can just manage it himself. I don’t even know where to begin anymore.
His anxiety and depression issues make him impossible to deal with. I can’t do anything right, and I can’t really even do anything at all. I can’t do anything for myself, I can’t be spontaneous. I’m living in a world where I can’t be myself, and I feel like the kids can’t even be kids and be themselves. Ross looks at me like I’m deranged when I play with Kasin. He thinks I’m babying him and that he’s spoiled and that he acts out because he’s so spoiled rotten and he thinks he’s entitled. HE IS ENTITLED. Entitled to be himself, be a kid, and be happy.
Seriously. I dont know what to do with my life right now.
I wish I could kidnap you and the kids for a few weeks just to hang out and have fun. No reality involved.
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I still read! I just suck at noting. 🙁 I’m sorry you’re stressed out. **** is the opposite at my house, I’m always moving Jason’s stuff and he can’t find it, haha. I also do 99% of the housework, but that’s really because I’m home more and don’t mind it. I’m sorry Ross treats you and the kids that way, it really does sound like medication would help him not care so much about the little things, and would allow him to see the bigger picture. Health care–paying for it, anyway–is a joke. We have such shitty insurance it’s like we don’t have any. I wish I could give you a big hug. And then take you out for a couple drinks.
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awww I’m so sorry. It’s got to be tough. does Ross have OCD? – is it possible to tell him. “HEY look! you moved in with us, if you want to have things organized, let’s work out a plan where everything has a designated spot! so everyone knows where their own stuff is, and where it needs to go when it’s time for it to be put away” ?
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That is a really difficult situation, I’m sorry. 🙁 It’s hard to know what to do when people are just unwilling to acknowledge they’re part of the problem and won’t work to make things better. Would it help to ask him to make a chore chart or something? That way at least he feels like you’re contributing and he can’t really get upset at you for touching something. OCD is a possibility too.
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Like Indigo~Embers said. ryn: I don’t think I ever saw that movie! I’m reminded of that museum movie with Ben Stiller though where everything comes to life… I don’t remember what that’s called. I LOVE museums though, I’m a total nerd for them.
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sounds like ross could do with some “lighten-up” pills.
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yikes. is ross one for talking? i’d let him know that you’d like to take on certain “chores” around the house as your responsibility, but that you arent sure what things he could “let go” of for you to do.
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I hope you continue to do what you’re doing with Kasin. You’re right. He deserves to be a kid! Some people aren’t good at adapting and adjusting. I am much more “keep things clean” than Jacob, but we figured out the good middle ground of how to approach that. I hope Ross does that, or something happens to make things a bit “better”. Ashley
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I read still! I’m so the Ross though. I hope things improve for you… thinking of you.
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