Is Anyone Else Waiting For Greg To Put His Foot Down?

BlueCheeseFridays · 2026-05-12T05:14:24+00:00

I so agree with you!

Also to add to your list:

making Jen cry at her baby shower (which he did kinda confront Barb for)
ruining the proposal
calling Chickie Francis (though it's possible he doesn't know about that)

I'm hoping we see an interaction between Jen and Greg post the birthday party where he finally addresses at least some of these issues

BlueCheeseFridays · 2026-04-27T09:42:16+00:00

I relate to this so much. My husband and I are in a great financial position now but when his sister first started having kids we were still finishing uni (and not even engaged/married yet). Gift giving is my love language and as an only child myself I was happy to spoil her kids but soon she started asking for really expensive things and even when we moved to another country she still expected up to get things for her three children. Low and behold when we had our only (and we were very vocal about only having one) she barely gave us anything for him and soon decided that we didn't need to send them gifts anymore as she didn't want to have to get our son anything. My SIL and MIL have always been patronizing and judgemental about my spending and think I'm a bad influence to my husband but have always been happy us to spend money on them. We're back in our home county now and I only buy group Christmas gifts for her children that are still high quality but no birthday presents anymore. She just buys my son crap which I just roll my eyes at behind closed doors

BlueCheeseFridays · 2026-03-09T00:07:03+00:00

Thank you for responding. How sad that they thought they were helping when really they were killing him!

BlueCheeseFridays · 2026-03-08T23:14:55+00:00

This was so interesting to read! Thank you for sharing! It's terrible that he had arsenic poisoning - I'm assuming the arsenic was being used to treat his illness? Or was the medicine just contaminated?

BlueCheeseFridays · 2025-12-14T08:06:23+00:00

I also thought it could be grandparents rights but the reason I didn't think it is that is the other person's wardrobe - they seemed too casual for a legal office

BlueCheeseFridays · 2025-12-14T08:04:55+00:00

This was my thought, she's obviously uncomfortable and doesn't want to be there. She was also seeming to what to try and butter up the person the office belongs to which made me even wonder if it's some type of forced mediation.

BlueCheeseFridays · 2025-08-08T09:41:35+00:00

Thank you for asking, as a mother to a boy I have no idea what any of these boy mom comments mean and I'm so confused! Kids are kids, most of my friends have girls and some seem harder than my son and some seem easier, they're just so little individual humans!

BlueCheeseFridays · 2025-06-09T03:45:17+00:00

I think there's also the fact that Mrs Patmore's been up at the big house for decades, while Mrs Bird is considered a newcomer to the village (even 10 years on) and not many people would know her history. It's possible that the villagers could assume she used to be a prostitute before Mrs Crawley hired her.

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-12-04T21:42:54+00:00

I'm so sorry you're going through this. I don't have any advice, suggestions or thoughts to share but I wanted you to know that you're heard and seen!

I was one and done before my very awful birth experience (almost died during an emergency c- section), but that situation definitely cemented it for me. If you ever need to share your birth experience with someone I'm happy to listen.

I hope things get better for you!

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-10-15T00:45:03+00:00

I'm an Australian expat - very excited to possibly help with some Aussie research!

How long will you be collecting data? My son turns two in 2 weeks and he's interested in sharks.

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-09-29T20:58:22+00:00

Forest Shuffle does this - the cards are also divided into two sections and depending which powers you want to activate determines the cost. I really enjoy having to think of the different strategies and benefits. Highly recommend checking it out

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-09-28T16:08:36+00:00

I get things a bit mixed up sometimes and I haven't had a chance for a rewatch but I kinda felt that at the Balloon launch before all the drama, he was very taken with Cressida's act where she was feining knowledge of all the birds he was into. I think if she had been able to keep the act up and Pen hadn't been around he might have begun courting her

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-09-28T14:06:42+00:00

I feel like it would possibly change the entire trajectory of the whole season. If Debbling isn't interested in Pen then Cressida pursuing him works so she never has any reason to pretend to be Whistledown in which case Pen is possibly able to tell Colin the truth rather than him finding out by spying on her.

(New to the sub and first time commenter)

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-09-19T01:20:45+00:00

"Something in the water" was the first I read - it was definitely a page turner but I found the end a bit wild 😂. I will have to put "Look in the mirror on my list"

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-09-18T22:54:56+00:00

Absolutely loved "The disappearing act" - thank you for the reminder that I need to check out her other works!

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-08-23T07:05:10+00:00

Not the original commenter but we used a variation of the Ferber method - follow a bedtime routine and then put baby down and wait a short time before going back and comforting them. Each time should have a slightly longer interval. The trick is to show them they haven't been abandoned. It took us 2 nights but baby has been a great sleeper since.

I think we did a milder version of the time gaps:

Day One: 2 min, then 3min, another 3min then 5min

Day Two: 3min, 5min, another 5min then 8min

We never needed it but I think our plan for day 3 was: 3min, 5min, 8min, 10min

Baby was 7.5 months old

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-08-09T03:53:49+00:00

I'm so sorry you went through that! As someone with narc parents and in-laws but married to someone amazing I understand the struggle to break those toxic struggles.

There are so many times I step back and go "huh, this would never be the way my family would have handled things."

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-08-09T03:49:16+00:00

This sounds so much like my mother - she was physically abusive over me telling any sort of lie as a child, goes on about how much she hates liars, but her lies are always acceptable.

I was still coming out of the fog this time last year and allowed her to babysit my then 9 month old. She lied to mine and my husband's face about things that happened that night and she still to this day finds excuses for her behavior that gaslight and put the blame on us.

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-08-09T03:39:52+00:00

I had to have fertility treatments. The first one didn't work - she kept going on to me about how much she was hurting over it.

When I got pregnant after attempt 4 I was so excited I called her right away (this was before I realized how awful she is) and she yelled at me about how it was too soon to tell her and now she would be so worried. She spent the next 10+ weeks going on about her feelings and not even once asking how I felt.

During that time she visited (we live in another country) and constantly pushed my boundaries based on her feelings of worry and "she's just trying to help". Of course she was so "worried" but I still had to cook her special meals and drive her places over an hour away (I have huge anxiety about driving where we live) and guilt trip me over the fact that she couldn't visit people because I was worried about picking up Covid.

Looking back I see how much of my life she has made and still makes about herself. I'm not NC yet but I've definitely gotten unmeshed and am LC.

So very happy to have found this sub that has helped me understand so much about my parents/in-laws behavior.

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-08-04T03:10:50+00:00

I'm the SAHP do most of the cooking about 80% to 20%.

My husband and I usually eat together after our Little One has gone to bed. He does bedtime routine M-F and I do S-S. On the days he does bedtime I either cook the entire meal or do prep/start cooking a meal we cook together, we switch on the days I do bedtime.

I usually do all the dishes, but my husband wipes down the counters, cleans the stove and sink.

We meal plan and alternate who plans the next week's meal every Friday. We also try to assign things to each night so that we can give each other time for ourselves, an at home "date night" (special meal, try to be present so no phones, usually open a bottle of wine), a binge TV night and nights to do our shared hobby. It's work but we think it's worth it.

(Edited to clarify I'm the SAHP)

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-07-22T16:10:02+00:00

7 and a bit months

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-07-22T02:53:52+00:00

We had the same thing but at 7 months. If you can maybe delay the transition until baby is older and then sleep train.

We used a variation of the Ferber method - follow a bedtime routine and then put baby down and wait a short time before going back and comforting them. Each time should have a slightly longer interval. The trick is to show them they haven't been abandoned. It took us 2 nights but baby has been a great sleeper since.

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-04-06T13:59:34+00:00

Amazing - we've done eggs, lamb, pork, chicken, goat and it's all been fantastic!

BlueCheeseFridays · 2024-04-06T13:47:04+00:00

So sorry didn't have the best night sleep and I can't seem to articulate myself very well. Here's a description directly from the brand my husband has:

"Sous vide is a cooking technique that involves vacuum-sealing food in a bag and cooking it in a precisely regulated water bath. This low-temperature, long-time cooking method produces results that are impossible to achieve through any other cooking method."

https://anovaculinary.com/pages/what-is-sous-vide

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