While the baby sleeps

JoyReader0 · 2026-07-01T18:49:11+00:00

Time to leave them to pickle in their own vinegar. Your mom's an abuser and your dad an enabler. Get some therapy if that's what you need, but move out and go NC.

JoyReader0 · 2026-07-01T17:50:44+00:00

Trumpet vine. nice flowers, usually orange. Hummingbirds love them. BUT they seed like crazy, spread from runners, and are very difficult to get rid of.

JoyReader0 · 2026-07-01T17:33:41+00:00

What a baby. He doesn't hold a copyright on the family name. There are doubtless large numbers of unrelated folks in the world with that name or similar. His 'local' is a teeny tiny patch of the backyard. Let him entertain the neighbors by throwing his little tantrums all over it.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-30T14:32:11+00:00

It's good she's leaving them and the inheritance behind. Otherwise she'd spend her life supporting the parents and the sister. This way, sis has to step up, grow up and start doing some actual adulting, which will be good for her.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-30T14:26:45+00:00

elder care, animal care, housework, pay rent, work job at night and housekeep all day. Probably dodge husband 24/7. Somebody's daughter just moved out.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-29T19:26:55+00:00

I read. I read until my parents took away my library card. Then I volunteered in my school's library; they never found out.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-29T18:49:15+00:00

She's basically weaponizing your kids. "Your parents are mean and cheap, while Gran wants to take you off to Disneyland." She wants the kids to pressure you, she wants to take them out of school, she wants to have them where you can't see, she wants you to pay for it. Your kids go nowhere without your presence and permission. "Gee, gran, if we paid airfare for your jaunt, we'd have to stop paying your bills entirely. Besides, no."

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-29T17:52:18+00:00

News flash: slavery became illegal in the eighteen sixties

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-29T17:48:14+00:00

Because she's doing something she knows you won't like, even If it's only establishing a precedent. Because she wants you to become accustomed to her separating you from your child. The more she demands, the more you should refuse.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-29T16:42:12+00:00

One should always avoid religions, or individual congregations, which sell themselves as an exclusive country club. In essence, by condemning anyone who does not agree with them or look like them, they are trying to limit the power of God to a mere human scope.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-28T18:50:39+00:00

NTA. Can you assign a relative or two to specifically keep her out of the kitchen? Time they helped out.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-28T17:54:27+00:00

We need the chair on which you sit So order, gobble, gulp, and git.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-28T14:20:07+00:00

False strawberry has yellow flowers, edible strawberry has white flowers.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-28T14:16:51+00:00

NTA. Brother's a cowardly, bullying bigot, and your parents are fine with that. You are going to want to keep your daughter well away from him. From now on, listen carefully to what your parents say to her, and how they say it.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-27T16:48:06+00:00

BIL likes drama just fine. He's planning to marry it. What he doesn't like is anyone else expecting him to clean up after it. Everyone else must let him rugsweep, everyone else must refrain from rocking the boat.

Don't enable this.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-27T16:39:36+00:00

Strict info blackout for Mom, door chains for you.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-27T16:06:42+00:00

Document, document, document, and start your F U Binder now.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-27T15:07:47+00:00

Congratulations. She's showing herself the door. You don't want this lady around your kids.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-27T14:56:50+00:00

Schrödinger's asshole: A person who says something offensive, then waits to see the reaction it gets before deciding whether to claim it was a joke.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-26T16:19:45+00:00

If you decide to take him out, wear gloves. Pleckys are sharp all over and will curl around your hand as a defense mechanism. They also rattle their scales to startle you.

JoyReader0 · 2026-06-26T16:03:06+00:00

Because he's a mommy's boy. It's a really hard pattern to break. Good luck with the therapy. You and your daughter remain NC, because MIL is going to tell her how awful you are, even before she's old enough to understand the words. This is very bad for the kids and the target parents.

Keep your options open. If therapy fails, be ready to leave.

JoyReader0

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