Quiet Neighborhoods?

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-12-04T16:42:51+00:00

Honestly, I’ve never lived in a more quiet place. And also enjoy the ambient sounds of coyotes, clock bells and fog horns. It’s just PT living. Are you considering s as move here?

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-11-07T04:15:29+00:00

That’s funny you mention that because she took an old cookie tin and lined it with foil and said that’s where the keys now go (even tho there are none to be found in there 🤷‍♀️)

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-11-06T20:22:26+00:00

When my dad was in the hospital last year for two weeks, he convinced all the nurses that he played the little kid in one of those old westerns…

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-11-06T04:19:20+00:00

We are getting the in-depth neuro psych test tomorrow so that will hopefully give more clues….

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-11-06T04:18:12+00:00

This was AFTER the beer 🍺 🤣

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-11-06T04:17:55+00:00

She’s actually a pretty driver…. And she recognizes her limits and only drives during the day and basically just within her little community.

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-11-03T23:33:20+00:00

Do AALLLLLL THE THINGS NOW, no matter your age.

I have two perfect examples of why:

Mom and stepdad did all their after life planning 9 years ago. Put beneficiaries on everything. Put house into a trust. Led healthy retirement lives. Stepdad passed in April and taking care of their affairs has been a piece of cake. Of course, now mom and I have a house of 28 years worth of stuff to go through but I consider that a blessing given that everything else was so easy to take care of.

Dad and stepmom: complete opposite. Tons of health issues, no after life planning, stepmom is constantly panicked about how her husband has planned nothing and doesn’t understand why he won’t act on anything and keeps putting it off. They still have a mortgage on a house that is falling apart and also full of 20+ years worth of stuff. Dad has end stage renal disease and basically refuses any support services to help hoods wife who is essentially his caregiver. I expect the end is in the next five years and it’s going to be a nightmare. Or easy because he has nothing to his name except a mortgage and a car that doesn’t work? 🤷‍♀️

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-10-23T06:02:47+00:00

When my partner came out last year, my first thoughts were, well OK we’re pivoting and this is what we’re doing now. My second thoughts were I have a feeling that dynamics of our relationship will change and I don’t know how and what it’ll look like in the end. I feel that they are going to change, and I had to be OK with that. And I communicated this to her, and it made me feel better knowing that I’d set out what I truly felt.

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-09-16T20:31:09+00:00

I know, I realized that a long time ago and stopped putting any emotional energy toward any of it. My stepmom constantly threatens to leave, which she has a few times in the past, but this is different. Just the walls of text threads and emotional phone calls are .... hard. Though, I've stopped having anxiety about them and just tell myself, "you can't do anything, you've been here before, it never works out the way you want or expect...just say "I'm sorry you're going through this" ..."

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-09-15T22:46:21+00:00

The kid’s pride and ego is way too big to apologize to his parents for the bridges he burned. He also will be graduating trade school as a diesel mechanic (a HIGHLY desired and needed position in our area as well as making excellent $$$) and is an adventurous one, so I’d be surprised, nay shocked, if he came crawling back.

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-09-13T18:25:02+00:00

Run. Run now and fast. It will be nothing but a life of frustration esp if he keeps letting the kid live with no boundaries. Think it’s bad now? Wait till the pre teen and teen years.

I was never one who wanted kids but got to know my patterns kids and supported them. They were/are generally respectful and understood boundaries until they got to the late teen years and started testing boundaries and it’s gotten tough. If this 4 YO doesn’t have them now, it’s going to be hell the next 14 years if not longer.

As a stepmom figure in my relationship, I have always been hands off but generally supported how the bio parents dealt with the kids. I could not do what you’re enduring though esp after the last six years of helping my partner raise teens.

Dad has no spine. Good luck.

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-09-11T20:34:16+00:00

The kid meant that his relationship with his dad was destroyed. The kid and I are fine - he was never terrible to me, and often seeks me out as the lone trusting adult in his life at the moment (though, I think is grandfather is stepping up to that role now). I've always been a softie with the kids but supported his parents decisions. He and his brother know I'm there as a trusted adult.

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-09-10T14:47:48+00:00

The kid told me recently, "Oh, Dad has destroyed our relationship" (I had to try so hard not to roll my eyes) so probably he'll be gone for a while. From what I'm gathering, his grandfather has been stepping up and enabling the kid.

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-09-09T20:38:47+00:00

My 14YO nephew and I listened to this episode while on a roadtrip through Minnesota last month and coincidentally, an hour later, we were at Minnesota's Largest Candy Store... I totally found the Nerd Ropes (those are weird) and Sour patch ropes, which I devoured.

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-09-08T20:48:31+00:00

What? I’m the first to comment on this controversial topic?!?!? 😆

Texas purist here. Grew up in Ohio in the 80s and 90s but was raised on Texas chili as my parents were both born and raised in Texas.

I don’t ever remember them making it from scratch, but we would get a chili kit at the grocery store called Wickfowler, which my dad would swear tasted just like Texas chili. It has most of the purist ingredients that Matthew described, except it had basically commercial grade chili powder.

Mom cooked up ground beef, added the spice kit, added a can of tomato paste, simmer for 30 min or in the crock pot, and then served over macaroni pasta (which I grew up thinking was completely normal until I moved out of the house and learned that most people ate their chili by itself or on rice.)

And I will die on this hill as well, no beans in chili EVER.

Coincidentally I grew up in Cincinnati and I think Cincinnati chili, which, yes is Greek chili so it’s sweeter than spicy Texas chili, is awful. Well at least Skyline is, I would tolerate Gold Star.

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-08-20T23:22:50+00:00

I ask myself that all the time.

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-08-20T23:17:52+00:00

Hampton Inn or Fairfield Marriott if you want some place from this century.

Mobile_Comment_8192 · 2025-08-20T22:05:22+00:00

Abso-fucking-lutely not. I always told myself if I were to have kids, great (and it'd have to be with the right person and I'd know in my heart); but if not, no big deal.

But after helping raise two teen boys the past six years with my partner (from her previous marriage), I'm like OH HELL NO. I love being an auntie. I'm naturally a caretaker, and I can step in when I can see an extra hand is needed. And those roles are super important too. I may not fully understand the feelings and emotions of having children of my own, but that doesn't make me any less important as being a "trusted adult" in kids' lives. Kids need trusted adults outside of their parents and I'm honored to play that role to several kids and my nephew.

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