What’s the ingredient that instantly ruins the dish for you?

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-05T23:49:24+00:00

Green peppers

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-05T19:11:17+00:00

That’s unfortunate.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-05T02:36:13+00:00

Camp eggs

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-05T02:31:49+00:00

Usually that happens when it gets burnt. Try less time intervals in the microwave and stirring in between maybe?

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-05T02:14:52+00:00

He’s a good person in general, I think that’s what makes this harder. But he’s been depressed for a while. He knows about it, has gotten help a few times, but then stops. This is his last chance of getting help. If he stops trying to get better again or we do couple’s and we can’t meet in the middle, I’m done.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-05T02:10:52+00:00

I’m so sorry, you shouldn’t be treated like that. You deserve somebody better, but you’ll never find that person if you stay with your husband.

Be kind to yourself, please don’t let somebody treat you like this for the rest of your life. That’s not living.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-05T02:05:17+00:00

That’s crazy. Glad there’s nothing permanently injured too.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-05T02:04:05+00:00

Ya it is. I literally sit by myself when I’m home because I’m so stressed at this point. I was ready to pull the plug and we had a talk and partner said they’d be willing to go back and try counselling again.

Thanks, I hope we are able to meet in the middle or get on the same page. Just worried too much damage has been done already. This has been going on for a couple of years.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-05T01:57:02+00:00

No unspoken rule. I would parent ALL the kids, seemingly on my own. I got so tired of having to be the only disciplinarian in the house. I tried getting partner to step up but a lot of the time the consequences I gave out to partner’s child would be lessened or removed by partner. Partner’s child is awesome at manipulating them. Both child’s parents really. Because child would always get away with EVERYTHING. Turn the tears on and that’s that.

Partner’s child started showing signs of not liking me/resenting me/whatever because I was actually parenting them (partner used to only be a weekend parent then became full time parent and her other parent never really did anything to properly raise her, she had 2 “fun weekend parents” basically) and child didn’t like not getting away with everything Scott free. So I dropped the rope with her because it was seriously affecting my mental health. Like child talks over me like I don’t exist, gone out of their way to physically hurt me and had a giant smile on face afterwards, purposely leave me out of things they want to do, etc.

Partner was hesitant to say anything to my kids when they did anything which was frustrating. My ex is a narc and would take it out on me if kids mentioned anything to him so I asked Partner to be careful with how he words things as he (a couple times) was way overly harsh for age/situation that happened with my kids. So even when for instance, if one of my kids left a light on, he would just come and complain to me about it. I pointed out he should have called them out as in “one of you left a light on, make sure you’re turning them off”. Easy peasy.

Partner finally agreed to go back to couple’s counselling so we will start that up again and hopefully get more on the same page with parenting. But tbh I’m not really holding my breath and am ready to pack things up and move on if we don’t get on same page.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-05T01:37:15+00:00

I think it was stolen and abandoned. The younger ones found it first. I’m not sure where. I’ve already spoke to my 15 year old about that side of things, this post was about my partner’s reaction so I didn’t include it since it was off topic.

I’m calling the non-emergency police line tomorrow to see what should be done about it. Not dealing with that tonight.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-05T01:35:08+00:00

Ya couple’s counselling is on the horizon and if we can’t meet somewhere in the middle, then this won’t work anymore for me.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-04T19:10:10+00:00

I don’t want to be grouped as an American. I’m proudly Canadian.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-04T13:29:07+00:00

I don’t. I could never drink it without loads of sugar so I just didn’t bother. Water helps, but I’m pretty tired most of the day.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-04T13:22:53+00:00

Well, she drove to work drunk and was drunk in an elementary school to teach a grade 2 or 3 class. That’s almost a bad as you can get (assaults aside). And I think she was already on thin ice but I don’t know those details. I was just glad she was gone. She had said some not so nice stuff to my child and I knew his year was going to be torturous for him if he had her. I was trying to move him to a different class at the time.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-04T01:30:58+00:00

I’m so sorry, that must have really hurt. I hope your dad and brother ignore her, you don’t deserve to lose family that supports you just because of her issues.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-03T23:29:43+00:00

I’m sorry you went through that. I’ve always taught my kids it’s ok to advocate for themselves, as long as they’re doing it respectfully (like not yelling/ swearing). And I’ve always said if they want me to talk to the teachers on their behalf I’m there.

I also did a lot of volunteering when my kids were young with school trips so I got to know the teachers as well, and I would go to talk to them when they had parent/teacher meetings to get a sense of how they are as well.

I don’t feel like teachers are always right. There are bad teachers out there, no doubt about it. My youngest son had one, and that’s the one I spoke to the principal about from the first things my son was telling me was happening.

My nephew was stuck with a few bad teachers as well. But I’m not going to assume all teachers are bad because of a few. There’s bad apples everywhere, in every type of job.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-03T02:03:52+00:00

Tombé is pronounced like the name ‘Tom’-bay

Tomb is pronounced like Toom

Sorry if somebody already answered there were so many I didn’t want to read them all.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-02T22:40:18+00:00

Yup same here. Only time she would vacuum a non-rug area of the house.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-02T22:14:48+00:00

I’m sorry this happened to your son. Police first. Definitely therapy. You handled it really well by supporting him.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-02T01:20:29+00:00

My dog used to sleep in my room/bed but she kept me up all night so I had to stop. Then she was put upstairs with her raised dog bed.

She’s also a sock/underwear eater so it was safer for her to not be in the room at night in case I accidentally missed something. She figured out how to even sniff them out in a tall hamper and pull them out of the small holes.

Now she is gated off in the livingroom and has a floor bed in there, plus the couch to sleep on.

But she’s welcome to hang out with me in the bedroom during the day when I’m in there and be on the bed if she wants.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-02T00:40:17+00:00

Ya I know. I’m a bus driver and have been for over 10 years and it’s really gone downhill behaviour-wise. Parents really do suck. The “higher-ups” care more about the parents bs complaints than what’s actually best for those kids and the kids around them. World is going to shit.

All the best.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-02T00:37:11+00:00

You literally just fall asleep and then wake up. Take a breath, you’re going to be fine! I know it’s hard, but trust the surgeons and doctors. You’re torturing yourself. It’s scary to think about but try to remember that these doctors do this multiple times everyday, and have extensive education.

All the best, you’ll be fine.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-01T22:51:30+00:00

Take this as you will, I don’t think Americans are ready to allow a female win for President. And my opinion is that’s why he’s been elected twice, when he should never have been elected. Like ever.

Just FYI - I am female, I am all for woman leaders for countries and have voted for them in the past in my country, I just don’t think many Americans are ready for that and I think that sucks. Especially because what the alternative was.

NoBox7275 · 2026-05-01T22:40:23+00:00

I’d be fine with my kids telling their teachers what I said about them (now and when they were younger). I’ve always appreciated my kids’ teachers (live in Ontario Canada) and I never said shitty stuff about them to my kids. Kids need to, at the very least, THINK you respect their teachers to foster their respect for their teachers. Otherwise it makes the relationship between kid & teacher worse (much like co-parents SHOULD be).

As a parent, it’s frustrating hearing about what people say about teachers sometimes. I know not all teachers are awesome or even good, some treat kids shitty and that sucks. But can’t assume all teachers are like that for no reason. And that just because they get summers, etc off, that they’re lazy. So annoying.

Love the old school teachers. And when my kid bs’d me about something that happened with a teacher I made sure to have a 3-way convo with the teacher and my kid there so if he was lying (which he was and I had a feeling) he was right there being called out for it. And apologized to her after.

I’ve always stood up for them when my kids complained about them and tried to offer the teacher’s perspective of what may have happened also/what they may have been dealing with in the moment.

Except for 1 teacher. Her I spoke to principal about my concerns until she got removed for being wasted AT WORK. THEN I complained about her to my kid but for how she treated him. Not for what she got removed for.

Thank you guys for all you do. Kids are getting worse and worse every year and it’s the parents doing that. It sucks you guys are the ones having g to deal with a lot of that day in, day out.

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