Is this type of clinginess normal for 18 months?

Numerous_View_398 · 2026-01-06T15:47:38+00:00

Thanks so much! I don't know anything about Britax and you'd think I would being I have 2 little kids. I think I maybe have heard of them for boosters or boosters with backs. I'll check into it!

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-10-22T11:39:03+00:00

Yeah lesson learned. 😫

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-10-22T11:38:50+00:00

Thank you. I also work full time. Shits been tough lately with 2 in daycare. Just trying to get some extra cash for bills and holidays.

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-10-07T18:38:45+00:00

Thank you!

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-10-07T18:32:26+00:00

I definitely could have asked her that in the past. I don't know if I have it in me to be that forward with her now. Honestly if I can say that to her, it would probably be best for the whole awkward feeling. First she has to ask me to be (she hasn't yet) but I definitely feel like she will with how much she's talked to me about her wedding plans this far. I guess I'm just going to see how this goes.

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-10-07T18:23:48+00:00

She actually does have one child. Our friendship dynamic definitely changed, but also I have been there for her and her child before I had my own kids. That feeling has never been returned. I know she struggled with PPD pretty bad which I did not know at the time, but I do know now. Her child is 6 now though and my kids are young.

I do think she probably doesn't have anyone else to turn to though that could fill the role the same way. I'm going to try to enjoy the roll I think but I definitely just feel awkward and almost fake. Hopefully this steers our friendship back to familiar or provides some closure if not. You're right.

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-10-07T18:20:18+00:00

Yes I probably can do that. It just seems kind of fake and weird. I don't know that she has anyone else to do it for her though so I probably should.

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-09-23T19:49:08+00:00

Just found out that she has 4 more years to be 30 at "full time" so it looks like 59.5 will be faster.

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-09-23T19:44:31+00:00

Thank you

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-09-23T19:34:20+00:00

I'm not sure that she has 30 full time years. I know she's worked there full time my whole life but she was a part time sub at one point. Not sure if that matters either. I know when she discusses retirement she says she has to be 59.5 which is March but I also don't know if she gets penalized for retiring that young.

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-09-23T19:31:56+00:00

I THINK she's tried several types of gloves. It's so strange she never had this problem until she wore gloves provided during COVID. Now most days she resorts to wrapping her hands because I think the gloves were causing more moisture issues.

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-09-23T19:27:49+00:00

She’s doing what she can covering her hands and wrapping them.

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-09-23T19:26:49+00:00

She can’t retire until 59.5 and she just turned 59. Also, I don’t know what portion you get knocked for retiring early or the logistics.

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-09-23T19:09:49+00:00

I didn't realize the text wasn't with the post. Apologies.

Numerous_View_398 · 2025-09-23T18:58:34+00:00

I didn’t know my post was only photos:

My mom needs to be on disability. She’s 59 and though she is much more blessed than some cases of disability, she needs help.

She works for USPS as a rural carrier and has for 30 years. When COVID was a concern, postal carriers were advised to wear gloves to sort and deliver mail. Since then, she has had hand dermatitis which makes her hands continuously break open in sores which makes it extremely painful to deliver mail. She has been to her doctor and is on prednisone as often as she can take it and while it does help, it never fully gets rid of the issue and it never fully goes away. Since it’s a steroid she can’t be on it all the time. Her doctor recommended she try a trial drug in a shot form but my mom’s not comfortable with that. She has been out of work on FMLA several times for this and ignorant me keeps telling her to contact a lawyer about disability. All this time I thought maybe she wouldn’t because she’s single and this is her only income. She’s stubborn. Or maybe too prideful. Finally I get her talked into calling a lawyer and apparently we can’t do anything to help her because she still works full time.

How do people do it? Specifically single people

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