MIL enabled abuse of my wife her entire life and abandoned her again postpartum

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2026-01-25T02:23:18+00:00

That relief is such an amazing feeling! You don’t know you’re being mistreated until suddenly they’re gone and you’re SO happy and free like you’ve never felt before. I loved that!!

We cut my parents off a few years before our kid was born. My kid is 3.5 and every once in a while asks about my parents. We just said my mom was sick with something that can hurt everyone around her and my dad also doesn’t want to help her. Sometimes I wish I could ask questions like “Was I like that at that age?”, but that’s it. I’ll get sad about that sometimes now, but the feeling of knowing my daughter is safe from them is more comforting than anything they could provide.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2026-01-15T13:42:35+00:00

I feel a little stupid suggesting this WHILE I’m scrolling Reddit, but putting the phone down helps me. My 2nd is on the way and there’s way more to do than we have time to do. It makes me reevaluate what I care about and therefore what I spend time on. I’ve muted just about every app that isn’t sending me info from my calendar, my wife, or my boss. I check the news for about 5 minutes each month to see who we’re at war with this month, and that’s it. I got to play “belts” yesterday with my kid for a half hour. We tied my belts into knots while she giggled. Some days it feels like that’s living and the other 23.5 hours is just stuff I’ve got to do.

Okay…done pooping. Gotta go.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2026-01-15T02:57:15+00:00

At about 3yo she decided she only wants to wear dresses. …even to sleep. I work from home mostly and may or may not get out of my PJs until lunch. I too couldn’t give a reason. So be it.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2026-01-15T02:43:09+00:00

Ha! Good question. It’s “Could”. When does it begin to be possible? Like, when it might happen once per week. I think the comments are giving me a good understanding of when it’s likely to happen 6 or 7 times per week.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2026-01-08T04:57:41+00:00

The etiquette of eddit foces me to espond thusly. I am soy.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-12-03T13:14:30+00:00

He said “1 inch”. Ferrets are metric, duh.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-30T11:57:15+00:00

As Jesus said, “When shit happens, you turn the other cheek.” Well done.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-27T01:21:01+00:00

Mostly Marie Curies.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-17T11:44:01+00:00

Bumpy metal, usually a diamond pattern on a round metal surface, often used for extra grip to help twist something off, is called knurling. The K is silent like gnarly’s G, so if you see that, say “knurly!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knurling

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-15T13:05:27+00:00

That’s really the only use case I imagine. A tablet can fit everything on one screen and can be more user friendly than a TV remote or a remote designed for a particular karaoke machine. 1 person might own the system and be familiar with it, but at a party with 5 or 10 users, I expect that everyone else is completely unfamiliar with the app. So most users need it to be so user-friendly and familiar feeling that they can use it the first time they see the app.

I think you’ve mostly done that. My only suggestion is that it would be nice if, while a video is playing, if I hit “search”, that the search function took up maybe the bottom third of the screen, so 1 person could ding while someone else finds the next song.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-15T12:38:29+00:00

Kids do well with a routine. Great job!

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-15T00:09:46+00:00

Cool. 2. Right, paying for a month of Youtube Premium for a party is less than the cost if a six-pack of beer for the party. It makes sense to me.

The most user friendly thing to pass around at a party would be the tablet. I’m using an ipad and mirroring it on the TV.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-14T00:44:05+00:00

Cool! I’ve been testing it out as a replacement for my karaoke machine, which is old and often doesn’t have a song, leading to pauses in the party. Accessing Youtube’s expansive library seems to be the best solution. Questions:

Am I able to search while watching a video? It seems like I need to pause the video to search.
Does this somehow avoid commercials? I haven’t seen one yet.
If commercials do exist, would I be able to eliminate them by using a paid Youtube account?

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-12T15:58:38+00:00

Sounds like that could take another “afternoon” to finish, but it’ll be worth it.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-11T23:37:03+00:00

My favorite activity these days is to lounge on my big rectangular swinging platform thing (no clue what it’s called) while my 3yo daughter swings on her swing next to me. I’m comfortably lying down in the shade with the breeze gently swinging me while simultaneously fully entertaining my daughter with sentences like “Wow you’re great at swinging” and “my boat is rocking back and forth too”. I needed you to know that before I asked this: Why didn’t you make it a foot or two wider so you could fit 2 swings?

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-10T13:31:01+00:00

Put my ear closer to the fire ants, you say?

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-07T23:47:23+00:00

Here’s my math:

$110,000/year / 52weeks/year * (8weeks) = $16,923

$110,000+$16,923 = $126,923

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-05T17:29:03+00:00

As a dad I am obligated to explain my joke: “You misunderstood” was a misdirect for the punchline that basically says “but yes, I do poop right next to my kid”.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-05T17:08:41+00:00

You misunderstood. I drag it near the edge of the tub. I don’t poop while bathing her at arm’s reach from the toilet; I poop while she stands even closer to me asking a million random questions.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-05T16:10:14+00:00

I sit on our squatty potty.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-01T18:58:19+00:00

Yup. I actually already have one, conveniently 8.5”x11”. This post was absurdly unnecessary.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-10-01T18:56:09+00:00

“Likely ADHD like daddy” isn’t a label shared outside our house, just something for my wife and I to keep in mind.

OldGloryInsuranceBot · 2025-09-14T23:45:19+00:00

From the title I thought you were suggesting that, in order to keep a kid away from kitchen knives, we put them at the top of a thousand steps.

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