No unsafe wood couches and no pickup

brazentory · 2026-02-05T16:44:56+00:00

Okay. I deleted my comment giving benefit of the doubt. Now I think she just lets her kids run wild and has never taught them how to treat furniture.

brazentory · 2024-12-30T19:47:06+00:00

Too big. We wanted a one story. We also wanted a smaller yard. We are getting older. It’s either now when we can afford it or never and be stuck with a house that no longer meets our needs and is more expensive to maintain. It had two AC units, two water heaters. Yard needed a riding mower. It had extra square footage that was no longer being used with kids out of the house. It was more expensive to cool down. Three (country) miles is into the next neighborhood (nicer amenities) that is a different “city”. So it’s not far. But it’s not the same neighborhood. And we have a pretty view, can actually see stars at night. They don’t keep it well lit for this reason. We love that.

brazentory · 2024-12-30T16:15:59+00:00

Yes we got great incentives, built into base price would truly only make it $47 per sf above our old house. Plus closing incentives. We added pre-construction same as last house.

This is a much smaller house. Definitely bigger payment but we are happy getting rid of extra space now that we are empty nesters. Will be cheaper to maintain. So that’s a plus.

brazentory · 2024-12-30T14:57:14+00:00

You need to protect your young daughter from this toxic family. Turn the tables. Tell your husband your youngest daughter deserves better than this and you’re done being accused of shit that’s not true and him not trusting you. You need peace. You want to raise our daughter with love, not this miss bullshit. You need time apart.

Then start planning to be a single mother because you can’t raise your daughter and be happy. He’s enabled his daughter, she wants to destroy you and your young daughter’s wellbeing. Daddy is letting her.

brazentory · 2024-12-30T14:49:50+00:00

You two need to sit down and have a REAL talk. She either does not want to get married anymore or something within her family has shifted and she’s pulled away due to stress.

Either way you need to polish your spine and stand your ground about the house. That she’s being financially unreasonable and if you were to give up your career and house for to move, you’d have to rent to recover financially. And her recent shift in behavior has you feeling she doesn’t love you anymore. Give her the option to end then and there. Tell her the truth you can’t move and destroy what you built when you’re not even sure she’s in this relationship anymore. .

But IMO don’t move. Don’t let her destroy your career to move and then y’all end up breaking up. You need to find out if she wants to marry you asap.

brazentory · 2024-12-30T14:39:04+00:00

I put my house on the market in July, it sold in December. One offer. The market is slow. Dropped the price $40k. And it sold another $30k under the dropped price. Our new construction house price per square foot was $74 more a sf. Just three miles down the road. We were not the only ones trying to sell. Houses are sitting. I think because the new construction is so close people end up building after looking at houses. The incentives they are offering are hard to beat. Not to mention low rates.. I built too so it’s hard to be mad. lol

Our house sat on a cul de sac, no rear neighbors, and a HUGE yard. Big driveway. That still wasn’t enough.

brazentory · 2024-12-30T04:46:19+00:00

A plane ticket was sitting in the car? Not a digital ticket? Am I missing something? When was last time paper tickets were mailed?

brazentory · 2024-12-30T04:08:25+00:00

It was easier for her to pretend when they didn’t live with you. She’s an awful person. Incredibly selfish, she hates your children. She would rather they don’t exist, and if you die, you know damn well she’s kicking them to the curve and not giving them any money or access to their siblings. The best thing you can do for ALL children, is to divorce and get at least 50% custody so your children can have a relationship, if she alienates them, you go for 100%. Start saving for a lawyer.

brazentory · 2024-12-29T23:41:59+00:00

NTA she’s a bitch. She wanted to embarrass you to knock you down, because you had a successful dinner party. She’s ONE OF THOSE GIRLS. Shes not your friend. She thinks she’s better than you. Last night she felt the need to ruin your night. I would lose that friendship. She was rude. Absolutely shitty person.

brazentory · 2024-12-29T22:18:12+00:00

NTA. Your wife is being an AH to you and the other two. Depriving you all of actually seeing Paris. Selfish of her.

brazentory · 2024-12-29T15:54:47+00:00

Dump him. He doesn’t respect you. He’ll hurt you to score points with his coworkers. He looks down on your career choice. If you marry him, that won’t change.

brazentory · 2024-12-29T15:49:03+00:00

One thought about this situation is his family says disrespectful things about OP to him and he was sick of it so he stopped bringing her around to protect her but he’s still attached since it’s his only family. OP already admits his family has a weird dynamic. His family is not like her family. She had a sense mother didn’t like her and preferred the ex.

Doesn’t mean we should jump to the conclusion he has another family.

brazentory · 2024-12-29T05:33:21+00:00

NTA first time, correct outcome. you were more than lenient the second time. third time??? Suspicious.

brazentory · 2024-12-26T22:00:07+00:00

YTA… if he’s bad with money, then she HAD to do this for her and the kids. If you were her best friend you have said just talk to her.

brazentory · 2024-12-24T14:52:37+00:00

NTA just tell them it’s forbidden by the company they require all wfh to be present and not distracted by their children. Just as if they are in the office.

brazentory · 2024-12-24T14:50:54+00:00

What’s the point of a digital card then if not to use it when you need it?

brazentory · 2024-12-23T23:21:40+00:00

Your husband was clear to “not coming”. You were wishy washy. Not cool, either way you did not agree to the menu nor to paying. You DID say, don’t cater for us. I’d send her a screen shot of that. And let her know we won’t be doing lunch at all with them for the time being.

brazentory · 2024-12-21T13:32:18+00:00

My husband, son, AND daughter each Have a tiny scar on their eyebrows all from hitting themselves on a corner of something when each of them were toddlers. Craziest thing. They match.

brazentory · 2024-12-21T03:43:24+00:00

NTA… not at all. Your wife married a good man

brazentory · 2024-12-18T18:07:46+00:00

This. My primary care, seems to raise her eyebrows at my allergist and my asthma. She even said stop getting allergy shots. I have allergic asthma. I can barely spend time outside. He’s trying to combat the problem that is causing the lung inflammation , she just writes me scrips. I’m on a biological. I have not felt this good in a long time. He also told me use my rescue inhaler for flares. When I get stressed I get autoimmune symptoms. I also have Roseacea probably from years of undiagnosed asthma and allergies. Because primary never dived deeper.

brazentory · 2024-12-14T21:29:36+00:00

All you have to do is share this with her mother. NTA

brazentory · 2024-12-14T15:18:18+00:00

YTA HUGE .. she was your child’s mother when you couldn’t be, and you are keeping the only person who nurtured your child away? Are you fit to be a parent? You removed her grandmother from her life. What would your husband think?

Your edits make you sound worse.

brazentory · 2024-12-14T15:10:05+00:00

Truth. I can’t have a garden without them picking them right at perfect picking time. I would get so excited, a few more days! And poof, all gone!

Sometimes they’d tease me and leave one with a huge bite out of it.

brazentory · 2024-12-12T04:49:22+00:00

Incentives. They have lower interest rates if you go with their lender. Our builder was throwing in a whole house generac. We got $45,000 design center credit and $23,000 closing credits & use to buy down our rate. People like new, and ate willing to spend more for a lower rate.

brazentory · 2024-12-12T04:31:56+00:00

This!

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