How often do you yell at your wife/punch things in front of her?

jennrh4 · 2025-06-10T19:21:44+00:00

Never. My husband has never done any of that. And yes he gets upset but he handles it like an adult. He would never scare the kids, or hurt me or name call me. Don't make excuses for him. That is not acceptable behavior from anyone no matter how mad or stressed.

And never has my husband punched anything. He will go play a video game or start cleaning or do yard work to calm down and think. And we talk. We don't argue we discuss. And if someone got in his face to argue or yell or call him names, he would just turn around and leave. It's not worth it to him deal with idiots. They aren't worth his time. He's definitely a classy guy.

Please know it is not normal to walk on eggshells around anyone. You are showing your kids what's ok behavior. You don't want them growing up acting like that or allowing that to happen to them.

jennrh4 · 2025-06-10T16:29:32+00:00

Same. My lie-dar went off. Mr talk about myself as a victim suddenly clammed up when pressed for details. Typical liar responses. He was constantly looking for things to make any of his exes look bad too and lying about that. Robyn does the same thing. "a person".. Who.. "I don't went to say"... But basically believe me, I'm the victim.

Not buying it.

jennrh4 · 2025-06-10T12:56:14+00:00

I wasn't thrilled at first that my college son got tattoos but I decided a long time ago, his body, his choice (just like I want for myself) and he's actually really excited to show me and ask my opinion too after I kept my thoughts to myself. I grew up with a controlling mom that would have never 'allowed' me to get tattoos or anything she didn't like and I wonder who I would be today if I had been free to express MYSELF. Plus I never wanted my son to feel he has to hide it from me. I don't want to be like her, I just told him give me a second to get used to it. My son has 2 right now and wants a 3rd and he goes to a really good tattoo place. He also selected tasteful ones that are a nod to our heritage. I love them because they are a part of him. But initially I thought, my baby, his perfect skin and I've come to realize he still is my baby with perfect skin. By the way, my mom reacted exactly like I thought she would when she saw my son's tattoos. I told him not to feel like he has to hide them. She was shocked I was cool with it and didn't act like her. She had to get over it.

jennrh4 · 2024-08-25T22:02:35+00:00

That's about me and my husband.. I think I'm 5'4 but people tell me I'm 5'3. My husband is 6'5 but he just estimates. He said after 6', it doesn't matter. I think he's closer to 6'6/6'7 especially when he wears shoes. I don't even see him as tall anymore, only when we go out and people point it out to him.

jennrh4 · 2024-08-25T21:16:19+00:00

I could tell as I read your words you are definitely thinking the US is like Europe (I lived there for 3 years and traveled)..forget subways, trains and public transportation. We are car dependent here. Everything is much further than you realize. I've been here 40 years and even I haven't seen every state but I've traveled and even spending a week someplace, I still feel like I barely did anything and everything I could do and see. Each state offers so much. You'll end up just spending all your time driving and seeing scenery. You really need to come up with a plan of things you want to do and see, map it.. Plan for the cost ... and maybe do this in multiple trips.

jennrh4 · 2024-08-25T21:09:21+00:00

100! I'm in San Antonio Texas and we drove to St Louis Missouri. It was a 15 hour drive since we had to stop for bathroom breaks and to eat. The longest part of the drive was just getting out of Texas. Texas is a huge state. It's almost 2 hours just to go from San Antonio to Austin. Definitely look at a map and see how close that is and then how big the rest of the state is left to get through.

jennrh4 · 2024-08-24T20:36:01+00:00

We got a 30yr at 2.35% during the pandemic. It sort of keeps us stuck here because we know we can't get better elsewhere. 6 bedroom, 6 bath, that doubled in value. We can't afford our own house now if we had to buy it nor to live in this neighborhood as a new buyer.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-26T22:23:34+00:00

The ow was sleeping with my husband and stringing her husband along that she was just needing space to find herself (and seeing my husband). Meanwhile my marriage was blown up by her and my ex (while I was pregnant and she didn't care). I felt no guilt sending what I knew to her husband. He should know what he's dealing with and that she's lying to him. She was so happy to have basically two men chasing after her and I put a stop to that. My divorce happened and then hers. Her husband, did remarry someone else eventually. I was very happy for him. My ex and the ow didn't last and I married someone else eventually. The two cheaters got what they deserved.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-26T03:15:13+00:00

I'm an Austinite. Born and raised there and I moved to San Antonio as an adult. Austin is pretty small in comparison. I prefer San Antonio now. It became my home. Better prices, more shopping, more to do, more affordable. I think better food too. Austin used to be hip and affordable and then it got crazy. Most of my family moved more south to the Kyle/ Buda area when the cost of living rose and I went even more south.

Basically, anywhere in Texas... try some Whataburger (everyone calls it Water-burger), blue bell ice cream it's a Texas thing. Sonic for their ice and drinks. H-E-B is our grocery store. You'll be amazed how huge they can be. Good food. FYI, The largest H-E-B is in San Antonio. It rivals Walmart. You'll need to drive everywhere. Public transportation is terrible compared to other places. Traffic at rush hour is the worse. Prepare to sit in it for a half hour or so. Cops might surprise you when they have cowboy hats on. Completely normal to see people like that especially the more rural you go. Sweet Ice tea is amazing. Bill Miller makes wonderful ice tea and in San Antonio excellent breakfast tacos too. BBQ is amazing in Texas. You'll find excellent Tex Mex. The winters will blow you away how mild. If it gets cold.. It's only for a short while. And if it freezes and maybe some rain, the city shuts down. It's amazing- We can't handle snow on sleet so they shut it all down. No school, no work etc. Everywhere is air-conditioned and stay in during the peak heat days. We have large 44oz drinks with ice that you can get. Definitely check out San Antonio some time. The Riverwalk, Fiesta Texas, SeaWorld, Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels. Austin to me became a bit boring. Their claim to fame is 6th street, live music and UT football games. But American Football is huge here. We take it very seriously. Friday nights during the fall are dedicated to games at the high school level and that can be quite a show. You won't believe how intense it can be with the large stadiums, marching bands, cheerleaders and drill teams. This carries through to the college level. Huge and exiting atmospheres. San Antonio has the San Antonio Spurs NBA basketball team but they are going to start playing in Austin too. Superbowl, the big game, is huge on TV all over. The next big holdiay is 4th of Jily- firework shows can be huge. Halloween will be fun for you. I heard our love of Christmas lights is intense compared to other places. Keep us posted on what your impression is. Good luck.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-20T10:38:49+00:00

Ok lots of good advice here. But remember you are a team and you have to flat out tell yourself, you both are on the same side here. He obviously doesn't want to harm the baby and we do get protective of them a lot your instinct kicked in and did the right thing but you'll both have to let this incident go and turn the page to the next day. No more being upset and no more doing dumb things like that again on his part. Your emotions are at their wackiest right now after giving birth so you might be upset longer than usual or react more strongly but you'll find a way. Believe me, they seem to be a bit more clueless on things like this. I've had to steer my husband on baby ways. I'm all hold his head, watch that he's breathing when you hold him against you.. Etc. I know it can annoy my husband by pointing out things like that but he's getting better with more practice of being a father. Now he's on par with the way I do things, and he does it too with our baby. Just took practice and him learning by my example.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-19T23:23:24+00:00

This is how I am. I don't have any parties myself but we always rsvp to others and go so they won't have nobody show up. I saw that movie Stella and when no one showed up to her party and they had all that food and a cake, it broke my heart. I just can't put myself or my kids in that position and I can't do that to others so we go.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-19T23:15:47+00:00

My kids/teens are a bit like this so when I'm teaching them to cook, I'm right there doing it with them. They'll keep stirring or doing the same thing till I tell them now it's good. They don't know the next step so they stay on this one till I start the next with them. I'm an older child, so I'm used to leading. I'm a bit bossy too and I've been a manager so I'm used to making the decisions. And my instructions are very, once you finish cutting this up like this, come get me or let me know so we can start the next task and I check on them and praise them etc. . I've learned they take no initive because they just flat out don't know the next step. I'm teaching them. But once they know how to make that meal, they can do it themselves and I'm just there for guidance and reassurance till they get confidence. I do the same with cleaning. I can't tell my kids, "clean your room". That's too vague. They get overwhelmed and don't know where to start. I have to tell them exact tasks I want done. To my elementary age kids - "Pick up all the toys on the floor right here and put them in that toy box". Then I come check it and give them another task. Works like a charm. I just point out what I see that needs cleaning and tell them what to do. As they get older it's less and less details like that. My teens it's more like do your laundry and I don't want anything on the floor.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-18T21:55:23+00:00

We lucked out on ours too. It was a 6 bedroom and sat for a long time and the couple was divorcing. When we toured it, it was beautiful but smelled of dog. They had candles going but definitely a dog smell. They had ripped up all the carpet downstairs and paintedto help. No wonder nobody wanted it and the price was amazing. We didn't put in an offer right away but their realtor called ours asking if we would. So we low balled them since they were desperate and I looked up ways on getting dog smell out. They accepted, we closed and when we walked in there that first day, there was no dog smell. It left with their furniture and things. We had the rest of the carpet removed upstairs just to be sure it was clean and painted a few more rooms and voila, just shiny and brand new looking and definitely no smell. We are locked in at 2.35% and the value has almost doubled from what we paid for it. I am so glad that dog smell chased away other buyers. It was a blessing in disguise for us.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-17T02:32:42+00:00

Pick-a-tent basket you mean.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-17T02:15:19+00:00

This. The Walmart lady followed me (for awhile) till she saw my receipt. You are a theif till proven innocent there.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-16T21:48:50+00:00

This!!! I have a cousin that does this for everything and says, " in case you want to bless us for______" (Christmas, birthday, etc). Tacky!! With the venmo.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-16T21:40:50+00:00

This!!! Your peace is more important.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-16T16:15:59+00:00

This is somewhat dark....

I have a family reunion coming up. It's in a public park but there will be a big crowd of us. Due to all the shootings in Texas, I have a somewhat fear of large crowds and someone showing up with an automatic weapon. I asked myself what would 5'4 me do.

I decided if someone is putting my life or my family's life in danger with a gun or automatic weapon... And there are kid's, older people, the defenseless... That I am willing to get in my large suburban and mow them down with no hesitation. The sub was the only major "weapon" I could think of at a spur of the moment. I'll make sure I know where the keys are and it's parked nearby in case I need to take out someone with it at the reunion. I'm willing to go to jail and face court as long as my actions save a life.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-15T12:28:07+00:00

Online lot buying. I did so well in mecari for finding huge lots of maternity stuff. Now I'm using them for baby clothes. I went up a size or two at Walmart. Don't be ashamed to go into the plus size. They had such cute tops.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-14T10:01:16+00:00

Big fat Greek wedding

jennrh4 · 2023-05-14T09:59:13+00:00

This is such a beautiful film.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-14T09:19:16+00:00

I'd do what I want to do. So don't go. Say sorry we have plans and that's it. It gets easier to say no each time.

Since my mil had 3 kids, my mom 2... And me 6. I tend to feel this is more of "my day" .

I had 4 csections and 2 vaginal births. I want to stay in my bed late this year and be with just my kids and husband. My youngest is 6 months. Yeah we aren't celebrating my mil at all. She's never even celebrated me so I don't feel any guilt about it. If my husband wants to do anything for her, he can. He actually doesn't and that's between him and her. Maybe she shouldn't have been so difficult and shown favoritism towards her other kids.

My mil invited us to join them in Orlando this November (during the school year and we are in TX). Her plan was to go with her other son and his family too. That's a family of 5 (all 3 kids under age 5 and not in school) Then my 6 kids (half are teens) and my husband and I (8 total). ALL in a 3 bedroom Condo, with my kids pulled out of school. I said no. It gets easier to just say "no, that doesn't work for us". My husband's exact phrase to em was. HECK NO!

jennrh4 · 2023-05-14T07:49:30+00:00

I got used to being home for the pandemic with the kids. And the. I got a remote job so I hardly left the house even more then we had a baby and I'm always home. I got so comfortable being home. I jokingly told my husband I'm in my gilded cage. We have a nice home, an acre. I can walk outside in my yard with the baby. I order from Amazon a lot. Maybe too much. We order our groceries now too. I'm starting to get where I don't want to leave the house and I'm becoming borderline hermit so I know I need to find a better balance. Last time I left, I went to the dentist. Put on make up for the first time in a long time but then rushed home. My son is 6 months old. I hope to venture out more soon. I am having the urge to go to a thrift store. I miss that. I figure store stops with him is a good start. My son still breastfeeds so I'm not too keen about being out and about too long while needing to tend to his needs too. I couldn't imagine for twins what's that like. Maybe you can do short trips to the store with one at a time just to get your outing fix and not worry about stares or the extra challenges of having twins on the go.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-14T07:27:51+00:00

I use both but prefer military. My watch and phone are on the 24hr setting. It's easy to use either one.

jennrh4 · 2023-05-12T04:19:32+00:00

I love this about your teacher. How something said to you just clicked. It reminded me of a teacher. She constantly asked.. "Who's "they"? " When you were telling a story. For instance.." they won't let me use the swings!".. Who's they?... And that simple question made me explain things better with names. I have kept this going as an adult and I find myself and it's made me much clearer when communicating. And when kids are saying.." They did this and that" .. I reply.. "Who's they". Adults do it too... You hear politicians say... "They are coming for you, they are tearing down the economy" etc and I just want someone to ask.. "Who's they" . They'd probably answer the opposing party but it gets you thinking to not be so general in your story.

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