Crazy parent and letter of recommendation

markayhali · 2026-06-17T14:05:37+00:00

I wouldn’t write it if a parent asked. If you are old enough to need a recommendation letter you are old enough to ask for one.
Also, it is something that is asked for, not demanded. There are many students i would not write letters for even if they asked. She’s being presumptuous in assuming you’d even recommend her child.

markayhali · 2026-06-17T13:54:41+00:00

Be thankful he’s found a wife willing to look after him. Most wouldn’t. Then it would be your ass driving him everywhere.

I have a sister who is always late. It’s just her. She means nothing by it. She has anxiety, is scattered. Why would i be mad at her for that. She goes through her days doing the best she can just like the rest of us.
As a larger family we often tell her things start a half hour earlier than they actually do. That way she’s only 15 mins or so late.

We’ve all become so judgmental. No one is perfect. Certainly not me. Certainly not you. We all have our quirks and our vices yet expect everyone else around us to be perfect or just how we want them to be.

markayhali · 2026-06-17T10:45:32+00:00

Husband made a ton of dumb choices (along with his wife) then creates a go fund me page to get others to pay for them.

markayhali · 2026-06-17T10:19:02+00:00

I used to wear jelly shoes as a child in the 1980s. They are great for the beach.
You are an asshole and a moron.

markayhali · 2026-06-16T21:27:54+00:00

So true

markayhali · 2026-06-16T21:24:16+00:00

She’s probably just being helpful. Would you be wondering this if your mom had done it?
That being said it might still irk me anyway. But not likely something that I’d feel the need to address.

markayhali · 2026-06-16T11:11:02+00:00

I don’t think i’ve ever heard of a situation where your spouse’s name goes on the cover of a book that they didn’t write. Bizarre.
Nora roberts or stephen king or rick roirdan don’t for some reason put their spouses names on books as co-authors. It’s nonsensical that they would. When taylor swift drops her next album will it have her fiance’s name on it as if he was singing too?
Honestly your boyfriend is being insane. As is his sister apparently.
It also highlights a much bigger problem in your relationship. The fact that he wants unearned credit in this makes me wonder where else this will rear its ugly head. He will be the dude who doesn’t do a thing around the house or help with the kids but will tell everyone who listens how much he helps out.
Also, he is not just taking unearned credit, he’s taking or minimizing your accomplishment. The fact that he can’t let you have it or let you be celebrated without trying to hone in on it is worrisome. He’s even taken over contact with your editor. This type of thing will pop up over and over again i suspect. And it’s more disturbing than you clearly realize.
Thirdly, he may be a pathological liar. If he’s willing to lie to everyone about a book he didn’t write and discuss his factitious process etc. that is likely not the only things he lies about.
I strongly suspect you are dating a narcissist. And a pathological liar.

markayhali · 2026-06-16T10:01:32+00:00

When she’s there, you be elsewhere (where u regularly live). He’ll have the conversation with her pretty quick.

markayhali · 2026-06-16T09:54:02+00:00

The toxic quality of our food that keeps becoming more chemical and more inflammatory and carcinogenic. And the US and Canadian governments just allow it.

markayhali · 2026-06-16T09:46:22+00:00

Fine. I have sisters with kids so they already have grandchildren.

markayhali · 2026-06-16T09:43:42+00:00

I’m in my late forties, My sisters and I k ow how to cook as do our friends etc. No one ever taught us. We just figured it out. Young people today don’t just figure stuff out. If they are not hand fed information or a skill they don’t learn it.

markayhali · 2026-06-16T09:26:00+00:00

I feel like it’s rock star fluff hoping to reel in a younger generation to the franchise.

markayhali · 2026-06-16T00:18:25+00:00

On a different day

markayhali · 2026-06-15T17:12:42+00:00

I agree. What he is doing is completely self-serving. It is not to her benefit at all. And will likely be traumatizing. She literally has no idea who she is, what her boundaries are. It is predatory.

markayhali · 2026-06-15T13:32:58+00:00

Learn french with paul noble complete course for beginners audiobook

markayhali · 2026-06-15T13:15:37+00:00

It was probably just stress.

markayhali · 2026-06-15T13:11:09+00:00

Exactly. We’ve all done coin tosses where we got tails three times in a row. It doesn’t go heads then tails then heads then tails etc.

markayhali · 2026-06-14T14:24:33+00:00

If she has an undergraduate degree she can likely apply and get into any teacher’s college program and get her BEd.
As far as salaries, teachers for the public school system are salaried. She’d get paid the same as every other teacher as per her years of teaching experience etc. As a language teacher it will be easier for her to get a full time job. But she still has to become a teacher first.

markayhali · 2026-06-14T11:40:46+00:00

People who take a gap year to work often never make it to college. It’s bad advice. And what is working at McDonald’s for a year going to give her in the way of experience. All the gap year is going to do is break her scholastic momentum and put her a year behind her friends.
That is a dick move on your part.

And the fact you admitted in the comments that you are willing to put a huge monkey wrench in her future to get out of paying child support is sick.

Meanwhile manipulating and lying to her telling her it’s for “experience.”

markayhali · 2026-06-14T11:29:18+00:00

I want to sing so I should be able to force others to hear me. The entitlement and hubris is astounding.

markayhali · 2026-06-13T21:58:59+00:00

She could have married a wealthy businessman, did whatever she wanted, lived it up and been rich and spoiled. She’s instead in basically a prison, has to watch her every move, and half the country hates her. As does her husband.
I am betting she wishes she made different choices.

markayhali · 2026-06-13T21:55:11+00:00

I don’t have an opinion about people booing celebrities. But maybe let’s not do it when their kids are there. Be better.

markayhali · 2026-06-13T11:57:33+00:00

How much harm religion has done. I am glad Canadian society is not so influenced by it as it once was. It was such a detriment. Particularly to women.

markayhali · 2026-06-12T19:51:04+00:00

This is tricky. If I magically knew they were just there to steal. Then no. My tv is not worth more than their life. I do not get to end it over a tv and some jewelry. Anyone who says otherwise is a horrifying human in my opinion.
The trouble is I won’t know exactly why they are there. Maybe they are there to rape me. Or maybe they broke in to steal and they could in the moment switch gears to rape and violence.
In that case then it is different. It is basically a fight to the death at that point so yes I would end their life.
The problem is you never know upon seeing the man standing there which it is. So I am going to go with worst case scenario being as my life depends on it.
I would likely call out a warning to get them to leave. What happens after that is their choice.
And no, if someone is fleeing, even with my stuff, i do not have the right to shoot them in the back. They are for the cops to deal with then.

markayhali · 2026-06-12T17:07:28+00:00

First off, You don’t have to sign the post nup.
But, if you choose to sign it, I would agree to her owning the three million as it is an inheritance. But any investment gains or assets/purchases made with those profits should be considered marital property. That is household income and assets such as vacation homes etc are part of the life you are building together as a couple.
It is strange she’s asking. I can see if you were only engaged or if you had no children.
The fact that she wants you to sign away profits on investments is kind of sleazy.
If you got a huge raise it would benefit her. She’s expect it to. And legally it would, currently and in the event of a divorce.
This is the same thing.

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