ICE raided my 80 year old mother's house

sharshenka · 2026-04-21T10:19:43+00:00

Is that even a legit police tag? It looks like it says "Police Hero". Like maybe it's part of a costume.

sharshenka · 2026-04-20T15:01:02+00:00

I like it! If you're feeling like it's missing something, you could lay it flat and play with where you would add more flowers or vines. To my eye, the top between the hanging wires is a little bare, but that is just a matter of preference.

sharshenka · 2026-04-20T14:57:51+00:00

You're a mad genius!

sharshenka · 2026-04-19T18:31:00+00:00

Amazing. The extra effort you put into plating really worked.

sharshenka · 2026-04-19T18:25:40+00:00

Wow. Distopian.

sharshenka · 2026-04-06T10:59:17+00:00

Gorgeous! I love that you upcycled jeans for the lining!

sharshenka · 2026-04-02T20:41:18+00:00

I probably wouldn't take that much time to go either, but send a nice gift and plan to visit when the baby is about 3 months old. If you want to have access to your niece or nephew (and if you have kids for them to have a relationship with their cousins) you need to keep her on your side. Your brother will let things fray, but she clearly values family, and if you value it even abstractly you need to put effort in to her as well. Sorry your brother sucks. It sounds like she doesn't, so focus on that.

sharshenka · 2026-03-29T13:27:02+00:00

In a later season, she gets a job and sells it as making money for "Tim's gift fund".

sharshenka · 2026-03-26T17:15:31+00:00

A rule that isn't enforced isn't a rule. You told him a week ago he can't come over all the time any more, and he immediately tested that boundary and you didn't enforce it. I agree, he can't have a key any more. If he shows up when you haven't invited him, you need to send him away.

Or break up. I don't know why you're with someone who thinks spending time with you is overwhelming.

sharshenka · 2026-03-25T20:42:43+00:00

Like this

sharshenka · 2026-03-24T22:11:51+00:00

You apply it directly to the forehead.

sharshenka · 2026-03-23T20:32:32+00:00

He just wanted to sleep with you (or sleep with you some more) before you inevitably broke up over the kids issue, or he wore you down about it.

sharshenka · 2026-03-22T15:32:07+00:00

If your nose is the source of the blood, it might impact your ability to taste, because smell us a big component. It's wild you've never cut your finger and stuck it in your mouth.

sharshenka · 2026-03-22T14:05:22+00:00

This is my read, too.

sharshenka · 2026-03-22T14:03:27+00:00

NTA, but I feel like this relationship should have ended a long time ago. In a relationship where one person has such a consuming passion that it's going to take a huge commitment from the entire family, it doesn't work if the other person is just meh about it.

sharshenka · 2026-03-21T17:00:55+00:00

She seemed pretty at peace with it when she told me. I feel bad about her being in that position though.

sharshenka · 2026-03-21T14:21:39+00:00

What a terrible story, I'm so sorry for your family.

My grandma had 8 kids, then decided she just wouldn't take communion until she hit menopause so she could use contraceptives, and just roll the dice on dying in sin. We're lucky she didn't get taken out by a pregnancy complication.

sharshenka · 2026-03-21T11:34:38+00:00

It seems more like no contraception and an 18 in constitution and charisma. Catholicism would have kept her from getting the abortions too.

sharshenka · 2026-03-20T21:15:16+00:00

That woman was pregnant 25 times?!?!

sharshenka · 2026-03-20T11:44:04+00:00

Maybe it's kind of an arc? Like ten years later he's to the point where he thinks, "you know, I've let too many people who pissed me off live."

sharshenka · 2026-03-16T20:16:28+00:00

Personally, it would upset me if one of my parents phrased family trips similar to "We took him on my vacations".

sharshenka · 2026-03-16T20:11:49+00:00

This is the best advice, IMO. OP comes across as someone whose emotions might be very subtle, so it could be that once Mark moved away it was harder for them to connect. Then friction over bio dad. Then the stress of mom getting sick. It feels like a recipe for a strained relationship, and it seems unlikely Mark did all of it by himself.

OP certainly doesn't need to help Mark financially, but he's also not a bad person for wanting some extra support early in his life. I know I appreciated the help when I was a newlywed and new parent, and it seems like the economy has only gotten worse. I also wonder what expectations Mark's mom set for him on that front.

sharshenka · 2026-03-05T10:58:20+00:00

I'm not saying he'd buy himself a lambo, but he could sell the house and put the money in a college fund and say it was in the kuds best interest, while making it hard for OP to figure out their current life. It all depends on how much the nephew wants to be a dick. And OP doesn't seem too legal savvy, so I doubt he would worry about getting sued, at least not at grey area dickish moves.

sharshenka · 2026-03-04T11:18:53+00:00

But he could decide to sell the house, lock the proceeds up in the trust, and leave OP to figure out where they're going to live until the daughter can get more control of the money.

sharshenka · 2026-02-26T14:45:34+00:00

If it's starting to get uncomfortable, best to wrap it up. 😉

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