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I leave that on till you can't see through it any more! Almost like new when I finally peel it off. I recommend a lesson in roping.

That's the way it should be!

That's a touch more one sided than I would like, but closer to the way things should be. With us it is similar, except when he gets in a mood and I have to kick. The harder I kick, the less I have to do it.

That's where our issues start. If I dont toss a bit of a fit I get ignored. Then I have to decide if I should let it slide or break out the shit kickers.

What finally worked is I gave him an ultimatum. Fix some of the shit or leave. We still have periods that we fight more than not, but I have changed over the years and just toss the shit back at him. One night he told me he didn't like getting hit with the shit, I told him then dont throw it at me, I am throwing it back from now on. Got better after that!

Truth is important. Hubby and I did marriage counciling at my insistance during a rough patch about 20 years ago, at my insistance. I let him choose the shrink. After six months of sessions, we did an assesment, and I told her I did not see any change in the issues that were making me miserable in the first place, but I did see a difference in how I reacted to them. She told me that was all I could expect, I should not expect him to make any changes. I walked out and never went back. It was a colossal waste of time because I had the wrong doc for the job. Had she told me that first session I could have saved myself months of aggravation in keeping apointments in a busy life, and thousands of dollars!

I know the feeling well. Just once in a while I want to be able to curl up in a ball and be held and taken care of, rather than the fixer around here. As for dads, I cant complain too much. Mine was a grumpy, opinionated, stubborn SOB, but his head was on straight and took care of mom the way she deserved. Mom passed first and lived on a shelf in my dinning room till he passed three years later, then we made arrangements to sprinkle thier cremains around the lighthouse in the middle of the harbor here. When bored, they would get into thier boat and go for a "put-put" as dad called it - dead slow out, once around and then back to the dock. So thats what we did, with the chaplain of their boating club saying a few words over a loud speaker. We must have had 30 boats circling that tiny light house!

Thorn, dont you ever sleep???

Ummmmm.....

You can say that again!

Any improvement is progress, and if it continues improve you are better off than you started! Are there side effects to deal with?

Have a good afternoon Mike and send the same to tim for me.

Unfortunately not all things can be gotten past by agreeing to disagree. Sometimes a feeling runs so deep you need to separate yourself from the source. I don't think anyone here meant to make things difficult on tim, but sometimes it happens. I just went back and read the article tim posted. In my attempt to play catch up I skipped over it yesterday. I find it deeply disturbing that a child feels the need to write a will, but if that is what s/he needs to do to deal, I will hand him a pen and paper, help with spelling, and cry every step of the way. Perhaps the seeming acceptance of the situation is because those seeming accepting have never seen violence against children first hand. Seeing it on the evening news and standing between an abusive father and the child are totally different.

You are spot on with that belief Mike. I used to run a sight for a before and after school program (about 12 years) and the day a girl came in with a broken collar bone provided by her father was rough. Was even rougher when he showed up in the evening demanding I release the girl to him in spite of the TRO provided by her mother. Was a rather tense afternoon as my baseball bat (closest I could come to any sort of defensive weapon) and I kept him in the hall outside the classroom till the police arrived. The janitor came running to help, but he was half my size, and dad was similar in build to how tim describes you. To this day we still have not figured out how he opened so many locked classroom doors! If it would help you can tell him that while my household does own guns ( we are avid hunters and shoot competition trap) we also believe in gun control, background checks, including psyche tests, and the like.

Well if it is something I said, I am sincerely sorry. If that is the case, please let me know in a pm.

Good morning all. Hard to believe it's THURSDAY already! Where has the week run off to?? Good grip strength! Doesn't it always?

Morning peeps. @MichaelS36 if you come in, please pass a huge hug and message on to tim for me. Just remember we love you and will be here when you are ready to come back.

My sister in law stayed with us for several months bringing her cat. We had several interesting conversations when I would toss the cat back into her room threatening to make her mittens by winter after catching the creature on my kitchen counters.

Last evening after dinner I woke in my recliner sometime in the middle of the movie I remember turning on, with my daughters pup curled up next to me with her head in my lap.

Is it possibly pasteurized to extend shelf life? I freeze fruits in season, so I have things like. Blue berries etc around all winter. Plain yogurt, two drops of vanilla and a handful of pureed berries - yum!

Would love to dance with you! Oh hell no. One must be firm when taking new members into the herd! Let them know who is Alpha!

True, but the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches go by a different calendar, so both dates are anywhere from a week to two different. That adds up to two of each holiday, including New Years. I swear my friend slept through the last two weeks of January every year!

That was probably me. Doesn't have to be plain, just live culture. Those are odd instructions. Even when I had such an wicked infection in my leg I ended up doing IV antibiotics from the myacin class ( strongest available) there were no dietary restrictions, in fact most said take WITH food.

Good morning all, Happy Boxing Day. Was supposed to go fox hunting today but my customer couldn't get the day off adjacent to the holiday. Boxing day hunt is full of pomp and tradition, so I am not going to miss hanging in the hunt house today! What he said. We are family and are here for each other no matter what day stress decides to drop in! Point is Orthodox holidays are about a week to two later than "normal" ones. I always thought it cool they got TWO Christmases! And to top it off, my friend that was Greek Orthodox also celebrated the day the wise men showed up too! Personally I think it was an "any excuse to extend the holiday season" sort of thing! Yogurt Thorn! Lots of live culture yogurt! Replaces the good bacteria in your gut that the antibiotics kill off. That's the problem with antibiotics - kill off ALL the bugs, even the ones you want!

Love and prayers A.