Haifisch posted:

Me [28/F] with my mother [44/F] forced us to be chronically homeless and on the run. I want to cut her out but feel tremendously guilty about doing so.

almightyerin posted:

Oh my god.

Shugojin posted:

You haven't felt that weird combination of pity and disgust until you've watched someone throw away tens of thousands on scratch off lottery tickets over a period of a few months

Hell my company owns a store and there's an old lady who comes in and drops like a grand on the drat things in one go every week

JonathonSpectre posted:

I have a completely loving useless relative (32 years old!) who will ask for money to do things like pay her power bill, water bill, buy food, etc. once a month or so and then say with a straight face something like, "Yeah, I'm broke since I bought 20 $10 scratch-offs because the clerk said the last one hit for $500 and you know there are always big winners within 20 of each other!"

She is always sincerely flabbergasted and disheartened when I tell her to eat poo poo and make better choices. "But my power is going to be turned off! I won't be able to flush the toilet!"

Light your house with burning scratch-offs! Use the scratch-off corpses to make a tiny cup to catch rainwater in to flush your toilet! But most of all, EAT poo poo.

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

I need a link to that story. Google gives nothing but I have to see the comments

Haifisch posted:

The OP got nuked and the comments got locked, which makes it invisible on searches but still linkable.

almightyerin posted:

I (F35) threw away old photos of my husband (M44) with his late wife years ago. He just found out and hates me for it.

Serephina posted:

I am a widower, and have photos all over of us. I've gotten rid of most of her stuff, but by god, if someone ever touched the things I kept, There would be blood.

almightyerin posted:

Oh my god.

lemon-lyme disease posted:

I don’t understand why she bothered to ask what she should do. There isn’t anything TO be done.

Haifisch posted:

Because she's panicking and hoping she can salvage this situation somehow. This has "sorry I got caught" written all over it - hell, she spends half the post trying to justify why she did it and how she's sorry now, honest.

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Me [29M] with my In-Laws [25F/61M/58F] - Don't trust me around my own children and are trying to demean my relationship with my wife/handler


I married my wife/handler "Sherrie" 9 years ago. We are deeply in love and she is my whole world, I love pleasing her. We have 2 kids (6 and 3) and we both work (Sherrie full-time at a doctor's office and me full-time; split half-half between home and office [Monday, Wednesday, and a morning shift on every second Friday]).
Because of our work situation Sherrie's parents and sister volunteered to babysit the kids when we needed help (retired/stay-at-home-mum). Initially this all worked out great. They would ring 5 minutes before arrival as we discussed "to make sure I was ready," then whoever was picking them up would arrive and take the children. Over the past 4 months Sherrie's sister has become increasingly less respectful of the 5 minute warning call, something which I have raised with her several times, but still happened up until the incident.
INCIDENT: Sherrie's sister came by without warning on a Friday that I was working from home, I'd changed my shifts at work and my alternate Fridays had switched for a month back in August. She came on the wrong day despite me telling her about it in text and also in person the last time she came by. She either wasn't listening or forgot, which is typical of her. Regardless of the cause she came by and I had taken the kids out to the park and accidentally left my phone at home. She tried ringing and couldn't get through, she tried knocking and didn't get an answer. While it was clear that I was out (car was gone), for some reason she decided to go around the back "to make sure everyone was okay" and she must have found the dog poo in the back yard, because later that day when I saw her missed calls and returned her call she admitted to what she had done. On he phone she admitted she snooped around the back and found the dog poo.
ISSUE: Sherrie's family aren't fully aware of our relationship. They understand the intimate husband/wife/family relationship we have, but at Sherrie's insistence we have hidden the more meaningful aspect of our relationship that has blossomed over the past 2 years; the relationship between a handler and her pup.
So when I found out what she had done I was furious. She couldn't understand what was wrong and kept asking when we got a dog; I calmly told her that it was none of her business and told her to drop it, but she didn't get the picture. Finally I growled "We have a dog that we all love very much, maybe one day if Sherrie trusts you enough you will get to meet him" and hung up.
I thought that was the end of the issue and that she wouldn't keep prying into our home life, but the next day Sherrie confronted me and told me her sister had asked her about a dog. I knew that I had been a bad boy re: the tone of the conversation with her sister and wanted to make amends so I told her the complete truth about what her sister had found. She flipped and long-story condensed = we had a family meeting and explained our lifestyle and how it was perfectly normal and safe.
ONGOING ISSUE: Sherrie's family now are visiting daily without warning while I'm at home working. They are not calling 5 minutes ahead and I don't have time to get changed into human clothes to answer the door. This has been going on for 2 months now and they are frequently trying to take my children out for sleep overs and day trips. My MIL/FIL barely speak to me when they're there and her SIL is noticeably cold. My children have stopped playing in the yard and I found out yesterday it was because my SIL told them it wasn't safe.
I discussed this with my wife/handler and she admitted that her family have been putting lots of pressure on her lately and telling her that we're not normal. She told me that her parents are telling her that "she was to blame" for supporting my behaviour... This is a mutually respectful life choice with no impact on anyone but ourselves!
QUESTION: How do I make it clear to them that their judgements are not warranted? We need them to continue caring for our children on days when my wife and I are both at work, but being in the same room as them makes me want to bite something.
TL;DR In-Laws found out about our handler/pup relationship and now don't trust me around my children. Saying that I'm unsafe and putting them at risk and also demeaning our relationship choices.

datajugend posted:

Haifisch posted:

Because she's panicking and hoping she can salvage this situation somehow. This has "sorry I got caught" written all over it - hell, she spends half the post trying to justify why she did it and how she's sorry now, honest.

Khazar-khum posted:

She's just sorry he's mad at her.

Barudak posted:

Weirdo sex thing? It's just a dog who learned how to post on the internet and gets aggressive around strangers looking for advice.

ArbitraryC posted:

It took me a while to catch on to what was going on in that post but now I'm completely horrified. If he really does need notice to not be a total weirdo does that basically mean he's involving his kids in his fetish on a regular basis?

Barudak posted:

Weirdo sex thing? It's just a dog who learned how to post on the internet and gets aggressive around strangers looking for advice.

ArbitraryC posted:

all over like still hanging up as a reminder that your current SO is your second choice or like all over as in you have a box of mementos in storage. Cause even as a kid of a widow I think it'd be sorta inappropriate if my mom had that stuff on display. She's moved on with her new husband and I'm happy for their new life together. It's not like she's forgotten but that stuff is in a box that's mostly kept around for my brother and I.

Doc Hawkins posted:

They married into a human family. That's at least a little weird.

Doc Hawkins posted:

They married into a human family. That's at least a little weird.

The Lone Badger posted:

The family are also dogs. They're just weirdos who like pretending to be a human.

Barudak posted:

Did yall see the part where photo destroyer is 13 weeks pregnant? Cause thats the cherry on a poo poo sunday

therobit posted:

That's curable, especially if he sacks up and and arranges for her to apologize to his dead wife in person.

Serephina posted:

It's a photo on the nightable, fridge, and two in the living room. When I get another SO I'm sure most of the photos will slowly be updated/replaced, but if some random woman if over and feels like a second choice, well no poo poo that's because you *are*. It's as much for them to cope with on the dating scene as it is for me. The woman in that story is hot trash who never got over her partner being happy with someone else and deserves a divorce asap, that poor guy & daughter

therobit posted:

That's curable, especially if he sacks up and and arranges for her to apologize to his dead wife in person.