Oh God, Oh God, Yes, Yes, Yes!
I finally had some private time this morning. Wow...did I need that!! Edie stayed with Annie last night. I took the girls to school. I thought all the way there and all the way back about doing some homework or housework. All the while, I knew in the back of my head that niether of those was on the top of the priority list. So...long story short...I feel MUCH better today! I'm sitting here thinking about doing my hair and make-up for no good reason. I wonder if my long black skirt still fits. Ooh..I better not wonder that for long...I'll be depressed again.
I've been feeling a little bitchy. Well, very bitchy. I'm not sure why, but I'm trying to keep it on the down low. It's probably all this crappy weather. I hate cold and I hate rain. Extended periods of it anyway.
I know that most of my regular readers have children of their own. Do you guys think that I should INSIST that my daughter go to her father's house? She's just turned 12. She hates his wife (and I really don't blame her.) She has recently been arguing about going with him. If I thought that it was a healthy place to be I wouldn't think twice about sending her. I just don't think it is though. He and his wife fight all the time. His wife screams and yells at them. She bad-mouths me. She has NEVER in 5 years told them that she loved them or even hugged them. (His excuse for this is that she is trying to give them their space. She doesn't want to force anything on them.) It's been FIVE years since they married!! I'm having a hard time with this one.
posted by Holly @ 9:58 AM
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Gosh, that's a tough one because I have a daughter that is the exact same age. That age is pivotal and the influences they experience at this stage can have a huge positive/negative impact on their future life choices. So, if it were me and my daughter had explicitly stated that she didn't want to go, I would not force her to do so. I would give her that choice because she is (in my opinion) mature enough. But, if her father insisted that she come, I would sit down and have a "look buddy" talk with both him and his wife.
I'm with Melissa. My son is only four, so I'm just going off of nothing but my memories of being 12, but I really do think that a child that age made to do something will grow to hate that thing completely. 12 is old now. Maybe it has always been old.
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