Conversations with my husband, yes, he really says stuff like this, and my various mishaps

IF only he can read this, I hope it makes an impact in his life. He's so fortunate to have you in his life. I'm sure you're not perfect sister but I've read your stories and I know you're a woman of substance. Take care, you're loved!
@hellomimi Thanks, no I don’t let him read my posts.

I am FAR, VERY FAR from perfect and I realize it. I also have PTSD but very different from his PTSD. I care deeply for people and he cares deeply for himself so we are really different in this area. He does not understand why I care so much, even for strangers, and I don’t understand his lack of caring for even family members.

But they do say opposites attract 😂
 

Aneeda, are you as funny in 'real' life as you are here? Do you laugh a lot? Hope so.
I am a very sarcastic “funny” person as are all my children. My son with DS even has this ability and has said some great one liners. So much has happened in my/our lives, you either cry or laugh. I/we prefer to laugh.

It“s all the same. Crying gives you a wet face, laughing gives you wet pants. 🙄
 

So I am sure I am crazy, yes crazy, cause I still have not killed my husband, nope, not yet. Maybe, if he had more insurance, but he doesn’t. Today was stellar, just stellar. Yesterday we bought five Magic Carpet Spirea which we thought would fill the long space left in our back yard.

These plants grow 24” high and 24” wide. Bless Monrovia‘s heart they out a diagram on the leaflet with a plant and lines. We bought five. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Turns out we needed 8 ☹️. Today we truck back to Lowe’s and they have none of these clearance plants, for 10 dollars left. Hmm.

But they have Monrovia Tom Thumb Cranberry Cotoneaster, non-fruit bearing, and I start to read the label on them. A woman rushes up, grabs hold of the plant next to the one I am looking at and says, “what are these”?. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I don’t work here, but it says cranberry. Oh, she says, looking at the plants, finally releases it and walks away.

I have a yellow on clearance rose sitting on my walker. Another lady, speaking to her family in Vietnamese or similar language rushes up, grabs the other rose on clearance. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I decide to get the Tom Thumb Cranberry Cotoneaster and get 10. The roses have yellow leaves which means the little blacks bugs have been after them. I put the rose back. The lady rushes over and grabs it. 😂

The Cranberry grows one to two feet high and spreads up 5 feet wide. Sadly there is no diagram for my husband to look at. We get home. I say I will show you where you can replant the Spirea. And I do. Then I see him take out a Spirea and plop a Cran berry into the same hole.

No. You have to measure. The plants are not interchangeable. He give me one of his dirt looks, leans forwards towards me, and says in a raised somewhat angry voice “it says it grows five feet wide. That is 2 and 1/2 feet in each direction.” OMGOSH.

Crazy, he drives me crazy.
 
After researching on several sites I am not sure how wide the cranberry plant will get 😂, it says 3 to 6 feet wide. Apparently, if a branch of it touches the ground, the branch roots, and spreads more from there. We agreed to plant it four feet apart. Sounds like it will fill in eventually.

Also it may or may not have inedible berries. Some sites says it has berries, some say it doesn’t. The plant info, attached to the plant, does not mention berries. It is not on the list for poisonous to dogs, but might be. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Well, Bella will not be around it as she eats any plants she sees, so she is not allowed around plants. But it is a very pretty plant.
 
So I write less and less here as conversations with my husband are crazy and, frankly, I try to avoid talking to him. He now weights 360 and whenever I bring up that he has an eating disorder he gets very angry and claims he does not so I give up.

However, last week I BANNED any form of sugar from the house. He is still so obsessed over food, as in did you eat some of my; that I solved the issue by refusing to buy any form of sugar. He can eat all the carbs he wants. I am trying to avoid carbs and sugar. Hopefully my A1C will be low enough for surgery.

With my daughter here and baby girl they were my main focus. He was invited to come, of course, but refused saying “he had stuff to do” which was sit on his butt and watch tv. 🤦🏻‍♀️ However, he did agree to meet us for lunch, of course. It was me, oldest son, daughter, baby him. He took his car. Oldest joined us from work.

The place no longer served what daughter wanted so we went elsewhere. But husband wanted money to get his own and refused to go elsewhere with us. Whatever. I knew it would be more enjoyable without him. Sad, but so true. He got 20 dollars from me and left.

We continued with our day, I got home late, and very tired, and went right to bed. Daughter wanted to leave very early for the two hour drove up to the pj store in another town. In the morning it got weird. I opened his door to let him know I was going. Blood on his sheets. 😳. What the heck?

I wake him up. You’ve bleed on your sheets, where are you bleeding. I don’t know. 🙄. He sits up, there is a four inch gash on his arm, a huge bruise, and when I got home that night I notice a bruise on his elbow. I said to him that it must have bleed badly as I can tell it’s deep. He says he did not notice. Whatever, I am leaving and I did.

Went to the store, few other stores and daughter asks, at each store, “aren’t you buying something”, 🤦🏻‍♀️ Yup, I am buying stuff. I bought a jar of lemon marmalade at one store. A cookie at the bakery. At the pj store they had clearance stuff for a dollar, I spend 13.89. 😂😂😂. Turns out that was all the money I had left.

Got a few things for baby and two shirts for me. Get home, go into backyard, notice one of my pots is wacky and my new garden fence is broke. Now I know how he got hurt. ☹️ Liar, liar, pants on fire.

And he says “when I came outside I noticed a big blank spot in the mulch by the fence gate and I noticed the garden fence was broken.” You fell. He says ”no, I didn’t.”. Then, I ask again, how did you get the big gash if it wasn’t from tripping, falling, and breaking the fence. He says “I forget”. I ask him if he has a bridge he’d like me to buy. 🤬

”So you are telling me that someone jumped over our 5 foot gate, went around the five foot garden fence, and walked into the garden all the way to the end, and then they tripped over this flower pot, and fell onto the 3 foot garden fence and broken it. You telling me that?”

”Yes,” he says. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Why do you think they did that I asked.

“I have no ideal.”. He says.

Yup, he’s reached a new level of crazy.

Then he opens the door to my bedroom last night “I just want you to know I am not going to work. I am sick and then he goes into great detail explaining what’s wrong. I don’t care. Close the door I want to sleep. “Well, he says, and repeats the whole conversation. SHUT THE DOOR!

He doesn’t go to work, he walks into another room 😂. He didn’t have to wake me, but now he has so now I can’t sleep. Great. I get up, wash towels, put them in the drier, take Bella out. Get a little sleep, already had alarm set to take Bella out which I did. Try to get a little more sleep and up and at it.

He spent most of yesterday watching tv, apparently not to sick for that, slept all last night, and has slept all day. There appears to be nothing wrong with him except he doesn’t want to work outside and wants to sleep instead. He is not going to work tonight either. Wonderful. Our check last week was short and I had to use my ER money. Now our next check will be short. Terrific.

As for the fence, I order a new one. I took the piece that broke off and used it to put across Bella’s dog run to make it very short. While she is recovering, I am redoing the side yard. Taking all the mulch out and throwing it away since she sticks her paw through the fencing and grabs a pawful of mulch to eat. I can’t do it all, because he “forgot” to put the cans out last week and they are nearly full.

Just another wonderful week, while I work my self to death in the yard that he wanted. 🤬
 
Husband still sick with his cold and is a bigger jerk every day. He complained about being out of crystal light and I have gone to the store two days in a row and each day asked him DOES HE WANT ANYTHING and he says no. Now he complains that he has been drinking plain water for a couple days, 🤮.

I say why didn’t he use some of mine? But apparently my single packs are too hard for him to use as he uses the 2 quart packets. I went to the store and bought him 80 dollars worth of crystal light. Yes, yes I did. So tired of his complaining while I do everything and he lays on his back in bed cause he has a cold.

Then last night when he is working his computer would not work and he was waiting for it to be fixed. I asked him, since I could not sleep do to my very painful shoulder, if I could play my computer game. He said yes. I turned the sound off, was playing my game, when he came into the room. He was in his bedroom.

Anyway, he started hacking and coughing, which he hadn’t done all night and I asked him to put his mask on as I didn’t want to catch his cold since I am having surgery soon. (I had a mask on). He refused. In fact, he is now refusing to wear a mask at all in the house even though he is sick.

Such a jerk! He is definitely trying to get me ill so my surgery will have to be delayed. Typical of him. 🤦🏻‍♀️ He is such a hateful person.
 
Well, I guess I am in a venting mood.

I called my son and told him to call me when he gets back from his trip; instead he dropped by which was fine. I told him some stuff about his dad and he said he needs a psychologist. Well, duh. Like I haven’t tried that for years.

He also felt he might need to go into a nursing home, he said. Who, I asked him, is paying for that? I also told him I am thinking of selling the house and having us move into separate
apartments which would be just as expensive as a large three bedroom apartment.

While I realize the above is not practical it might keep me from jumping off a bridge as I have about had it with his behaviors. He has now decided he needs to sleep over 10 hours a day. I woke him at 4:30 yesterday and asked him did he plan on getting up, to which he replied, I set my alarm for 5; I will get up then. 🤬

Well, excuse me. 😳
 
Well, I guess I am in a venting mood.

I called my son and told him to call me when he gets back from his trip; instead he dropped by which was fine. I told him some stuff about his dad and he said he needs a psychologist. Well, duh. Like I haven’t tried that for years.

He also felt he might need to go into a nursing home, he said. Who, I asked him, is paying for that? I also told him I am thinking of selling the house and having us move into separate
apartments which would be just as expensive as a large three bedroom apartment.

While I realize the above is not practical it might keep me from jumping off a bridge as I have about had it with his behaviors. He has now decided he needs to sleep over 10 hours a day. I woke him at 4:30 yesterday and asked him did he plan on getting up, to which he replied, I set my alarm for 5; I will get up then. 🤬

Well, excuse me. 😳
About the nursing home: I don't know about where you live, but in my state there's a thing called the Spousal Impoverishment Law (or something close to that); it's basically that the state cannot impoverish someone by denying their spouse Medic-Aid (to pay for a skilled nursing facility--even permanently); in this state last time I checked, Medic-Aid would cover that & leave the non-Medic-Aid-receiving spouse the roof over their head, one vehicle and $140K or less in the bank. You have to apply for it and make sure you meet all the stipulations of course and, in this state anyway, it's best to pay an elder law lawyer to help you with it, but my dad used the law when having to put my stepmother in a facility. And I know of at least one other state that has something similar, Tennessee.
 
I am sitting here, totally stressed out, and mulling over my lot in life. And while I know how I got here, I suppose, I don’t really know why. Why I am continually agreeable to the pressures put on me by family who continually manage to manipulate into doing what I don’t want to do.

I can hardly write, can hardly think, and I wish just one of my two birth kids would care, but that asking the impossible. I am going to text the real estate agent this morning and tell him if we don’t have a decent offer by Monday night, I want the company to buy the house. No more showing after Monday. It will be too hard on me.

Apparently, I am slower than usual due to all the stress cause my son and daughter cooked up a plan between them. I thought at first it was just my daughter. Then, a casual remark from my son, made me realize it was the two of them. 🤦🏻‍♀️

My daughter has been talking about once the house is sold, she thought my son would move in with his girlfriend and we should move to his mobile home as the lot rent will be cheaper than apartment rent. His mobile home (which I bought for him many years ago) is in worst shape than my house. He’s always complaining about the mobile home park.

My daughter was saying how concerned she was about our finances, how much better this would be, and really pushing me to agree. Hmm, she is never really concerned about us due to her Asperger’s Syndrome (same with my son). Her concern was strange until my son said something.

Then I understood. The plan was, he moves in with his girlfriend which makes financial sense for them. My husband and I move into the mobile home and pay the lot rent. Then if he and girlfriend break up, Husband and I move to an apartment and he moves back to the mobile home.

Not happening. I have my own plan. Selling the house, moving to an apartment, and, then, dealing with my difficult husband and difficult marriage. That’s my plan and that’s what I am doing!
 
Aneeda... what a kick in the head for you, to find that even with your own offspring you're not getting support, in fact just the opposite with the plotting behind your back.. I'm so sorry for you... this has got to stop, you have to show them whose boss!! Stick to your guns.. do what you have plans to do and do not deviate from that..

It;s just terrible this is happening to you when your health is already compromised and your hip operation is due , and you're in such pain..... but remember, you have to live the rest of your life with the choices you make in the next few days.. so make them for you...
 
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@ Aneeda do you & your husband have power of attorney on each other?

There have been times I want to pull the strings of ours. " He's incapable of that decision, mentally confused".

Our oldest son informed us that our youngest son wanted us to have a care giver come in. ??????? !

Sorry ,,just some random thoughts this morning.

Really hope what is going on with your life🙏 ,, works out much better.
 
@ hollydolly,, care givers aren't happening to us,, yet.
At our age, both of us ,79,, we are up & moving every day.

I'm busy with house work,, gardening, the pup.
He is out in local wood lots operating power saw or using a large backhoe.

Yesterday was 'slow' day for us.
He tore a huge hole in backhoe tire,, which stopped his work.

So we took a drive to get some fresh strawberries,,,yum.
 
I am sitting here, totally stressed out, and mulling over my lot in life. And while I know how I got here, I suppose, I don’t really know why. Why I am continually agreeable to the pressures put on me by family who continually manage to manipulate into doing what I don’t want to do.

I can hardly write, can hardly think, and I wish just one of my two birth kids would care, but that asking the impossible. I am going to text the real estate agent this morning and tell him if we don’t have a decent offer by Monday night, I want the company to buy the house. No more showing after Monday. It will be too hard on me.

Apparently, I am slower than usual due to all the stress cause my son and daughter cooked up a plan between them. I thought at first it was just my daughter. Then, a casual remark from my son, made me realize it was the two of them. 🤦🏻‍♀️

My daughter has been talking about once the house is sold, she thought my son would move in with his girlfriend and we should move to his mobile home as the lot rent will be cheaper than apartment rent. His mobile home (which I bought for him many years ago) is in worst shape than my house. He’s always complaining about the mobile home park.

My daughter was saying how concerned she was about our finances, how much better this would be, and really pushing me to agree. Hmm, she is never really concerned about us due to her Asperger’s Syndrome (same with my son). Her concern was strange until my son said something.

Then I understood. The plan was, he moves in with his girlfriend which makes financial sense for them. My husband and I move into the mobile home and pay the lot rent. Then if he and girlfriend break up, Husband and I move to an apartment and he moves back to the mobile home.

Not happening. I have my own plan. Selling the house, moving to an apartment, and, then, dealing with my difficult husband and difficult marriage. That’s my plan and that’s what I am doing!
Good for you Aneeda, shock them all by sticking to your guns.
 
Aneeda... what a kick in the head for you, to find that even with your own offspring you're not getting support, in fact just the opposite with the plotting behind your back.. I'm so sorry for you... this has got to stop, you have to show them whose boss!! Stick to your guns.. do what you have plans to do and do not deviate from that..

It;s just terrible this is happening to you when your health is already compromised and your hip operation is due , and you're in such pain..... but remember, you have to live the rest of your life with the choices you make in the next few days.. so make them for you...
Thanks @hollydolly. I have always put everyone else first, always. Especially my difficult husband always trying to find something that would make him happy and do things for him when he does nothing for me. My last hip surgery, he would not even help me get meals. 😭. This time I’ve bought some cereal and TV dinners so I will be able to get food easily when I am hungry. I got a weeks worth but I think I will pick up a bit more.

As for the my two non disabled bio children, I will admit, to myself, I am really disappointed in their current behavior. I expect very little from them because I realize they have their own lives. But this plan of theirs, to suit their needs, very disappointing.

Anyway, I am going forward with MY plan. 😊
 
@ Aneeda do you & your husband have power of attorney on each other?

There have been times I want to pull the strings of ours. " He's incapable of that decision, mentally confused".

Our oldest son informed us that our youngest son wanted us to have a care giver come in. ??????? !

Sorry ,,just some random thoughts this morning.

Really hope what is going on with your life🙏 ,, works out much better.
Actually we do have each other’s power of attorney. Funny you should mention this, as I told him just a couple of days ago if he keeps on his current path of pretended helplessness, I will believe him and put him in a nursing home.

Gee, so he does remember how to change a light bulb and the battery in the smoke alarm when just the other day, he couldn’t. 😂. It’s a real struggle for me now and so much stress. But I AM selling this house, getting my surgery, and changing my life. I still have to live with him, but he can stay home as much as he wants, but I am going out and having some interesting times.
 
Good for you Aneeda...you know what the definition of insanity is, right?! LOL.

Its easy to get into the family role playing mode though...takes mental strength and gumption to pull out of it and to change the initial actions which then change the "reactions" accordingly.

Ben Franklin said the definition of insanity was -

"Doing the same thing over and over expected a different result".
 
Actually we do have each other’s power of attorney. Funny you should mention this, as I told him just a couple of days ago if he keeps on his current path of pretended helplessness, I will believe him and put him in a nursing home.

Gee, so he does remember how to change a light bulb and the battery in the smoke alarm when just the other day, he couldn’t. 😂. It’s a real struggle for me now and so much stress. But I AM selling this house, getting my surgery, and changing my life. I still have to live with him, but he can stay home as much as he wants, but I am going out and having some interesting times.
yes and you MUST do it Aneeda... just get on with what's left of your life the way you want to live it....You'll find a complete change in attitude with some as soon as you do......and if not, then so be it.. their loss, but definitely your gain!!
 


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