I just watched that! That was so random!

bc, you give up too easy. if wardrobe is locked, just get a sm! they has keys!

Oh, dear God. How do you handle your partner's family when, four years into your relationship with said partner, they still won't allow you to come out to dinner with the family because your relationship is a terrible shame on them all? (We're gay, for pity's sake, not criminals. Oh and apparently it doesn't help that I'm disabled. Yes, because I schemed my way into that one because I wanted their daughter to have to look after me. I'm evil like that. And the fact that I'm not Jewish is just the icing on the disturbing upcoming wedding cake...)

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How do you handle your partner's family when

Set weapons on Ignore?

I mean, I know plenty of people who avoid their families-in-law for much less unpleasantness. Do you really want to have dinner with them?

Do you really want to have dinner with them?

In all my time going out with, and then being engaged to their daughter, I've met them exactly once. We have to get to know each other a little better than that, if they're going to stop abusing me to their daughter behind my back (or at least if we're going to persuade them to come to the wedding, which they're not planning to at the moment, which has upset my Girl terribly). I'd love to ignore them, but this is an Israeli family. This is a culture based around the family, and my Girl is *completely* devoted to her parents and siblings and sees/talks to them all the time. I don't want to upset her by getting in the way of that.

IBN: Sims 3 is much fun and a great way to waste a day off.

Seska, I think it's your Girl who has to set the behavior boundaries with her family, not you. She has to tell them she's not listening when they abuse you, she has to say she's not attending family events without the family she's made, etc. It's going to be really hard on her, and she's going to have to tell them about eleventyhundred times, but she's the one who is situated to do so, not you.

Raq, are your menfolk feeling better?

We have a trip to the pediatrician today for a weigh-in (K has not gotten back to birth weight, yet) and then we are headed to Richmond . . . with all the beach traffic, ugh.

I think it's your Girl who has to set the behavior boundaries with her family, not you.

We're working on it, and she's being a star. It's just stressfully slow. Hence the ranting.

I sent my father the first season of BSG for his birthday. I hope he likes it. He likes Star Trek, Blakes 7, Doctor Who. I think he'll like BSG, but it'll be an interesting experiment.

Seska, I think Sparky is right. Aside from that, all I've got is this: {{{{{{{{Seska&Girl}}}}}}

Sparky, have fun with the driving. How is K, other than needing to gain some ounces?

Seska, I think Sparky is right. Aside from that, all I've got is this: {{{{{{{{Seska&Girl}}}}}}

This. And lots of patience ~ma to you both.

Cheers for the ~ma etc - much appreciated! I am off to indulge in some retail therapy. I need to buy a few nice things for the new flat (and replace all the glasses I broke this week). And then friend and I are going to see the Terminator movie. Much fun.