Reply #6: I hear you...

[CatBoreal]

...my sister and myself are always on my father's side. Never hers. She's just a poor miserable put upon wretch. No one cares. No one understands.

The latest? I asked my mom and dad to come up this weekend and help me pack the house. Essentially, the plan was Dad and I pack the house (I'm 16 weeks pregant) and Mom watches the kids. Easy work because my girls are absolute gems at amusing themselves and all she'd have to do is play referee from time to time. They're also going to babysit on Monday so I can go out of town for my amnio.

At any rate, I get this woe is me, I'm expecting too much of her song and dance and it's so hard for her to do this for me.

I didn't play her game. I told her we're both adults and if she doesn't feel up to helping me out then she should take responsibility for her own personal well being and set some limits as to what she can and cannot do and then inform me of them.

Her response? "Doesn't love enter into it?"

Martyrs, can't live with them and killing them only gives them what they want.