dear parents:
I get that you didn't understand what was wrong with me. I get that it was probably frustrating. But nothing excuses the abusive, unpredictable, contrary environment in which I was forced to spend the last few years in your house. It's pretty sad that my biological mother can be sat next to someone and seem even a little sane. But you know what? She wasn't a disgusting, greedy, self-delusional b***h. She was just plain self-centered and selfish. She contributed to the household. Once in a while, she taught her children something that was actually valuable.
Dad, I don't know how you can stay married to someone who told your child she hoped they'd get their ass kicked at college. I know you don't like me very much, but that's probably because you literally have no idea who I am. Might be the case for your current wife, too, otherwise I think you've gone off the deep end. How much of your money has she spent, plainly out of vengeance for some perceived slight or for (god forbid) asking her to work in the business you own? (you know, the one that provides the only income you two share?) How long exactly has she held any of the jobs she's had? And how much did it cost to train for even one of those "jobs"? Were you honestly surprised when she didn't work out as a bail bondsman? How about when she moved across the country with all the money she had, planning to find a job in the newspaper when she got there? And yeah, it was HER money. Kind of like all that money you make turned out to be her money. Seems to me like it's okay for her to deplete every resource you have in the name of whatever pretense she's making at moving forward this week, but anytime her parents give her some of her money (that they probably saved their whole lives) she goes and spends it on some useless item that will likely never even be unwrapped, much less used. Which sounds not dissimilar to her degree in...glorified data entry, from what I can tell. Not like she's using it anyway.
I honestly don't understand how you can stand her, much less stand to stay married to her. She certainly doesn't have anything nice to say about you. You realize that, right? You must know that the second you leave any room anywhere she starts talking smack about you. She tells your children you've started drinking again. Rather than be properly concerned, though, she just expects us to feel sorry for her and what she has to put up with. And why on earth did you let the crazy woman buy horses? Even if the animals themselves were free, I shudder to think about how much money she's wasted on everything else concerning them. Not to mention that she CERTAINLY didn't build any of that stuff herself. Because her "wrist hurts". Yeah, well then maybe you don't need stuff built that badly...oh, you do? So you're just going to make your husband put it all together, even though he works WAY harder than he needs to at his regular job just trying to pick up the slack. Sounds reasonable to me.
12 Jan 2012, 11:50 am
