dealing with hatred

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Blinocac200sx

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Man, everytime I think about my father in law, I want to punch something, so I kind of know what you're feeling. I've found exercise, particularly a punching bag when I can find one, to be very helpful in alleviating rage. As far as your attitude towards them, you need to ask them all over to sit down for a heart to heart. Tell them that you don't want to make the end of life of their mother(or whatever relation she is to them) any worse of a situation, and you'd like to clear the air and bury the hatchet. Apologize and ask them for forgiveness, and you may just find they'll do the same for you.
 

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In November I lost my job due to falling oil prices, since then the only job I was able to find in my field is a contract position with no benefits except a company van. I get up at 4am to drive to Tulsa everyday work out in the heat all day and get home around 6pm.
When I get home I want to take a shower ,eat dinner cool off watching tv until I go to bed around 8:30pm

What actually happens is I come home to a house full of people , it is 80+ degrees because they turned my ac off cause grandma was cold. She is in my chair with the TV tuned to her favorite shows. I eat my reheated dinner cause grandma couldn't wait til I got there. I go to my office room and surf the web and dream about where I could hide the bodies.
I go to bed around 8:30 but don't sleep because the are hootin and hollering like they are at the chicken fights. When I finally go in and tell them to keep it down cause I gotta get up at 4am I'm the rude ******* who only cares about hisself

You are a seriously patient man. I'm too selfish to even get in a situation where I have to put up with any crap.
 

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In November I lost my job due to falling oil prices, since then the only job I was able to find in my field is a contract position with no benefits except a company van. I get up at 4am to drive to Tulsa everyday work out in the heat all day and get home around 6pm.
When I get home I want to take a shower ,eat dinner cool off watching tv until I go to bed around 8:30pm

What actually happens is I come home to a house full of people , it is 80+ degrees because they turned my ac off cause grandma was cold. She is in my chair with the TV tuned to her favorite shows. I eat my reheated dinner cause grandma couldn't wait til I got there. I go to my office room and surf the web and dream about where I could hide the bodies.
I go to bed around 8:30 but don't sleep because the are hootin and hollering like they are at the chicken fights. When I finally go in and tell them to keep it down cause I gotta get up at 4am I'm the rude ******* who only cares about hisself

Oh helllll no...

Sounds like typical libtard democrats. They don't even know what having a job entails and show you no respect in your desire to make a living of your own. I'm still at a loss as to why this has to take place at yours and your wife's house and not grandma's. If it's only a quarter mile away it would seem that travel isn't an issue. If it were me I'd throw down the gauntlet. Boot them all to grandma's apartment. If your wife needs to stay over, buy her a trundle bed or cot to sleep on when over there. It's not forever, but the toll it's taking on you might well be...
 

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In November I lost my job due to falling oil prices, since then the only job I was able to find in my field is a contract position with no benefits except a company van. I get up at 4am to drive to Tulsa everyday work out in the heat all day and get home around 6pm.
When I get home I want to take a shower ,eat dinner cool off watching tv until I go to bed around 8:30pm

What actually happens is I come home to a house full of people , it is 80+ degrees because they turned my ac off cause grandma was cold. She is in my chair with the TV tuned to her favorite shows. I eat my reheated dinner cause grandma couldn't wait til I got there. I go to my office room and surf the web and dream about where I could hide the bodies.
I go to bed around 8:30 but don't sleep because the are hootin and hollering like they are at the chicken fights. When I finally go in and tell them to keep it down cause I gotta get up at 4am I'm the rude ******* who only cares about hisself

Fawk that noise. I could not deal. I've done long days in the heat coupled with a long drive many times and I want a/c, a beer, good food, and quiet.

FWIW I have 3 grandparents over 88 that take care of themselves and I bet they're in worse shape than this woman. My 88 year-old grandma lives alone and only calls when she needs a ride to the ER and apologies the whole way there for being a burden (she's not). If she's got a nice apartment she needs to go there. She can get an in-home nurse or something. 1/4 mile away, your wife can go visit.

It's great and admirable and respectable to take care of family, but there is a line and it's somewhere in front of your chair grandma plops her ass in when you get off work. Your home is for yourself and your wife to be comfortable in and have a relationship with each other. Anyone else is a guest and should act like one or not expect to be invited back.

Edit: I guess you could always grab a key to grandma's nice apartment and go stay there.
 

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Oh helllll no...

Sounds like typical libtard democrats. They don't even know what having a job entails and show you no respect in your desire to make a living of your own. I'm still at a loss as to why this has to take place at yours and your wife's house and not grandma's. If it's only a quarter mile away it would seem that travel isn't an issue. If it were me I'd throw down the gauntlet. Boot them all to grandma's apartment. If your wife needs to stay over, buy her a trundle bed or cot to sleep on when over there. It's not forever, but the toll it's taking on you might well be...

I have suggested these very things....no luck
 

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Fawk that noise. I could not deal. I've done long days in the heat coupled with a long drive many times and I want a/c, a beer, good food, and quiet.

FWIW I have 3 grandparents over 88 that take care of themselves and I bet they're in worse shape than this woman. My 88 year-old grandma lives alone and only calls when she needs a ride to the ER and apologies the whole way there for being a burden (she's not). If she's got a nice apartment she needs to go there. She can get an in-home nurse or something. 1/4 mile away, your wife can go visit.

It's great and admirable and respectable to take care of family, but there is a line and it's somewhere in front of your chair grandma plops her ass in when you get off work. Your home is for yourself and your wife to be comfortable in and have a relationship with each other. Anyone else is a guest and should act like one or not expect to be invited back.

Edit: I guess you could always grab a key to grandma's nice apartment and go stay there.

she has been fighting cancer for 20 years.......takes chemo pills and now has congestive heart failure. she is no doubt very ill.my wife works full time and tries to take care of her mother every minute she is off. plus she takes off work for her Dr. appts. and any time her Mom calls. i'm sure her employer gets tired of it but she doesn't care her mom is #1. the others want the very best care for their mom as long as it costs them nothing. Father inlaw passed away sept 2014 and left her a six figure life insurance policy. not sure why we pay for every thing
 

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In November I lost my job due to falling oil prices, since then the only job I was able to find in my field is a contract position with no benefits except a company van. I get up at 4am to drive to Tulsa everyday work out in the heat all day and get home around 6pm.
When I get home I want to take a shower ,eat dinner cool off watching tv until I go to bed around 8:30pm

What actually happens is I come home to a house full of people , it is 80+ degrees because they turned my ac off cause grandma was cold. She is in my chair with the TV tuned to her favorite shows. I eat my reheated dinner cause grandma couldn't wait til I got there. I go to my office room and surf the web and dream about where I could hide the bodies.
I go to bed around 8:30 but don't sleep because the are hootin and hollering like they are at the chicken fights. When I finally go in and tell them to keep it down cause I gotta get up at 4am I'm the rude ******* who only cares about hisself

THAT is all on your wife and she's completely in the wrong. She needs to take her mother back to her apartment around 5PM every day, let her siblings cater to her every need into the wee hours of the evening and make sure you're the one she supports from 6-8:30, AND maintains a quiet home for you to get some rest in until you leave the next morning.

Seriously, driving tired is as bad or worse than drunk driving. Especially before dawn after being at work/on the road for 14 hours a day every day. She's not just messing with your sanity, she's messing with your life!

You don't need to speak to the in-laws at all. You need to speak to your wife, calmly and rationally discuss your needs and make her understand that her cop-hating in-laws are going to have a FTF with an officer escorting them off your property the next time they "hang out" past your bedtime! :mad:
 

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GTG, I agree with everything except take the MIL back to the apartment. If the MIL is in as bad health as it states, the wife needs to be as close to her mother "as possible". I think the wife needs to support her husband a little better in this and set some rules as to when "visiting hours" are when they need to leave. Not saying the husband doesn't need to try and forgive a little and work through this for the sake of his marriage, but some order needs to be maintained and she needs to help in achieving this. If the in-laws don't like it, too bad...sucks for them.
 

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