The Ultimate Situation Comedy

How did Dawn find out the secret info?

Mother #1 told me.

Yep, that's a tough one.
No one likes to be "kept out of the loop" or to be the last one to know.
On the other hand, it's a burden to keep secrets from others that may impact them.

I have no idea what this is about.

I didn’t say anything to #2

I said something completely inconsequential to #2 about #1 and it blew up.

Can you imagine what would have happened if I told the really important information?





I never wanted my life to be like Jerry Springer material and it isn’t. But my offspring could be on the Jerry Springer show.

Yep!

It’s all so hypocritical and double standardish.

And There’s no way I can ever say anything.


This opposite of board life.
Many many years ago, it would make me want to lash out on strangers on the Internet.
Now not so much.

I think I would rather all of you feel sorry for me and for my dilemma 🤣🤣

Family! What is up with that?🤔🤷‍♀️😭🤣🤪🦃🥺

Well, you certainly have every right to tell them not to speak to you about the ex.

Another way to look at the situation is that you may be "sitting in the Catbird Seat".

Maybe?

I think something akin to what Goblins was alluding to......

Exactly! For your sake let them know you prefer not to hear anything about your ex.

And tell them how much better you feel when you don't hear about him. IMHO they owe you the respect you deserve.

And now I need to make a decision.
I’ve researched as much as I can, I still can’t decide what to do.

If I make the wrong decision I will feel bad. Others will suffer.


I’m so fucking sick and tired of life and being a decision maker.
Does it ever get easier?

Lay your cards on the table and be true to yourself.
You are too honest of a person to do otherwise.
The people involved will either come around or they won't.
Life can be exhausting Dawn, but it is worth
every second.

Hang in there!!!

Amen.

I made the decision
(I said life has been going downhill since thanksgiving)

So this is my immediate life, not part of that family stuff going down at the same time.

From my journal~
Lily Deactivated

My friend found a vet who was willing to come to the house. It was the new vet from where I’ve always taken my dogs. The old vet retired last year. (He’s been my only vet since I moved here, and lives next door to another friend of mine, but I digress.)
So when the new vet called me to make the arrangements, she said Lily had been deactivated. (Was it too soon to start making jokes? It’s how I cope).
She and the other new vet at the clinic came over on their lunch hour.
But I’m jumping ahead.
My friend came over to help me with the grave because my sciatic leg is still useless.
Meanwhile, my neighbor’s son sees us out by the road, backs up with his trailer (it was painful to watch)… and asks who we are and what we are doing? I tell him it’s me, Dawn I live here. This is my friend and we are trying to dig a grave for my dog. If you want to help, we would really appreciate it.
And he replies… No kidding… (And my friend and I looked at each other straight away after he said this with “did that just happen?” eyes)
He said, “ well I just wondered who it was. If you need anything, just holler.” And he drove away.

The vets called before they left the clinic so we went inside the house, and my friend carried Lily outside, and we put her on her blanket, in her favorite spot to lay in the sun on the lawn.
She was loved. Petted. I told my friend some of the stories about her that were funny… How I came to get her, how she almost died in the car that one time because K was so stupid. How she loved to chase squirrels and kill moles. The turkey eggs she brought me on Mother’s Day.
No fences, no cages, no collars, no leash, an open door policy of inside/outside. Her own room and human bed (and dresser she never used) next to the window so she could watch dog tv whenever she wanted. A nature walk almost everyday of her life.

The two lady vets were very nice and gentle and we all cried.
Lily was surrounded by girlfriends.
(One of my nick names for her was Girlfriend.) (and Lily Legs)(Lily Vanilly)(she had a lot of nick names)
After the doctors left, my friend carried her to the grave for me,
My friend left so Buck and I could have a private funeral. Then she was buried in one of my mom’s luxurious sheets with a super high thread count. She is right next to Crockett.