Current Mood : Resigned.
It’s the day
before the big Moving Day. And the family drama is flowing thick and fast.
(sigh) So tired of it all.
Well, here’s
the deal. DMIL has refused to move in with us. She wants to stay there, all
alone. I kinda figured that would happen, but it really caught Beloved Hubby
flat-footed. He talked to her for over an hour, but in the end, it’s her life,
and her decision. She’s still interested in moving into her own place, ‘sometime
later’, as she said, but for now, it’s a no-go. Only the three of us are moving
out tomorrow.
Thing is, she
didn’t tell Beloved this tonight. She texted him at work, dropped the drama
bomb, and refused to answer any of his return messages. He called me, half
infuriated, half out of his head with worry about his Mom all alone, shortly
afterward. Not a darn thing either of us could do. He had to finish what he had
going, couldn’t come back early, even for this latest development. I listened
to her phone’s ‘message’ chime about 50 times, and seethed. I can only assume
she was returning BIL and FIL’s texts. Could hear that, too.
But, in the
end, I let it go. Wasn’t doing me any good to be upset about it. We made our
decision. She made hers. Beloved made it abundantly clear that she has our
phone numbers to call any time she changes her mind. We’ll check on her, make
sure she has what she needs, but we can’t pay the house bills and our place,
too, and both she and FIL are aware of that. What they do next is up to them,
we can’t decide it for them.
Still, it was
very upsetting to Dearest. Although it wasn’t in the budget, we splashed out
for takeout fried chicken anyway, as a sort of mood-lift. We’d planned to pack
up the vehicles for an early start tomorrow, but nobody’s really into it.
If only some people came with remotes then you could hit the common sense button for them. It's like you said it's her decision. He should feel no guilt about as long as you guys check in on her.
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