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I am so looking forward to this weekend! (kind of long, sorry)
It will be quite, calm and relaxing. I can not wait.
I have a friend, or had a friend, not really sure if we are still friends, not sure I still want to be her friend. Anyway, I have a very high maintenance friend, Ann, who really only calls me when she wants something. She got herself in a financial pickle. It was all her doing, not that she really saw it that way. She would like to blame everyone else for her problems. Needless to say she in a financial pickle. I offered to let her move in with the kids and me.
I knew what I was getting into - she is LOUD, bossy, has a lot of anger . Her kids are 3 spoiled rotten brats. The 17 yr old likes to think she can live the life of Lindsey Lohan & Mom & Dad will support her, when they can barely support themselves- she didn't come around because she knows what I think of her & she does not like it. The 14yr old has anger issues & runs around yelling at everyone that she is going to punch them in face, & 7 yr old has learned that if she screams, yells & cries long enough & loud enough every one around her will cave and give her what she wants, including not going to school so that she stay home playing babies & watch cartoons. Ann wants custody of kids, so she doesn't have to pay child support to her ex and he has to pay her. Other than that, they really are a nuisance to her unless they are worshiping the ground she walks on. So yes, I took this on, offered her a place to live. Hoping that maybe my kids and I could a positive influence on her and maybe she woudl at least lighten up a bit.
It was constant yelling, screaming and fighting, the 2 younger kids were over way more than she said they would be over. She insisted on smoking outside my front door so everyone had to walk through a linger smoke cloud. The last three weeks have been extremely tense because she finally realized that her kids have really worn out her welcome. My kids refused to talk to her and she had a fit about it. Don't recall throwing a fit because her 17 yr old wouldn't talk to me. She would avoid me & only talk through text, which were usually messages trying to provoke me to kick her out. I would not kick her out, as not to give her the reason for more drama and whine to what few friends she has left about how she is such a vicitim. I am too nice to ask her to leave. I intentionally did not clean my house for past 3 weeks knowing that she is a clean freak. All of this drove her crazy.
Well Monday night, texted to day that she was packing and moving out Tuesday. I offered to help her move but she really wasn't interested in my help. Said she would be starting around 3pm on Tuesday. The more and more I thought about it Monday night, she needs help moving. Her furniture in her room needs at least 2 people to move. I don't know who she has helping her and frankly, I don't want all kinds of people traipsing through my house.
So I went to work very early Tuesday, to get the priority issues done and came home, pulled my kids (twins - seniors in high school) out of school and we began packing up the rest of her crap and moving out to my front lawn. It was a wonderful feeling. We took care not to damage any of her belonging and made sure no one took anything from the front yard. Then I changed my locks. When she came home at 3pm to move she was royally upset , made donald duck to look calm, because I had taken control of her move and moved her out of my house. She had 10 people helping her move. Where were these 10 people when we moved her into my house 2.5 months ago??? More importantly, her intent was to have these people, people I don't know, never seen before, traipsing through my house to move her. I don't think so!
So she is now gone , my house is clean again, it is quite, calm, peaceful, and I know longer have to deal with a lingering smoke cloud outside my front door. I can not wait for the weekend to begin!!
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Sometimes tough love is the only way...I'm so glad you have your home, fresh air and life back in order. I must say you are much more restrained than I would have been!
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Wow! You certainly dealt with that longer than I would have - or did. We've had relatives with bad kids move in, and the rule is: "if they're in my house, they behave or I discipline them" My nieces learned a lot from living with us.
Hopefully your "friend" will figure out what a treasure she had in you.
This is another example of why I don't like text: What a cowardly way to say 'I'm moving out'" Bet she didn't text to ask to move in!!
Enjoy your quiet weekend - you and your kids certainly earned it!
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Wow! You certainly dealt with that longer than I would have - or did. We've had relatives with bad kids move in, and the rule is: "if they're in my house, they behave or I discipline them" My nieces learned a lot from living with us.
Hopefully your "friend" will figure out what a treasure she had in you.
This is another example of why I don't like text: What a cowardly way to say 'I'm moving out'" Bet she didn't text to ask to move in!!
Enjoy your quiet weekend - you and your kids certainly earned it!
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. Her kids are 3 spoiled rotten brats. The 17 yr old likes to think she can live the life of Lindsey Lohan & Mom & Dad will support her, when they can barely support themselves- she didn't come around because she knows what I think of her & she does not like it. The 14yr old has anger issues & runs around yelling at everyone that she is going to punch them in face, & 7 yr old has learned that if she screams, yells & cries long enough & loud enough every one around her will cave and give her what she wants, including not going to school so that she stay home playing babies & watch cartoons. Ann wants custody of kids, so she doesn't have to pay child support to her ex and he has to pay her. Other than that, they really are a nuisance to her unless they are worshiping the ground she walks on. So yes, I took this on, offered her a place to live. Hoping that maybe my kids and I could a positive influence on her and maybe she woudl at least lighten up a bit. 
, my house is clean again, it is quite, calm, peaceful, and I know longer have to deal with a lingering smoke cloud outside my front door. I can not wait for the weekend to begin!!
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