Poem for a 30 year old

Hi!! So I made a post a while ago asking how to tell if a cat is fat or pregnant and today we got confirmation it was a little bit of both! She's pregnant with two kittens (confirmed via x-ray) and I'm already aware there's a higher risk of them having wobbly cat syndrome bc she got vaccinated before we knew she was pregnant.
Originally the plan was to spay abort but the low cost clinics around me don't have any openings before she's due and we can't afford the 1k vet bill to have it done at our regular vet. (it's cheaper to wait for her to give birth and then spay her.) A sucky situation but we're making it work the best we can.
I've never dealt with kittens so young before (the youngest I've dealt with might've been around 6 weeks??? maybe 5??). I already got a lot of advice from our vet, espc considering the mama cat is under a year old and has calcivirus. They even gave us advice about how to handle a prolapsed uterus while we make our way to an emergency vet (they doubt it will happen but they wanted to be safe).
The kittens are expected in around 2 weeks, I know there's a decent chance of still birth due to mama being so young along with being malnourished at the start of her pregnancy. She's currently being allowed as much food as she likes (again, as she was momentarily on a regular cat diet), tomorrow I'll be working on a birthing box for her in the closet of the bathroom she's staying in (using an old chewy box and old towels). She doesn't have many places she could move the babies where we wouldn't be able to reach them (we can reach everywhere at the cost of some discomfort+pain to ourselves).
I was told that if there's any active pushing for an hour and there's no babies then it's time for an emergency vet, I was told how to help stimulate a kitten to breathe, as well as to help them latch on to different nipples to prevent any milk hardening, inflammation, or over welling, I was giving advice on how to help mama if she has a calcivirus flare from the stress and pain (her's presents as tongue ulcers and excessive drooling) without immediately going to antibiotics, as mentioned above i was also told how to temporarily care for a prolapsed uterus while on the way to an emergency vet (which btw, should I bring the kittens with if it does come to that??? I'm assuming so but i forgot to ask). I know there's no garentee (wrong spelling, auto correct wont save me :( ) she'll give the kittens calcivirus but there's a pretty high chance she will and I was told what to look out for in case they do develop an active case of it.
Is there any other advice I should have/know? This is also the first cat I've dealt with that has calcivirus so this entire foster is a journey and a half, but genuinely very informing. So any info regarding that would also help! :) Thank you!
Photo of her trying to eat a dog biscuit in my room that was then taken away from her as cat pic tax. :)
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I'm a 16 year old dude and nothing really works out for me. I used to be really good at a lot of things and school etc, but now I'm simply struggling to go on. Life's just been shit and i think I'm probably past the point of giving up. How do i make sure my friends and family don't miss me? I have a girlfriend as well and i was wondering how to go about dealing with that, she has a few of her own issues i hope won't resurface if things get bad, but what do i do for her? I'm just thinking about making the process as smooth and simple for her as possible so she won't be hurt or hung up by it. What do i do here?

We do plan on taking her to the vet since this has been persistent for a couple weeks now but our normal vet is back down in Arizona and the vets office in Montana here is unfortunately not able to get her in for almost 2 weeks and Id still like to ease her discomfort!
My pup is about 2.5 years old, she is an un-spayed (never been bred or had a litter), female, shepherd mix coming in at roughly 60 lbs.
October - May we live in Arizona an hr East of Phoenix on an operating cattle ranch and during the summer months come up to Montana to another cattle ranch. We arrived in MT again about 3 days ago.
For the last 2-3 weeks she has been itching more than normal behind the ears, her sides, and under the belly. Our first initial thought was fleas but after having her checked & started on a preventative those were deemed out. I was under the assumption it was allergies so about a week and a half ago I switched her off of the Wholesome’s brand of chicken dog food (the only dietary change made in the last month was me buying the chicken flavor of food instead of beef or whitefish but she has had this brand since she was a puppy) to what I know she is good on and added wild salmon oil and sunflower oil to her diet to try to promote healthy skin and coat. She has had multiple baths since but it hasn’t seemed to make much of a difference. A couple days ago upon petting her belly I noticed only 2 of her nipples seemed to be crusted over and irritated with some slight swelling around the base and what appears to be dry darkened skin. The rest of her skin like on/behind her ears and her sides and belly do not appear to be red or irritated at all but the itching is still quite persistent. Could the condition her 2 nipples be in be caused by the itching? If so what other ways can I help ease the itchiness for her? TIA

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Running Windows 11
Monitors

• ASUS 24" vertical secondary monitor - HDR Capable - connected via DisplayPort

- LG - UltraGear 34" IPS LED UltraWide HD FreeSync and G-SYNC <- problem monitor, also connected via DisplayPort

• this monitor is also connected via HDMI to a laptop that I switch to for other tasks.

Describe your problem. List any error messages and symptoms. Be descriptive.

1. When enabling any type of HDR - the main monitor will go into a boot loop where it will chime on, flash the screen, and turn back off. This causes the secondary monitor to do the same thing
   
2. What I have noticed that triggers it specifically
   

• Enabling HDR in the menu
  
• Starting a game that auto enables HDR - Battlefield 1 for example
  
• unplugging the monitor 2 DisplayPort and plugging it back in
  

List anything you've done in attempt to diagnose or fix the problem.

• Only way I have been able to fix this is to manually turn off my PC, unplug Monitor 1's DisplayPort, and then login with Monitor 2. Once the login and startup sequence is complete, I can reconnect Monitor 1 and it works
  
• Games w/o HDR play fine, it seems though that games like Battlefield 1 automatically trigger the process
  
• updated all drivers and systems, and the issue persists
  

Post relevant photos of build/parts here.
None at this time, other than this, the build itself has been fine
Provide any additional details you wish below.
The Monitor 1 is only a few years old, if replacing it is the only way I understand, would like to see what other options are available

So I am transferring to UCI in the Fall, and im having trouble figuring out whether I want to live on campus or continue living with my parents. I just wanted to provide context and see what you all have to say or have any advice for my situation. So for starters, I will be receiving $0 in financial aid so my parents will be supporting me in terms of tuition and housing fees (if I were to live on campus). I did receive a scholarship that will give me $5k per year. From my understanding, my cost of attendance w/o housing is about 18k, and if I were to dorm, it would be an additional $12k. I also wanted to know what other fees or things would you budget money towards every month that'll add to the cost for example like groceries. One thing holding me back is that I don't "need" to dorm, in the sense that I live about 30-45 minutes away, so commuting wouldn't be a huge issue. What would the benefits of dorming be, and is it really worth it? I'm just worried about the stresses that come with it in terms of trying to find housing, and honestly I feel kind of a sort of guilt in the sense that im having my parents spend so much money if that makes sense? Any advice is appreciated!

I am trying to repair my credit in order to buy a car and get a decent rare, and also to get in a better position to buy a house in the next few years. Currently my credit score is in the high 560s-610s according to credit karma, my fico and my credit card company (credit one). It took a hit because of a 90 day late payment on a credit card recently that resulted in a closed account. The payment to pay off the balance of that has been submitted and I am just waiting for it to post. I have 3 accounts collections with the most recent being 2.5 years old. They are from Hunter Warfield for ~4k, key2 for $2300 from a school and Portfolio Recovery for $270. Obviously I can pay the Portfolio one off in full when I get paid again. But how should I go about paying off the other 2?

So background: his adult sister moved in with their dad because the bum that my husband and their dad warned her against is abusive, manipulative, and neglectful. (I was in a toxic relationship too so I do get it, I’m not putting all the blame on her) she had a kid from another man, and these two toddler with said bum. Anyways, she’s a pig. Not even the dad wants to stay in the house anymore, he sleeps outside in his car because it’s so disgusting in the house. She does nothing to help her situation, and the dad is the one who has to work to feed everyone. She didn’t want to have her baby dad served papers or anything (whatever it’s called in Mexico) for support for her and the kids. Their dad is 70+ years old, and only works about 3 days a week and has to get other odd jobs to get some sort of money. My husbands sister doesn’t cook, or clean the house. It’s rare. The other day my husbands dad called him and told him that he hasn’t ate since the day before and all day that day, that she didn’t make food and he doesn’t even know if the kids ate at all since there wasn’t signs of a meal being prepared. I get depression, I really do but to let your old father and kids go without eating?? Anyways, every time we go over we always take food and groceries. I don’t mind since I know it’s such a help and relief for them. What I DO MIND is that once I get there, I have to do ALL the house chores. Cleaning up after 8 people by myself. I just had my second baby 2 months ago, and have a 3 year old toddler. I have to put the groceries away, wash the dishes, and cook for everybody because she just doesn’t do anything just smoke. Then she holds my baby while smelling of cigarettes. While I get all the chores done. Not to mention. They have no bathroom, toilet, sink. I have to carry water in a bucket to take a bath, in a metal tin. I have to carry water in a basin basically to wash the dishes. All while taking care of my babies and everyone else. I’m also breastfeeding so it’s too much stress for me. Also, I get not having a toilet and having to go out in the desert to go to the bathroom, (I also grew up without water or electricity) but they do it next to the house. The house is in the corner of the street, so everyone sees tp. Everywhere you go there’s dirty tp. They aren’t mindful of cleaning up after themselves, they let the dogs do it (who are also starving and neglected). When my husbands dad used to live by himself, the house and the yard was always clean and tidy. Now it’s just a nightmare. Last month we stayed a week and I almost went insane. I had no time to go visit my own family in this town because I was stuck in the house everyday doing all the chores or else we wouldn’t have a way to eat. Because I’m breastfeeding I’m constantly hungry and just adding to the list of things you have to do in a normal/tour own household, plus all that was so hard on me. I’m not lazy, if I stay with someone I wouldn’t want to feel like a burden and of course I’d do chores for them, but at this level was insane. Now my husband wants to go back, but I told him if he doesn’t find us another place to stay I won’t go. My husband doesn’t drive or have a license, so if I don’t go he won’t go. I feel like a jerk for basically giving him an ultimatum, but I feel like it isn’t fair to me. This is HIS family, he should deal with it, then he didn’t even help me at all that whole week we stayed. With all the other things I do for him, (he’s basically a big baby) he can’t read, write, drive, pay (use credit and debit cards) I feel like it really isn’t fair. The trip is about a 7 hour drive, and the majority of that I drive until we cross into Mexico then he takes over(but there are still some areas I have to drive since the cars are in my name and I have a license) it’s a tough drive plus with my 2 month old I have to nurse, then to have to deal with that nightmare of his family’s living situation, it’s just so hard on me and all for him to have a good time with his family at my expense. I feel like it just isn’t worth it for me, I win absolutely nothing with these trips. I don’t even have a good time and have time to visit my own family. But I still do feel like I’m being a jerk. Anyways, AITAH?

For context, my SO and I have known each other / been together for over 8 years. We were together all of high school, most of college (broke up for about 2 years to “find ourselves” and came back to each other), and about a year after college, we were finally back in the same city together.
I moved to the city first after college, and was there by myself for about 9 months before she moved to the area. In my second month on my own and my first week of my first adult job, my mom took her life unexpectedly. I was a mess, and then I guess I just went cold — everything was bottled up. Three months after my mom’s death, my grandma (mom’s mother) passed away. I had never dealt with grief, but here I was losing two of the closest people in my life in a three month span. My grandma’s funeral was essentially a second funeral for my mom as well — many people learned of her death there for the first time, which was painful to experience. Please let me make this incredibly clear, I am not making an excuse for any behavior mentioned — I take full accountability but am simply trying to paint the full picture.
For context, I work in an extremely demanding career, where it is a super high stress environment — in the months following the loss of my family, I used my work as an escape and found it keeping my mind from drifting. I’m not a huge drinker, and it was never a constant release in this time period; with that being said, I have had 2-3 moments in this time of grieving where I have lost total control. I have been around close friends or, in this instance, my SO, and just wanted to feel nothing. In the latest lapse, we got into an argument after drinking heavily and I raised my hand at her.
I know this is inexcusable. I have always done everything I can to make her feel safe and loved. I know that the action itself is inherently abusive regardless of physicality. I know I can just stop drinking — however, as I mentioned I don’t drink frequently and I’m not entirely sure that it’s the cause here. Frankly, I believe that I have a lot of grief and processing that I’ve just bottled away and not confronted — I have anger in me that I’ve found misdirected at those that I love, and in this situation, it was her.
I called her the day after, apologized, and acknowledged that I have some problems I need to confront given the last several months of my life. Even then, and still now, she said she is willing to move past this and has realized that I’m in a lot of pain. I started therapy several weeks ago after this incident and have been giving her an abundance of space — she does still text me here and there to talk about her life and what’s going on. At the end of the day, this is the woman I hope to marry and grow old with — yet, I understand I made a mistake that you can’t take back and ultimately, it is her decision as where things go from here. I completely understand if this is a deal breaker; she doesn’t deserve to live with fear, and it brings great sadness to me that I caused it.
I’d say I’m an introspective person — I’m working through this all with my therapist / on my own and am truly trying to get better for myself, but is there hope for us? Admittedly, I feel that it’d weigh on me that (if it is a root cause) an inability to process grief and the loss of the biggest sources of love in my life caused me to push away the biggest one remaining.
TLDR - Not an excuse, but mother and grandmother died in 3 months time period while reuniting with long term partner after some time apart. We got in an argument while drunk and I raised my hand. Working through getting better for myself, but simultaneously navigating how I can still reconcile our strong relationship.

I M(26) and my girlfriend F(28) have been dating for a couple months and she has a 7 year old boy who will turn 8 this year. I have no kids and have never been with a girl with a kid. She does not discipline him at all and he does not listen. She just slightly raises her voice at him and tells him to stop all annoyed like as if he’s her little brother and let’s everything slide.
We went on a walk today and he usually will be in front of her with his scooter. But he was throwing a fit for no reason slamming his scooter on the sidewalk not wanting to listen when she would say stop/come. We would continue to walk and he would stand there being bad not following us. Then when he finally got in front he would go really far to the point we couldn’t see him and I would get worried and speed walk to catch up to him. He would cross the street by himself. She would just raise her voice and say stop but man when I tell you this would boil my blood. I insisted she should discipline him more and what she should try to do like maybe take his iPad away. She says she just calls him ungrateful and that she’ll stop being his mommy as tactics to discipline him but I see that as extremely dumb and ineffective. When we finally caught up to him she didn’t say anything to him and kept it moving.
Worst part is he still talks as if he’s a toddler and gets babied so much by his mom and his grandma that he feels as if he can get away with anything. Hearing and seeing an almost 8 year old act like this really pisses me off cause I would’ve got whooped for stuff like that.
My first time meeting him he was glued to his iPad the entire time at the restaurant and would not say anything back to me because of the iPad. We then came to my apartment and he started running around everywhere throwing a temper tantrum and hiding under my bed frame like kid seriously this is how you act at strangers houses for the first time?
He throws fits all the time and is very emotional and his mom just says I’ll put him in therapy one day. I know he likes me cause I show interest in his hobbies/life and he says I’m really nice. But he just acts like a little toddler.
She also has a rescue dog who is traumatized and barks at everyone including me and runs away/barks every time I’m over, which is kind of annoying as well but I feel bad she’s a rescue and I love dogs personally but she doesn’t like me/anyone.
Also my gf’s mom is very strict and takes advantage that she doesn’t pay rent so she doesn’t let her see me as much cause she insists my gf has responsibilities and can’t always watch after her dog/son
Im very good with kids and I pretty much raised my little brother who is 15 years younger than me. When my parents wouldn’t discipline him, I would and taught him a lot. I would be patient but also very firm with him and stop doing nice things for him if he would act up. But the thing is I can’t do jack shit with her kid cause I have no place to say or do anything. Also the kids dad isn’t in his life neither is his grandpa and you can tell he was raised by girls cause he even talks with a little sass like his mommy (which If it were my kid I would talk more manly with and be a good male role model) I get it you can’t control gayness but as a normal heterosexual male you would want your male kid to be straight/talk more boyish as well no judgement zone though!
I dont know what to do and if I should continue this relationship. I really like her and he’s not ALWAYS around but he will be more and more especially when we move in together down the line plus her dog.

I wanted this game for a hot minute and finally got it years after release.. only to be hit by bugs, bugs, and more bugs. First of all, bugs aside, it's real fun, but the bugs are destroying the enjoyability more and more.
First and foremost are the rendering issues all the way from floating around t-posing naked to seeing completely through the map layers. I have a medium grade PC which I play games like tarkov and heavily modded fo4 with no issue on high graphics, even then after the game had me set to max, I lowered everything down to high or medium for performance.
Second big annoying issue is the slow interactions/ delayed interactions. I go to talk to a person, sometimes I have enough time to scroll through a few memes while it loads, sometimes it's instant. Or when I'm having a conversation I click an option that takes just as long to register as selected. Another one which is combat encounters like attacking twice and the characters freeze and the target gets hit once followed by additional numbers popping up with no animation.
Last issue is all the small stuff. I level up? Character portrait is screwed up by showing my bare torso, want to use a certain no spoiler forge? Nope only one item because you can't access the crucible to use it again. There's more bugs like that I've encountered but y'all get it.
Most of these issues I find, I look online for help and find most of the same people asking THREE YEARS AGO. WTF. When this game runs well, it's fun as hell, but why the hell am I encountering three year old bugs that you would think such a successful game would've ironed out along the way.

Part One is linked above.
Anhinga had taken to the library hours ago. What was taking the middle aged NightWing so long to get back to her? And why couldn’t she figure out the rest of what that stone tablet said still? This isn’t… a very productive night, is it? She pondered quietly, tapping her claws against one of the shelves in the library. She had scoured every scroll and book in the history section, and none yielded any useful information that the young MudWing hadn’t seen a dozen times over. She found a few that mentioned old dragon tongue, but for some reason none of them listed any way to learn the language; like it had completely gone extinct and was lost to time. With a disappointed sigh and a close of her brown eyes, Anhinga would close the book and gently place it back on its shelf.
“Little one?” A voice would coo happily from behind her. Anhinga whipped around and was met with a smiling face and friendly eyes, a black talon with its silver bracelet marking upon her shoulder. Fatespeaker seemed tired, but joyous to see Anhinga; she had seemingly mellowed out over the years according to Tsunami’s words when Anhinga had asked… and, she was still grieving her husband. She missed her dragonets. Anhinga understood how that felt. “Hi, Mrs. Fatespeaker… are you doing okay today?”
“Yes, dear. I am fine… do you need to check out a scroll or book?” The NightWing would ask with a tilt of her head, faint teardrop markings glimmering softly in lantern-light. Anhinga would shake her head softly.
“Not today, I actually had a question… do you know anything about Old Pyrrhian? I’ve been trying to translate this stone tablet, and-“
“Old… Pyrrhian? Stone tablet?” Fatespeaker interrupted, curious and incredulous. “Well, I don’t know myself; but I’ve heard of the old language before through Pantalan dragons. Perhaps you should ask Cricket when she’s in town. I’m sure she has some information on it. Bumblebee, too… You should get some rest, dear. Don’t give this up, but please remember to take care of yourself.” Fatespeaker would scold after noticing the dark circles under Anhinga’s eyes, who would try to brush it off with an ‘I’m okay’ but Fatespeaker would shoo her out. “Please, when you find out what your tablet means, let me know! We can turn it into an artifact for your history class.”

 ~~~~~~~~~~~ LATER ~~~~~~~~~~~ 

Anhinga made her way back to her dorm, hearing Carmine’s heavy bull-like snoring echoing down the hallway with the collective irritated groans of other students who were kept up by the sound. By now, she’d gotten used to it, rounding through the doorway and flopping onto her soft nest bed. She would lay there, closing her eyes, tossing and turning.
She began to let her mind wander, thinking about today’s events.
What is out there? Who could have wrote this…? It’s not an old tablet, the scratch marks still had splinters of bone from being written with and still had dark scrawls from ink or soot when I found it on the beach. It couldn’t have been written by a Pantalan unless they’re a history obsessed nerd like I am- Yet another snore would break Anhinga out of her thoughts, her eyes popping open and jaw clenching in annoyance. Carmine and her stupid sleep apnea were about to meet claws to the throat. Anhinga got that Carmine literally could not help it, but the dragon always slept on her back just to mess with everyone else and make their lives harder. With a bit of angry gusto, Anhinga would throw herself out of her bed, haphazardly tidy it up, and march out of her dorm and down the hallway. Maybe going for a flight could help her clear her hyperactive mind and make her tired enough to sleep through Carmine’s incessant thunder snorts. Her dorm was thankfully close to the entrance and exit of Jade Mountain Academy, and within minutes she rounded the corridor into the main foyer. Nope. The office lantern was blown out for the night, and the dean, Sunny, was asleep. Anhinga would sneak past and make it to the cave entrance, backing up and sprinting to take off into the night sky.
The breeze was cool, and the moons were bright. Anhinga felt at ease under the stars.

 ~~~~~~~~~~~ ….. ~~~~~~~~~~~ 

*Large talons would falter, large slender wings fall. Into an unknown coast would a strange dragon crash, his body casting a massive shadow over the beach. He’d look up, seeing mountains and grass and ocean, stars and the three half moons. He wobbled and stood on his large talons, seeing smaller old talonprints he’d never seen before in the sand nearby.
Where… is he?*

So we went and looked at a home Monday morning and on a scale of 1-10 it's like a 8.5-9. It checks almost every box for us. So the Wife and I left, and said let us mull it over because it's at the top end of our price range. This morning we asked her for whatever information she had on the house..

1. House was built in 2003 (huge plus for us since it is a newer build)
   
2. Added a island into the kitchen along with 1 bathroom redone.
   
3. Roof replaced in 2019.
   
4. Asking price is $520,000, comparable comps fall into the range of $450 - $475k (comps seem to be slightly older than the house we are looking at.
   
5. Issues with the house - AC unit will need replacing soon, as unit is 15 years old (Mind you this is Florida) Vinyl fence needs replaced in several areas as is it falling apart, only half the sprinkler system in the yard works, several random concrete slabs in the back yard will need removed (concrete is already cracked, some areas have grass and weeds growing through it. Very random why there are slabs in the backyard. our thoughts is maybe they had a boat parked there, or sometime of shed, unsure.
   

Kitchen has a new island installed, along with only cabinets on one side of the wall replaced (other side appear to be original and do not match), with what looks like mostly newish appliances (would guess 3-4 years old). Master bath is outdated and appears to need a facelift.

1. The real kicker... Owner owes $35,000 ($265 a month at 5% interest) on a 4 year old solar panel system.

So we were speaking with our realtor and told him that we want to offer the following
$500,000, and the owner pays for the solar panels. We also asked that our offer is contingent obviously based off of inspection but we would also like a copy of the HOA bylaw's / rules + financials.
Our agent asked us to reconsider our offer and sleep on it tonight prior to our scheduled phone call tomorrow. He didn't flat out say it, but is telling us really think about the asking of the buyer to pay for the solar panels as he doesn't think that the seller will go for it, and that in his experience, the cost is passed onto the buyers. He was also questioning why we would want to ask for the HOA financials as he has never had a client ask for them previously and doesn't see that as something we should be worried about..
But in our minds with the seller expecting us to pay off the solar panels THEY bought, they are valuing their home at 555k which is $75,000 more than the high end of the comps..

Before I go spend $1k at my vet's office, can I get an idea of what's going on with my little guy?
He acts like he's got to go pee, yet sometimes only drops will come out. Same with pooping. Lots of attempts, but occasionally a solid poop will come out. Sometimes liquid, sometimes nothing.
Tonight was either one or the other; squatting for pee, walk a few steps, squat for poop. Nothing.
Chihuahua- about 10 years old (was a rescue) and about 4-5 pounds.
Please advise. Thank you.

Hello yall! I am a theatre design and production student and I mostly mix sound. I want to switch from from paper scripts to digital ones. I would like to use and iPad that is roughly the same size as a sheet of paper. I need to be able to draw on it, so an apple pencil is necessary. The new iPad's are crazy expensive and I really don't want to spend that much. I found a renewed 2021 iPad pro on amazon for around $700 which is more reasonable, but it is almost 3 years old. I know apple doesn't have the most amazing long term support for mobile devices. I do have an iPhone 14 and a Mac Book Pro so I am familiar with the apple ecosystem, but not familiar with iPad's. The last iPad i had was a fist generation I had when i was a little kid. Thank in advance!

So this has been an ongoing issue but I think I've reached breaking point. Before kids, my (f32) husband (m37) was so excited to be a parent. He would criticise any dead beat dad's and swore he would be extremely active and all the works. Well kids are now 1 & 2 and very active. I do 80-90% of all the house work and parenting. We both work (me less than him and he is the breadwinner). I am also studying.
I sacrificed everything to be with this man. I stayed by his side when he couldn't have kids (we had miscarriages and went through IVF several times) and a lot more other things most people would leave for. I could ride or die with him through everything.
Except now!
He thinks it's ok for me to do all the activities with the kids. Yes I am happy to be with my kids full time. But it annoys the living daylights out of me that his children are growing and meeting all their milestones and he just wants to sleep all day.
The last few weeks I have begged him to at least take them to the park. It doesn't have to cost him anything. Just his time. Well I lost my crap last week and told him he is missing out on our children's lives. Today (after a lot of pestering him and my daughter begging him) we went to the movies. (First time since we started dating about 12 years ago.) and he was just absolutely miserable and couldn't wait to get home.
Well the kids had a great time... Because we try not to show them any issues we may be having. And I just internally died. He does not want to be with us. He just wants to have his kids magically grow into great people with no effort. He may have wanted kids but didn't want to give up his old life to accommodate for these two beautiful girls.
The parenting is up to me. And yet he is happy to criticise me very step of the way. In the minimal time he is with them during the day (while I'm at work) he is very militant with them and my eldest I can see is starting to not want to be around him.
What should I do? I am constantly walking on eggshells and I hate that my children have a father who priotises his tv shows or sleep over them.
Tl;dr my husband is happy for me to single parent, but equally happy to criticise me every step of the way for how I parent.