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Confessions/Vents/Open Letters
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Here's mine:
Dear DH,
I know you're getting up early in the morning to play Star Wars. It's okay. It's your choice. And I'm not going to say anything (even though I think it's silly), but I totally know what you're up to.
Love, YW.
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Re: Confessions/Vents/Open Letters
Dear DH,
Work at home =/= stay at home mom.
I don't know what I have to do to get this through your head.
Love, me
Dear DH,
SS moves out of the house, yet it's somehow your responsibility to buy him a car. He saved ZERO - if it wasn't for his mom sending him some money and you, he'd have nothing. So once again SS gets what he wants. You're not doing him any favors.
Dear BM,
Get a grip and control your children. If one of your kids hurts my child there is a good chance I will hurt you. If you continue to allow your 4 year old to hide SDs book bag, color in her books, and walk in in the middle of SDs gymnastics class (that I pay for) because "she wants to play too" I will not be responsible for what happens. Whether or not it is my place I will remove her from said gym class classroom, I will stop sending school books back and forth to your house, and DH will gladly take you back to court so you can't keep your daughter on school nights since you cannot be responsible.
Yes, 4 kids is a lot of work. But if you can't cope, quit having babies.
Also, I got your account straightened out with the gym. Yes, the director was inadvertently overcharging you for SDs dance class. You now have a credit. You're welcome.
Love,
Me
Dear BM,
Please find a place to live. Your son misses you and DH & I could really use a weekend off. If you could find an apartment by next weekend so that we can have a kid free anniversary that would be especially awesome!
Thanks, Me
Dear DS,
Thank you thank you thank you for STTN last night!!! Daddy & I needed to get a decent nights sleep. Please keep up the good work!
-Mama
dear BM
the CO that you and DH signed when you got divorced actually applies to you too. the letters that you keep sending to DH stating that he is no longer allowed to communicate with you unless through attorneys, applies to you too.
you are not better than us or above the laws/rules set up for SD. you cannot do whatever the eff you want with SD whenever you want when it is our visitation time with her. you cannot revoke our visitation because its drizzling outside and you don't want her in the car.
oh and another thing. its winter. put a freaking hat and jacket on your child. she has chronic ear infections, what makes you think its okay for her to run around in a sweatshirt in march?
signed, DH's atty. since DH is no longer allowed to contact you.
Dear SS,
GET IT TOGETHER! You are not too cool. Your attitude isn't cute!
Thanks,
SM tired of punishing you and listening to BM complain about your attitude.
Dear DH,
Let's be productive this weekend. It is our first weekend without plans and I am ready to get some stuff done around the house.
Love,
Your W that is tired of looking at the half done projects.
Dear Financial Aid office,
While I realize you are trying to make your process easier and more accurate, not everyone can use the FAFSA IRS data retrieval tool or provide a tax transcript before April 1st. We do not qualify for the date retrieval tool because we file separately. We contacted the IRS and cannot obtain a copy of DH's tax transcript because he had a balance due and they told us they don't process those until at least the first week in May. Please accept a copy of DH's tax return. Last year we only had to submit copies of our returns. You are really a PITA. If I would have know you were going to add in these new rules I would have filed jointly so we could do the data retrieval and lived with a lesser refund on my end to insure my financial aid could be processed.
Dear DS,
I really wish I could understand what you are saying when you "talk" to me. When you only understand 1 word out of every 10-20 sounds it is difficult to figure out what you want before you start throwing a fit.
Dear DD's SM,
I'm sorry you lost your friend this past Sunday. I really wish you or EX would have at least texted me to tell me what was up instead of just having DD call and say you needed to meet me ASAP. When DD got in the car and she just started bawling. I understand that you were probably too upset to actually say anything to me at the pick up but a text before explaining that DD might be upset would have helped. This woman was not only your friend but mother of DD's friend and frequently babysat DD in the summer for you. Instead, we had to wait until she could calm herself to tell us what had happened. I am truly sorry for your loss. She was young and it was unexpected and I pray for her daughter and her DH.
Dear DH,
Why can't you have a normal sleep schedule??!! I realize that maybe it's selfish of me (because you have RA and it hurts), but I hate waking up in the middle of the night to find you're not next to me. Like it or not, when you're downstairs at 2am, I worry about what you're doing. And I'm pretty sure you lied to me last night about taking a sleeping pill (because you were watching videos on your phone when I got up to pee at 3am). Please just suck it up and do what you need to do to re-train your body to sleep! I'm going to be pissed if you end up sleeping all weekend and we don't get anything done!
Love,
Your lonely-in-bed wife
Dear Kids,
Spring Break just started hours ago and I'm ready to send all 3 of you back to school. I'm having a baby in 2.5 weeks and dealing with all this fighting is going to make me go CRAZY. SS I'm so happy that we just had you 5 days in a row, sent you back for 2 nights, and now we have you 12 days in a row starting today but if you don't stop fighing with DD I'm going to make you both sleep outside (not really...so don't call CPS).
Love,
Mom/SM
Dear DH,
Throwing a fit about me not being sympathetic to you about how much your back hurts when I asked for us to visit my great-grandmother who just had a heart attack makes me wonder how long our marriage will last. Do not ask me to tolerate your family when you openly disrespect mine.
Love,
The Angry Wife
Dear Undergraduate Students,
Microsoft Word AND Apple Pages have something called spell check. I suggested that when you see the red or green squiggle underneath the word, you click on it to see what's going on. I don't enjoy grading your papers with so many errors. I know you're not technically penalized for spelling and grammar. However, when I take WAY too much time to decipher what you're trying to say... I take it out on you by being picky about other stuff! You're in your 20s, now! Have some pride in yourself. You're trying to be TEACHERS for goodness sake! Oh, also... I realize it's an online class but you STILL have to turn in your stuff on time. I shouldn't have to frequently post reminders. You're adults.
Thanks,
Your Professor
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Dear DH,
I'm about to throw the iPad over our back wall and watch it shatter as it slides down the hill. It is not OK that you keep looking up crap you don't need while I cook dinner, clean the kitchen, feed SS, pack his lunch, write his teachers, change his Pull-ups, pay bills... I know you work. Good job. So do I - it's just in a different sense. Working on a PhD IS work. I'm paid for it. I teach classes. I do research. I write manuscripts. I sit through classes I see no point in. I need a break, too, and would LOVE LOVE LOVE to be able to lay around when I get home at 7pm rather than spend 2 hours maintaining the household. That being said, I appreciate that you let me sleep in on Sundays. However, it's not as wonderful of a gesture if you keep saying "well, I let you sleep in." And I let you go to bed at 9pm while I am still contending with SS and his nightly routine.
Love,
Your incredibly tired wife
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Dear SS,
I'm so very proud of you! You've brought your grade up in reading. You are beginning to make choices again - though, I'm not sure why the period of regression. You've been doing a great job of going potty on the potty, putting your shoes and socks on, taking them off and putting them away, eating what you're given for dinner, and you ALWAYS have a smile on your face! On days your daddy is driving me nuts, I'm content to lay with you and watch cartoons or read books. I love your love for books. I love even more when you read the books to me! I'm such a lucky person to get to see you grow into the person you are. You brighten everyone's day. I know you'll struggle in life. I'm very sorry for that and I'd take the autism away if I could. Know I'll always be here for you (even though I'm complaining about Daddy, right now) to love you, to defend you, and to teach you.
Love,
Mommy
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Dear Growing Baby,
Keep growing! Though, please stop giving me headaches. You are truly coming into a very loving family. Your brother is an amazing boy who already thinks you're a sister. We'll see very soon! He's starting to touch you through my belly. He understands who you are. I hope you love him for who he is. I hope you learn to be a better, more compassionate, empathetic person having him in your life. You'll struggle with it. Your daddy and I will work very hard to give you both the lives you deserve. Please understand that sometimes your brother requires a bit more help and attention. We'll make it up to you by spending special time with you or doing special activities. But, allow us a learning curve. This is new to us. You will be loved just as much - even though I know sometimes it won't seem that way. I grew up with a brother with a disability. It was hard. I thought my mom loved him more. She loved us the same. Be your own person. Do what you love. We'll support you in life and support the person you will become. Stay safe. We love you already and cannot wait to meet you and watch you learn and grow. It's still foreign to me that you are "in there." Your daddy "gets it" better than I do. It just doesn't seem real to me! You were so unexpected. Your daddy keeps yelling to you through my stomach... If you can hear this, and it's loud, sorry! He's an odd duck - his own person. It's OK if you're like him!
Love,
Mommy
Dear Partner Teacher,
Please start caring! I need you to have an ounce of care in you. Please don't let the students go wild in your room because I have to retrain them when they come back to me.
If we decide to do something, please do it the same way we discussed. Don't get lazy and do the bare minimum. Please remember that even when the kids are in your class, they're still my students as well and everything you do also reflects on me as well. Oh and when we're in a freakin assembly and your group is acting like wild zoo animals in front of the principal, please do something about it and don't just stand there YOU IDIOT!!! Don't make me take care of your class for you.
Signed,
Your partner who wishes there was a way out.
Dear Dickhead Boss: I quit. I can't stand you treating me and your other non-family employees like children. When I leave to go talk to someone, yes, I am actually talking to them about business. You don't have to follow me around and check up on me and pretend to change a light bulb. I know what you're doing. It's weird and it's getting old.
We know your son and his girlfriend really aren't working. We know they are just playing at SXSW. You all are not fooling anyone. By the way, who do the rest of us have to sleep with in order to get 3 two week "work" vacations in less than three months? Nevermind. Don't answer that. The rest of us find you all icky. We prefer to work like the dogs instead.
If you want to hire people of my caliber and talent, you are going to have to pay us more and treat us like professional adults.
When you bailed out of our meeting this morning with designer and client with the $5 Million dollar home - you just f'd yourself over. I'll leave you good notes, but you will be crying when you can't draw the floorplan and you lose the client because you can't follow thru and you don't understand their project.
Oh yeah. One more thing. QUIT GRABBING YOUR BALLS IN MY PRESENCE!!! Get some crotch rot cream for god fcking sake. Ick. Ick. Ick.
J
Dear 5 Million Dollar Client - Thank you for complimenting me on my knowledge and experience in front of my boss who stopped in for 5 minutes to brag about his knowledge. You made my week. I wish you luck and I am so sorry I could not follow thru on your project. It would have been SO kickass to have in my portfolio and fun to work with you! Good luck with Dickhead Boss. I hope he doesn't screw you over on the price like he does with all his clients.
J
Dear "mean girl" friend of DD:
Who do you think you're fooling? DD thinks you are a jerk. She doesn't like you and only hangs with you because she is friends with the other two girls you are so "protective" of. She is getting tired of being "ditched" by you.
I would have told DD to stay away from you, but she is figuring that out by herself. She doesn't want to get in trouble or get the reputation you will have. I know DD isn't the only person you are mean to - - I know about the kid you called "dork" and "doofus."
When you are reprimanded for being a jerk, you pout. Big f'ing deal. It has gotten old.
You are so "protective" of those two other friends because no one else likes you. I get it. Grow up.
And no, we won't be car-pooling with you next year. So good luck to your mom
That's hillarious! My DH plays Star Wars too (except it's at night, usually if I'm reading the bump or going to bed). He'll stay up til 2am or 4am if it's the weekend. I think it's silly too, but as long as it doesn't effect his mood and he still pulls his weight around the house, I don't mind so much.
Dear DH,
I think it's really cute that you whistle "yoo-hoo" to the baby in my tummy. I'm glad you're excited about this pregnancy.
Your wife
Dear DS,
I can't tell you yet (because I know you'll tell the whole world), but the new baby is a boy. I know you wanted a girl, but give it a chance. I know that you miss SD when she's not here, and having a sister is all that you know, but you will like having a brother I'm sure.
ps: I also think it's cute when you talk to the baby and you tell me what he's saying.
Love mum.