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BD got a monster truck

twister22twister22 member
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Yes, a monster truck. And he just bought a brand new car in February, even when nothing was wrong with his old car.

Typically I'm in the mind your own business camp on the money thing, but BD's an idiot. He technically lives with his mother (although right now him and his mom are fighting so he's living with an old mutual friend's mother...) and he's been saying for years that he's going to be getting his own place soon, as soon as he can afford it. He could afford his own place if he didn't keep adding unnecessary expenses like the highest cable plan and the highest cell phone plan and two car payments and video game crap and goodness knows what else. Don't spend money on that sh!t and then tell me you can't afford to get your own place. You can afford your own place, you just choose to buy toys instead.

He better pay for his half of the extra curricular activities... 

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  • Mrs.H.Mrs.H.
    funny how some people list their priorities.
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    Wow =(

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  • SimpleJaneSimpleJane member
    He kind of sucks, huh? Isn't he trying to get custody of hos other kid? I bet that would be a lot easier if he could show he was a grown adult with a stable home of his own. Nope, just kidding, a monster truck and living with your Momma shows much more stability and responsibility.
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  • fellesferiefellesferie member

    When XH does stuff like this I try really, really (really, really) hard to just say THANK GOD I am no longer in a relationship with this person!! And to be grateful for that.

     

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  • KTdiditKTdidit member
    wow, where the heck doesn he expect to be able to drive a monster truck?! Is he planning on entering county fair races? LOL I try my hardest to be in the "not my business what he spends $ on" camp too. But sometimes its just too in-your-face to ignore
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  • 2chatter2chatter member

    When I find these things out (like BD here going to the Masters but living in a shady hotel) here it always makes me wonder what my kids think.  So I often ask them.  "Hey, when you grow up, where do you want to live?" or "What's your favorite kind of house?"  I have gotten some freaking scary answers, like, "I want to live in a hotel so someone else does all the cleaning" and "I will live with my friends so in the summer I can have a pool and in the winter I can have a theater room". 

    Aside from the money insanity, asking your DS open ended questions about how he views the world as he grows up will help you to shift the influence of BD, I hope.  I have to believe that it will help here.  I am sure you are already thinking of this, but I think too many parents stay away from asking these questions because the conversation can lead to places like "but Daddy lives in a hotel" very, very quickly.  Be ready for that and don't indict the other parent at all, but the convos have to be had, IMO.  "What kind of car do you want to buy when you grow up?"

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  • bebe11bebe11 member
    A monster truck? WTF... *shakes head*

     

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  • twister22twister22 member
    imagefellesferie:

    When XH does stuff like this I try really, really (really, really) hard to just say THANK GOD I am no longer in a relationship with this person!! And to be grateful for that.

     

    Amen to that. I often shake my head and wonder how we were ever together. 

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    imageSimpleJane:
    He kind of sucks, huh? Isn't he trying to get custody of hos other kid? I bet that would be a lot easier if he could show he was a grown adult with a stable home of his own. Nope, just kidding, a monster truck and living with your Momma shows much more stability and responsibility.

    The sad thing is the XG in the situation isn't in any better of a situation than BD is.

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