Just for comparison, I was in hospital once just when we were about to move house. I was rushed in with a grumbling appendix, was there three days all told, pretty dicey at one point.
My mother didn't come to see me because she'd made a commitment to play badminton and didn't want to let them down. The next day she text to say that the other person had cancelled and how pissed of she was!
Not only this, but my wife was having to cope with all this, plus getting everything ready to move house and my mother didn't offer to help once.
In the end I let my wife reply to my mothers text, it was a doozy..
"Fuck your selfish self". Said it all really :) Some people, no matter what we think we might owe them, really are selfish, and that's just the way they are.
I don't want to sound like a **nt, but you need to wake the fuck up.
You're good nature has been taken advantage of. I totally understand where you are and why you feel the way you do, but this is a situation you can resolve, but you're going to have to do things that you aren't used to doing.
Number 1: Be calm, don't let anyone push your buttons.
Number 2: Take charge, if they don't like it they can fuck off, it's your house.
Seriously, my wife has, on occasion, resorted to being a ball busting bitch, but I finally had enough and put her straight on a few things.
Wasn't easy, but later she told me she actually appreciated it that I had taken charge and that if she'd been in my position she'd have given her ' a bang on the snout' (no lie, that's what she said).
I've never hit my wife, but fucking hell I've made it perfectly clear when she's pushed me to the edge of doing so.
I'm really tired and pissed off with people taking the piss out of my tolerance. Sometimes the lion needs to wake up and roar and let the other animals know who's the boss.
I've been talking about this with my wife recently.
Sometimes I know that something is out of place/important, without knowing why.
That the general election has been called for July 4th is important, somehow. I just haven't worked out why yet.
Fair points, all.
However, during the late 90's there was a very clear indication that everyone was putting aside their differences and just getting along - If they hadn't 9/11'd us I think we would have woken up most people a lot sooner than this.
If someone says 'the olympics' they typically mean the one held every four years on a leap year, aka Summer Olympics.
If someone refers to the Winter olympics they always use the word winter.
i.e. it was always referring to 2024.
Nothing stopping you going on your own, Fren.