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[Essjay]

It could have been worse - brother-in-law came on his own and left his wife at home to look after the cat. If she'd come as well........

I refuse to speak to the wife. When our younger son separated from his partner a few years ago, they lived in her house so he came to live with us for a few months while he bought his own house. The wife told me I should not have let him come here, I should have left him living on the streets . She would not have let either of her children back once they'd left home

 

[jaylach]

It could have been worse - brother-in-law came on his own and left his wife at home to look after the cat. If she'd come as well........

I refuse to speak to the wife. When our younger son separated from his partner a few years ago, they lived in her house so he came to live with us for a few months while he bought his own house. The wife told me I should not have let him come here, I should have left him living on the streets . She would not have let either of her children back once they'd left home

What you said made me think back in time. I left my ex in 1987 after she gave birth well over a year after I had a very successful vasectomy. My other kids have no clue that this child was not mine as I refused to cause any possible harm in their relationships. as it was the fault of my ex, not the child. While it is over and done it cost me a LOT of money in support but I felt the cost was worth more than letting it be known that her siblings weren't exactly what she thought. She was just an innocent child with no fault. Maybe I'm stupid but I just could not bring myself to cause her harm so I paid........... Hey, I'm still here and doing fine. I don't for a second regret what I did. While possibly stupid, for me, it was just the right thing to do.

DANG IT!!! Now my eyes are all wet...

 

[GaryE]

Aren't families great fun?

They are when they work. But so many extended families are like tanks with communities assembled by the pet shop boy who catches fish on Thursday and sells shoes on Friday. We had a red tailed shark and two tiger barbs in ours. Me, I'm an angel.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

My in-laws are fairly cool people...but I'm intensely glad they live on the other side of town.

OK, here's a random thing that came up a few posts ago: As a tea lover, I often hear the old saw about how you can't boil water for tea in the microwave; it makes the tea taste bad. No one has ever been able to explain why, not even a little bit; it's just bad, bad, bad. I've cooked water in a kettle, in a microwave, and over a campfire, and I'm convinced that boiling water is boiling water. But the opinion persists. It's weird.

 

[Essjay]

I've not tried making tea with water heated in a microwave as a kettle boils it a lot faster.

The same brother-in-law makes his tea in a strange way. He puts the kettle on, puts a tea bag in a mug, adds milk to the mug then goes away while the kettle boils. He returns anything up to 10 minutes later and pours no longer boiling water into the mug.
All the packs of tea and tea bags I've ever bought say that water which has just boiled should be used, and milk added after the tea has brewed.