prayin for strength for ya bud.

I'm lucky, I have the best ex- MIL. I get along with her better than my own mom. When I divorced their daughter, she said you divorced her not us. Adam, time to put your foot down and like the boss said- grow a set.

Thanks everyone I appreciate it. I'll sit them all down tonight and have a good talk with them all. I let my wife know exactly my feelings last night. She had no rebuttal and knows I was in the right.

Don't get me wrong I do stand up for myself but my wife feels she can I ignore me and what I say because I can't work due to my health. (Last weekend fixing the mailbox took me nearly 2 days dig 18" deep hole neighbor welded the post, I poured and finished the mailbox). The kids see how she treats me and are learning it from her. I put my foot down they throw a tantrum and she caters to them. I've taken tablets and the TVs away yet they get them back or get parents bring more. I've had enough and this week she'll she I'm not messing around we have an appt together and it won't be pretty for her.

She is a big problem for the last year. I meant my vows to her & to God and I don't want a divorce and have been trying to work it out and take her counseling but she doesn't want to go. I'm not paying the fee again if both don't go it's considered a missed appt. I have gone through the biblical approach of bringing witnesses elders& pastors and she could careless then feeds them lies.

Prayers do work, she hasn't been walking with God for the last year and few months and had been loving living in sin and last weekend she went back to church and joined a bible study. Please keep them coming.

LDW that sounds like her step family they love me and have my back.

Skip the talk and take the TVs straight to the dump.

The electronics seem to always come back. Can't count how many tablets they have had. They are on their 2nd set of TVs. Even my mom will randomly buy or give them tablets. My mom doesn't spoil them in comparison and I told her to stop giving/ getting them electronics and she did after the 2nd time.

The sad part is my kids are very smart and yet want to spend the day with their face in a screen. I don't allow it except for the small window I give them one a day even if there's the homework that has to be done online.

Question for the grandparents on here, do you listen to your kids rules regarding their rules for their kids or not?

Time to pack and move the whole works Adam.

I don't know what your whole health situation is but the longer you let her be the sole breadwinner it's going to get worse.,

I am happy with my MIL. Haven't talked or seen her in six years. Only married for five.

...is she aware that an “angry face” post was put on trapperman about it?

...that’s some serious stuff right there ...ought to let her know you went on and did it....tell her next time it’ll be the “Eye roll” if she doesn’t shape up with a quickness !

LMAO, I love the smell of sarcasm.

'with a quickness'........Savell is on the weed.

Lol thanks I needed that laugh

Well, do your kids respect you?

If so, I'd pull them aside, and without bad-mouthing their grandmother you should lightheartedly explain to them that grandma isn't quite right in the head. Make a little joke out of it. If you lose it emotionally you'll lose the battle and maybe the war.

If your kids don't respect you it might be too late to do much.

They do, I do explain to them but yet since they see their mom and grandma doing it they think it's ok. Yes I've talked to their mom about it and constantly remind her to at least show respect in front of the kids

I'd show her the door,She should show you respect all the time,not just when the kids are around.Sounds like it aint gonna get any better,time to cut your losses and take control of your future.

So you're saying your wife doesn't respect you either? That's a much bigger problem than you MIL not respecting you.
Maybe it's time for help from a third party. You might both need a little tune-up; just sayin.

The apple often does not fall far from the tree.

Use both of those women for urinal mints and move on. Lol

Next thing she'll be moving her boyfriend in and you'll be living in the basement.LOL.

It is waggler, She just started doing that within the past few months. She sees me having seizures or struggling to walk and talk and says I'm faking. I've tried getting us counseling and to talk with pastors but she refuses to go.
No it doesn't pwc.
Good thing I don't have a basement

At that point he'd be better off just taking up roomies with canvasback.

I would guess when you were married you and your wife made vows to support each other in good times and in bad times. This would be a bad time because of your medical problems, which because of the vows are both of your problem.

I am not saying your wife will cheat, but every time I see this post I keep think of the old Kenny Roger's song. In some ways, by not defending you and standing united with you, your wife is cheating you.

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town"

You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down

Oh, Ruby,
Don't take your love to town

It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be

Oh, Ruby,
I still need some company

It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed
And the wants and needs of a woman your age, Ruby, I realized
But it won't be long I've heard them say until I'm not around

Oh, Ruby,
Don't take your love to town

She's leaving now 'cause I just heard the slamming of the door
The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground

Oh, Ruby,
Don't take your love to town

Oh, Ruby,
for God's sake turn around

Keith