Yay, sj!

I'm glad you have your mom available to help out every once in a while.

If she lived closer she'd probably stop by all the time, but with the 90 minute drive she usually comes once a week and sometimes stays overnight. Which she is tonight because for some reason I'm having a family gathering on Sunday and the house needs cleaning. I've been lucky that there hasn't been much snow this winter because she doesn't like driving in snow.

I'm not going to say that today was a turning point but I had a good day. Including playing with E - with bubbles and a water gun (he let me shoot him and he used lids from pots as sheilds) and then we went to the creek and played pooh sticks.

He was begging for me to take him to rock climbing (they had a half day) but Mom was running behind and i dnd't have shoes or my purse or keys. I'm looking forward to Friday and spending time with him.

And I've cooked two nights in row. Makes me feel cautiously hopeful

Aloe vera oil can be good, but if you put on too much you can feel little fibers in it.

Finally made it to the therapy game group. It was nice, I think one guy (who was also new) wasn't in therapy but was a friend of someone. I'm not sure.

We played Evolution and Splendor - well there were too many people so some played another game. I won Splendor! About half way through it clicked.

Two of the regulars are in the group therapy but only one was there. It was nice, low key and I didn't get stressed out. Except there's a small brewery catty corner and they have Thursday night parties so it was a bit... loud and at first I thought that would bother me but once I was inside I forgot about it.

Yay for gaming and winning at Splendor! One of my favorite games.

askye, I am so proud of you for going to game night. Go, you, with your splendor winning self!

Cards Against Humanity was mentioned but declared not right for the group which I understand.

It was so neat to play games with more than one person.

Therapy game group sounds like a great idea. I wonder if that's something I can find.

There's a thread on Ravelry where a woman is describing her husband's forgetfulness and crankiness. He forgets where he's put things and blames her for moving them and dismisses her suggestions. This was Hubby before he got his low testosterone dealt with (well, someone of it was that he was just a butthead at times).

A lot of the respondents are saying "Oh, this is bordering on emotional abuse, you need to think about leaving him," so few of them are giving him the benefit of the doubt that he's scared and confused and doesn't know how to cope like this and that he's not a man who's OK with looking weak in front of the woman he loves.

I know I'm only seeing one side of this, and maybe buttheadedness is a large part of it. But I figure I'm only going to get piled on if I argue for overlooking the behavior for now. (I was told more than once I should leave Hubby for the way he occasionally treated me, and the person was not impressed when I said I knew why he did it and could cope with it. Triggers, lovely triggers)