Sunday, March 11, 2007

Fighting and such...

Since we had guests over on Saturday (family game night with 2 other families - what absolute fun), we weren't able to go to see Mom and Dad until Sunday. Mom called at 10:30am to ask "Where are you? You said you were coming over this morning!" I informed her that Daughter was still sleeping and that we'd be on our way within the next 30 minutes. She was frantic on the phone.
I got Daughter up and we left promptly. We arrived within 40 minutes (which means we were racing on the highway). Mom and Dad, mostly Dad, were yelling at each other. He kept saying he wanted to move out and that Mom doesn't want him here anymore. Mom kept repeating that it wasn't true and that he wasn't capable of looking after himself.
I urged Mom to go for a walk and get out of the house. Daughter and will look after Dad. Dad kept asking for phone numbers of a variety of people. He wanted them to look into places to rent. He wasn't convinced that he couldn't live on his own.

At some point Mom came home and went to rest for a few minutes. My Dads 2 sisters showed up. I let them in and they had a visit with Dad. He told them he wanted to move and that he didn't need to be treated so badly by Mom. All of a sudden, Mom barges out of the closed bedroom and starts to tell him how much work it is, how she's up 5, 6 times a night. She tells him she does endless loads of laundry because he pees the bed. All the while he's yelling at her "so what, so what". Daughter and I were downstairs at that point listening to all this. No fun, however, it was good for the two sisters to hear what Mom goes through and what Dad can be like at times.

We left soon after my aunts left. Mom didn't want us to leave, but we have a family too.

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