Is It Always N Behavior to Violate Others' Boundaries?

[Hopalong]

got spring up there Bones?

I have daffodils and robins now...
I love seeing them but it also makes me cry because I am going to miss this window, this bit of yard, this familiar setting for spring.

But I'm reminding myself it's spring everywhere.

Hops

[BonesMS]

got spring up there Bones?

I have daffodils and robins now...
I love seeing them but it also makes me cry because I am going to miss this window, this bit of yard, this familiar setting for spring.

But I'm reminding myself it's spring everywhere.

Hops

Morning, Hops.

Sounds like you are homesick already.

It's still cold where I'm at.  I haven't been outside much as I'm still dealing with aches and pain after hiking through dense woods this past Saturday carrying a metal detector.

Bones

[Hopalong]

You got it, exactly.
I am homesick already...grieving before I have to go.

Hope you warm up soon.

love,
Hops

[BonesMS]

You got it, exactly.
I am homesick already...grieving before I have to go.

Hope you warm up soon.

love,
Hops

Thanks, Hops.

I'm sorry you have to move.  Moving from one home to another is a pain in more ways than one.

Bones

[BonesMS]

Woke up to Super-Soaker Weather this morning and the TV news is talking about flood watches and warnings around the area.   

[BonesMS]

I just turned the TV on to Dr. Phil and he is attempting to get through to a Narcissistic Mother!!!  OMG!!!!!   

[sKePTiKal]

Who won, Bones? Did Dr. Phil admit defeat and insist she have intense one on one counselling?

[BonesMS]

Who won, Bones? Did Dr. Phil admit defeat and insist she have intense one on one counselling?

Dr. Phil got confrontative with the NMother.  At one point, when the NMother started flipping the blame back onto the daughters and attempted to justify what she did to them, Dr. Phil actually stood up and placed himself between the NMother and her daughters, blocking her view and forced the NMother to speak only to him while he bluntly told her the obvious.  Her reaction was exactly what I expected...the glassy-eyed blank stare!

I think Dr. Phil won that round when he stopped her from continuing her verbal attack on her daughters.

Bones

[BonesMS]

This was in this morning's "Dear Abby" and it is both sad and painful:

"ATTENTION PAID TO DYING BOY EMBITTERS HIS JEALOUS AUNT

DEAR ABBY: My 3-year-old son is terminally ill. My sister-in-law, "Anita," has a son who is a year old. Anita always wants to compete for attention between the two boys. She makes nasty comments to family members, suggesting that her son is ignored while mine gets all the attention. No one says anything to her because they're afraid of her "blowups."

I don't know how much longer I can live with this. It is hard enough watching my son slip away a little more each day, but having to deal with this has pushed me over the edge. How can I handle a crazy in-law in this situation? -- FALLING APART IN ILLINOIS

DEAR FALLING APART: Please accept my sympathy for the heartache you are experiencing. It's a shame that no one in the family is willing to point out to your volatile sister-in-law that the "annoyance" she's feeling is selfish and insensitive.

However, because no one is, it might be better that Anita be excluded from family gatherings in which she might feel her son is getting short shrift. And you should ask the person who is repeating her complaints to you to please stop sharing them. That should solve your problem."

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I wish I could give that poor mother a huge hug right now.

Bones

[BonesMS]

At times, it appears that Instant Karma does manage to bite some N's in the butt.

Last night, I attended a debriefing session regarding last Saturday's search and recovery mission.  During the debriefing, the SaR professional was describing how he had been written up and disciplined, by one of his former employers, because he had to take time off from the job to search for a missing individual in a life-threatening situation.  The NBoss' attitude was basically:  "F**k them, ME FIRST!"  As fate would have it, this NBoss' own father, who is/was an Alzheimer's patient, went missing!  Guess who had to take off work, again, to go on the search for the NBoss' father before the elderly man succumbed to hypothermia?  If you guessed the SaR professional, you guessed right!  I bet that NBoss had to really eat crow on that one!

Don't you just LOVE poetic justice?!?!?!?

Bones

[Hopalong]

Oh my.

That was a wonderful tale.

I am really glad it's a story being shared.

Thanks, Bones....

Hops

[BonesMS]

Oh my.

That was a wonderful tale.

I am really glad it's a story being shared.

Thanks, Bones....

Hops

You're welcome, Hops!

Glad you enjoyed it!

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when that NBoss had to look the SaR Professional in the eye about the search for his own father.

Bones

[BonesMS]

Just checking in this morning...

[BonesMS]

Just checking in today.

[BonesMS]

Just wondering what your thoughts are on these letters:

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