Reaching the boiling point
Hubby's been having a hard time with C and dealing with her behavior. For example, hubby will be driving home from the sitter's after picking them up. C will ask for something and if hubby says no, she starts throwing an absolute fit right there in her carseat all the way home. Kicking and screaming and carrying on. It's gotten to the point where he's been talking about the problem with his mother.
Well. Somehow he mentioned something about how he doesn't know how he can deal with it anymore and doesn't know how we can keep her with her behaving like that. (At least, I think that's how it went.) So, dear old MIL tells her daughter, M*rgana (C's birthmother) that hubby doesn't want C so M*rgana calls here and leaves a message saying she and her boyfriend (not C's b-father) talked it over and are prepared to take C back.
WHAT THE FUCK?
Her message was the first I had heard of any of this. So I called hubby at work to find out just what the hell's been going on. He said that conversation between him and his mother was a "priveleged conversation" and should not have been shared.
Well, shit. He should've know better than to tell anyone in his family. They all have a tendency to make mountains out of molehills and then the shit comes down on us. All the siblings-in-law and their spouses start to get ideas in their heads, and let me tell you, they all have quite the imaginations.
Just what I need, all of his dysfunctional family members hearing this and it reinforcing their ideas that we're bad parents.
So I told hubby he should've talked with me about it, not his mother. Fuck.
So anyway, I called M*rgana back and we talked for a good 15 minutes about the situation. I told her we could handle C, no matter how hard it gets. We have to, we're her parents. I said hubby was probably just venting and looking for advice.
C has the ability to push all of his buttons (and most everyone else's, even our "calm" babysitter) to the point of explosion. Because of her behavior, I made an appointment with her pediatrician to talk about it and see what can be done. We're hoping for a diagnosis of something that can be controlled somehow, either medically or dietary or something, anything. The appointment is on Wednesday, wish us luck.
Just when I thought things were simmering down again.
Somebody's always got to stir the pot.
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