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<blockquote data-quote="Calamity Jane" data-source="post: 539324" data-attributes="member: 13882"><p>Nancy,</p><p>You and easy child took time away from husband on Father's Day to pay a kind call on your dad. After reading what happened next, it reminded me of a saying a very wise person I worked with a long time ago once said to me when I was in a similar situation, "<em>All you can expect from a cow is a kick.</em>"</p><p></p><p>Sometimes people mellow with age, sometimes they don't...relationships are complicated. I don't understand the dismissive hand wave or where it came from...you just delivered a steak and baked potato to his BAR TABLE for crying out loud! After he didn't acknowledge your husband's birthday! All I know is that it hurt you and it hurt easy child to see you hurt. I'm astonished at 92 he has a computer and even knows what to do with email, but he may apologize, who knows? In any case, you know what he is like, you offered an olive branch which was dismissed, and it's OK to protect yourself from future rejection. I'm sorry you're hurting, and sorry easy child had to witness it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calamity Jane, post: 539324, member: 13882"] Nancy, You and easy child took time away from husband on Father's Day to pay a kind call on your dad. After reading what happened next, it reminded me of a saying a very wise person I worked with a long time ago once said to me when I was in a similar situation, "[I]All you can expect from a cow is a kick.[/I]" Sometimes people mellow with age, sometimes they don't...relationships are complicated. I don't understand the dismissive hand wave or where it came from...you just delivered a steak and baked potato to his BAR TABLE for crying out loud! After he didn't acknowledge your husband's birthday! All I know is that it hurt you and it hurt easy child to see you hurt. I'm astonished at 92 he has a computer and even knows what to do with email, but he may apologize, who knows? In any case, you know what he is like, you offered an olive branch which was dismissed, and it's OK to protect yourself from future rejection. I'm sorry you're hurting, and sorry easy child had to witness it. [/QUOTE]
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