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Finally threw down the gauntlet....
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<blockquote data-quote="Mikey" data-source="post: 44060" data-attributes="member: 3579"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DDD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I am impressed with the verbal response that wife gave difficult child. Thefive buck issue is separate but I didn't think she was "ready" to respond with a detached tone. She's coming along. DDD </div></div></p><p></p><p>I guess that's what I was trying to say. The letter on Saturday set the stage for the showdown - we told him it was coming. But we haven't had it yet. wife didn't feel it was fair to start hitting him hard with consequences when we hadn't yet sat down and spelled them out for him in black and white. That would have only justified his feelings that we act capriciously, and that we don't care what he thinks or feel at all.</p><p></p><p>But once we hash out "the future", and he chooses his part in it, then things will be much different. We just didn't want to spring this on him when he was told he'd have a chance to participate in crafting some kind of agreement with us.</p><p></p><p>Sounds like quibbling, but I hope it makes sense.</p><p></p><p>Mikey</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikey, post: 44060, member: 3579"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DDD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I am impressed with the verbal response that wife gave difficult child. Thefive buck issue is separate but I didn't think she was "ready" to respond with a detached tone. She's coming along. DDD </div></div> I guess that's what I was trying to say. The letter on Saturday set the stage for the showdown - we told him it was coming. But we haven't had it yet. wife didn't feel it was fair to start hitting him hard with consequences when we hadn't yet sat down and spelled them out for him in black and white. That would have only justified his feelings that we act capriciously, and that we don't care what he thinks or feel at all. But once we hash out "the future", and he chooses his part in it, then things will be much different. We just didn't want to spring this on him when he was told he'd have a chance to participate in crafting some kind of agreement with us. Sounds like quibbling, but I hope it makes sense. Mikey [/QUOTE]
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