Now serving nachos with oodles of melty cheese! Ole!
You may recall my sister's problems with the dickweed husband that she keeps kicking out & taking back in. Well, she's been letting him come back around & he's been having violent fits. He punch another wall, broke dishes, etc. I don't think he cares a bit about the kids & doesn't bother physically harming them. He comes back around to yell at my sister and try to win her back by blaming her. Real effective.
Someone finally called social services, worried about the three boys. My sister doesn't know who called and is freaked. I'm actually glad someone called. It has been a real wake-up call to her. She's terrified to lose the kids. Since dickweed is in a "first offenders" program, he gets hauled back to court if he violates any of his terms and then goes on probation.
I won't go into anymore details, but while I know her stress is infinitely larger, it stresses me, too. I'm going to look back on last years OT thread about this subject, as I remember lots of peeps who had been through abusive relationships had great advice that helped me get through.
Second stressor is the pt job. Chris isn't passing his training tests. When he gets frustrated, his attitude gets horrible. So now what? If he doesn't want to continue, I'm in a pickle. I could stick with the job, but I'd have to drive into Madison seperately thus costing us more in gas & wear on the car. Or I quit & we are back at square one, fighting about our amount of debt & lack of money.
*sigh*
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So sorry to hear all this, Weltek. When I don't have good advice, I offer hugs.
{{hugs}}
*lucky smooch*
I think this will help. I don't have advice for you right now either, but hope everything works out for you.
{{HUGS}} too.
I have advice. I always have advice. If I followed half the advice I gave myself, I'd be doing so well.
Sit down with Chris and figure out how to get him to pass. Can he practise every day a little extra? Can you give him some hints? Can he take a week break to catch up?
Then decide if it's worth it to put in the extra effort to pass.
Then make me another helping of nachos please.
Also, if it's any comfort I love nachos!
Yay for Bob. I think that's some good advice she's giving!
Maybe I need an incentive plan for him to pass.
The tests we have/had to take were voice recognition timings. We take fake telephone calls and are timed on how well we keep up with captioning the conversation in real time & how many errors we make and correct.
He is having trouble when the person talking is a fast talker. We can use a pause pedal, but he still has problems dumping what is in his brain. Instead of speaking only one word behind the talker in a constant flow, he waits for chunks of sentences & then blurts it out. He knows his problem, he's just having a hard time fixing it. I hope the trainers really work with him tonight, as there are only a few people left that haven't yet passed.
*fills up nacho plate*
*snorfles down nachos*
*burp*
Oh goodness! {{{hugs}}} for you & Chris! ...and especially your sistah & the kids!
Oh dear. Someone else calling social services *would* have a dramatic effect, wouldn't it? It's no longer just her and dickweed and the kids in the equation. It's good that he's in a program. I hope it does him some good. The kids aren't served by having a father like that around.
Since I have no experience with this kind of thing, I'll just stop there and give you a *hug*.
*****
Please pass on a *hug* for Nolay too. It's so easy to get frustrated. Don't give up!
*hugs* to you both and your sister too.
I am offereing *HUGS* as well. So sorry to hear all the news.
(((HUGS)) And a *smooch* as I don't know what else to say but my thoughts and prayers are with all of you and yours.
I don't have any advice but I can offer lots of support and my shoulder. *smooch*
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