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"Well, I think I&amp;#039;m officially done venting about Peter for this week. That is, unless he does something else to hack me off again. Thank you all for jumping on here to weigh in with your opinions, as well. I think the message I was seeing over and over (and rightfully so) was &amp;quot;Why are you letting him make all the decisions?&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;re right. You&amp;#039;re absolutely right. Throughout the course of our marriage, that&amp;#039;s the way it was. He decided, and if he changed his mind about what was decided, he re-decided and all I did was nod and stay the heck out of it. It kept the peace, and it made life easier, in general, even if his decision only made things easier for him and not for anyone else. Forgive me for paraphrasing an old southern proverb (which is normally directed at mothers), but &amp;quot;If Peter ain&amp;#039;t happy, ain&amp;#039;t nobody happy.&amp;quot; Peter could stew and wallow in the slightest annoyance, making a huge mountain out of what could have been a slightly inconvenient molehill. And I can&amp;#039;t even blame him for it, entirely, because I enabled that all those years by going along with it. And as a few of you so perfectly pointed out, I don&amp;#039;t have to do that anymore. I don&amp;#039;t even have to listen if he wants to pitch a fit - I can hang up the phone and let him bluster and yell on Stacie&amp;#039;s time. I know that image shouldn&amp;#039;t make me smile, but it does. What can I say - I&amp;#039;m occasionally juvenile like that. So I&amp;#039;m sticking to my guns and if he doesn&amp;#039;t like it, he can yell at somebody else about it. From now on, any screaming over the phone will end with me telling him to email me after he&amp;#039;s calmed down, and an audible click as I hang up. Any changes to the schedule will be met with &amp;quot;Sorry, that&amp;#039;s not going to work&amp;quot; (if it doesn&amp;#039;t) and no further explanation, since it really isn&amp;#039;t necessary. This is my life, and for 2/3 of the time it&amp;#039;s his kid&amp;#039;s life here, too. We&amp;#039;re not going to disrupt that just to make things easier for him. We don&amp;#039;t have to anymore. And what a great feeling! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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