by cmplxty7 » Fri Aug 10, 2007 16:46:23 
			
			You are right - it is not a competition, and I did not mean to make it sound to be.  However, there are severe inequalities between us in this relationship and I will keep fighting for those to be evened out.  You have no idea how glad I am that I also get to sleep in one day a week now.  However there are still quite a few things that I seem to always get the shit end of the stick on.
You know, I can only take so much, too.  And I do not lash out about every little thing.  And this business with your family visiting is not some little thing, ok.  It's been all you and them from the first day - I have not mattered a bit, because I am not part of the family?  Because that is how it makes me feel.  I have a life I am trying to have, too.  And I have had to rearrange it at least 3 times now because of all this that I was never included in in the first place.  You have not heard MOST of how I feel because I do not want to hurt your feelings or piss you off.  But nobody in this whole situation seems to give a rat's ass about my feelings at all and, to be blunt, I'm fucking sick of it.
I WANT your mom and family to visit and see the baby and stuff.  I do not want to clear my slate for 3 days for people to show up 2 days later than that and have to clear 3 more days.  I do not want to feel like my feelings do not matter in this home.  I want to be included in decisions to plan events like this.  I do not want you to disregard my hurt feelings about it all like you have been and tell me I just need to let it go.  If you want my support in decisions like this then you have to support me, too.  I will support your wanting to have a family reunion if you will support my wanting a certain level of presentability for our home.
And stop acting like I am in the wrong the way I feel.  The moment you made that decision with your mom without saying you'd talk to me about it first (not like I would ever say no - it is just the principle of the matter), you made me feel like a tenant of yours, instead of someone in a relationship with you and sharing a home with you.