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.