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sterlingsilver's picture

Well last night I finally suggested therapy for ss15 to dh. His response was "I am too tired to discuss this tonight, *sigh*. He had therapy when the divorce first happened. School is starting soon and he can talk to the counselor there".

I am so tired of ss15's attitude. He is so disfunctional. I dislike how he just refuses to talk. He "agrees" (In a sarcastic manner) with everything I ask or say but then doesn't follow any rules. He just blatently does his own thing around here and follows his own set of rules. When I ask him to do something or stop doing something he agreees with me and then goes ahead and does whatever the hell he wants to do. He is so freakin lazy and sloppy.

Last night I made a big baked salmon dinner with mashed potatoes and salad, etc. and he refused to come down to eat. Then later in the evening after dh and I had gone to bed he came down and ate the whole bucket of potatoes I had saved (enough for another meal for all of us) and then left everything sitting on the coffee table.

I understand he needs to eat and he needs to live in our home, what is bothering me the most right now is his complete disregard for my requests and for my place in the home. I can tell he absolutely dislikes me and avoids me at all costs. But then I KNOW he avoids me b/c I think he picks up the vibs of my dislike for him. I never ask of him more then I ask of my own boys. I never treat him any different then my own, ie. chores and hanging around all summer doing nada. I am normally a very tolerant person but I am also passive aggressive in that I will just ignore things until it bothers me beyond words and then I explode. When I explode I don't even yell I just say something like:

ss15: comes down the stairs at 2pm having just got up after being up until 5am.
me: "if I ever smell piss in my sink again you will lose your computer for a month"
ss15: "I didn't piss in the sink"
me: well I can't prove it bc you're up all night and I am not, but there is piss smell in my sink and I am certain bs didn't do it and you have a reputation of pissing everywhere and anywhere, so... again, if I smell piss in the sink again you will lose your computer, period"
ss15 stomps off to his room and slams door. Doesn't show is face again until 9pm. He comes down stairs thinking I was already in my room and I was still cleaning kitchen, setting up coffee pot etc. He sees me and takes off up the stairs and runs into his room and slams the door again.
Then all night we hear his door being slammed every once in awhile b/c as usual he is awake all freakin night playing UNMONITORED on the xbox.
DH at 5 am hears a door slam and says he is going to take all the boys' doors off today. I mumble that it's ss15 and not my boys. He grumbles that I am always picking on ss and we have to treat everyone equally.
Fuck that. My boys don't piss in the sink or stay up all night so what part of the doors coming off their rooms is fair?

So when I suggest therapy I am really thinking ss15 is just not doing well in my care. He is very angry and hateful and hates women b/c of what bm did to him all his younger years - and I get to reap the benefits of his anger. yay.

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hismineandours's picture

Yep, my ss14 doesnt "do well in my care" either. He hates me because I actually call him out on his idiotic behaviors. My dh will occassionally, but alot of times he is sucked in becaue he so wants to believe he son has some sort of postive quality somewhere. My ss14 would avoid me like the plague as well. In the morning Id get up and sit in the living room. He is an early riser. He poke his head out the door, see just me sitting in the living room, and go back in his room until at least someone else got up.

We've discussed on and off getting ss therapy for years. IMO, it would not be beneficial (and I'm a therapist). SS14 has NO problems with his behaviors. He has no desire nor motivation to change anything he's doing. He just feels others around him need to kiss his ass more. That's not really a goal that can be addressed in therapy. If the kid had an iota of remorse, motivation to be successful in life, cared about his future, cared about any single thing, then maybe it could be helpful-but the only thing he cares is himself. And that is only in the moment. He cares about what he wants right at that moment. He doesnt care about his future-and by future I mean the next day or the next hour.

sterlingsilver's picture

the xbox is in the rec room which is next to the kitchen (thus the pee in the sink bc he's too lazy to go an extra 20 feet to the toilet when he is popping bag after bag of popcorn) and I did take the batteries and cord this morning. Afterall it's my xbox and my recroom and MY COUCH!

I guess it's just a matter of enduring the brat until he's outta highschool. 3 more years! I've gone 4 already so over half way done!

Pook's picture

It sounds like your DH does not believe anything you say about SS15 and doesn't want to deal with it. I know that SS15's attitude is the issue, but DH isn't doing a darn thing to help you or respect you in front of this kid.

Okay, so you are on your own.
That sucks.

Does SS15 live with you full-time? He sounds destructive in your home and if his presence continues to erode your marriage and your feelings of comfort in your own home, something has to give.

oneoffour's picture

The person who needs therapy is your DH. He ALLOWS this to happen to his WIFE for F.Sake! What is wrong with these men?