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My husband and I have been married for 7 years. He is a home body, doesn't have any friends and doesn't want any. I didn't know he was quite so introverted when we got married. My first husband was a party animal and I guess I kind of got use to that, but then I thought I wanted a quieter life. Now I want to hang out with some of my co-workers after work, is that normal? How often do you hang out with your friends without you significant other?

My husband has a 7 year old daughter from his first marriage and we have 2 younger boys together. He just informed me (at 10:30) that his ex-wife told him today at 8pm that she is going out of town next weekend and wants to take daughter with her and her husband. Hubby just wanted to tell me before he forgot (which by the way, he forgets a lot when it comes to things about daughter and ex). The only problem with that is that next Sunday is our youngest son's 2nd birthday (hubby forgot about that being next weekend when he talked to ex). They don't have any legal custody agreement, but he is supposed to get daughter every weekend unless ex makes arrangements with my hubby for her to have daughter for a weekend. He told me that ex told him that she has had these plans for weeks, even though she is just getting around to telling him about it today. Now we have daughter this weekend, but last weekend daughter was at ex's because hubby and I both had to work and we thought it would be better for her to stay at her mom's than to spend Saturday with the babysitter. And the weekend before that daughter was at ex's because she had Saturday school because of all the bad weather and we thought it would be better for her to stay at her mom's than to only come to our house for 24 hours (school is 45 miles from our house, one way). Hubby did say that he will talk to ex tomorrow and see if they can work something out, but I don't see any good solution. We (me and daughter) have already made plans for going shopping on Friday after school and she is so excited about picking out a present for her brother all by herself. Hubby said maybe ex can come back early from her vacation so daughter can come to the birthday party on Sunday, yeah right. I need advice on what to think/do/say so that I can go back to sleep and not have this all on my mind all night. Do I have a right to be upset that ex didn't tell us when she made weekend plans with daughter and is just now getting around to telling us (I think she waits to tell him about her plans so that he can't say no to her, she has a habit of waiting until the last minute to tell him about plans she's made)? I know that I need to give hubby a chance to talk to ex about this tomorrow, but ex is going to be upset if we try to ruin her plans and he will just cave in if she gets upset. But ex made plans for a weekend before checking with us to make sure we didn't already have something planned, and this is our son's birthday.

My husband has a 7 year old daughter from his first marriage and we have 2 younger boys together. He just informed me (at 10:30) that his ex-wife told him today at 8pm that she is going out of town next weekend and wants to take daughter with her and her husband. Hubby just wanted to tell me before he forgot (which by the way, he forgets a lot when it comes to things about daughter and ex). The only problem with that is that next Sunday is our youngest son's 2nd birthday (hubby forgot about that being next weekend when he talked to ex). They don't have any legal custody agreement, but he is supposed to get daughter every weekend unless ex makes arrangements with my hubby for her to have daughter for a weekend. He told me that ex told him that she has had these plans for weeks, even though she is just getting around to telling him about it today. Now we have daughter this weekend, but last weekend daughter was at ex's because hubby and I both had to work and we thought it would be better for her to stay at her mom's than to spend Saturday with the babysitter. And the weekend before that daughter was at ex's because she had Saturday school because of all the bad weather and we thought it would be better for her to stay at her mom's than to only come to our house for 24 hours (school is 45 miles from our house, one way). Hubby did say that he will talk to ex tomorrow and see if they can work something out, but I don't see any good solution. We (me and daughter) have already made plans for going shopping on Friday after school and she is so excited about picking out a present for her brother all by herself. Hubby said maybe ex can come back early from her vacation so daughter can come to the birthday party on Sunday, yeah right. I need advice on what to think/do/say so that I can go back to sleep and not have this all on my mind all night. Do I have a right to be upset that ex didn't tell us when she made weekend plans with daughter and is just now getting around to telling us (I think she waits to tell him about her plans so that he can't say no to her, she has a habit of waiting until the last minute to tell him about plans she's made)? I know that I need to give hubby a chance to talk to ex about this tomorrow, but ex is going to be upset if we try to ruin her plans and he will just cave in if she gets upset. But ex made plans for a weekend before checking with us to make sure we didn't already have something planned, and this is our son's birthday.

I know I have to file my primary job's W2's because of my gross income. My second job the income was only $3,450. Do I have to file the W2 for my part time job? And my husbands income was only $4,925. Should we file separate tax returns or does he have to file at all?

In a couple of weeks, my husband will have to work the entire weekend and the kids have already made plans to spend the weekend at their aunt's house. So I will have Friday night, all day Saturday and most of Sunday all to myself. I don't want to just stay at home by myself and I will have a couple hundred dollars to spend. I'm thinking of driving to the nearest "fun town" and getting a hotel room. Maybe see a show or going shopping at the big outlet stores. What would you do with a weekend off? Please no vulgar responses, I haven't had a weekend to myself in a while and just wanted to know what others would do if you found yourself with some free time and no spouse and no kids.

In a couple of weeks, my husband will have to work the entire weekend and the kids have already made plans to spend the weekend at their aunt's house. So I will have Friday night, all day Saturday and most of Sunday all to myself. I don't want to just stay at home by myself and I will have a couple hundred dollars to spend. I'm thinking of driving to the nearest "fun town" and getting a hotel room. Maybe see a show or going shopping at the big outlet stores. What would you do with a weekend off?

We were both married when we met, please don't judge that. We were friends but there was no physical contact between us until one day after work we were talking out in the parking lot and he leaned down and kissed me. Four days later he left his wife, he told her he was in love with someone else. I left my husband two weeks after that and moved in with this guy. We have been together for 7 years now and have two young sons, but I am starting to have feelings that I moved too quickly into this relationship. I feel like he didn't give me a say so in the start of our relationship. Once he left his ex it was like I was pushed into a relationship with him, even though I did want out of my first marriage. And because I felt like I had nowhere else to go I had to move in with him if I left my ex. The problem is that now I am having feelings of boredom in this relationship. My first husband was a party animal, we were always having fun (all be it that was due to all the drinking and drugs, that's why I left him). We were always going places or always had someone over at our place. My new husband is an introvert. He has no friends, doesn't want any. We don't go anywhere or do anything. We always just stay home. I lost most of my friends in my divorce, so I don't really have any friends either. But I have feelings of wanting more. My husband says I am his dream girl. He is always telling me how much he likes my body and how beautiful he thinks I am, even if I don't see what he sees. We don't have much in common, we don't like the same music or the same TV shows and honestly he isn't the type of guy I would normally have fallen for. I want to go out and he wants to stay in. We get along fine other than that, but I feel like he is more of a friend than a husband. I don't want to divorce him, because he is a stay at home dad. I work two jobs to support us, but this was done by design. We agreed when we got married that I would work and he would stay at home with the kids. I really like my job, so it made sense to me at that time. He took on a part time job working weekends about 4 years ago, but because he has a bad back, I took on part of that part time job. Now on a weekend we share 24 hours of work and I may work 12 or more of those hours. Plus I am working 40+ hours at my other job. If he was pulling his weight at home and was cooking and cleaning and doing laundry like we first agreed, maybe I wouldn't resent him so much. He has had two surguries on his back, but he is in much better shape now and I wish he would just do what we agreed to or get a job.

I don't want to divorce him because I do think he is a good dad and we get along well (even though it is more like friends than husband and wife). And I don't want to have sex with him anymore. I have had propositions from other men where I work and it's starting to make me think that I do have other options, I mean this is what happened the first time. But I don't want another divorce. I fell like I am stuck.

my husband has gone out of town and he packed the home computer in the car last night. now he says he can't get a signal from the hotels wireless system. they are getting a signal in the lobby of the hotel, but when he brought his home computer to the lobby, he wasn't getting a signal. he called customer support for the wireless adapter and they said everything looks like its working fine. last night the temp got below freezing. Can the cold from last night damage the wireless adapter to make it not work?

Long and complicated, but please read, I need some advice. I live in NC and he lives in AZ we are both unmarried and in our 30's. We went to high school together in TX and haven't seen each other in over 13 years. He contacted me a couple of months ago, and we started talking again. I have made plans to go and see him in July. I already have a plane ticket (that is non-refundable by the way), hotel reservations and car rental confirmed. In April he all of the sudden said that he needed to cool things down for a while because one of his daughters (she's 10) doesn't want him dating anyone. Ok, so lets take it slow then. He said we would still talk and that he would still call/text me and so far he has barely kept in contact with me. I had made plans to transfer my job, and uproot my kids for this guy. But through some snooping of my own I have found out that he is talking to at least three other women and that he just spent the week with one of them. This other women lives in UT and they went to high school together in Vegas before he meet me in high school. According to her, she has just gone home for the weekend but she is planning on staying with him for the whole summer until at least August. What am I supposed to do now? My heart is broken. I would love to go and see the SW area, but I thought I would be going there to see him and would be moving there by Labor Day. I don't want to just waste the money I have already put out for this vacation but not sure what will happen when I get there. I have tried twice earlier this week to text him and even asked him if there was another women there and of course he said no, but he did said he didn't know if he could see me in July because of his kids. What am I supposed to do now?

Long and complicated, please read, I need some advice. I live in NC and he lives in AZ we are both unmarried and in our 30's. We went to high school together in TX and haven't seen each other in over 13 years. He got in contact with me a couple of months ago, and we started talking again. I have made plans to go and see him in July. I already have a plane ticket (that is non-refundable by the way), hotel reservations and car rental confirmed. In April he all of the sudden said that he needed to cool things down for a while because one of his daughters (she's 10) doesn't want him dating anyone. Ok, so lets take it slow then. He said we would still talk and that he would still call/text me and so far he has barely kept in contact with me. I had made plans to transfer my job, and uproot my kids for this guy. But through some snooping of my own I have found out that he is talking to at least three other women and that he just spent the week with one of them. This other women lives in UT and they went to high school together in Vegas before he meet me in high school. According to her, she has just gone home for the weekend but she is planning on staying with him for the whole summer until at least August. What am I supposed to do now? My heart is broken. I would love to go and see the SW area, but I thought I would be going there to see him and would be moving there by Labor Day. I don't want to just waste the money I have already put out for this vacation but not sure what will happen when I get there. I have tried twice earlier this week to text him and even asked him if there was another women there and of course he said no, but he did said he didn't know if he could see me in July because of his kids. What am I supposed to do now?

I heard a story that I can't remember. It was a folk tail about a indian maiden and her warrior and one of them was tricked by a "bad person" and one was turned into a wolf and the other into the moon. Does anyone know this story and where it came from?

My son is almost 10 months old and only has his bottom two teeth. I know that every child is different even in the same families, but my older two children had their bottom two teeth by the time they were six months old and got their top two teeth before they were 9 month. This one didn't get his bottom two teeth until he was seven months and I was just curious, when did your babies get their top two teeth?

My step-daughter is 6 and my boys are 3 and 9 months. We will be leaving on December 16th to travel by car from NC to OK and then down to TX and then up to IA. We will be in a hotel on the night of the 24th. What are some good ideas to make Christmas special for my kids? I am not really worried about the boys because they are still so young and the 3 year old doesn't really understand Santa. We make Christmas more about Jesus than Santa. But, my 6 year old step-daughter is all about getting presents. Even if we tell her that Santa left all her gifts at our home and at her mom's home, I still think that they should have something to open on Christmas morning. Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated, and have a wonderful holiday season.

My step-daughter is 6 and my boys are 3 and 9 months. We will be leaving on December 16th to travel by car from NC to OK and then down to TX and then up to IA. We will be in a hotel on the night of the 24th. What are some good ideas to make Christmas special for my kids? I am not really worried about the boys because they are still so young and the 3 year old doesn't really understand Santa. We make Christmas more about Jesus than Santa. But, my 6 year old step-daughter is all about getting presents. Even if we tell her that Santa left all her gifts at our home and at her mom's home, I still think that they should have something to open on Christmas morning. Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated, and have a wonderful holiday season.

Just curious of some things other people might have. I am planning the dinner this year for my family to include about 16 people and didn't want to have the same old things.

I am planning a trip half way across the country for Christmas to see my parents. I need a cargo carrier box or bag to put on top of my car. Where can I rent one? I really don't want to have to buy one.

My husband is having an allergic reaction to some medicines he was prescribed. The doctor told him to stop taking the new meds, gave him a different one and gave him something for the itching. It has been about 5 days and it is not getting any better. They have scheduled him with a dermatologist next week. In the mean time, is there anything we can put in his bath water to help ease the itching? The rash is red and has raised bumps and is primarily on his elbows, and from his knees down to his ankles on the backs of his legs and on the tops of his feet.

Yesterday the shifter button would not disengage when I shifted from Park to Drive. This caused the key to become stuck in the ignition when I put the car in Park. Today I got in the car, drove and when I went to put the car in Park I could not get past Neutral. I can shift in to Drive I and L and Neutral but cannot shift into Reverse or Park. I tried to look on the internet to see if there where any recalls on the '06 HHR and could not find any about the gear shifter. Any idea where I can go or will the dealership be the only place I can find out? Right now I have to put the car in Neutral, pull the emergency brake, turn the key off as far as it will go, push the emergency key release button inside the steering column and the manually unlock the doors to get out of my car.

Ok, there is no child support or visitation order between my husband and his ex-wife for their 6 year old daughter. They have always been very civil to each other and we even go out and do things together with her and her husband. He stopped paying child support a couple of years ago when he quit his job, but he started keeping her 5 days a week to avoid putting her in day care. I cover her on my medical and dental insurance, pay for her school lunches and buy half of her school supplies. We have to buy her clothes for our house when she out grows the things she has at our house. Last year when the daughter started kindergarten we were given a calendar by the ex-wife telling him what days we got to keep the daughter. We got her most weekends and holidays. The ex-wife and her husband live two counties away (56 miles from our house to hers) and last year when we had to pick her up from school we would have to drive almost an hour each way. Seeing as how we can only have her on weekends, holidays and summer break, what is a fair amount of days for us to have her? I think 1/3 of the year (122 days) is fair, we still get to see her and the mother still gets about one weekend every six weeks. What sounds fair to you?

I just went out to the garden and picked 8 large, bumpy yellow squash. I have had fried squash before with smaller squash, but nothing with the larger ones. I was always told once they got bumpy that the best thing to do would be to throw them out, but this seems like such a waste to me. Any suggestion?