Re: Here come Wally and Mary Ellen

On 9 May 2008 11:52:42 GMT, Dover Beach <moon.blanched@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Boron Elgar <boron_elgar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Really, though, the difficulty here is between you and your husband.
>> That is something you have to work out between yourselves. You have no
>> more nor less responsibility as a host than he does. If demands are
>> being made that you find burdensome and offensive, let him know. Set
>> the clock for 3am.
>> 
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>Yeah.  I think we got some of it cleared up last night.  I also
>recognized that I'm overreacting because of the way my mother used to
>pressure me to appear normal even though the family was incredibly
>dysfunctional.  So I should be yelling at her instead of him. 
>Unfortunately it's about 30 years too late, and I seem to recall that
>yelling at her was pretty ineffective anyway.  Whereas when I yell at
>him, he hears me.  I wish I could've been calmer.  I will apologize for
>my presentation of point of view later this morning.  The POV was okay,
>but the presentation wasn't. 


Sometimes the presentation is necessary to get the point across.

Boron