If I am being disrespected about the same thing, or from the same source, persistently – even in the form of jesting – I am not laughing or accepting it. It doesn’t matter if you’re my best friend or family. Apparently my mother-in-law and the husband’s (ex) step-mom find it totally okay and appropriate to encourage him to seek a relationship with his ex-girlfriend and in general act like I don’t actually exist as his wife.

I accept that they don’t like me, for both valid and ridiculous reasons. While I never really disliked them, I didn’t take much effort in trying to integrate myself well enough as part of their family. I found it difficult to work against the impression they already had of me and the fact that his family is so much different from mine. All in all, there’s enough on both sides that led to a lack of decent relationship with each other. Needless to say, there’s a lot of fake smiles and niceties that occur when we’re face-to-face. However, I don’t expect I deserve the kind of disrespect they’ve displayed towards me in the past year or so.

As much as I’d weed them out of my life at this point, that’s kind of difficult considering I’m still married to their (step)son, and that won’t change, not in the near future anyway. So they get to deal, I get to deal. At least I can un-friend them from my Facebook and keep them from seeing any possible future things I say that could upset them.

It does seem that there’s enough going on in my life that I’m not happy about. That’s pretty annoying. I’m thankful that I enjoy work! At least not everything sucks. I have that as an escape, even if it happens to be a bad day at work. It’s only one day and every day is different

I’m still suffering with my wisdom tooth. It’s kind of difficult to find a dentist open on the weekend that is accepting patients and takes the right insurance. I’ll have better luck come Monday, hopefully!