Ranting about Bad Friends
I’m sorry, but I have to say this somewhere. I recently had a friend get into a nasty situation with an ex of hers (who she still lived with for some reason), and my husband and I tried to help by offering her a place to stay for 2 days (Tuesday-Thursday). Well, she showed up on our doorstep, WITH ANOTHER PERSON. I wasn’t too upset about it at first, simply because it was an emergency situation. But now it’s becoming harder to deal with. They told my husband last night that they’re staying until next week (they were supposed to leave yesterday). And I’m having to be a maid, a mother, and an entertainer. They don’t know how to clean up after themselves. I was doing dishes and they ran up and threw plates in the sink that still had food on it (like, French fries. Something that you can slide off a plate into the trash.) They’ve pretty much come to expect me to do everything for them (understand, they’re 21 and 20, so they’re 1000% capable of taking care of themselves.) from cleaning up their dishes to making sure they shower. They were supposed to go to another friends house yesterday and figure our from there what to do, but they seem to have taken a liking to here. They lay around sleeping constantly, and when my husband and I ask them to help us with something, they say yeah, and then 3 hours pass and they’re in the same position. I would be more understanding if they were children (my husband’s 23, and I’m 24). The worst part is that they expect my husband to pay for them to do things while they’re here. Our anniversary is on Sunday. And originally we were going to go to a nice dinner (at least). But now they plan on crashing in on our anniversary, and we’ve had to postpone it. They keep begging us for money too. My husband is the only one bringing in any income right now (because I can’t work atm). And I’m starting to feel like they’re taking advantage of us and the fact that we told the police she could stay for a couple days. I feel like we’re stuck, because it almost doesn’t feel right just kicking them out with nowhere to go...but I’m also 6 months pregnant, and I can’t be babysitting 2 more people while taking care of a sick husband and trying to stay healthy because I have my baby to look after.
I’m sorry to rant, but if I didn’t, I would probably explode.
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.