I live with my 24 year old daughter and her 7 year old. The issue is housework, or the lack of it. I have a nice home that I have spent a lot of time, effort and money decorating. It tears me up to see the kitchen a disaster, clutter everywhere, the upstairs hallway has clothes all over it, can't get into the laundry room because of the pile of clothes. She has put STUFF into my sewing room and I can hardly walk in there. Her dog (though I had told her I didn't want a dog here) has torn up the backyard that was nicely landscaped, has just recently torn up the drip system so the plants are going to die. I just don't know what to do. I ask her, I reason with her, I argue with her, I get angry and yell at her. She says she'll do it... and never does. Or she does straighten up (some) and a week later it's back where it was. I work full time, pay the bills. Her husband is deployed in the Army and she is home all day. I just don't know how to get this to stop and I feel STUCK!
2007-04-24
15:29:42
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12 answers
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Hampster
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