Inhospitable
Likely the only time you see our laundry baskets fully empty. Yesterday was a graphic example to me how the “ radical submission ” and “ always smile, never complain ” of soft or hard complementarianism just does not work on so many levels. We’ve tried it, and were both miserable for those years. It nearly darn near ruined our marriage. Good thing too, because I’m not sure how I would have survived or dealt with things if I was still submitting the way I tried thirty long years ago. For the last eight months I’ve been dealing with a mother who drinks copiously and now comes with the bonus of dementia. Add in the Aunt Heap of hysterical aunties and it’s been a challenging time for me, one in which I had to break down, leave my beach paradise home and fly back to Louisiana to assess the situation. So what is the situation? Mother needs to be living in a facility, but the alcoholism just complicates everything. She has to do something wacky enough to be eligible for an ...