Relationship, Step kid, moving in - Am I being Unreasonable?

ska_lover

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I actually don't know what the fuss about 'the kid' is about, if it is genuinely a colloquialism. It's just like saying 'the nipper', 'the youngster', 'the bairn', 'the wean', or round here in the West Midlands 'the bab'.

Some people just like to be perpetually offended.

Smodlet

And continually to peck away at an irrelevance. I hope the OP has not been driven away by this pointless bickering over a word meaning child.

Tabbytabitha

Pixie5740 wrote: »

The only people I know who take years out of the work place to care for young children are those who have a partner/spouse who can afford to support the family financially. Many of those families where one parent could be a full time stay at home parent still have two working parents even if one or both just do part time hours. The single parents households I know have a working parent where the parent has worked out the optimum number of hours/pay and benefit combination.

I've had an enormous number of clients who were lone parents who've chosen to live on benefits until the youngest child reached the age where they were expected to look for work - it's very common.

Tabbytabitha

Smodlet wrote: »

And continually to peck away at an irrelevance. I hope the OP has not been driven away by this pointless bickering over a word meaning child.

Nobody has mentioned "the kid" issue for the last two pages except for people who've made a point of posting that the issue is irrelevant - like you have.😉😀

Smodlet

Tabbytabitha wrote: »

Nobody has mentioned "the kid" issue for the last two pages except for people who've made a point of posting that the issue is irrelevant - like you have.😉😀

Yaaawwwwn! It would have put me off. And it's as you have.

ska_lover

Smodlet wrote: »

And continually to peck away at an irrelevance. I hope the OP has not been driven away by this pointless bickering over a word meaning child.

hahaha ironic, complaining about people behaving in the same way you are...

Siriki

The ideal solution would be for your partner to change her hours or even her job. However, I realise that this may not be possible

Mr_Costcutter

Siriki wrote: »

The ideal solution would be for your partner to change her hours or even her job. However, I realise that this may not be possible

That is very strange - my 'exact' words of advice - see post 5.

ManofLeisure_2

Mr_Costcutter wrote: »

That is very strange - my 'exact' words of advice - see post 5.

Obviously a 'copy and paste' job as it's happened on the other thread as well. Take it as a compliment lol

chesky

Mr_Costcutter wrote: »

That is very strange - my 'exact' words of advice - see post 5.

The poster joined this morning at 10.07am our time and made about ten posts in as many minutes. They live in New York. Can’t think why they bother - don’t they have similar forums in the US?