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[quote=Anonymous]Here too, and I hate it.  I think DH is both lazier (it takes more work to enforce rules) and also has (unconscious) insecurity over whether he will be loved if he's not the fun guy.

Small example, but this happened at my house over the weekend.  Dad takes one DS out for an errand and stops to get an ice cream on the way home.  He can't get an ice cream for other DS who is at home because it would melt, so he buys him candy instead.  Later that day, other DS has a game and after the game says, I really wish I'd gotten ice cream instead of candy earlier, I really like ice cream better.  DH says, ok, I'll get you an ice cream after the game.  After the game (it's about 4pm), we go to baskin robbins but their freezer is broken so you can only buy cartons of ice cream, not individual.  So he buys 2 cartons, gives both kids ice cream and then, on the way home says we've got plenty, so you can have more before bed if mom says it's ok.

Why so much junk?  Why suggest they have more before bed - the kids hadn't even asked for that - unless I say no, thus setting me up to be the bad guy.  IT IS INFURIATING.[/quote]

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