Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 19:41     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving divorce update. We slept in (DH went over earlier) rolled in to the ILs house around 10 ish and….no one is there.

MIL is having DH help her MOVE her stuff out today. Like, carting stuff out in boxes. No cooking has taken place yet. This is insane!!!!


She sure knows how to use her guests. My family visited in the summer and I was entertaining. On second thought I should have made them transport my old couch to my dad’s house instead!
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 19:39     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Anonymous wrote:I’m at friends’ for my first divorced Thanksgiving and we are getting the table prepped for dinner. There is an extra chair. DC asked who the extra chair is for.

Apparently it’s for the dog. But don’t worry, she’ll only be joining us for dessert.

Because she has other obligations? Doesn’t like Thanksgiving food?


This made me LOL!
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 18:57     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
In place of grace before the meal, MIL read out the theme words from today’s NYT Strands puzzle. “Thankful,” “friends,” “health,” etc. I think this was intended as a gesture of acceptance for the atheists (DH and me) at the table? Um?
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 18:35     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving divorce update. We slept in (DH went over earlier) rolled in to the ILs house around 10 ish and….no one is there.

MIL is having DH help her MOVE her stuff out today. Like, carting stuff out in boxes. No cooking has taken place yet. This is insane!!!!


I’m afraid to ask but need to know: where is MIL going?


I am VERY invested. Is it your BIL who is lifting weights through all of this? Is there going to be dinner? I feel like you and your sandwich items are going to be the saviors of the day here though I wish you and your family could leave and go to a restaurant. Who does this???

She’s moving in with a cousin of hers, across town. Long term, who knows?
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 18:09     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving divorce update. We slept in (DH went over earlier) rolled in to the ILs house around 10 ish and….no one is there.

MIL is having DH help her MOVE her stuff out today. Like, carting stuff out in boxes. No cooking has taken place yet. This is insane!!!!


I’m afraid to ask but need to know: where is MIL going?


She’s moving in with a cousin of hers, across town. Long term, who knows?
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 18:08     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving divorce update. We slept in (DH went over earlier) rolled in to the ILs house around 10 ish and….no one is there.

MIL is having DH help her MOVE her stuff out today. Like, carting stuff out in boxes. No cooking has taken place yet. This is insane!!!!


Are there grandkids watching/helping with the moving of boxes???


Luckily (?) not many little kids around. One BIL is divorced and his 3 kids are with their mom this year. SIL has no kids. Then there is mine, 18 months old and another grand, 10 , with other family.
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 17:24     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
rain shower shower head. Who likes these?
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 17:14     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving divorce update. We slept in (DH went over earlier) rolled in to the ILs house around 10 ish and….no one is there.

MIL is having DH help her MOVE her stuff out today. Like, carting stuff out in boxes. No cooking has taken place yet. This is insane!!!!


Omg you need to start a new thread so we can have dedicated updates. This is bananas. What is FIL doing?
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 14:57     Subject: Re:What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Anonymous wrote:Is anyone staying at a place where the tv is on at all times and at full volume? I feel I am being absolutely inundated with fake-nice daytime talk show banter and commercials for personal injury lawyers.


Grandpa went to turn on the tv to show us something off YouTube and the volume was literally at 100. All us kids immediately flipped out and wrenched the remote away. We all agreed we couldn’t stand listening to the tv all day.
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 14:55     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving divorce update. We slept in (DH went over earlier) rolled in to the ILs house around 10 ish and….no one is there.

MIL is having DH help her MOVE her stuff out today. Like, carting stuff out in boxes. No cooking has taken place yet. This is insane!!!!


I’m afraid to ask but need to know: where is MIL going?
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 14:52     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving divorce update. We slept in (DH went over earlier) rolled in to the ILs house around 10 ish and….no one is there.

MIL is having DH help her MOVE her stuff out today. Like, carting stuff out in boxes. No cooking has taken place yet. This is insane!!!!


Are there grandkids watching/helping with the moving of boxes???
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 14:48     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Also, one brother said he will not let either pending divorce or actual Thanksgiving interfere with his efforts to get swole. He’s gone to work out. 2 hours has passed and no one has heard from him. I’m principally interested because he’s in charge of frying the turkey.
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 14:46     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Thanksgiving divorce update. We slept in (DH went over earlier) rolled in to the ILs house around 10 ish and….no one is there.

MIL is having DH help her MOVE her stuff out today. Like, carting stuff out in boxes. No cooking has taken place yet. This is insane!!!!
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 13:30     Subject: What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
I’m at friends’ for my first divorced Thanksgiving and we are getting the table prepped for dinner. There is an extra chair. DC asked who the extra chair is for.

Apparently it’s for the dog. But don’t worry, she’ll only be joining us for dessert.

Because she has other obligations? Doesn’t like Thanksgiving food?
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2025 13:16     Subject: Re:What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition
Anonymous wrote:This is new…. fighting over which marching band better in parade-family knows no one in any band but would think loser of argument will be stoned is level of argument.


Which bands are they arguing over?! My nephew marched in one today.