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Originally Posted by Holly
I never have a minute's peace. Between my family, friends, and neighbors, there is someone in and out, all day. It's just now 11:00 am and four people have already been in here. One of my friends came in at 7:00 this morning to get a pair of shoes she wanted to wear to lunch with her boss today, and I literally just got off the phone with my cousin who informed me that I will be going with her to pick out some new dining room chairs this afternoon.
I swear I have the most codependent friends and family, of anyone on the planet. They won't go ANYWHERE by themselves. And it's always me they drag along. And to make matters worse, I've given so many of their dumbasses keys, that even if I try to hide or not answer the phone or door, they just come on in and then look at me like I'm crazy and say, "What are you doing in here??!!"
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OK, we need to learn the word "boundaries", Holly
That's one of the reasons I moved out to the middle of nowhere on a 4WD only road - I swear, my mother and sisters would just "be around" (granted, they DID live 5 miles away) and to add to that my son's friends were always in and out.
Out of 45 years the last few are the only ones where I've lived alone and I love it. When I want to eat out, see a movie, just have human contact I call/email someone and do it on MY time, not everyone else's. Selfish, yes, but I'm also just a call/email away from everyone else - just DON'T DROP IN, lol.
I do have some HS girlfriends though and as we get older we realize we aren't seeing each other enough so we're trying to schedule some more "Ya Ya Sisterhood" time. And my nieces are growing up fast so I try to hang with them as much as I can.