Tick tock: the one where Geller discovers Polly is no longer a doormat

[StuckInPollyannaMode]

AKA Co-parenting: I do not think it means what you think it means

Here we go again my lovelies! Will this be the one where I finally get divorced?!

Previous thread here

I have clock news! Turns out, no one wants it. Quelle surprise. Could I sell it? No, sez I, it’s worth ha’penny tuppence on a good day. Plus, no time.

Ha ha.

I suggested, because I am a kind hearted soul and because it’s already in a box and I don’t know which one that they keep the clock face and I get rid of the mechanism and the case. That appears to be a reasonable compromise. Pass me an axe.

The reason for the clock conversation? My brother phoned. My mother has given away my grandfather’s WW1 medals to a museum. WTF?! We’re going to try and get them back. She can’t see what she’s done wrong.

Solicitors on the other side for the house purchase are useless. Estate agent spoke to them today. They are awaiting proof of ID and funds on account?! WTF. I lost my shit a bit. I’d just come back from having a filling so I sounded three gins down, which I’m sure added to the effect.

Oh, and I haven’t stopped laughing for the last hour. A friend has found Geller’s profile on a dating app. It contains such gems as ‘addressing climate change one word at a time in my career as a professional’ and goes on to claim he ‘always has time’

Given me the best laugh I’ve had since my solicitor said she’d call me just to be sure that I wanted to file for absolute once the finance order is made…

Anyway, buckle up loves. It’ll be a ride, as ever…glad you could join me.

Well, that's all a bit la plume de ma tante...

Take the clock to your parents house. Extra points if you deliver it to the middle of their sitting room when they're not there

Wouldn't it be a shame if the clock suffered an untimely end ... by "accident" of course 😉

Wouldn't it be absolutely tragic if you were to find woodworm on the CF clock @StuckInPollyannaMode .

You would of course have to get rid of it so as to avoid it spreading to your other much nicer, and also not freeloading furniture?

Can you find some woodworms and put them in there just as SIL picks it up.

Otherwise, make sure the hole is big enough for the clock along with Geller when you get Mumsnet Landscaping and Patios around to sort out your new garden.

I'm in. Will bring shovel, beer, wine and chocolate that covers most food groups, doesn't it?

Oh I'll bring the gin!

@pussycatlickinglollyices - you forgot crisps. You’ve got to eat your veggies…

I'll bring a pickaxe, shovel, the crisps and beer and cider, 'cos digging is very thirsty work, apparently 😉

@TheThreadisMildlyAmusing - you’ll still get plenty of time to stand around leaning on your shovel/pickaxe and pointing at things like the menz…

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Especially slimy worms!

Please do this Polly 😂😂😂😂

Congratulations, I am so glad you are feeling like you again.

Time's up! The clock is being picked up on Tuesday! We'll just have to have a garden party another week.

I'm not in a good place. Very tearful, very anxious, my emotional eating is out of control. Very, very wobbly. Can't get a handle on anything and feel very very overwhelmed.

The Dollies are lovely and we are going to Cornwall this weekend. The pension provider has said there are no charges to me for moving the share we've agreed of Geller's pension to me which is good as the solicitor had warned me it could be about 4k. However, he hasn't declared his bonus or given a share to the Dollies so back round through the solicitor we go. He's been an utter shit this week. Westley is away with work and that's not helping on the insecurity front.

I'm exhausted and don't know how long I can carry on with all of this shit and juggling. I will, of course I will, but when the fuck will someone look after me for a change and put me first?

I'm tired of being a grown up.

Oh Polly you've got so much on your plate and the timing is so shit.
But next week you'll be in Cornwall with your Dollies and having a fabulous time. Until then it's one foot in front of the other until you get there.

The financials will get sorted out. Geller is never going to be decent or adult about it so yes, you're stuck with being the only adult in the equation. But there will be an end to this and your interactions with him will reduce to his incompetence as a parent. And you've already proved you're great at handling that.

KOKO

I think everyone on here feels you. I'm sorry you feel like this now, it's so hard, I totally understand those feelings and have had them, expect to get them again but I have realised they too shall pass. Although that doesn't help now - perhaps you can remind yourself of how you felt this time 2yrs ago and how far you've come, or just except these feeling for now but know next week you'll be in a beautiful place with your beautiful girls and can take a breath.
Sending heartfelt vibes of positivity

Sorry to hear it's a rough week Polly. Any chance that you can let yourself have a really good sob, watch something deliberately that will send you over the edge. I find the longer I dodge the feelings the worse it gets and a proper crying jag gets it out of my system and resets things for a while at least.
End of Moulin Rouge does it for me.....
Big hugs though, it's horrible having to adult all the time. Alternatively can you get one of your mates to come round and adult for you for the evening, make you cuppas and order you take away. They sound like a cool bunch so I'm sure someone would come and hold you steady for a bit.

Oh the slimy little Dickwad
Did he really think you were stupid enough not to notice, or just take the hit? .
It WILL all get sorted eventually.
I hope you told him he was even more stupid than you had already believed, all he will achieve is losing even more money to his legal people.
Bravo.
At least the infamous clock should be gone today ?
The holiday will be lovely, (block his number for the period that'll stick in his craw !)

So sorry you are having a tough week Polly. I am not in the UK so my advice may not be worth a penny but could shl step up a bit more. Geller is vile. Maybe it might be better to instruct her to only update you when something major happens or once a month otherwise.

Sorry you are struggling Polly.

Geller has been ticking away (predictably - relentlessly) all these months and is now in full discordant chime.

You are clocking out - and he can confine you no longer but what a noise he can make :)

It will do him no good!
Clocks can be ignored... or turned off ... or thrown out.

Getting free of your SILs one is just a rehearsal.

I’m sorry Polly. If it helps, judges don’t like people who make agreements then dick people around. Suggest court.

Oh I'm sorry Polly.

But you'll be in Cornwall in a couple of days. Switch your phone / email off and get your seaside fix. The weather's looking to be reasonably nice, so sandy toes and chips on a clifftop bench and ice cream in the sunshine will be the order of the day!

Where abouts are you going? I live in Cornwall but just booked 3 nights in a cottage 30 miles away on the coast in August! It's completely off grid, hasn't even got electric, and I'm so looking forward to not being contactable unless I choose to go and find some signal somewhere!

Hopefully you'll feel recharged and more able to deal with Gellar-the-fuckwit when you return.

Please dont let him get in your head while you are away
You know its deliberate, the girls are with you & theres nothing legal going to happen over the w/e
He can wait.