Thank you both for taking up for me. Sometimes I feel used, other times I feel like a bad *** who refuses to put up with any of his ****. His **** is extremely hurtful but he gets it honest. They say your man will treat you the way his father treats his mom. Well my father in law is the biggest asshole I have ever met, especially toward my mother in law, and he would probably agree. My husband is a saint compared to him. Despite his very sharp tongue that comes to be when he is entirely angry, he is a loving husband.

Not surprisingly, my mother was also very antagonistic about me going into IOP at first. She acted very rude about it. She huffed and puffed while complaining that my dad was going to be entirely put out until I am released from the program (this despite that fact that my husband is off most of the week thanks to his new job at Ford where he works mostly weekend hours). I told her I just keep crying all day to which she said "I talk to you often in the day and rarely hear you crying." This not counting the times I have started crying while ON THE PHONE with her. I asked if she was accusing me of lying. She said no, she just felt this was thrown on her and she didn't know how to cope.

She quickly came aboard though. Plus she feels we will make some sort of doable plan for all of us involved. She is also excited that my therapist wants to sit down with her, my dad, and my husband.