It just occurred to me

 

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 07-02-2015 at 09:30 AM (21 Views)

 

 Originally Posted by moriarty 

I have a kind of project that I work on, something I'm passionate about. When I sold one that she had made a suggestion on she was happy "See, I told you!" When I sold one she said I wouldn't unless I followed her suggestion, she woke me up in the morning mad at me. "Did you know you sold this?" It was an online sale, so I didn't know I had sold it. I said: "Isn't that a good thing?" After that she tried to act happy about it, but made sure to tell me that I wouldn't sell any significant number unless I followed her suggestion. Just wait and see. 

I haven't sold more so I guess it was all about her and her suggestion.

This is a bit of a tangent, so I am taking it to the blog.

Several years ago, when my middle brother was in jail facing charges for abusing his stepkids, I emailed my brother to let him know what was going on. (the cycle or tendency in my family is to be ignored unless I am bringing some interesting gossip or drama--he never called just to say hi, and would never return my calls unless they contained drama) 

He responded with "[my wife] [the legal expert, remember?] says that the family needs to do this, this and that, the judge will do this, the family needs to say blla bla,  She says we have to do this. She says we need to do that, bla bla bla"

So...I was writing to let him know, and he came back with his wife's unsolicited legal advice.

I responded with something like "I wasn't asking for your wife's legal expertise, I was just trying to let you know our brother is in trouble, I thought you might want to know,"

And then, of course when my brother got his extremely punitive sentence, his wife began screeching out the 'told you so's --if we had only obeyed her directives, we would have won and our brother would not be in jail.

I don't think she's right (and besides, the advice was all pretty much common sense, nothing magic in that)

But of course there's always the nagging doubt...