The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

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Oh, wanna hear something funny and rather sad at the same time? My faithless DIL's new amour may be a teenage boy, LOL. My son has a friend in England who saw a photo of the guy and said, "you see that shirt? That's a high school graduation shirt that says 2014. Here in England, we graduate at 15". O. M. G. The "daughter" may be his little sister! He apparently told my son's soon-to-be ex that his mother lives in some mansion, which sounds like something a teenager would brag to someone, and my son got the address. It's a duplex in London. Also, I not sure how he knows, but the guy lives with his mother. Yikes!

Something else weird-she is flying into Liverpool, not London for some unknown reason. That's a couple hundred miles away from where he supposedly lives. She's being played by some teenager, I bet, and being a game for him and his buddies. Her racy photos are probably being viewed by a bunch of teen boys. Sounds like they're lying to each other and she's going to be the one on the short end of the stick, rather apropos, I'd say.

Second thing-I kept saying he needs to hide Ghost, the dog she wants to take overseas. She has all the paperwork and stuff needed. Well, my son found out where she keeps it. He said when she takes her shower the morning she is flying out, he'll take the pet passport and paperwork and just go off to work. She'll have to decide to go without the dog if he pulls that off.

What I hope is when she gets there and realizes she's been scammed, she won't call my son crying how she's made a mistake, blah, blah, blah. I hope he'll change his phone number and not give it to anyone she would be likely to call to ask for it. Better yet, sell the house and move!

Her best friend called my son today. She said, "What's happened to Shea? She's not the same person I know". Odd, that. She's doing exactly what I thought she'd do 19 years ago. I just didn't think she'd waste so much of my son's life before she did it.


***adding that maybe he should actually take the dogs, not just the passport papers, and leave that day. She may fly into a rage and let them out into the street. He'd say she'd never do that, but this is a deranged person we're dealing with now.
wow, that is quite the drama playing out. I would tell her once she gets settle in England he can send the dog but it sounds like this is not going to work out and the dog will never have to make the trip.
 
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wow, that is quite the drama playing out. I would tell her once she gets settle in England he can send the dog but it sounds like this is not going to work out and the dog will never have to make the trip.

Not sure about those photos attached above--did you mean for them to show up?

Even if she doesn't go overseas, he says he's going to kick her out, that she's made her choice, so she'd probably take the dog with her, if she can find a place that would allow her to take it. She can't afford a house on what she makes alone.
 
Sorry about the pictures of the quilts. I was trying to post some pictures my friend took of quilts at a big quilt show in Grand Rapids,mi. BYC was not cooperating with me. I will try again later.

She is very selfish. I have had dogs for a long time. I will always do what is best for the dig. If that means I have to give up the dog I will. This happened when I had my daughter. I had to give up both dogs I loved.
 
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I'm late to the party so I don't know if this point has been brought up.
Has this woman investigated what it will take for her to prepare a dog for international travel? It takes months to go through the inoculations, plus final medical tests 5 days before the flight. The dog must travel in the cargo hold. If she's not ready with everything she won't be able to take the dog to England. https://www.pettravel.com/immigration/England.cfm
 
If the dogs, or all the paperwork disappear the night before her flight, or the day of her flight, she couldn't take it. I just don't want her to get there, discover it's a ruse, and dump the dog.
 
I'm late to the party so I don't know if this point has been brought up.
Has this woman investigated what it will take for her to prepare a dog for international travel? It takes months to go through the inoculations, plus final medical tests 5 days before the flight. The dog must travel in the cargo hold. If she's not ready with everything she won't be able to take the dog to England. https://www.pettravel.com/immigration/England.cfm

If the dogs, or all the paperwork disappear the night before her flight, or the day of her flight, she couldn't take it. I just don't want her to get there, discover it's a ruse, and dump the dog.

Yes, she has done it all, I'm told. He's had his tests, been microchipped, etc.

Cheryl, I agree, but my son is apparently in such a state, he's about to resign himself to letting the dog go. We've brought that up to him, that she'll get rid of Ghost if she has to come back here. He still thinks there's a shred of decency in her. I don't. Actually, I never did.
 
Much as my son's life drama is affecting me, I have my own life to be concerned with-he's a grown man who was duped by a woman....well, that never happened to anyone before, eh? In turn, I guess she's getting her just desserts, too. Awful that there is a sweet dog caught in the middle, but thank God there is not a CHILD caught in the middle!

Right now, aside from my son's dramas, I'm wondering about what will happen to me if my husband passes on first. His life insurance runs out at a certain point that we're not sure about, maybe at 75, but we have to recheck that. If not, that is $50K, which would pay the remainder of the mortgage with extra left over. Other than that, I'll only be able to draw half of his SS at 67. That's roughly $600 to live on. I worked only 23 quarters so I can't draw any myself, which is quite the system...I pay in, but unless I have a full 40 quarters' worth (and that's not just time, but a certain amount of income as well), I can get zero back. So, how can I live on that much with no IRA, no SS of my own, almost no savings, no life insurance payout? That is something we are now thinking about here. Naturally, I cannot have a house payment to deal with on that income; there are 11 years left on the mortgage, pymt is $427, though I'm paying a little extra to principal every month to hopefully cut some time off of it. But, even with no house payment, just monthly Medicare, electricity, telephone/internet (I'd have to drop the TV from that entirely) adds up to about $300, half of that piddly income. Then, there is gasoline, vehicle upkeep, insurance, pet food (how could I keep chickens?) and, well, I have to eat something. And what about unexpected stuff? So, this is where our minds are now.

All my assets are tied up in this property. Reverse mortgage is a possibility if it comes to that. If I die, he is fine. He has his Air Force pension, plus his SS and, if it's in the time frame before the life insurance runs out, he has $50K as well. Life would go on pretty much as usual for him, except for my scintillating company, LOL. We have a two-for-one policy, meaning the first one to die is the one who is covered.

I'm hoping that there must be something we have not thought about. Guess we'll just have to start socking away more $$ if we're able every month. But, I say all that to stress that my son is an adult and he will do what he will do, handle his life the way he wants, regardless of if I approve or not, think he's being used or not, etc. I have my own stuff to deal with and my life is not as long as I've been on this earth already. It may not be as long as I've lived in this house, who knows? We never know.
 

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