Excellent advice. Redirection is probably best.
everynametaken Send a noteboard - 19/11/2009 05:58:39 AM
It's important for you to tell her that you would rather go through this in (relative) privacy. See if you can get her another job, such as calling all the relatives, helping stock you with supplies, feeding your goldfish? She probably just wants to be involved, and it'll be difficult to not offend her when you tell her you don't want people in there, so you probably need a back-up job or something to suggest.
I really like the idea of having her be the person to call others. when it is time your husband can call her and then she can call everyone else. By the time she is finished you and your husband will be in the room and she won't be able to attend. Just time the initial call to her at the last available moment, e.g. when you guys are checked into the hospital and you are heading wherever it is a woman in labor goes. He can make the call and then catch up to you. That should keep her busy for awhile.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Question about how to handle my sister.
19/11/2009 04:35:59 AM
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You probably can't, from her viewpoint.
19/11/2009 05:22:49 AM
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Excellent advice. Redirection is probably best.
19/11/2009 05:58:39 AM
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ugh. why do people use babies as an excuse for privacy invasion??
19/11/2009 02:26:13 PM
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I think it's more about making oneself important to the situation than specifically to invade privac
19/11/2009 03:54:27 PM
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The next time she makes a comment like that, repeat your point about who will be in the room.
19/11/2009 02:42:20 PM
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You may just have to decapitate her and steal her powers. *NM*
19/11/2009 03:19:34 PM
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It seems someone else was watching Highlander on Sci-Fi Channel *NM*
20/11/2009 07:12:49 PM
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Nope. I've never watched the show and I haven't seen one of the movies in over ten years. *NM*
20/11/2009 09:20:36 PM
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