A Crash Course in Raising Your Status 2

Part Two - My Mutiny

Continued from Part One

I was honest and transparent about the ‘mutiny’ I staged with Steve.

I said,

“Since you seem intent on dragging your life and reputation into the gutter with no regard for us, we are going to do things my way until you become more responsible. You are no longer fit to be in charge of this family!”

I then put stickers on every cupboard and drawer in the house saying what belonged inside.

The kids were getting old enough to read, so the stickers were something that Steve couldn’t argue with.

Before that, the power struggle between us had been so bad that he would not even cooperate by putting things away in places where I had decided they should go. Yet, how much time do you think he wanted to spend with me making those decisions? When I tried to discuss where he thought things should go, it always turned into an argument. Until I found the sticker solution, every drawer and cupboard in our house was a junk drawer, but the stickers worked, and we soon got organised.

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