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Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?

I am making myself blog this morning. It doesn't really matter whether I decide to post it or not. Things have been increasingly complicated with my parents' relationship, and I am in the middle not so much by choice but by default. I haven't been able to contact my brother this weekend. :P He's the one who does best with talking to my dad. I have talked more to my dad in the last 2 days than I have in a year -- maybe a lifetime. And I don't enjoy it.

My mom had been planning to leave my dad for awhile now. And she finally did on Saturday. This came as a complete surprise to him and she won't talk to him or answer her cell phone when he calls or tell me or anyone else where she's staying. And he's thinks she's gone crazy (she hasn't). And to make it sound even more unbelieveable, my dad just got out of the hospital from a skull fracture from falling off a ladder last week. She had my uncle (his brother) go pick him up, and he came home to a house where all her stuff was gone and no note, etc. He did know that she had been thinking about divorcing him and he had been telling her to pack her bags and get out, but I guess in his mind she had it really good with him and wouldn't go through with it.

I hope my mom isn't sounding like a really mean person now for leaving when he was hurt, because she isn't. She's a saint. My dad isn't evil exactly -- just very controlling and verbally and emotionally abusive. And if you think I'm going to tell him that -- I'm not. ;) No, I have not reached that point in my life when I can tell him the truth about that. But reality is trying to hit him in the face, and he keeps ducking.

And so now I'm going to go back to my little world on Sims 2. I had started the Legacy Challenge, but I'm taking a break now to do a challenge that some folks on the BBS came up with called "Population Explosion". You create a Sim or a couple of Sims and see how many Sim days it takes for them to have 26 children, and you name them names from A-Z. I have baby "M" in the oven now. ;) It's really hair-tearing at times keeping up with all those little Sims. Since you can only have 8 in the house, part of the strategy is to move some of them out to have room for more. I think that playing is really good for me because it takes my mind off the things that are stressing me out and gives me a chance to control and micromanage "people". That way I can at least have the illusion that I have control over something. :>