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Ding ding ding!

I’m in similar -ish…

Wife who is immature mentally and cheated for 25 years got called out. Now stays simply because she isn’t financially responsible and wouldn’t survive on her own. My extended family is now blocked from contact after my mother croaked, so they no longer influence her. Quote my mother “I wanted a daughter instead of you”… Her second husband literally was one of the guys, set up by my mother.

Wife lives in separate bedroom. Not a romantic partner.

Girlfriends (2) live in other part of house with me. They are platonically connected to each other, and the 3 of us fully integrated.

While there’s tension with the wife still occasionally, the original arrangement was due to being stuck where not only would she have likely wound up homeless, it would have also made me and our kid homeless too. Now kid is adult, and things are mostly stable so no major changes unless the wife can become financially stable. If to when that’s not an issue, we will separate amicably.

Preconceived notions of “that will harm the kid!” Etc have all been amazingly strong baselines for identifying and stopping contact with toxic people who use labels instead of just asking the kid how they feel about it.

We have never tried to have the kid call anyone else “Mom”. Weird how far that one goes.

Oof, was not aware. Appreciate the heads up.

95 can suck eggs… The GUI was largely items they had co-developed with IBM for the next release of OS/2 that they instead split last minute due to contractual arguments since Microsoft wanted a larger cut of profits. There’s more depth of course but tldr version.

It’s a large part of why 95 was so crashy until osr2.5… it was largely 32 bit GUI stuck onto rushed 16 bit DOS with some quick protected mode hooks.

That said, XP was the first version I could stand.

7 was actually pretty good.

And the chosen wording will piss them off even more.

… Glory you say?