Last night Danielle and I both polished our toes. Today, after work I was in her and Alex's bedroom, sitting on her bed, talking with Al. Danielle left us alone and went to take a nap in my bed.
Josh brought home Shake Shack for dinner because nobody felt like cooking. We heard him come in and put food on the table. Walk down the hall and go into our room. Then we heard Danielle scream. When Alex and I got into my bedroom Danielle was standing on the bed and Josh's face was bright red.
Turns out he just saw brown hair and polished toes, figured it was me, and smacked the body under the blanket on the ass. Wrong ass. I think Dani was angry until she realized how flustered Josh was, and then she was kind of amused.
Poor Joshers. He couldn't look at Danielle the whole rest of the night. The more she tried to talk to him and he wouldn't, the more uncomfortable Dani got. When we were getting ready for bed he told me to please tell my sisters to use their own beds. I told him to please check before touching.
Josh: Don't you think I did!?
Me: Obviously not well enough.
Josh: She shouldn't have been there.
Me: Yes, she should. She wanted to be, so she was.
Josh: She has her own bed - she should use it.
Me: We just don't think that way.
Josh: It's bad enough they walk around in just t-shirts and go from the bathroom to their rooms wrapped in towels after showering. Keep them out of our bed. I don't want to feel like a fucking pedophile in my own home!
Me: This is their home too. In a way more than yours, since this is their only home and you have your parents' home too. Don't make them uncomfortable in their home.
Josh: Just keep them from sleeping in our bed.
We both went to bed kind of pissed and thinking the other one was wrong and should switch to our side. :(
3 comments:
how old are you?
do you live with your boyfriend?
Rachel, it's really not very polite to ask questions in blog comments that could be answered by reading a few posts of the blog.
Sam, the problem there is that you're both kinda right. If it had been you in the bed and you'd been asleep with the blanket over your face, would you have wanted Josh to uncover you and risk waking you up to make sure you were you before getting undressed in the room? When you share something usually both people need to give permission before its loaned out. On the other hand, the point you make about this being your sisters' (and your) only home is a very strong one, and this may be one of those times when Josh has to be OK with stuff just because this is the way your family functions and he's chosen to be a part of it.
The one thing I'd caution you about, though (although you probably know already), is to make sure your sisters know not to chat about little incidents like this at school, etc. Do you have formal guardianship over them? (If not, how does that work?) Either way, the last thing any of you want is some mandated reporter overhearing and misconstruing something and causing trouble.
I hope you and Josh are able to smooth
things over soon! BTW, I didn't comment on your conversation about the future, but I thought it was hilarious. I also thought that there's no need to be too definite about anything -- there's no way of knowing how you're going to feel by the time Alex graduates college.
It's good that Josh is concerned about acting properly around your sisters.
Maybe compromise and decide that your sisters will not go in your and Josh's bed without you there.
You make good points, but please be careful of making Josh feel like he doesn't belong.
What happened to the idea of sticking a bed in the third room? Danielle wanting to take a nap while you and Alex are talking in their room would be an example of a situation when that would be useful. Another example would be when one of them is sick, though it's probably comforting for them to be in your bed when they are sick. And, of course, for any guests.
Maybe Josh could get your sisters nice terry-cloth bathrobes as a present? So another compromise could be they use those after showering, but he drops the T-shirt issue. Bathrobes don't seem necessary if they are going directly from the bathroom to their room, but it would be a nice gesture to alleviate a little of Josh's discomfort.
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