i want him to hear it from other people who are not as fortunate as him. he's 10. has a loving family. lives in a nice home. smart and a good looking boy. has toys, bikes, getting a new video game system, a cell phone, has tons of friends, new clothes, nice new shoes, a hamster, gets an allowance lives in a nice home with a pool & spa. nice skateboard & bike and goes to skatepark with his dad every night. lives with a loving attentive dad and step mother. his mother lives 2 miles away and he sees her. he has no disabilities whatsoever. he has it made in a nice middle class family.

yahoo tell him like it is!
i know what you are saying about the spoiled thing. he gets tons attention his dad works from home and his stepmom is a stay at home mom and his real mom is 2 miles away and he sees her on the weekends and spare time. he is diciplined. he gets grounded, spanked if real bad, loses allowance, priviliges taken away. what im saying is that he is throwing out the im gonna kill myself card to throw a tantrum. we tell him hes acting like a spoiled brat and doesnt appreciate his stuff. i just want him to hear how lucky he is to be alive able bodied. coming from his parents it goes in one ear out the other.

I told my wife that I should not be getting that kind of attration to other women. She is a stay at home mom and has alot of free time. Knowing her for 15 years, she only dress nice, fix her hair and wear makeup 5-10 times total. For her wedding she had makeup and never again for 9 years.

Going home, I see her hair messy, wearing baggy clothes and old clothes from high school/college (she's 38) and never in a nice perm. No make up and constantly complain about how hard it is to stay at home, take care of the kids and constantly yell at kids on homework or me if I say something.

I told her some other women, work 9-5 and still finds the time to take care of the kids and themselves and still find romance. However she is very defiant and would complain about wearing make up or fixing up her hair.

I nicely recommended paying for a spa and a salon and she would complain her hair would come out or her face would crack from the chemicals from a facial. I volunteer to take care of the kids and let her go to the gym and she kept on making excuses that appearence is not important. She doesn't like to take a date night to see a movie and complain about money despite we are doing pretty well.

Her sister would tell her that she should not have to be romantic or wear makeup and for her not to listen to me. However her sister would dress nice, wear makeup, workout and be romantic with her husband. Sometimes I feel her sister is sabotaging our marriage with bad advice.

I don't know, just the thought of being married to a woman who doesn't take care of herself, I am having second thoughts about my marriage. I don't want to be married to a wife who acts like a man and doesn't care about romance in the marriage. I don't want the kids to have divorced parents, but I just can't take it anymore.
It's also very embarrasing for her to be so messy when we have company and for her mom and my dad to tell her to lose weight.
1) Gym. Won't go because she wants to work 1 hour at the school to feel good about herself.

2) Spa. Won't go because it's too expensive and the chemicals from a facial can crack her skin.

3) Salon. Won't go because a perm will make her lose all her hair. Full of germs.

4) Nice clothes. Won't buy them because the "economy is bad" for the last 12 years. Still wears high/school/College clothes (she's 39).

5) Date night. Won't go because the economy is bad. Complains about money.

6) Makeup. Complains the "chemicals" are bad for her. So far that ain't true.

7) Complains about money and mentions that my parents don't help her with the kids as the reason about money.

Complains that we didn't buy a million dollars home by her parents' place.

I want to start a home based business for stay at home moms ( or anyone interested for that matter) that sells organic/natural personal care products. (Facial/skin care, body care, hair care.) The company that will manufacture these products for me is super ethical.
The products would be sold in home demonstrations, like a spa party. Part of the demonstration would be educating women about the benefits of living the organic lifestyle, and how it can be incorporated into anyones life.
My husband and I agree up to this point.
He says no one will want to do this unless it is a multilevel marketing business where they can earn commission on what people they recruit sell.
I don't want to use a multi level marketing strategy. I have done Mary kay and still have a very bad taste in my mouth from my experience. I want to give end of year incentives based on sales and recruiting.
I really want this to be an ethical, real situation for women that want to stay home with their families but still contribute to the family income. My husband says I am being to idealistic. I think alot of women would like this opportunity. (I know I would)
Mary Kay can say they are a "dual marketing" company all they want. It is simply a multi level marketing company,except the company pays the commissions and not the consultants. As far as my involvement, I was in director qualification when I left the company. The benefits with Mary Kay are all an illusion. They say the are the #1 selling skin care line in the US. They base these figures on what consultants order...not what they actually sell. How much do consultants actually sell for the full retail price? Check out eBay if you want the full story. You pay for your prizes and your commissions. Think you don't? Send product back under the company's "liberal" buy back program. The cost of the prizes will be deducted from your refund and your recruiter will have to pay back any commissions they earned on your inventory. In my DIQ, I was under a director whose director was in national qualification. I saw really bad things happen to get her national unit,which she got.