Am I the only one who would be pissed?

I haven’t been on here in a while.
Background: I’m the wife of a Marine. We spent all 4.5 years in California. We weren’t together while he was in Boot Camp. We met while he was at the schoolhouse. In the 4.5 years he went through actual hell. He now has PTSD cleaning bathrooms because he was hazed so bad. I worked at the PX, and I can’t close my eyes without seeing me correcting the uniform of one of the 13 we lost in Kabul.

Current: I went into Walmart in a small town in Illinois (the closest base is between 2-4 hours from us) where I see a guy wearing Marine Corps trousers. Just the trousers. No boots, no blouse..just the trousers. I was nice at first when I said, “you know that’s against UCMJ right.” He didn’t correct me, no explanation, just laughed at me. So, I started yelling at him. I am still pissed because I only know a fraction of what my husband had to go through to earn those.

My anger is probably misplaced. I’m probably supposed to be mad at the surplus store for selling them, but am I the only one who would be mad?

in our community

I think my partners boundaries are too strict…

My partner has a difficult relationship with his family, I think his parents are lovely people but I can see where he gets frustrated with them. They are far from perfect but I think they mean well.

His older brother still lives at home and unfortunately has a habit of using weed and coke. He’ll smoke outside but do coke in his room and obviously drugs are kept there too.

The parents know this but have not tried to help him or get the drugs out the house. The brother has no intention of moving out either.

Because of this, my partner feels strongly that our child should never enter that house. The child would never be in the same room as the drugs but my partner feels that on principle, we should never take the baby there.

While I do not agree with his brother’s habit and the safety of my baby is the most important thing, I think he may be being too harsh.

I wouldn’t feel comfortable leaving there baby there without one of us but surely never going over is a bit far. I’m worried it would ruin the relationship between our families.

Of course his parents would be welcome at our house so it’s not like access is being denied, just not in their home.

Is my partner being too harsh or am I not concerned enough?

I think my partner is just using the baby not coming over as a threat to get his parents to do something about the drugs.

Advice please

Ok so I don’t know if I’m being extra. My MIL made my baby some soup and told us to freeze it. She gave it in a clean container and said to use the freezer cube tray (which she hadn’t washed and said put in the dishwasher before using)

My husband completely forgot and put the soup in the unwashed container and then I quickly reminded him and he took it back out into a clean container, but defeats the point because it’s already been in the unwashed one. My LO is 8 months old would you give this soup to your little one? Or chuck away?

How would you act?

My 2 year old daughter has been refusing to vocally communicate at nursery although she’s a chatter box at home. We have a close relationship with the headmaster and brought it to their attention and agreed on an action plan together with the staff in the room. Last week, a new room lead joined the nursery and was informed by the headmaster of the plan in place. Despite that, on Friday during pick up and without even taking a moment to introduce herself or giving a prior warning she came to me in front of other children and parents and demanded to observe my daughter speak to me immediately. I told her that she might not feel comfortable and that the staff are aware of her condition and have a plan but she ignored me. She finally gave up when more parents came which they had to attend to. Today, dad went to pick up daughter and she did the same thing to him. We both felt ambushed with her “hallway conversation” and that her actions were completely unprofessional and created a stressful environment for our daughter. How would you act if you were us?

Do you ever wonder if you unintentionally traumatize your kid(s)?

I worry all the time when they get older what they will say I traumatized them about…

Am i overthinking?

So today I was outside with my toddler playing and walking around on our block close to our yard (she was trying to catch a bird lol) anyway, the road we live in gives a good amount of traffic
Then a car slowed down (I didn’t think too much of it because I come to realize ppl slow down when kids are out) next thing you know I hear “hey neighbor”, old man rolling down his window stopped his car to say it, I instantly thought wtf and I never saw him around before, I watched him a bit and he was driving slow as he was driving away, creeped me the fuck out, called my husband right away which he was only 5 minutes away
It really freaked me out, I always felt safe in my neighborhood (though only been here for 2 years) I hate telling my husband stuff like this because he be reaching but I had to and also i can’t sleep now yall, my husband put chairs on all the doors
I work out early morning in our basement and told him to do the same down in the cellar door to outside, even told him to block the windows. I felt and still feel so uneasy about it and now I don’t feel comfortable taking my children out when my husband isn’t home

very excited!!

my baby just ate puree and showed alot of interest in it!! it was avacado which i never expected her to like so much