Calling Card
Will calls Tasha multiple times per day & night. Tasha keeps telling him to stop calling, but also keeps taking the calls. Last night she was really upset about this.
“Why am I so mean?” she wailed.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Didn’t you hear me telling him, ‘Stop calling me! Stop calling me!’”
I asked permission to butt in and then told her, “You should tell him when you’ll take his calls, then stop taking the calls at other times.”
She looked panicked. I told her, “You have a right to set boundaries and expect them to be respected. You also have the right to enforce the boundaries if no respect is forthcoming.”
I was saying this for our daughter’s sake as much as for Tasha’s. I hope they all heard it.
Tasha habitually spends upwards of $75 per month on calling cards when Will is in jail. What a racket!
