I can't believe I have let this happen again! Just because I had a whole day off to myself (apart from the fact that teenager number 1 was at home instead of college, teenager number 2 was coming home from boarding school in the afternoon and teenager number 3 was at home sick not at school), I have allowed my guilt to make me accede to cancelling a day's training course that I was really looking forward to. My business partner announced that he was feeling overooked! An all day meeting, a training course in London and my paltry day off consumed the latter end of last week. He has not had enough of my attention and is feeling ignored. My guilty conscience tells me I cannot have another day out of the office.
Don't bother asking me if I think he would do the same for me! Of course you must remember that his kids are more important to him than an ordinary person's children would be to an ordinary person. This is because he is divorced and only has them on alternate days. This means that when it is a kids day, absolutely nothing must come in the way. Remember that issue that was so desperate and required you to drop everything and concentrate on it? Well, offer to have a meeting about it on a kids evening of the week and of course this is a no/no. Explain that when it is convenient to him you have to take your teenager number 3 to a music lesson, well there you go again, letting family get in the way of business!
The kill option remains of course. I do think about that one sometimes.
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