verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
to bend or turn aside; turn from a true course or straight line; swerve.

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How many of your SOs, BFs, and DHs have used this one before.

DH and I got into an arugement last night because of how he inadvertently underminds me. He's done it twice so far this week.

1.) I walk into the house Monday after work SS(5) comes running through past me screaming for no reason. I stop SS and tell him that we don't run in the house and that we use inside voices.

DH's response, "He's just excited," right in front of SS. I thinking way to go DH. Now SS thinks that it's okay to run and scream in the house and he can just blow me off.

2.) Last night both SS and SD are slapping each other. SS comes into the kitchen to tell me that SD slapped him. SD comes out and I ask her if she did. She says yes but SS slapped her as well. All three of walk out into the living room where DH is and I said that SD was in trouble for slapping SS because she knows she is not supposed to touch the other kids like that. (SD has issues with taking things to the extreme and someone always gets hurt.)

DH's response, "They were probably just playing." SD immediately turns and looks at me and says yay we were just playing in this eff you, daddys got my back voice.

I thinking first of all, SS came out to tell on her, I'm sure it wasn't playing and even if it was playing hitting another person should not be involved.

So we go out into the garage and talk about it. I had to remind him that I have witnessed SD intentionally slam SS's head into the coffee table when they were playfully wrestling because she has to win. We both agreed that they would both be in trouble which I thought was fair.

Later that evening I'm talking to DH about how he has been underminding me when he does these things and this could be why SD treats my like I'm her eaqual and of course he doesn't want to talk about it. So what does he do he tries to turn the tables on me by bringing up some injustice that I've done to him which has nothing to do with what were talking about to try and make me look like an a hole. I called him on his BS and were did we go from there? He starts in on my BD(7) calling her immature for her age and saying that she has speech problems. To which I responded with some comments about his kids, like his out of control BD's behavioral problems like lying to a CPS worker and having bad thoughts about stabbing DH and I while we are dancing naked in the living room.

I know that I should have walked away but I'll be damned if I'm going to let him makes comments about my BD. She's a good kid. Very sweet. Does great in school. Very nice to her school mates and respectful of all her teachers.

I hate when he does that. In stead of wanting to talk about something that needs to be talked about he just deflects the conversation to something else to either make me look bad or get me heated and then he expects an apology.

Am I the only one?