u/redditon__

#1
Stop leaving your dogs outside for prolonged periods or keeping them outside. Report your uneducated neighbors to Animal Control:

Tuesday - Sunday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Closed on Monday
Dial 9-1-1 for emergencies

Collin County Animal Services at (972) 548-4100. They handle cases of animal cruelty and can provide assistance.
Or contact Denton County depending our your zoning.

#2
On a 100°F day, pavement reaches 140-160°F – 40-60 degrees hotter than the air temperature. This extreme heat can burn pet paws in under 60 seconds, with third-degree burns possible at 150°F.

Your dog doesn’t have callouses, he has burn marks. Stop walking your dogs during 11am-6pm or test your bare feet yourself. Animals were created for the wild terrain which their pads can handle not for concrete & asphalt…. No excuses.

Take them to the grass or use your backyard and play with them & stop being a horrible pet owner in Texas.

Backgrounds: I’m (F35) married 15 years with a few children.
I’ve had an estranged relationship with my mom (F65) for 10 years do to an online con man (M75) she married then divorced.

I’m only asking for advice because she refused to do therapy with me and I need help navigating if a cold cut off is cruel or worth it?
I have given her an ultimatum to leave her current boyfriend (M65) or she can’t be in her grandchildren’s life and she thinks I’m the worst judgmental person alive.

Her first marriage ended in divorce after 10 years of her being with an online con man. The classic (my wife died, I’m a millionaire) they had a fake marriage, his wife actually was in hospice dying of cancer, and he was in fact not a millionaire but a con man stealing money. After 10 years of her drama situation and keeping my family away. She finally divorced/left him…. When he went to prison for embezzlement.

So a forced divorce (they got officially married when the wife died.) While leaving the court house she meets my half (40M) brother’s biological father… who was a dead beat dad and never in the picture one day of his life.

This man was leaving the court house for probation because he’s a registered sex offender for raping a woman 15 years ago and has many drug charges against him for cocaine.
My mom claims they caught up over coffee said he is a healed person now and they immediately fell in love. of course he said it’s not true and the woman lied.

It’s been one year and this man wants to completely alienate my mother from her family… and I’m seeing the EXACT classic patterns from the previous psycho she married.

I have talked to her many times, we did a family intervention. Explaining the same patterns and red flags from before.

I’m a person of faith. But this new man is using faith to manipulate her into being together. He was homeless, she bought him a car because he has no credit, he moved in with her and she pays for everything. She helped him start a business as well.

She tells me she feels pure love from him because he doesn’t judge her past marriage

I grew up with a normal upper wealthy family. My mom was the most incredible, normal, sane no drama mother. But now as an adult her life choices have drastically deteriorated her life because of men - I don’t even recognize her.

I would never surround myself with people like this in a normal situation nor associate with friends in these types of circumstances. I feel it’s unfair to do this because she’s blood.

I’m at the point I have to do a full cut off. All we talk about is weather and she hasn’t seen her grandkids in a year because of him not allowing her to visit. She wants an all in relationship were they both are in our lives and can do holidays, dinners etc. I want her to completely leave him and get therapy and serious help because I think she’s been 11 years in Stockholm syndrome and now has mental disorder because she doesn’t find these men dangerous.

Makes me sad because she’s getting old and missing out on my kids lives. My husband of course thinks we need to fully cut her off and never speak to her again until she gets help. My fear is that’s exactly what the guy wants. Her siblings and my brothers cater to her behaviors so it makes me look like the mean one.

How do I navigate this?

edit: grammar typos