Desperate Housewife

I feel like a desperate housewife working here. (Not that I've ever seen the show or know what it's about.) I feel like I'm living with a cheating husband; nursing children who would grow up undermining or ignoring me; taking care of in-laws who won't acknowledge me; calling my parents who tell me "I told you so," and having neighbors who won't or can't help me. The only way to survive, as the good old Chinese proverb suggests, is to "keep one eye shut" at all times. Pretend you don't see/hear half the things and let them slide. "Ignorance is bliss" after all.

It's degrading.

(Now I really feel like a desperate housewife. Whine, whine, whine....)