Round and round until

this a.m. round and round in a couple phone calls.

She "just doesn't know what to do in this situation"

I said one way would be to sublease something, relatively inexpensive for either her, or for my folks and me. She didn't like the idea that she'd "busted my ass on cleaning, hurt my hand, given up my PT, and then your folks wouldn't be here?"

She's plainly figured out that traveling and staying in Steamboat and the like is pretty pricy.

We finally gave up on that call as I got increasingly aggravated.

Half hour or so later, she called and said, "Here's my proposal. I can't get past the money. There are lots of OTHER things I'd rather spend money on that being elsewhere. But I can't be there when your parents are around / active. So, when they're there, and you're not, I'll be elsewhere. And, I ask that YOU do YOUR part by being home as much as you can when they're around."

I assured her that I will be, every evening possible.

She's not satisfied, but it's as far as we can go to "fix this mess".

She could try NOT making herself so crazy.