My mom and stepdads relationship can be summed up in 2 sentences

Mom: Why don't you ever show a little initiative?
Stepdad: because you never told me to




Disclaimer: this conversation didn't actually happen. It's something I heard in an episode of Phineas and Ferb. That being said, my mom has threatened to leave stepdad many times bc of his lack of initiative. Last xmas she even filed for a seperation bc of this exact issue.


I was paraphrasing from memory, but found the exact exchange I was referring to: