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Quote from: Lillycache on August 14, 2014, 06:31:34 AMQuote from: Sarah on August 14, 2014, 05:46:28 AM
Free - I'm glad you stuck up for yourself. Would it be possible to have a relationship with your son without your husband? Could you visit them alone? Maybe offer some babysitting if they need it for a few hours? Maybe being there alone without your husband would take a lot of pressure off of both you and the son. Just a suggestion. I think you are handling this really well. ((hugs))
My question is.. Who would want time alone with someone who behaves like her DS anyway? I sure wouldn't. Free.. Good for you for letting your husband know where you stand. Obviously you did it in a way that caught his attention and made him think. Let him handle DS.. IMO your son owes you an apology if for nothing else than being disrespectful. I think if any of us talked to our parents like he did to you we wouldn't have had to storm off.. we would have been told to leave.. adult or not. You deserve better.
Quote from: herbalescapes on June 28, 2014, 02:11:06 PM
If my DH can't be bothered to take off from work to take his mom to the doctor or can't be bothered to remember her birthday with a card/call/gift or can't be bothered to ask his own parents to babysit but leaves the arranging of a sitter entirely on my shoulders, should I be considered the DILFH? I think the vast majority of MIL/DIL problems are really DM/DS and/or DH/DW problems, with the MIL/DIL being used as a scapegoat.