Our daughter went to Australia 10 years ago and is now married there with a daughter aged 2. The only thing that has made this bearable is the expectation that we would be able to have a closer relationship with our son's family when he married (he is 28). After saying he would never move away, our son has just told us that he is proposing to move to Australia to be with a girl he met on holiday. We are immensely saddened and yes, hurt. If he moves over there, we will be rational enough to go and visit both families, but in the meantime, she is planning to come over in July and he wants to bring her (he lives in Amsterdam) to visit us. We know what the rational response would be, but we both feel that we could not be pleasant to this girl, and my wife would constantly break down in tears were this visit to take place, whilst I can't see it in myself to be anything more than sad and angry by what he is doing to my wife. I know what the coping mechanisms are, but would somebody just sympathise with our predicament?
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