Yes Summerlove I really think she did derive pleasure from disrespecting me, but that didn't mean that she wasn't safe to mind our boys.
It was a pain in the butt having to calm them down when they'd spent time with their GP's, but it was our choice. It enabled us to have some time for ourselves once in a while.
Had it been too much of an issue then no, we wouldn't have allowed them to have the boys unless we were also there.
But to go no contact over such a thing; to never allow them to see their GC again. She raised 5, I married the 2nd and have been happily married to him for almost 39 years so she did OK as a mum and has done OK as a GM and GGM. Not so good overall as a m.i.l. but hey ho.
Child rearing techniques change over time but that doesn't mean that everything we did when our children were small was wrong, and that everything they do today is right.
Going no contact for such petty things such as not having your rules followed therefore feeling disrespected is cruel and unnecessary. It is the behaviour of a petulant child, not an adult.
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