Our son's school will host their annual Thanksgiving lunch on November 18th. My wife has gone every year for the past 6 years. I've gone twice. My wife called last night and asked him about it, said she would like to go. He tells her, "I don't want you to go this year." Ouch... Truth be told, he doesn't want either of us to go (He's a kid...kids are embarrassed to be around their parents...etc, etc...). However, the fact he flat out told his mom 'I don't want you to go Mom.' rrreealllllllyyyyyy stung her. Her very first response was, "Why not? Do you want your dad to go instead of me?" Gabe's reply was, "I don't want either of you to go." It stung me a little, but I think I 'get' why...again, he's a kid, and he's a boy. On the grander MLC scale of things, my wife's reaction (i.e. 'do you want your dad to go, but not me?) tells me my wife is aware that her relationship with her son has deteriorated substantially over the last year, while me and Gabe have become really, really close. Add on top of that the fact that I've done lot's of activities with both our kids over the last year (trip to Hawaii, took my son to California twice, movies, culture festivals, camping, going skiing in December, and the list goes on...), and my wife has declined to participate in any single one of these activities. Her loss...
I guess the question I have is, where do we (she) go from here???
