My D13, unbeknownst to me, sent a text message last night to her Dad. She accused him of caring about the ow's D's baby more than he did about her. How she would only turn into a teenager once and that he did not even care enough to come and see her. She wanted nothing but a hug and a Happy Birthday wish from him.
Her reply from him came this morning...He told her that it was her fault because she didn't bother to ask him what was going on to make it so he couldn't come and see her??? He told her that she was only thinking about herself and that she was old enough to understand that there were things going on and other issues in the family besides her.
He was angry at her too because DIL got on FB this morning and let him have it on D13's behalf. He told her she didn't need to go around telling everyone about it. The only people D13 shared with was family because they came and stopped in for her b-day and seen that she was upset and asked about it. Of course everyone was angry with H. D13 had no idea that DIL had even said anything to H.
He went on to tell her that besides the baby being born he was getting his truck ready in case he had to go to NC and help out DIL and grandkids because of the hurricane. (SS is on deployment in Afghanistan)
D13 told him she had called and texted him numerous times yesterday and he never answered her. His answer to that was that he may have been in an area where he couldn't receive calls and that he was having trouble figuring out his new cell phone??? Now we all know that if your in an area that doesn't have signal that the calls and texts will come through when you're in an area that does have signal. H also told her he got called into work yesterday. (I know damn well he knows how to use the phones at work.)
At any rate I was in touch with SS today and he said that at this point it doesn't look like the hurricane was going to be a danger to his family.
The bottom line here was that H didn't leave for NC yesterday. He could have come and spent a few minutes with D.
I have tried to explain MLC to D13 in language that she can understand. Why he's done this is beyond her comprehension and to be frank, it's beyond mine too.
Well, does this qualify for Brook/Beatrice 'Book of Logic' according to MLCer's?
