AJM’s quote: ‘If they can't look past what she has done for now, then help them to later. For their sake. She is still their mom regardless of her actions, right? And nobody should be estranged from their parents except in extreme cases (axe murderer for example). And of course she blames you. Get used to that while you accept what is, vs what "should" be’.
Hi Folks, I would like to reply to the above quote and tell you of a true story. A Mother and a child came to live in our village in around 1997-98. They became good friends with my youngest daughter and my then wife Liz.
The boys Mother told us in front of her son, what her then estranged husband was doing regarding contact with their son. He (father) would perhaps make contact/see his son not more than twice a year.
When the son turned 14 years old in about 2003, his Dad came to visit him. And his son told him to his face. ‘You’ve not cared about me for years and I’m telling you now to F-ck off out of my life forever, and I don’t want to ever see you again OK.’ The last time I heard this lad still as no contact with his father.
And if one of my parents had ever done that to me, and even though I’m now a born again Christian I would have probably done the same thing.
