[gan]

Thanks, sjallda. I'm glad my Dad didn't threaten the electric chair!!! I bet that did create problems for you though it sounds like your circumstances in the previous M were very difficult. I hope you moved on to better things…(sorry that you find yourself here now).

I figure worst case scenario the reply text from my Dad activated my H's guilt button. I talked with my Dad about it, asked how he would have felt if his FIL sent the same thing to him. Dad's reply was that his FIL would have strangled him by now; no way would his FIL have stood back and been so uninvolved if my dad left my mum. Interesting perspective...