Wow what a Thanksgiving dinner!!! My husband's parents came in and first off, his father starts a bash fest. Gee how nice to enter one's home to just insult you. My parents didn't know what to think. They were getting quite annoyed. My Father-in-law even had the gall to try to get my father to join in. My father didn't want anything to do with it. It completely pissed my Mother off. Then while we're eating dinner, my father-in-law asks me if I am going to get my tubes tied!!! HELLO, IT'S MY BODY! Of course I answered him, well now that's my decisicion isn't it? Oh did he piss me off. It's none of his business. If I want twenty children, I'll damn well have twenty kids. I might yet just to spite him.
I believe that's the last time I invite them for dinner at my house. I just couldn't believe it. I couldn't have been more shell-shock. And my poor husband didn't enjoy the dinner at all. He was so upset by what his father, his own father, said to him. I didn't just spend three years of my life with him building up his self-esteem for his father to knock back into ground in five minutes. I won't have it. It's my house, my rules, my husband. If I want to bash my husband, that's my right and no one elses. I try to encourage my husband in all things that he wants to do. I don't tell him what to do all the time nor do I nag him to death. He's an adult, I think he can think for himself by this time.
I hope he reads this too. You do not treat your son like an animal. He's an adult, you should treat him like such. If things don't get better I will let them know, that since they can't seem to get along with their son, we will no longer be expected to visit or have them visit us. I think for Christmas I will make a quiet dinner for me, hubby, and my girl. I don't want to go through that trouble again. I have never been so humilated in my life in front of my own parents. Thank god my parents support me and my husband. They at least like him even if sometimes he has strong opinions. Well I better stop now. I am just working myself up over this again.
# posted by gallifray @ Friday, November 25th, 2005
