I started thinking too. My real issue is with my father-in-law. He never misses the chance to say something nasty to me about how I broke up his family. All because my husband was living with him in Oklahoma when we met and moved back down here to get married. I get to where I really dread seeing him because I know he'll work something in and I will look like the bad person if I say anything to him about it.
For what it is worth, I am willing to move to Oklahoma. I just wanted my older son to finish school in Texas because all his friends were here. I have family in the same county where he lives. I think the land is lovely and the people are great. I just don't know if I can continue to put up with his remarks without saying anything back. I have held back out of respect.
I am at a loss. I have done nothing to that old man. He broke up his own family by estranging himself from his sons years ago. He continues to embarrass himself in the community where he grew up by living with a woman young enough to be his daughter after years of fooling around on his wife before she divorced him after 25 years of marriage. He lives in a junk pile of a house surrounded by crap he's hauled in from the dump. He's gotten dirty. He chain smokes. His girlfriend's whole family lives up there at times. He's an educated man. I don't know why he chooses to live like he does. I want no part in it, but he's the father of the one I love.
He's coming over here tomorrow. I dread it. I want him to like me. I have never been anything but polite to him. I don't know what I'll do. If I say anything to him, I'll be the bad one. If I don't, then he'll think it is okay to treat me like garbage. My husband says that's just the way his dad is and he doesn't pay attention to him.
I just have to keep my mouth shut.
For what it is worth, I am willing to move to Oklahoma. I just wanted my older son to finish school in Texas because all his friends were here. I have family in the same county where he lives. I think the land is lovely and the people are great. I just don't know if I can continue to put up with his remarks without saying anything back. I have held back out of respect.
I am at a loss. I have done nothing to that old man. He broke up his own family by estranging himself from his sons years ago. He continues to embarrass himself in the community where he grew up by living with a woman young enough to be his daughter after years of fooling around on his wife before she divorced him after 25 years of marriage. He lives in a junk pile of a house surrounded by crap he's hauled in from the dump. He's gotten dirty. He chain smokes. His girlfriend's whole family lives up there at times. He's an educated man. I don't know why he chooses to live like he does. I want no part in it, but he's the father of the one I love.
He's coming over here tomorrow. I dread it. I want him to like me. I have never been anything but polite to him. I don't know what I'll do. If I say anything to him, I'll be the bad one. If I don't, then he'll think it is okay to treat me like garbage. My husband says that's just the way his dad is and he doesn't pay attention to him.
I just have to keep my mouth shut.