I won’t indundate you guys with a long defense of whether or not I’m a bad father, but suffice it to say that neither my wife or friends think I’m a bad father. My father in law is a fairly demanding person and of course he loves his daughter so I’m not sure there’s anything I could do to satisfy him. Today he misunderstoof something and he actually got in my face and yelled at me and called me a bad father right in my face. I stormed out. It was partly anger over the incident, it was partly because I know they’ve been very critical of me this whole time, and now it just finally came out. In the meanwhile my in laws have called my parents to badmouth me. I am beyond incensed and don’t want to ever see them again and don’t want my son to see them except for special occasions when he has to.
I’ve talked to two friends and they both think that’s a terrible idea. They agree what he did was wrong, but they also think that the relational discord this would create would be terrible and I should just take it for the sake of the family. I think they are right but I can’t stomach the idea of them constantly badmouthing me (they are fairly judgmental people and I see them do this to all their other family and friends) and having the privilege of being with my kid just because he’s their grandkid. Any thoughts about how you guys would handle
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