This post hurts ME just reading it, so I can’t imagine how it makes you feel. :( I’m sorry things could not have been better for you.

My relationships with both my parents are really good. They’re still married and have always been there for me and my brother. They have 3 grandchildren (1 from me, 2 from my brother) that they love I think even more than they love us sometimes. In a good way. They’ve always been the 2 people that I could always count on in my life and I’m grateful for that.

My husband, on the other hand, has had nothing but a rocky relationship with his mother. She’s in our lives now, and is very involved with our son, but my husband has told me stories of his childhood that make me question whether or not that’s a good idea. He’s told me how she was manipulative and out right mean during his whole childhood. For example, once he became a teenager, she would throw manic fits over the littlest things (like not loading the dishwasher or cleaning his room), then when he’d finally stand up to her and tell her off, she would call his dad at work in tears and tell him all about how awful he was being and how he threatened to hurt her for no reason. All kinds of crap like that.

He often feels resentment toward her for suddenly becoming super mom when she discovered I was pregnant 6 years ago. He tries, now, to just forget about the past and let her have a relationship with her only grandson. But yet, he’s afraid of how she might become once HE becomes a teenager. Like the possibility of her stepping out of his life once he’s no longer a ‘cute little baby boy’ anymore. We’ve had many late-night discussions about it and it doesn’t get any easier for him.

ANNNNDD I’m sorry that this comment has stretched on as long as it has, lol.