Daughter-in-law says no to visits with grandkids if alcohol in involved, so letter writer’s husband chooses not to visit at all.
A few years back, she and my grandchildren stopped visiting, and when I reached out to my son, he was vague and told me his wife didn’t like to be around alcohol because of her family’s issues. I wrote her a kind email, and she responded with a laundry list of times she claimed my husband was drinking inappropriately, sneaking extra drinks when others weren’t looking, being drunk around the grandchildren and so forth.
According to my son, she says he has clearly picked a relationship with alcohol over his grandchildren. I think his feelings are hurt by the insinuations. My son is also caught in the middle and not very happy, either.— AnonymousBut I can see plainly in your letter that: · You say, “We see the situation quite differently,” but you have not said, “My husband barely drinks,” “He has never been drunk around the grandchildren” or, “Out of respect for our daughter-in-law’s concerns, we never have more than one drink when we’re with them.”· You offered “not to drink a lot” around them, which implies at least one of you has drunk a lot around them, or else why would you offer not to? And you “don’t really drink much,” so he does.
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