Family

[David Lowery]

Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to kill them 😕

[Hugh Potter]

quote John Wilson:

Why are family always so hard to deal with?

For some stupid reason I tried to contact my ex’s parents for the kids sake and now I feel like I’ve made a big mistake 😮 (oh, im a bad boy!) grandparents 🙁

Why oh why

Hugh they are in Wales so I’ll pm you the addy and you can go deal with them 😉

oh dear, family can be trouble sometimes. i fell out with my ex mrs the other day (again), i only claimed it’s a wonder how any of her family remember to stand upright and stop dragging their knuckles each morning, what ? 😮 😮 she wasn’t impressed (chat.)

Anyhoo, why me go to wales? it’s 200+mile away! lol, i know i said half of me comes from Wales, but both halves currently reside in Sussex!

[John Childs]

I feel your pain John. 🙁

[Robert Lambie]

i get on really well with my mrs whole family, its her i have the hard time with! 😉 :lol1:

[Martin Pearson]

John, I know how you feel, honest.

Don’t think it’s down to family so much as what divorce does to some couples. Your doing it because you think it’s right for the kids, they probably think you are scheming and have a different motive

[Jayne Marsh]

Hmmm family can be a problem, at least you tried at the end of the day it will be their loss.
I have a very complicated family, some good and some not so, the not so goods have missed out alot on their grandchildrens lives.
🙁

[Martin Pearson]

Jayne, it’s interesting that you say that but don’t you feel that the Grand children have missed out as well as the Grand parents?

I grew up only knowing one of my Grandparents properly, my Mum’s Mum and my Dad’s Dad both died before I was born and my Dad’s Mum died when I was very young so I don’t remember her that well really.
I have always regretted not knowing them and I would imagine that would be even worse if they were alive and I hadn’t seen them.

[Jayne Marsh]

In a perfect world it would be nice if all grandparents were lovely but if they have nothing to offer other than bitterness and indifference then the grand children have missed out on nothing. My kids made their own minds up about wether to be in contact or not, I suppose they were lucky to be old enough. They also are in a rather unique position of having 3 sets of grand parents of which 2 sets are lovely 😀

[Harry Cleary]

You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family! 🙁

[John Childs]

quote Jayne Marsh:

In a perfect world it would be nice if all grandparents were lovely but if they have nothing to offer other than bitterness and indifference then the grand children have missed out on nothing.

Well said Jayne.

[Martin Pearson]

Jayne, that’s fair comment. I had never looked at it that way before. Maybe its just me but I can’t understand how anyone wouldn’t want to do what is best for their family.

[Karl Williams]

Ive been with Cheryl now for 12 years. Her parents have not long started to realise that we are right for each other and accept me as a son-in-law.
But I suppose all inlaws or most anyway think the person their offspring choose won’t be good enough.
John my heart goes out to you mate. You only want to be there for your kids. I think us blokes get a bad deal when we split from the other half’s.
Freedom for dads! That what I say anyway.

[Andrew Boyle]

"The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth, it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills."

😀 😀

[Lynn Normington]

do we 🙄

Lynn

[Phill Fenton]

quote Karl Williams:

But I suppose all in laws or most anyway think the person their offspring choose won’t be good enough.

My mother in law is still clinging to the hope that one day Alison will come to her senses :lol1:

And I reckon my mother is using the old "reverse psychology" ploy by letting me think she thinks Alison is the best thing since sliced bread 😕

[Karl Williams]

A couple of days after Dylan was born she was being right bast*rd as usual. I calmly said to her "Joan my dear, you are a little treasure!" She barked back with "Oh…..right….That was nice of you for a change." My reply was "Yes Joan…..You should have been buried f@ck!ng years ago!"

Went down like a lead balloon! 😀 😀 😀 👿 👿 👿

[Stuart Hancock]

I have a great mother in law…she lives in Australia I live in England, I can’t think of anything better 😀

Must say I don’t have a problem with her though when I visit we get on great.