Abby Connolly
Then, his wife made a negative comment about his ex’s family and their tattoos and said his son would soon be covered in them.
He told her he wouldn’t mind if his son had tattoos as long as they weren’t bad. His wife replied by saying his son could become “unemployed trailer park trash” like his mom’s family.
He was appalled by his wife’s comments, especially because she said them in front of friends and with his son just a few feet away.
He knows his son has told his wife great things about his mom and her family, so he doesn’t understand why she would make those rude remarks. He told her he couldn’t believe she had said that.
“I followed this up by essentially telling her she had no right to talk about my son’s family like that and pass judgment on people she doesn’t know,” he remembered.
“I also told her I don’t agree with her sentiment that tattoos equal unemployment and that the majority of my ex’s family are happily employed.”
In fact, several members of his ex-wife’s family own businesses. Her brother, the one with all the big tattoos, went from being a semi-professional boxer to a business owner with a master’s degree.
After that, they stopped talking about his ex-wife, and things were awkward between him and his wife for the rest of the night.
After they got home and started getting ready for bed, his wife was angry with him for speaking to her like that in front of their friends.
She didn’t like that he defended his ex and thought he made her look like a jerk. He explained that she shouldn’t have said such things while his son could hear her. He ended up sleeping in a different room that night.
When he met with his brother the next day, he told him he should’ve waited until they got home from dinner to say those things to his wife.
