His Brother-In-Law Shamed His Teenage Son For Going To Therapy After Suffering The Loss Of His Best Friend
Earlier this year, this 38-year-old man’s son, who is just 15, suffered a devastating loss. His son’s best friend sadly passed away.
So, ever since then, his son has been in therapy to cope with the tragedy.
“It was very hard for him, and while I’ve always been there to help him, my wife and I felt that having a therapist would be best,” he recalled.
“He seems to be making a lot of progress, so I know it’s working.”
However, his brother-in-law is apparently the kind of guy who thinks that men should not express their emotions.
He, on the other hand, thinks that opinion is complete bologna– which is why he always ensured that he and his wife were on the same page.
He wanted their kids to know that expressing their emotions was completely okay.
But, two nights ago, they all attended a family gathering– which just so happened to start right after his son finished a therapy session.
So, he and his wife picked up their son before heading to hang out. While they were at the gathering, his son also started telling him about something discussed in the therapy session that day.
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It soon became clear that his brother-in-law must have overheard his son, too, because all of a sudden, his brother-in-law went off on a rant about how boys did not need therapy. To make matters worse, his brother-in-law then proceeded to call his son a girl.
“I probably wouldn’t have reacted as much if my son hadn’t been there,” he prefaced.
“But my son was visibly hurt by what he was saying.”
That’s why he got really annoyed and told his brother-in-law to bug off. He also claimed that his son was more of a man than his brother-in-law was.
Now, he revealed that he wanted to say even more to his brother-in-law. However, he didn’t want to make his son any more upset.
“And I admit that I might have gone a little too far, but I was defending my son,” he added.
“I don’t think someone who shames someone else for being healthy….is being a ‘man.'”
Anyway, after he said that, his brother-in-law just glared at him before storming out of the family gathering. Afterward, his wife said that they were leaving, so he and his son got up and left.
Later that night, his son didn’t really say much about the situation. His wife, on the other hand, was seriously upset at him for telling off his brother-in-law.
She accused him of being disrespectful, even though he tried to explain how he was attempting to defend their son.
Regardless, his wife didn’t agree with how he handled the situation, and she has ignored him ever since.
He is also still really angry about the whole incident because his son got shamed for working through his emotions; meanwhile, he got berated for trying to stick up for the teen.
“But all of their reactions are making me second-guess myself,” he vented.
So now, he’s not sure whether sticking up for his son was justified in this situation or if he really acted like a jerk toward his brother-in-law.
How would you feel if someone disrespected your child like that, especially following such a tragedy? Did he do the right thing by sticking up for his son? Would you have done the same thing if you were in his shoes?
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