His Family Won’t Stop Trying To Set Him Up Following The Loss Of His Wife, So He Threatened To Move Away With His Daughter And Never See Them Again
After this man’s wife gave birth to their daughter about five years ago, she tragically passed away, and he has been absolutely devastated ever since.
His family, including his parents and his sisters, were understanding of his grieving period during the year following the loss. But, for the past four years, they have not stopped telling him to move on.
“I cannot,” he admitted, “You know how amputees get phantom pain in their missing limbs? It’s like that.”
However, he just feels like everything is now missing in his life.
He recently took his daughter to see a street performer festival in his city, for instance, and even just buying some kettle corn from a vendor made his heart shatter.
“I hate kettle corn. My wife loved it. I was buying something I hate for someone who is not there,” he said.
Yet, his parents do not seem to understand that he is still battling grief. So, his mom recently did the cruelest thing and actually told his daughter that, for her birthday, she should ask to get a “new mommy.”
As you can probably imagine, he was not very polite when he heard about that and confronted his mom.
He was firm, telling his mom that if she or his sisters ever attempted to bring another woman into his life again, then he would take his daughter, move away, and his family would never see them again.
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“Now, all three of my sisters and my father have called me to yell at me for threatening my mother and them,” he vented.
On top of that, his family claimed that they were only trying to help and even had the nerve to accuse him of being a jerk for “not accepting the inevitable.”
So now, with his entire family up in arms, he’s been left wondering whether threatening his family to get them to stop trying to set him up was the wrong thing to do or not.
Can you imagine losing your spouse right after welcoming a child into the world together? Doesn’t everyone process grief differently? Was it fair for his family to pressure him and claim he needed to accept “the inevitable?” Did he do the right thing by setting a firm boundary or not?
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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