He’s Struggling To Reason With His Wife, Who Has Been Hovering Over Their Youngest Son After They Lost Their Oldest To A Camping Trip Accident
I can’t even begin to imagine what losing a child must feel like. However, I do know that parents of multiple children tend to be overprotective of the children they have left after losing one of them, and it’s very easy to understand why.
One man has been struggling to reason with his wife, who he says has been hovering over their youngest son after they lost their oldest almost three years ago.
He and his wife are both 39 and have been married for 13 years. They used to have two boys: their eldest son, Sean, who would’ve been 19 this year, and their youngest, Marcus, who is 14.
Three years ago, Sean passed away after getting injured on a camping trip with his friends and succumbing to his injury days later. It was an extremely traumatizing time for their family, and he and his wife blamed themselves for Sean’s passing since they gave him permission to go on the camping trip.
However, his wife has blamed herself the most and continues to struggle with the loss of Sean.
Since Sean’s death, his wife has been holding onto Marcus tightly, and he thinks it’s becoming a problem.
“He rarely goes out with friends [and] he’s rarely unsupervised, which is just not good for a 14-year-old boy,” he said.
“Marcus finally argued back [and] said he really wanted to go out fishing with his friends and his friend’s dad and didn’t see a reason why he couldn’t go. My wife shut it down immediately [and] said absolutely not, and that if he wanted to go out, he’d have to wait a day one of us was off work.”
After Marcus left the room after arguing with his wife, he sat down with her and said he thought it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to let Marcus go fishing, especially since an adult would be there.
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His wife said she still didn’t want him to go and asked him not to “undermine” her. Then, he decided to get something off his chest.
“I told her she needed to start letting Marcus have a life, and she needed to stop hovering over him just because she lost Sean,” he recalled.
“My wife completely blew up on me, crying [and] saying she could be as overprotective as she wanted.”
His wife told him that, as Marcus’ mother, she could do what she wanted, and he had no right to suggest otherwise since he knew how dangerous the world could be. Finally, she told him not to bring up their conversation with Marcus since there was still no way she’d ever let him go fishing.
Since their argument, his wife has been hiding away in her office and avoiding him.
Was he wrong to accuse his wife of hovering over their son?
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