Chocolate withdrawl

[Snoopy]

'Tis karma Growler my dear for boasting about them!


Is it really considered acceptable for sons to dump their families in favour of the girlfriends/wifes?

Growler jnr/snr has done just that to me.
Didn't come around to see his little step brother and sister over Easter 'cus " I had my girlfriend with me all over the holiday, and you've banned her from your place"
So? Bin her for a few hours, or preferably for ever, and get your arse around here. Your step sister has just spent 2 bloody hours designing and writing an Easter card for you.
We're still waiting.

Found the bloody time to go 'round for dinner at her bloody families dump though.
My piss actually combusted on this occasion.

I was actually in a fairly good mood this evening UNTIL I read this thread again.

Sorry Big G but sons is like that .... 'specially when there's second families involved. My eldest lad was 40 on April 1st .... neither Mrs S#1 nor I have had a birthday or Christmas card or present from him since we decided he was old enough to buy his own without us doing it for him. We (his parents) made this decision when he passed 18 and had left home for a flat of his own. When he reached thirty we decided that if he wasn't going to bother then neither would we and I stopped sending him cards and pressies. He has never acknowledged his half sister or brothers. He has not spoken to me unless he wanted something from me (usually money or to be dug out of the sh*t) and he hasn't spoken to his full sister (who lives in the same town as him) for over fifteen years. I understand he sees his mother once a year and then only after she phones him several times to push him into it. Ask him why and he just shrugs his shoulders and mumbles. I have long since given up all hope of seeing him again. When I have been really ill and in hospital I have forbidden Mrs S from telling him. His sister has said that it's him or her at my funeral and wants me to make the choice. No contest ..... I'd rather neither had to come to it but he will NOT be told about it until after the event.
Live with it mate ..... that's sons for you. Fortunately I made my peace with my parents before it was too late and really enjoyed the last few years of their lives seeing them often and having a pint with me dad every Sunday lunchtime. Perhaps you can work it out that way eventually too, I hope so, but from experience I'd say don't push for it or he'll move further away not closer.

[GROWLER]

I'm fairly confident that Growler jnr is NOT going to be like that. He is actually very considerate and caring for a mid teenager, and hates and depises most things that I hate and despise.
Mrs G claims he's a clone of me. 

Done something right then....in my eyes.

[Snoopy]

Hope so ~ good luck anyway.