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[quote=Anonymous]Where to begin?  First, sometimes kids will prefer one parent.  It's natural, and normal.  He's 3 - are you really getting bent out of shape about this?  You need to adjust your perception.

Second, "He insists I owe him an apology for not immediately removing my hand from his arm when he asked me to do so -- I am frankly just shocked that I apparently need to ask my husband to touch his arm"  You do owe him an apology.  It isn't that you need permission, it's that he asked you to stop and you didn't.  Whatever the reason (you being "appalled," which we'll get to in a minute) he's right.  Your formulation of the situation is like your kid grabbing a cookie, you telling him to drop it, him not doing it, you getting mad, and him saying, "I didn't know I needed permission to have a cookie."  Not the issue at all.

Third, your 3 yo son asked his father to rub his back, when he's tired and cranky after a long day, your husband started to do that, and you grabbed his arm to try to prevent him?  Jesus, lady.  This goes back to the first point, but you completely overreacted to your son's preference for his father at the moment.

Fourth (not finally, there's lots more you did wrong here, but I'm busy), you don't know how you could have handled it better?  Oy.  [/quote]

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