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[quote=Anonymous]My husband's father is a Vietnam vet with PTSD and his mother is a narcissist. FIL was physically abusive and emotionally absent when DH was little. MIL was overly involved but volatile and also abusive (mostly verbal and emotional). They divorced when DH was about 15, and the divorce was nasty and drawn out for several years, in a small town where everyone knows everyone else.

It affected our marriage in logistical ways (they cannot be in the same space together) early on. DH and his mom have seemingly always had a complicated relationship, but they had a relationship-ending conflict last summer - without explaining a lot of unnecessary details, MIL demonstrated some of the same verbal and emotional abuse that DH experienced toward our kids and when confronted, she got really angry and stormed out and hasn't communicated with either of us since the summer despite multiple attempts to repair. FIL came to see us shortly after, and he ended up sharing a lot about the issues he had with MIL before, during, and after the divorce and apologizing to DH for his abuse and absence when DH was a child. [/quote]

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