Reply to the stuff of COPS shows ....

Forum Index » Family Relationships

Reply to "the stuff of COPS shows ...."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My younger brother (divorced, unemployed for most of the past 5 years and visiting  alone with his child) and I got into a parenting argument after a minor spat between our kids (age 9 and 6). The lengthy backstory is my 40-something-year-old brother's life is a mess and he is routinely verbally abusive to my parents and me about how things have turned out for him, texting me about how disgusting I am, how selfish I am, what a d*ck I am, how he blames me for his divorce (not sharing some concerns his ex-wife had about his behavior) and our parents moving to be closer to me (which was encouraged by him and his now ex wife at the time because they didn't want to help aging parents). DH and I generally try to let his rants roll off our shoulders, my parents try not to engage him either as they feel sorry for him (and are currently paying all his bills).

Flash forward: His 6-yr-old spent much of his time over Tgiving wknd crying if things didn't go his way while my brother would snip at my kids who are 2 to 3.5 yrs older than his. After letting his younger cousin win for several days straight in Matchbox car races, football, baseball, foot races and cards, my 9-year-old did a minor d*ck thing in a board game and encouraged the 6 yr old to make a certain move, which resulted in my son winning. Tears and hysterics ensue, my brother accuses our mom and me of "psychologically damaging his child for life" because my 9-year-old had "conned" his child and his child was not used to being "deceived by family."

After a brief cooling-off period, I sent my 9-year-old to apologize for tricking the 6-year-old.

While the kids were working things out, my brother told me his child had no problem losing, but was upset about the "deceit." I told him that was clearly untrue, and he needed to nip the sore loser thing in the bud or it will cause problems at school/with friends. My brother then snapped and called me an a**hole and a "human piece of garbage" in front of my parents who stood there silently. DH enters the room and bellows, I need to have a word with you... my brother retreats to his bedroom and slams door in DH's face. DH opens the door and pins my brother to the wall and says "you have no right to speak to my wife this way."

I scream at them to stop. DH storms out. Brother calls the police to report DH for assault. Cops come to vacation home, ultimately leave since no injuries or damage occurred..... DH, my kids and I leave early. Beat that DCUM -- and where do I go from here?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics