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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So to recap: your husband was excited and really wanted to be a scout leader but you have never pressured your son, and he must definitely like it despite crying before every meeting.

You decide your son is jealous of your husband and purposely trying to make him feel bad and that is why he is crying regularly.

But you are all very kind to your son. Ok. [/quote]

+1  OP stop being so defensive and listen.  Your kid doesn't want to be coached by your DH in every single moment of his life.  Stop being so accommodating to your DH's ego that you ignore your kid's obvious needs.

The fact that your DH has been coaching soccer for a decade but your kid is only in 2nd grade is a massive red flag.  I have a BIL like this - played college football and can't let go of that being his identity so he started coaching kids.  By the time his own kids were old enough to play he had maneuvered himself into coaching some kind of "pre-pre-college-track" kids and couldn't give up the tenuous access to cachet to coach his own kids so he would miss his sons' games to coach these completely unrelated tweens.  It was BIZARRE and voluntary and 100% in service to his ego not to any children involved.  Same vibes.[/quote]

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