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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be absolutely unacceptable to me if my DH gave one of our kids the silent treatment like that . That is bullshit. It's rude, immature, and just a shitty way to treat someone you supposedly love. If behavior like this was part of a pattern, I'd have a serious talk with DH. And the talk would go something like: You have no relationship with your father because he treated you exactly like you are treating our DD. I will not tolerate behavior from you that threatens our future relationship with her. So get your shit together and stop acting like an asshole. If you can't do that, our marriage is not going to survive.

I had a talk like this with my own DH several years ago. I was dead serious, and it finally got his attention. He made some significant changes in his parenting, although parenting our teen DS1 was never easy for him. But he did better, I counseled DS1 behind the scenes,  (helping him see when he needed to apologize, be more respectful, etc --I think DS listened to me because he knew that i didn't always take DH's side, so when I said to DS, "Well, you're right, Dad shouldn't have lost hs temper, but you were very rude. I do think you owe him an apology," DS often took my advice), and we were able to get through DS1's adolescence with their relationship in reasonable shape. But i did feel like i was parenting DH as well as DS sometimes. DH just did not have a good parenting model, so I had to provide one.[/quote]

Nice story bro.  :roll: [/quote]

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