Anonymous wrote:My goodness. I can always count on DCUM's bitter people to be snarky. lol
Son OFTEN goes to places alone. He's an avid photographer. He's taken numerous classes in photography and many have offered to buy his photos. He refuses to sell them. He just loves taking beautiful photos.
My son isn't selfish. And I'm not a terrible wife or mother. Husband has been cruel to the whole family for many years. When I was very ill and bedridden, unable to cook for the kids, husband only made breakfast for the younger kids but not for our college aged son. He asked him to use his allowance money for food. It wasn't enough of an allowance for gas and food, however, and I was too sick to protest on his behalf at the time. My son still needed gas money to get to school and so was skipping meals. He lost about 8 lbs during that time.
Too many other cruel behaviors to get into and it's not worth discussing it.
I'm not sure what "greater autistic phenotype" is but I have wondered whether he might be somewhere on the spectrum in light of the many behaviors he's exhibited.
I still have younger children - so divorce is out of the question right now.
If you only want bum pats and to be told exactly what you want to hear why bother posting?
Your son is an adult it's not your job to manage his relationship with his dad.
He was not going to just watch fireworks alone or photographing them. He has a boyfriend or girlfriend that he doesn't want you to meet yet see the bit about him being an adult.
Staying together for the kids means you fake happy families so suck it up and entertain your husband for the kids