Dear AprilAngel:

It is a shame that your partner’s parents and family are so… uninvolved with their own four grandchildren, not to mention them not acknowledging and not respecting the mother of their four grandchildren. This very fact is indicative to … what would be the correct words… heartless nature, their heartlessness.

It is also a shame that your partner takes their side and is not standing by you, his family of choice: partner and four children.

I wish you and him didn’t argue, especially not in front of the children. Children suffer so much when watching their parents argue or otherwise show aggression toward each other. Children are damaged by aggression at home, be it verbal or otherwise.

Do you have plans for the future, from having more children or not, to moving elsewhere with your partner, away from his parents… attend couple counseling, anything?

anita