By Ordinary-Humor-8196 • Score: 141 • April 13, 2025 11:46 PM
Well, it hasn't even been 24 hours yet and I'm back with an update!
If you want to read my original post, check here.
My wife came home pretty close to midnight for us, atter being at a mutual friends house all night after she got off of work and my daughter was sent upstairs to her room. We had a pretty long and honestly pretty emotional talk. She made it clear to me that she wasn't choosing her parents she's just as appalled as I was and she ultimately decided to cut off contact with her parents. The reason she was hesitant to cut off her parent's completely, was because she's pregnant with our second kid. She's about 7 weeks pregnant and only found out early last week. She wanted to surprise me on my birthday, which is coming up, but realized now she probably should have told me. She said she was worried how difficult it would be to raise a kid with our full work schedules and without much of a support system so she was scared to cut her parents off, but after talking with me before leaving to clear her head, and talking to our mutual friend, she said she knew she had to cut off her parents, she was just scared. I told her we will figure it out together and that, despite not having my parents around anymore and her parents being cut off, we will figure it out. I told her I will pick up extra shifts for money and we will do whatever we need to, to esure we have the help we need. Even if that means moving to a new state to be closer to my brother. She has siblings here too, but they're the type who "stays out of politics", even if that's a detriment to society. So much so, they chose to not vote. I don't know how much help they'll be when they see all of this as just "politics".
In the morning, we sat down with out daughter and made it clear to her, in no uncertain terms, that she shouldn't be talking like that. That, in no way, is hateful words like that okay. She was scared that she was in trouble and we told her she's not, she just needs to not speak like that. She said she didn't know what they mean, just that her grandparents talk like that and didn't know it was so bad.
We also called her parents and informed them that we will no longer be speaking to them, and that they have crossed the line with feeding these hateful, bigoted words to our daughter. They told us to "grow up" and "stop being snowflakes" and that it's "better for my daughter to learn now that these homos will all burn in hell" but my wife just got so angry she hung up on them, and blocked their numbers. She's been getting calls from new numbers and even her siblings these last few hours saying that we Shouldn't have cut off her parents over "a minor disagreement" to which My wife told her it wasn't a "minor disagreement", they were actively feeding pur daughter hateful things. Her siblings chose to instead suggest a "family intervention", but my wife told them she doesn't want them around our daughter, or our new bundle of joy. To which her siblings tried to quickly change the subject to the new baby, and acted like nothing ever happened but my wife wasn't having it.
We're unsure of whether or not to tell our daughter that she "won't be seeing Grandma and Grandpa" for a while, or if we should wait a bit. She's worried that we're mad at her and that we're mad at Grandm and Grandpa, and it's honestly heartbreaking. We're honestly pretty unsure of what to do.
We're going to talk to her teacher and the principal tomorrow after school. She was only there yesterday for tutoring, so the only people there were her teacher and the principal.
So Reddit, what should I do? I told my wife about the post, and she did read the comments (Even the ones that painted her not so favorably.) but she agreed that, cutting off her parents are for the best.
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