Dh still owns the home he shared with ex and ex daughters (my term..it fits). Too many weekends we spend there on the pretense he needs to do work on the house. Thankfully the pack is long gone now........they used to all live in the same town.
My children are now all late teens so it is a hard sell to get them there. I feel like I sit and read in a strangers house while dh works around the house. I have zero interest in it and dh knows it, yes, but does not understand why I dislike it and the town. He tells me it is just a house, yet if that is the case? What is his own reasoning?
Too many times we run in people who ask about the ex daughters, even being so cheeky as to demand why dh has not apologized to the cretins???!!!!! So this weekend dh takes me out to local diner and he starts a lengthy conversation with young man .......turns out it was ex oldest daughter's high school boyfriend.......the one who treated her well and she crapped on. Very very telling........he finally asks dh....." Do you have contact with the girls?" Dh admitted no, but it registered with me that even before all the court stuff.....it was very bad! Why would someone assume you do not have contact with your child? I mentioned it to dh and he did not pick up on it. He did admit that in high school, ex dsughter had attacked him several times.........clawing, kicking and biting him. I was so so tempted to tell this young man how lucky he was!!! He truly missed a bullet that would have given him a lifetime of hurt!