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To want to see my parents without DB there...

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Cantaloupes · 27/11/2024 13:02

My parents spend every weekend with DB.

DB: lives alone, unemployed, single, no children, and has several MH issues including bipolar and psychosis. He is also autistic. He can see my parents any day of the week but "prefers" to go to theirs all weekend, where DM waits on him hand and foot.

So I either don't see my parents at all on weekends, or I see them with him there.

In all honesty, I never relax in his presence. He's been restrained and sectioned twice and spent many months on psychiatric wards and warden assisted accommodation in the past. I have 3 DC, two of them girls, and DB likes to stroke their faces and tummy and tickle them and it is just - well.. weird to watch and feels so inappropriate. When I raise this with DM she is so defensive and thinks I'm being nasty and accusing him of stuff. She says i'm uncaring and it's "ok" for me because I have DH and DC whilst DB has nobody.

AIBU to ask them to see me and my family separately to DB?

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MerryChristmasYaFilthyAnimals · 27/11/2024 13:17

Just invite to yours without him. It's their risk of ruining their relationship with their grandchildren if they don't come.
And I'd call him out every time he touched them inappropriately. It does sound creepy and not ok.

Cantaloupes · 27/11/2024 13:17

@toomuchfaff @Ace56

We hardly ever go round now. My parents house is quite small so it just feels crowded anyway with 8 people in it.

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Cantaloupes · 27/11/2024 13:14

@Nerdles i don't "let" him, he just did it so now DH intervenes and calls the girls over to him if they get too close to DB as it makes DH uncomfortable to watch too.

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Cantaloupes · 27/11/2024 13:12

@Dolphinnoises my parents come to us occasionally on weekends but either bring him too and/or it's a fleeting visit, because they want to get back to their house to make DB some food at a specific time because of his "routine".

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Ace56 · 27/11/2024 13:10

Yes, stop going over to theirs. Invite your parents to your house (without him) or invite them out (without him).

toomuchfaff · 27/11/2024 13:08

only way to go is to invite parents out, away from where he will be. Whether they will go is another matter.

Set your boundary and stuck to it.

Nerdles · 27/11/2024 13:05

Why on earth are you letting him " stroke their faces and tummy and tickle them"?

Dolphinnoises · 27/11/2024 13:04

His behaviour around your kids id enough reason not to go. Will your mum come to you?

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