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To not invite my parents to our wedding

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Fluffycows · 30/01/2018 10:40

My parents have been divorced about twenty years , my mum married a horrible controlling agressive man who I wont see, my dad married a lovely woman who does not really want to see us or have us in her house . My dad only visits to see me even though I offer weekends so he can see my two young children he only picks week days when they are at school and then only really visits to drop off biryhday or christmas gifts , his parenting style is distant at best .my mum loves my kids but travels by bus to visit when she can , but now her husband is moving her too far away for her to visit ad neither of us drive and I dont want my children in her husbands house . My friends have always been there for me as have my partners parents who are amazing . I want to invite his parents and my friends but not my parents at all is this unreasonable? . My dad also said when children get to a certain age he does not know where to look talking about me and my siblings growing up. Suppose I feel angry for their lack of help and care .

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Fluffycows · 30/01/2018 15:57

Suppose I am trying to protect her a bit from him by not shutting herself off from her family and friends but I know I will loose her again soon ive lost her before for years and years she only started visiting when I had children. Past hurts I suppose , forgiveness is tricky but I have salvaged what I could and made a relationship with her again

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Hissy · 30/01/2018 16:06

Your mum chucked you under the bus when it suited her, now she's living with a controlling twat. She comes to see you to get away, and probably so she can tell others she sees you.

Your dad too buggered off when it suited him. they should have been prosecuted for what they did!

My dad does a GREAT job of ticking boxes at the golf club. Flew out to see my sister and her baby (8 hour flight), spent the night he got there, the whole day the next day shopping and saw her for 2 hours and then left, then flew back to the UK. My sis was completely Confused

My mother would be the first to come and see me, but again only on her terms and I needed anything she'd run a million miles in the opposite direction.

Why are YOU the one agonising? they didn't when they left you and your siblings!

If you can't tell them the uncomfortable truth, then just invite your mum on her own and your dad on his own to the evening. They wont' come, that will be their decision

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