Its a weird one. My partner and I have been together for 6 years, always gotten on well with his parents. We don't see them much, as its a fair drive, but will go round when we can. Everything has always been friendly, and they've treated me well, always remember my birthday etc. I chat to his mum regularly. I thought we had a good relationship.
Before Christmas we rescued a 15 month old rescue dog. He was originally rescued in Romania as a pup, adopted by a family in the UK who had to give him up. We went through a shelter charity to do this, had a virtual home check, paid the fees etc and eventually met up with his current family and brought him home. The whole process took around a month, and hes doing really well. We aren't sure what he's mixed with, but we think possibly a rottweiler and a husky, so as you can imagine hes quite a big dog. He's a very sweet natured boy, needed some training (mainly some manners while walking, not pulling his lead and getting a little excited when he sees other dogs), but we've been putting a lot of time in and hes really improving.
I kept my MIL informed of the whole process, she likes dogs and knew we wanted one for a while, so she was as excited as us, sent photos and info about him. We went over for Christmas Dinner so they could meet the dog. He was really well behaved (other then pulling on his lead on a walk), they seemed to like him, even brought him some Christmas presents. I thought we all had a really nice day.
Now heres where it gets a bit strange. Boxing day they called my partner and asked if he was on his own to speak to. Basically they called him to say we should get rid of the dog, because he "looks dangerous", he could be agressive, he might bite someone (this is all based on how he looks). Then the conversation moved on to how I was awful for forcing him to sleep on the sofa (he casually mentioned we were getting a new sofa bed, as he has periods of really bad night terrors and restless legs, to the point he's actually hit me (not his fault at all). We don't have a spare room, so we've gotten a sofa bed so one of us can sleep downstairs if its bad. He hasn't sleept on the sofa in months because it seems to have settled down recently). They've also decided we must be in debt because we got them nice Xmas presents (we aren't) The conversation ended with them telling him that he can move home any time, and asking him not to fall out with them. He basically told them everything was fine, the dog is fine and we aren't getting rid of him.
We haven't heard from them since. He text them to say happy new year, and got nothing back. His birthday is coming up soon, and his mum would usually speak to me about it, but nothing. I have an awful feeling that they won't even wish him a happy birthday.
I wouldn't usually get involved, but my heart is breaking for him. He doesn't have any other family (they fell out with them too 🙄) and he said to me the other night, how he has noone now. Im completely baffled by it all, its come out of nowhere. I want to text them, but also don't want to make anything any worse. I know its affecting him more then he's letting on, the night terrors are back with a vengeance since this all started. Im so confused, have everythings been fine for 6 years, now all of a sudden they don't like our dog so they've cut their only son out their life?