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DH giving DS7 silent treatment

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Simplestar · 12/01/2024 20:25

Ok this morning DS ignored DH whilst he was talking and instead walked off, the whole day has past DS has been at school DH been at work 8pm on the evening and DS asking DH a question over and over calling him and he is just ignoring him totally can 100% hear him but choosing to just not say a word back, to me this is very wrong or is he right after DS ignored him this morning?! To me silent treatment is just horrible!

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PaperDoIIs · 12/01/2024 23:33

Simplestar · 12/01/2024 23:23

@PaperDoIIs i really cannot remember i just know DH called DS and he carried on walking into his room I don’t even know what he was calling him for I was busy getting everything ready for school but he called him once it is not like he called him numerous times and got ignored and he did not follow him into his room to say what he wanted to say

Oh Jesus. That makes the whole thing even worse.

So your (grown arse) DH stewed for a whole day, deliberately tried to upset DS and make him feel rejected and left out (the shopping) , then deliberately ignored him for a significant amount of time in an act of revenge? Over something that your 7 year old son might've not even done intentionally ?

MahShinyShoes · 12/01/2024 23:33

Let your DH know he's crossed a line and this behaviour towards your kids will not be tolerated.

He's an adult playing power games with a 7yo & it's horrible.

Aria2023 · 12/01/2024 23:40

This makes me really sad. I have a son the same age. To punish a 7 year old all day by (ridiculously) doing to them, what he's angry they did to him, is spiteful and horrible. He should be modelling the behaviour he wants to see in his son, not mirroring the behaviour he dislikes FFS! No 7 year old deserves for an adult to hold a spiteful grudge and drag it out all day.

If my dh did this to our son, it would diminish my love for him. He sounds horrible.

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Daffodilsandtuplips · 12/01/2024 23:47

Simplestar · 12/01/2024 23:13

He does things out of spite DS always goes to do the food shop with him whenever he goes, and after DS had ignored him he said to our 2 year old are you going to come shopping with daddy, (even though they wouldn’t be going until the evening) clearly just wanting DS to hear and ask him if he can go probably just so he can ignore him back! But DS didn’t hear.. so when DH has called through the day I asked why DS wasn’t going shopping with him he said hecause he ignored me this morning. so he has dragged this on all day, until after work when he went shopping with 2 year old and then got back waited until DS spoke to him and couldn’t wait to ignore him!! He really is so pathetic and childish I am so angry

It needs pointing out to him that he’s an abusive arsehole, the child is 7, not 27 and I wouldn’t tolerate this. Ignoring him and giving him the silent treatment is cruel. This behaviour will only get worse as the child gets older unless it’s stopped now.

GrazingSheep · 12/01/2024 23:50

Your poor child.

LightSpeeds · 12/01/2024 23:52

Long term this will damage your child. You need to put a stop to it.

Nowanextraone · 13/01/2024 08:43

I'm 39 years old and still have regular therapy after a childhood of silent treatment.

Superscientist · 13/01/2024 10:00

Does he pull this shit with other people? I'm trying to work out if is the way he is and "just" some misguided logic of parenting. Either way he is an arsehole but if it's the former it will be hard to persuade him to change.

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