is it me or am i just expecting too much

[secretbargainhuntlover]

a bit of background

i have recently stopped speaking to my dad and packed in my job to look after my DS myself,my dad has been abusive mentally and emotionally and on a few occasions physically towards me, he has been all of these things and worse with my mum and brother

i stupidly let my mum and dad look after my DS while me and my OH were at work i thought things would "change" when DS came along

my ILs were great until the day we announced i was pregnant,since DS has arrived ILs have been awful,including not congratulating us when we got married and MIL telling me the horrendus birth i had was self inflicted

fast foreward 2 years,its DS s second birthday, ILs live and hour away,they have been up a few times this year and my DS doesnt no who they are,the last time they stayed with us was a year ago on his 1st bday

i feel so let down by both sets of parents,neither set have had DS over night or offerd just to take him out for the day,when we were last down at the ILS my BIL asked if they would babysit so we could go to the local, they let us sit there till 10 when DS finally went to sleep and not once sauid get yourselves out he ll be fine

sorry ive had a few drinks im just fed up of it all

Miserable bunch of people! I have this on my Ils side but my own parents are the total opposite so I am blessed really (and thank my lucky stars every day) - but having had a taster of how rubbish some relatives can be on one side of Ds's Gp's, I can well imagine how crap it would be if it was the full monty, as in your case!

Hope your hangover sin't too bad today. There (as you well know :( ) isn't anything you can do about it when life deals you a hand like this - but here is some sympathy and understanding that it is pretty shit and you are entitled to feel narked off about it from time to time!!

Hope you have some good mates and DP instead.