I'm having a rubish day today,, after many years of problems, DH and I might divorce and... my father rang last night after midnight to tell me he was very upset at the thought that I could be blocking MIL (who is almost a legend in Mumsnet) from seeing DS. It took me 45 min to convince him I was not blocking MIL from anything but, if her son didn't want to spend time with her, I was not going to be insisting him for us to go and visit her particularly after the way she has acted towards us.
Nightmare, it's not that I had expected some support because I'm getting divorced... but I never expected this.
My mother has also told me not to expect any support from them, as her parents divorced and she is convinced that if her grandmother had not been so "helpful" when her mum separated from her father, she wouldn't have left the marriage.
My sister told me last week that I was a selfish person as "as a wife, I was not here to change the world but to conform and submit to DH's needs". (she is a 1930's model and well proud of it)
Holy... I am remembering why I spent so much time out of the house when I was living with them.
Today I feel lonelier than ever.