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In reply to the discussion: My daughter tossed a Trump Humper from a family gathering [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)sort of...years ago.
My youngest sister and her husband were going through a bad divorce. He had been betraying her for some time with kinky sex parties & such. She found out. By the time she found out, he had a gf...and he left her. It broke her and their two kids (about 11 to 13).
There was going to be a holiday get together at our father's house (he was married to someone else). I lived out of state, so one of them called me to tell me about the dinner and hoped I could come. I said I would. Then she told me that our sister's husband was going to be there.
What?...says I, shocked. She explained that they thought it would help the kids to have their father their. They wanted to be inclusive and make everyone happy, and be like it used to be.
So I told her that they could do what they want, and I would go. But there was no way that I was going to sit at the same table with that SOB and pretend that he hadn't done the things he'd done and crushed my sister. I told her not to worry...they could go ahead and eat, and I'd eat upstairs alone and not make trouble. But there was NO WAY I was going to break bread w/that assh*le. And that I didn't think it was helpful to the children for everyone to pretend there wasn't an elephant in the room and that things were still normal with their family...although none of my business.
Thank goodness they decided not to invite him, and I could eat at the table! Sometimes it take just one person to speak up.