Sharin' time

I was reading justrose on Monday March 14, a post entitled Resolved and I felt the need to share. JR was talking about her awful father-in-law and I could have sworn she was talking about my ex father-in-law! He was a horrible horrible man who really went out of his way to make me feel rotten. When Potsie and I told him we were going to get married he went off the deep end. Without looking at me once, he told me that I was poor white trash and not what he had raised his son to marry, that I should get my raggedy ass back to the other side of the tracks and never darken his door again. His mother then went on to tell me that I would provide them with crippled grandchildren because of my terrible genes and health. Through all of this, Potsie never said a word - not to me, not to his parents nothing. Finally I had enough and told Potsie to take me home and two days later I gave him his ring back and told him I couldn't marry him until he cut the apron strings. After about two years, we met up again and started dating and then he moved in. When his parents found out, they would ask him every time he went over if I had given him AIDS yet. Needless to say, I wanted NOTHING to do with them. Then I became pregnant with Katie - again they were not pleased when Potsie told them, they wanted to know if he was sure the baby was his. Things would have stayed at a stalemate except that Potsie's youngest brother (Potsie is the middle brother of 5 boys) was in a terrible car accident and has been in a vegetative state ever since. Katie was born and we heard not one word from his parents, when Potsie called to tell them she had arrived they were uninterested. Then his second youngest brother announced he was gay - suddenly there was no hope for more grandchildren and they were interested in Katie. I could have been a bitch and no one would have thought less of me but I didn't want to deprive Katie of her grandparents. I might not have liked them but they loved Katie passionately and she loved them. Potsie's father passed away two years ago and as much as I didn't like him, I felt for his mother as she seemed so lost without him. Potsie's mom even calls here occasionally to talk to Katie and we get along well enough without Potsie Sr. around. So needless to say I can sympathize completely with JR in her situation.

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