My cousin is my best friend and her 7 year old son is my godson and he is an adorable, well behaved and sweet child. The father and her broke up when her son was a year old and she since met another guy and married him.
I cannot stand the way that he treats her son. It is so apparent that he just sees him as an inconvenience. My boyfriend and I went out to dinner with them recently and we were all talking and her son butted in (as kids do) and her husband snarled at him "we are talking, wait your turn. or why don't you go play in the traffic?" WTF. My cousin always sticks up for her son and looks very hurt about these comments. But IMO it's unacceptable to allow this man to treat her son this way.
I have noticed her son seems shy and nervous all the time so I think it's having a permanent effect on him.
He also said "mummy can i please go to the toilet" and she said yes and as he walked off, the husband yelled "hey where do you think you're going?" her son stopped dead in his tracks and said "mummy said I could go to the toilet".
I could give many more examples of this. He was drunk at the time. It just hurts me to watch this defenseless child be treated like this. Im not even a kid-person but I love my godson and I cannot stand seeing children get hurt mentally or physically.
I dont know what to do about this situation. I feel that I should say something to her about it but I dont want her to crack it and not speak to me over insulting her husband. Plus he wears the pants in the relationship so I dont think it would make any difference.
There is a big age gap too. She is 28 and he is 51. He has no kids of his own.
He also asked what her son was doing when he touched his mum's arm WTF this guy seems jealous if she gives her son any attention.




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