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Tue 25 Jun, 2024 05:20 am
Me and my wife have been married for 6 years.
For context, my mother has never been in my life 100 percent. She is been in and out of prison for reasons I am not gonna talk about here.
At some point, when I was 12, me and my 2 brothers moved in with my aunt and uncle. My uncle is my mother's brother.
Ever since I moved in with them, I haven't talk to my mother since.
She is been in prison up until she got out recently and somehow she got my email and tried to contact me multiple time but I ignored her.
I never talked to my wife about my mother and my relationship issues with her because it's really none of her business and in general, I don't like talking about these things and generally don't like being vulnerable at all. Over the years I became stoic and generally refuse to ever confide in anybody.
But recently my wife started to ask about my mother and wondered if she tried to contact me. I told her that she did in fact try to reach out to me to basically apologize to me for not being in my life and making the wrong life decisions but I ignored her and don't want anything to do with her.
But weirdly my wife told me that I should at least try listening to my mother and give her a chance but I was annoyed at my wife's lecture and told her specifically to stay out of it and its none of her business and it's easy to lecture me when she had it easy with her parents, grew up in a wealthy family and fed with a gold spoon and spoiled all her life.
At the end of last week, my mother tried contacting me again. I did answer but I only wanted to ask how she got my email and I told her to stop trying to contact me.
She later told me that she was able to chat with my wife on her Facebook and my wife gave her my email.
That made me furious and I barged into the living room where my wife was at and I snapped and yelled at her and asked her why TF did you give my email contact to my so called mother ??? My wife stuttered and said she was hoping to help me reconcile with my mother but I yelled even louder and told her she can f*** off with that s*** !!! If you want to be on this crackheads side, she can move the f*** out and move into the roach infested apartment she lives at. You deserve each other !
My wife responded with "what is wrong with you ?
I responded with " what is wrong with me ??? You f***ing idiot. How dare you give my email to this trashy woman ??? I f***ing you hate !
Now we've been silent with each other. It really pisses me off that she went behind my back to give my email info to my estranged mother and now she acts like I am the bad guy for flipping out.
Yesterday she tried to apologize but I know she doesn't mean it. What should I do ? Should I get a divorce?
@Ashleynate,
Are you NOT AWARE that you can BLOCK others email addresses?
AS for your well meaning wife? Her motives seemed quite well meaning and not deserving of your hellfire reaction.
No. 1: Your wife really shouldn't have gotten involved. She needs to apologize to you and show she understands she needs to stay out.
No. 2: Your reaction was way over the top. Completely uncalled for. You owe your wife an apology and you should get into an Anger Management course.
I understand you're angry and bitter about your upbringing, but you have found someone to love and to love you and cherishing that should be a high priority for you.
Sit down and set some boundaries/guidelines together. But you both need to apologize.
@Mame,
Agree with this. Your wife was wrong, but your comments were so over the top and really cruel and hurtful. She made a mistake and as such it should have been a discussion item. Have you ever made a mistake with her? Did she react as you did?
You obviously have much unresolved anger with your mother that is causing you to strike out in this way. You might benefit from talking with a therapist as it is impacting your relationships. I am not saying you should not be angry with your mother or you should try to reconcile with her, but you don't want how poorly she treated you to continue to impact your life and well being. You should want to be free of her and that is to also not how she treated you to trigger an over the top angry response.