Long story short, a few years ago my now ex-wife was cheating and my son caught them in the act. He told me and I’m now divorced with his mom. She’s with the other guy now. My son is 19 now and is in college
I know he has lost all respect and affection for his mom since then, but he’s tried his best to maintain a relationship I guess. I don’t really know much since we don’t talk about her when we spend time together. I’ve neither encouraged nor discouraged him to repair his relationship with his mother. In my opinion, he’s an adult and it’s his decision to make. I couldn’t care less either way since I have a great relationship with my son and that’s all that matters to me
Anyway, I get a call from my ex in tears yesterday that my son was very disrespectful to her. Apparently they got into an argument and he told her “The only difference between you and a whore is that a whore actually gets paid”. She threw a tantrum and starts accusing me of poisoning him against her and demanding he apologizes to her. I simply told her I’ll talk to him and hung up.
I talked to my son and his exact words were he “was sick of her hypocrisy and being morally lectured by an adulteress”. I told him that his mom called him and expects and apology. He said there’s no way he’ll apologize to her and if I’ll force him to do so. I told him that I’ll do no such thing since it’s not my responsibility to make sure he gets along with his mother and it’s his decision. He was very grateful
I suppose I could put my foot down and force him to apologize to his mother but then again it wouldn’t be a sincere apology anyway. Why should I potentially damage my relationship with my son for a person that cheated on me anyway ?
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