As a young man growing up, I didn’t have to deal with this. None the less, while reading this, I did have flash-backs to my youth.
This young woman mentions how they tried to act as if the two moms were just as good as a mom and dad, and that they didn’t need a man in their lives.
What I recall was being in situations with middle aged women who would sit there and trash men incessantly. It was their cause in live, or they just drew something out of this talk that gave them some satisfaction. As a young man, this was very disturbing to me.
I don’t mean that it caused me damage or anything like that, but it told me some very interesting things about what they thought about men just 15 years my senior.
Here I was listening two women who would soon hate me.
I would ask any women or men who venture off into conversations that might come under this category in some manner to please think before you say things in front of kids.
They may not say anything, but they’ll be listening and the thoughts they have won’t be in your favor.
Absolutely right. I am a woman who has been a listener to many such conversations. I’ve never contributed. I love and respect my husband and my sons and I would never trash them to anyone. I pity the husbands and male relatives of such women because they are bound to carry that animosity back to the marriage and family.