Here's the story.
Her husband died last year. Her stepson (her husband's son and our grandson) is getting married and she was invited to attend the wedding. Her stepson visited his dad before he passed away and brought his fiancee to meet them and stayed with them a few days.
She planned to go to the wedding in a distant state just to honor her husband and be his representative at the wedding.
She is now informed that she won't be welcome there. Why? Because the biological mother of the groom and his sister gave him an ultimatum. If stepmother attends they will not. So her stepson is clearly being controlled by his mummy dearest and sister. I think that bodes very ill futurely. I think mummy dearest will call the shots futurely and if he caves now perhaps that will be the pattern. If I were the fiancee I'd be very worried.
Why am I sharing this? Because I'm so upset. It happened to our daughter-in-law who is dreading the one year anniversary of the passing of her husband, our son which is May 5. And she is smacked down like this. She is very hurt. I am furious though I know it's none of my dam* business. So here I am sharing it because I don't know what else to do.
I don't know the biological mother. I do know the sister and met her as a little girl when our daughter-in-law was taking care of her and her brother and being the only mother they had since their biological mother abandoned them. I am prejudiced. But what do you think? Once one is invited somewhere what is the protocol of disinviting him/her? What GOOD reason would there be? Thanks for listening.
