A reader asks for advice on healing her relationship with her son who did not invite her to his wedding.
My son and I had a falling out a few years ago, right about the time he got engaged and was planning his wedding.
He accused me of not supporting him when he was growing up. He said I favored his sister and didn’t spend enough time with him growing up. He said that I did not give money for their wedding and that I was constantly negative. I don’t deny the negativity I was giving back when he was growing up; I was a young mother learning as I grew up with my children. I don’t deny that I could be pessimistic, but I look at it as being realistic.
However, I wasn’t even invited to the wedding, but his father was. Talk about a blow to the heart. My husband tried to be the peacemaker and talk to our son. He asked what I would need to do to get a second chance. I apologized for the things I said and did, but nothing seems to be enough. Instead, he was dancing with his grandma on his father’s side . We were included in some of the usual parental wedding things, but that was all. So our son has not spoken with us since then. Even then, it was strained. But the wedding was beautiful, and the celebration was very nice under the circumstances. --Your son has a lot of built-up hurt and resentment about his childhood and is taking it out on you.
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