Flash Forward
6-17-2013
Dear Grace: I talked to my mom last night. She tells me that it has been so very long since you have allowed the kids any contact with them—or any of the family it would seem. Even Scotty has been barred from talking to his own siblings!
Oh, Grace, my heart breaks that you are doing these things as though our kids have not been hurt enough. Why do you compound the hurt? What on earth can you hope to achieve or gain by cutting the kids off from their grandparents who love them and want only for them to be happy?
Do you thank your mother for the same thing? Why are you creating a repeat of your own resentment of your mother? I just don’t understand your seeming need to create strife.
But that’s not within your control forever Grace. The kids grow nearer and nearer to adulthood and, unlike your fathers family, my kids will find that their fathers family and their father have been waiting with excitement for that day—and you must know that there is a good chance that they will realize that it was you who stood in the way—it was you who made them feel abandoned and, no doubt—it was you who lied to them.
One day Grace, I will be released, and though the law may prevent my contacting my children until they are adults, they will all be adults by my out date and I will devote my life to rebuilding my relationship with them. Don’t you think for one second I will ever give up on that goal. The question is Grace, what will be better? To know their father and his family love them now or to find out later that their mom prevented them from knowing? How do you suppose that will work out?
momofaninmateson 