Comments:

wordwhore - 2008-06-09 17:03:03
Rock on, supportive dad, rock on!
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catsoul - 2008-06-10 00:06:05
I thought I only had issues with my parents. You and your wife aren't alone. Stand strong together, and by being there for your daughter and her fellow, she will remember this forever! It does help to put it down in words. =^..^=
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fightn4life - 2008-06-10 01:50:04
Wow, I wish I had a dad that stood up for me instead of the things he says. Oh well I have my mom who always has my back. :) You rock dad, take care of your little girl, hold your ground. Sandyz
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Brin - 2008-06-10 07:11:34
YOU are the parental units and YOURS is the only opinion that matters. Bravo!
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Kathy - 2008-06-19 15:45:22
Can I provide just a little bit of insight that perhaps something else might be going on? I seem to remember a young married couple that was getting help from both sets of parents while they were still both in school and later on, the impression (don't believe it was ever voiced but maybe it was) was that the husband's parents regretted giving the financial help because the young couple weren't "standing on their own feet providing for themselves". I'm being very vague here - trying to avoid spreading around the past and all. Do you think maybe there is some old baggage going on here? I have also been of the opinion for decades that perhaps that young couple should not have married - at least not at that time, and have only lived together. It might have saved both of them some painful times later on. Just a thought...
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Kathy - 2008-06-19 15:48:53
Oh, and by the way. I TOTALLY support you and your wife's stance on this. I wish they could change. My other half's Mom is very fundamentalist but has "tolerated" her brother's long time girlfriend living together for 12 years. They are purchasing a house together and in every way are married - just don't have the paper. She has quietly voiced and is praying for them to "stop living in sin" but welcomes them both and loves them both. Whatever happened to "loving the sinner but hating the sin"? Totally supportive of you guys on this. And in everything else that you have chronicled in the past years. There has been solid parenting going on for sure
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