Why would someone do this? They have deliberately alienated their son AND their grandchildren. I've never understood people who do that.
It's not a huge leap to think that there's something about the girlfriend/wife that the family don't like and what they were hoping was that by alienating her, their son (the boyfriend/husband) would drop her like a hot rock.
What they didn't count on was boyfriend/husband sticking up for girlfriend/wife and taking her side.
My personal suspicion is that whatever it is they don't like, it's something relatively minor (tattooes or piercings, perhaps - or maybe just the fact that she has an allergy?) as opposed to major (race, religion) because the latter is likely something the husband would have had an idea about ahead of time.
I get that some people do that, specifically try to alienate their offspring's romantic choice in hopes that they will cling to their parents instead of their spouse/partner/whatever. What I can't connect with is the philosophy of that. I mean, it might work sometimes, but mostly not. It's awful risky and usually just ends up alienating the offspring as well.
But even then, even if someone tries this and it backfires, why wouldn't they immediately back off and apologize? Is it really better to lose all contact with your child than to go ahead and grin and bear it and accept the mate?
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