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A mum has asked for advice after revealing she has ignored a family member for five years because they got her underage teenager drunk at a BBQ.
The shocked parent said she has been urged by their family to apologise to her sister-in-law despite believing she was the one in the wrong for giving her child alcohol.
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Writing into a family feud segment with Vanessa Feltz on ITV’s This Morning on Wednesday (1 March), the mum - who identified herself as ‘Lynne’ - said her child was only 12 years old when the aunt ‘gave them lots of alcohol’.
Lynne said she was forced for change her phone number three times because of the ‘harassing’ calls from her sister-in-law and her son following the BBQ incident.
“Five years have passed - she is now 73 and wants to see us,” the disgruntled parent wrote.
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The mum said that her husband still sees the family member but both she and the child, who is now aged 17, no longer want to. Their family believes the mum should apologise to the sister-in-law even through the This Morning viewer doesn’t believe she’s done anything wrong.
Vanessa immediately said the mum isn’t in the wrong for refusing to say sorry ‘when she didn’t do anything wrong'.
The broadcaster said it all boils down to whether the mum wants to ‘extend an olive branch after all these years’.
She added: “It’s about whether she wants to move on and it doesn’t look as if she does.”
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The TV personality also advised the distressed viewer to 'stick to her guns'.
She continued: "I think the sister-in-law really behaved incredibly badly.
"Harassing somebody day and night through phone calls is a revolting and disgusting way of behaving.
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"That's the status quo, you're fine without her, you don't miss her, and I don't think you have to do it as a favour to her either. Stick to your guns."
In other parenting news, one mum was furious when her 11-year-old daughter returned from a sleepover with a whopping 10 new piercings.
The mind-blowing situation was shared by the mum on Reddit who asked the internet for advice on the situation.
The mum said that her daughter had been invited along with three older girls - aged 13, 14 and 15.
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She then explained that like a lot of young girls, her daughter did have her ear lobes pierced, but she had given no indication that she was planning on getting more.
Now the mum is wondering whether she should ban her daughter from seeing the older girls she let her hang out with.
What do you think?
Topics: Life, Real Life, TV And Film, This Morning, Parenting
Gregory Robinson