Ask Amy: Mom yearns to share sons’ news with her ex
Dear Amy: My adult sons are so estranged from my ex-husband that neither invited him to their weddings.
While I still have difficult feelings toward my ex, I try to have some level of civil interaction with him.
He often asks for updates as to what our sons are up to and how they are doing.
He is their father, and it seems to me that he has a right to know at least a bit about what is going on in their lives.
Is it inappropriate for me to share general information, such as buying a house or changing jobs or is that something that only they should share?
Since they want no contact with him, without some information from me he would have virtually no knowledge of them.
While I do hope that at some point my sons' feelings toward their father will soften, I have never pushed them to have more interactions with him.
Still, it does seem sad to me that he should not be able to have any knowledge of what is going on in their lives.
He rarely tries to contact them, although I know he has reached out in the past.
I don't pass along anything I would think of as a confidence. But sharing some basics doesn't seem wrong to me.
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