Most of the time, when you marry someone, you’re signing up for a relationship with a set of in-laws. A second mother, father, the whole deal. Usually, if your spouse is on good terms with their family, you’re expected to show up with them to family events and actually emotionally invest yourself in them. If your spouse is fine with you keeping your distance, then that’s another story… but that’s usually the exception, not the rule.

If your spouse passes, are you expected to remain in the lives of your in-laws? It’s a case-by-case situation, but you probably wouldn’t if you didn’t keep a close relationship when your late spouse was alive.

So, why is it that the man in this next story expects his ex-mother and father-in-law to be grandparents to his new child with a new woman? The grandparents firmly state that they have no interest in the child’s life because it seems like the man is only doing this for selfish reasons. Honestly, what other way do you read this situation? He didn’t care about them when his wife was alive, so why should they care about a child who has no emotional connection with or obligation to them? Scroll to read.