Family

So I post status updates on Facebook, I tweet stupid things on Twitter, I also post updates about my son on Myspace -- but finally one of these has created a family crisis! I posted a status update after reading a troubling article that actually got us kicked out of my husband's family! Can you believe that!?

Okay so perhaps I went a little too far in my opinion. This is what I stated:

ME: If the government is going to cut the defense budget - I've got the best plan - just get rid of the Air Force altogether - the Air Force is no longer needed!! Let the original forces handle the business - the Air Force is a waste of money!!

Husband's Step-Mom: Wow! My family and I take great offense to this. Sorry you feel that way. You have made a lot of stupid comments on FB in the past but this takes the cake. You are a fool for putting something like this on here.

So after the step-mom-in-law posted her response she unfriended my husband, my daughter, and me! Then my husband's father called him and told him that because I've made one too many stupid comments on Facebook, they no longer wanted anything to do with us! SERIOUSLY?!!

Okay, so in the woman's defense her daughter was former Air Force and the daughter's husband is an Air Force Officer. In my defense, she should have asked what I meant by the statement, before she overreacted in such a drastic way! I just meant that if we absorbed the Air Force back into the Army - turned it back into the Army Air Corps, we could save money in the defense budget and possibly stop these military people from using out of date equipment! For example, the Air Force budget is HUGE - but they do not do anything special that no other branch of the military cannot do! They are downsizing all the branches, so they could just force the Air Force and Army to co-exist. We could then close down 50% of the Army bases and 50% of the Air Force bases, and save more money. The Navy/Marines/Coast Guard all share some bases. So why can't the Air Force and Army? That's all I meant by the statement. The United States of America could survive WWIII without the Air Force, it's the truth. The Air Force has never won or lost a war for America.

Again, this is all my opinion, and I never assumed that my opinion would get us kicked out of the family! The saddest part is, they didn't just cut me out - which I would have understood - but they cut my husband (their son) out of their lives and their two grandchildren! How crazy is that?

This is not the first time they've cut us off. Again, that was my fault when that happened too; well my fault in the way that I said something and my father-in-law disagreed with the facts that I said. That comment made my father-in-law offer my husband $10,000 to leave me - and the promise that they would hire a lawyer that would take custody of my daughter from me! My husband stood by me. Three weeks later they hunted us down and apologized for how they treated me and asked me to forgive them. I did, for the sake of my husband. So I asked my husband what happens in three weeks if they call and beg us again? He said that they could call all they want, that we weren't going to let this one go.

My heart is breaking for my husband. I know how difficult it is to have a father that agrees with everything his wife says, instead of his child. And I understand what it's like to be written off by said father. The thing my husband doesn't have in common with me, is that his father is still alive. My father died before he could make things right with me. I do not know how my husband will feel if the same thing happens to him. But I will stand by him, and I will hold his hand. I have never loved a person as much as I love my husband. His loyalty to me has been unwavering and I couldn't have asked for more in a spouse. He truly loves me, and for that I'm grateful!