My mother-in-law passed in June and my father-in-law met another woman. They've been dating for 2 weeks and he wants her to move into the house that he has yet to sleep in b/c it reminds him too much of my mil. He feels as though he deserved to be happy and in his mind as much as he loved my mil their relationship was emotionally over YEARS ago. Well, his 7 children, daughter/son-in laws, and grandchildren are a little upset with all this being that it's the holidays and our first x-mas without her. It's also a little disturbing about the moving in after only 2 weeks of knowing her thing.
This is how I feel. As much as it'll hurt to see him with someone else we need to all understand that she will NEVER take the place of their mother and he does need to live his life and be happy. I also feel like this is way too rushed and way too soon. We've asked to keep her away until after the holidays. He said okay that he understood, but keeps asking if we changed our minds b/c he wants her to meet us.
Jesse's pretty quiet about this, but what he does say is that he never wants to meet her and she's never allowed in our house. He also said that if she shows up for x-mas at his brother's house, we're leaving. I feel the same way about leaving for x-mas.
We'll be too emotional to begin with and bringing her there will just be like pouring salt on a wound.
What do you guys think? Has anyone experienced this? This is hard!