"Pure Love" offends sister-in-law

[SweetPea]

Your SIL is right and you were wrong. It’s their children, not yours, and only their parents can decide what’s suitable for their children.

When you have children of your own, I’m sure you’ll want to raise them the way you see fit, without unsolicited “helpful advice”.

 

[pnewton]

It wasn’t advice. It was a book. God forbid you should ever buy anyone a Bible as a gift.

 

[Nicole]

It seems bizarre to me. If you hadn’t given him the book in front of the Father, that would be different. But the other strange thing is the whole note on the doorstep thing. For goodness sake, pick up the phone and/or say something in person. Perhaps then one, she could’ve heard the whole story from your perspective and two, seen by your facial expression and tone that you were sincerely trying to help with a topic that had already been brought up in your presence.

It is her and her husband’s responsibility first and formost, but that doesn’t mean that she had the right to act like that in response.

Good luck,
Nicole

 

[bettyannmathers]

The sister-in-law was out of line. Her brother received the book with his son during the visit and if it was such an insult the brother, out of respect and courtesy to his sister, should have handled the problem himself. Maybe he would have been kinder.