RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION!

Your son gets divorced after nine years of marriage. During those nine years, you spent much time with the Grandkids. You feel like you partially raised them since you cared for them when they were sick so their Mother could go to work. You took them to school, participated in all the extracurricular activities, and lavished them with gifts, etc. Let’s say the divorce isn’t going smoothly, but you still get to see the kids some. As it turns out, the Mother gets sole custody with partial visitations every other weekend. As the bile increases, kids exchange is often done at your home with no words between the spouses. Say your son misses a child support payment. The tension builds, and then their Mother goes back to court and gets 100% custody, and by now, she is seeing someone else. After the divorce is final, she gets remarried, and all the while, she is terrible at mouthing your son to the kids and anyone who will listen, even though their Dad Loves them and wants time with them.

If you are lucky, she will still let the kids visit their Grandparents now and then but not with their Dad in your house. Your instinct is to feel deeply for your son and see the unfairness she is displaying. Enter Righteous. She is being unfair and mean to your son. The resentment builds and turns into Indignation, which is understandable.