Im sorry to hear that your family is taking your marriage and beginning of a new family as a personal attack.
Whenever my mother calls our house a lot, my wife always recites Gen 2:24 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."
*Leave and Cleave*
While it does sound like your parents are being a bit dramatic with the whole "company" and abandon thing, in reality that is what marriage is. You can still care for family, but your priorities change to focus on your new family. Its not personal, its part of life.
Just curious, but were your parents and grandparents very close? Visit a lot?
This may also come from the mother-stepmother split. Its hard for any parent to think that they are not the only father/mother in their childs life. Especially if they think they are getting the short-end-of-the-stick.
My advice it sit down and talk with them. Listen to the way they feel and assure them that you love them no less despite not having the same involvement in eachothers lives.
I will be praying for all of you. ^_^
Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.
- J. Hudson Taylor
I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
