Dear Son,

I do not think I have told you enough how proud I am of you for volunteering to serve your country.  However, your treatment of me is something I am not proud of.

You still continue to treat me with disdain, and disrespect.  I am doing my best to support you and your decisions and you refuse to acknowledge my efforts.  Your wife, someone I have never met, treats me with more respect than you do.  Returns phone calls, and texts when you fail to do so.  Now you are having your own baby.  My grandchild.

You are bringing another family member into the world, and the behavior you will model in front of your own child, will be one that will not teach him/her to respect their own parents.  As you continue to disrespect me, you child will grow up thinking that this is okay behavior toward parents, and you run the risk of having your own child treat you and your wife, in much of the same manner that you currently treat me.

A simple thank you for the things I bought the baby the other day, would have meant the world to me.  Replying to my last text message would have been wonderful.  I want nothing more than to show you that I love you and support you, yet you still keep those lines of communication closed.  It is shame, that the only way I can speak to you is on my blog.

I love you!

Your Mother