Dear Queenie,
My father is an abusive bully with a very bad temper and my mother walked out and divorced him years ago and wouldn’t let us children see him for fear of what he might do to us if he got mad at us.
Now our father’s father, our grandfather, is making 100 years and our uncle, his other son, is throwing a big party for him and the whole family is invited, including us, and we are planning to go. If our father is there we will be polite and keep away from him.
But, Queenie, what do we do if he gets mad and makes some kind of scene?—Worried son
Dear Son,
Keep away from him and, if he even looks like he is going to do physical harm to anyone or anything, call the police, because that would be a crime in progress. Who knows? It might even be a wake-up call for your father to start learning to control himself better.
