My parents think I’m unfair to them
Honestly I don’t even know where to start with this, I’m confused as all hell.
Background: my spouse and I have been together for nearly 6 years, married for just over 1 year and we have a little girl who is 20 months old with one new baby on the way (due in September).
My parents live in another province that is with HIGH numbers of cases of COVID-19, over 30,000.
They want to come see the baby a few weeks after they are born.
Our province (mine and spouses) has very low numbers for Covid-19, no more than 315.
My mother is in her early 50s and my father is mid 50s, my father is bringing in most of the money with his own business. My mother has been having health issues and has had to get blood transfusions to try to fix her iron levels.
My mother also has asthma and is epileptic, so she would be more of a risk to get and die from COVID-19 possibly.
With COVID-19 being a concern, I told them I didn’t want them flying or driving out to see baby as they would have to quarantine for two weeks after entering the province and we would have no room in our home to have them stay with us. So it would be a bunch of money wasted on their end.
I want to protect my children as much as I possibly can, and with my mother being a higher risk I don’t want to see her contract the virus and possibly not survive it and spread it to my father.
When I told them I didn’t think it was a good idea for them to visit this year due to everything going to hell, they told me that they were “done talking about this” and how it “wasn’t fair” to them.
They are extremely upset with me and I don’t know what to say or do at this point. I feel like the bad guy for wanting to keep my kids safe as much as possible.
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.