I Am Bitterly, Bitterly Disappointed': Retired Naval Officer's Email

[bonnie]

I Am Bitterly, Bitterly Disappointed': Retired Naval Officer's Email To Children

This is the full email that retired Royal Navy officer Nick Crews sent to his son and two daughters in February expressing his and his wife's disappointment in them.

Dear All Three

With last evening's crop of whinges and tidings of more rotten news for which you seem to treat your mother like a cess-pit, I feel it is time to come off my perch.

It is obvious that none of you has the faintest notion of the bitter disappointment each of you has in your own way dished out to us. We are seeing the miserable death throes of the fourth of your collective marriages at the same time we see the advent of a fifth.

We are constantly regaled with chapter and verse of the happy, successful lives of the families of our friends and relatives and being asked of news of our own children and grandchildren. I wonder if you realise how we feel — we have nothing to say which reflects any credit on you or us. We don't ask for your sympathy or understanding — Mum and I have been used to taking our own misfortunes on the chin, and making our own effort to bash our little paths through life without being a burden to others. Having done our best — probably misguidedly — to provide for our children, we naturally hoped to see them in turn take up their own banners and provide happy and stable homes for their own children.

Fulfilling careers based on your educations would have helped — but as yet none of you is what I would confidently term properly self-supporting. Which of you, with or without a spouse, can support your families, finance your home and provide a pension for your old age? Each of you is well able to earn a comfortable living and provide for your children, yet each of you has contrived to avoid even moderate achievement. Far from your children being able to rely on your provision, they are faced with needing to survive their introduction to life with you as parents.

[Liz]

Is this for real? How did a private email become public? On another note what a dysfunctional family.

[bonnie]

Is this for real? How did a private email become public? On another note what a dysfunctional family.

How it became public I have n idea.I would assume from the father

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9...en-in-full.html

What is described is all to true of a great many families and is getting worse

[Guest]

So the kids became democrats. I can understand the frustration.

:)

[bonnie]

So the kids became democrats. I can understand the frustration.

Sure glad we don't have any of that persuasion