She says her husband still trusted his parents until this. It took this blatant act to open his eyes. If his wife understood what kind of people they were than that man was practicing willful ignorance. He badly wanted to believe his parents were not horrible people. There’s another similar story in the replies. > I’m so sorry your husband has parents like that. I had a stack of letters too. My father turned down an offer from my top school while I was on a visit there, planning to sign on the dotted line. He met with the coach while I was hanging out with the athletes. My mother didn’t tell me either until much later. I thought I’d done something wrong. There were other chances that he ruined too, I got piles of letters, that was just the most unbelievable. He eventually ran out the clock and I ended up at my state university with no scholarships and loads of student loans (because he refused to give me any info for the aid paperwork so the school gave me zero aid). He was abusive in many many ways. There are a lot of horrible people in the world and unfortunately sometimes they are your parents. I think this story is more common among very talented people than we’d like to admit. The experience pushes you to achieve to escape it I think. At least it did for me. I think these parents feel inadequate at the thought of their kids achieving more than they did, so they deliberately hold them down. There’s another part to the first story. Someone said “Wait! I just zoomed in… HE WAS INVITED TO WEST POINT?!? 😱😱😱😱” > Yes. And instead joined enlisted, voluntarily (8 years later) and his mother drove herself 19 hours to object. But he’d already signed the papers. 💅 That is obsessive behavior. Her son may have been finished college by that point. She was hard driven to prevent him from achieving. He’s lucky she didn’t do something crazy like tell the recruiters he was mentally unstable or something.