I'm proud of my son

[Vincenzo]

As the title suggests I am very proud of my son after an incident yesterday. When he was 12 and I realised how big he was going to become I told him if he ever laid a hand on his older sisters, mum or girlfriend / wife I would turn him into a Eunuch. He lives with his mother and while she was at work and he had just got home from Uni, there was a knock on the door. A young woman was cowering at the front door with blood on her face. She stated she was just bashed by her husband. Without hesitation he offered her to come in. Now, my son is 18y/o, 6' 4" and about 130kg. She is 4' 10" and yet was comfortable to enter the house.

He sat her down, cleaned the blood off her face and then called the Police. He got her a drink etc and sat and waited with her. He also rang his mother and I. When his older sister and I arrived, we found one very scared young lady but said she felt safe with my son. I rang the police again to see how long it would be before they arrived.

After waiting on hold for 6 minutes without speaking to someone I hung up. I asked the young lady if I could take her somewhere. She asked if I could drop her off at a women's shelter and I did so. I got a hug from her and asked to give one to my son. I think his mum told him how proud I was.

Now the bad part. My son hasn't spoken to me since Father's Day 2011. He played a practical joke on me which backfired. I said some things which I regret. Every time I have tried to apologise he wants no part of it. I apologise unreservedly for hurting him and that only makes him worse.

So, a couple of weeks ago we had a family barbecue. I told both my Daughters and my Ex I was going to end this once and for all. You may say this is really not that big but to me it is. At it's best I have only four years to live before my kidneys give out and that is so long as the s*it growing in my brain or my heart doesn't take me out first.

I crept up behind him and put my arms around him (not easy) and said "caught you". He then proceeded to head butt me, after the fourth one I lost it and punched him in the head. Needless to say I became the bad one.

Sorry to put this in writing to the forum but I have come to regard everyone as an extended family.