Cricket.....about your son....look---our children, in general, are products of our very materialistic society. They often want lots of new...newer...shiny things so they can compete with the rest of this materialistic world. The closer they get to the teen years...the worse they get in this respect.
I am wondering if your husband often criticized you or made you the "black sheep" in the family? Did he scapegoat you? If he did....children are like little sponges that absorb and INTERNALIZE everything that they see in the environment. How they see the father treating the mother...is how they learn how to treat females. If it was o,k, for their dad to do...it must be o.k. for them, also....
This is just the question that first came to my mind.....
dandylion