LW, allow me to put this into terms your father will understand:
Grow up and grow a pair and tell your father that real men don't let Daddy dictate their life choices, and if he's not okay with that he's welcome to step outside so you two can settle your differences the manly way.
Well, that was fun. Seriously, though, if LW is seriously wondering if he should cave to his father's totally irrational and ludicrous demands about a thing which has nothing to do with him at all then he needs a lot more help than he can get from an advice column, and so does his poor wife. LW needs, at the very least, to sharply limit contact with his father and put the man on a serious information diet. If this man thinks he can forbid his son, a grown man from doing things then he he's got another think coming and this is only going to be solved with distance. Moving to another country would not be a step too far.
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Grow up and grow a pair and tell your father that real men don't let Daddy dictate their life choices, and if he's not okay with that he's welcome to step outside so you two can settle your differences the manly way.
Well, that was fun. Seriously, though, if LW is seriously wondering if he should cave to his father's totally irrational and ludicrous demands about a thing which has nothing to do with him at all then he needs a lot more help than he can get from an advice column, and so does his poor wife. LW needs, at the very least, to sharply limit contact with his father and put the man on a serious information diet. If this man thinks he can forbid his son, a grown man from doing things then he he's got another think coming and this is only going to be solved with distance. Moving to another country would not be a step too far.