u/Impossible-Bid-3073

It's been a long winter and just starting to get warm where I live so I just saw my son shirtless for the first time in a few months.

And at one point he lifted up his arm a bit and I noticed he had underarm hair. Not even a few hairs. A full on tuft of it.

It kinda made me sad? I know that's probably bad to say. He's just my sweet little boy but every day he's starting to look more and more like a full grown man. Any other mom's struggle seeing their sons grow up?

I mentioned it to my husband. He said he can understand why I might feel that way but please don't be awkward around him because puberty is hard enough without him thinking his parents are weirded out by his changing body.

I totally agree and will try to remain as calm as I can and still treat him the same and all that. I know its normal and its just something I need to get used to. Just wondering if I'm the only one out there that feels like this.

My son is 18, I'm his dad. Not going to go into all the details of his accident, but he's in the hospital now. Was pretty worried there for a minute, but it appears he will make a full recovery. Me and my wife (his mom) visit him often of course.

Yesterday we get there pretty early. He's acting a little awkward and wants to speak to me alone. When he gets me alone he says he had a little "accident" overnight. I say not a problem I'm sure the nurses are used to that, we can all get him cleaned up.

Then he says "its not pee." I get his drift, he had a wet dream. Apparently all his nurses are women and he doesn't want them to see it and think he's weird or that he did it on purpose. I tell him they will understand, they see all kinds of stuff.

He wants me to help him clean up so they don't find out. Not exactly excited about this but I understand so I track down some wet wipes and help clean him up down there. Not to get too graphic but it's started to dry in his hair down there and stuff so I have to spend more time than I like cleaning, but I try to remain calm for his sake. He consented and I make sure not to touch his privates with my bare hand, always having the wipe as a barrier.

After everything is done I get my wife. She's obviously wondering what's going on so I tell her but of course I say not to say anything about it to him as he's embarrassed.

She asks why he did that. I explain to her it wasn't on purpose, it can happen in a guys sleep. She says she doesn't see why his body would worry about doing that if he's hurting and with everything else going on. I say I don't know, it just happens sometimes. Then she wonders if it didn't happen while he was sleeping and maybe he did it on purpose. I tell her in his condition I feel that's the last thing on his mind and especially if he knew he'd need help cleaning up why would he do that.

She says I should've just gotten the nurses to handle it, that it wasn't appropriate for a parent to be involved in something s-xual like that. I said it wasn't s-xual, it was a natural bodily reaction. She said it's a s-xual fluid, therefor its inherently a s-xual situation and I should've left it to the professionals. I told her it was a guy thing so he wanted my help and I'm his parent so of course I'm going to help him.

I tell her if she's going to act like this and not be supportive of our son during this time, she should just go home. Then she gets all mad at me. AIO?