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I hate my boyfriends kid
I am a young woman in my 20’s and I am dating a man 14 years older than me for 3 years. He has 4 children and 3 of them all live in different states except for his 12 year old son. He was married to his son’s mother which ended in a nasty divorce and he took full custody of his son. He lives with his 44 year-old sister, his son and mom. His mom is in her mid-60’s and is obese. She takes a boat load of medication and due to her weight and needs assistance walking and traveling up and down the stairs. My boyfriend even gave her his kidney because she was on dialysis. Now here is the problem! The mom depends on him for basically everything and its kind annoying. She lays in the bed all day and watches t.v. and calls him throughout the day reminding him for food and other task I feel like his sister can do. I feel like she depends on him more like a husband than a child. She pays ALL of her bills by mail and he is responsible for sending them. Her eating habits are horrible! She eats a lot of fried, heavy and processed meals. She even has a seat in the shower because she can’t hold her weight. She light heartily criticizes my food because I’m young and cook healthy and it bothers me. Sometimes I come over with a plate for my boyfriend and he loves it. But he always takes some of my food to her room “As a stamp of approval” which pisses me off. (I don’t need her to taste my food, I know I can cook) As all couples do, we sometimes argue (not in her presence) and she makes it her business to comment on our relationship. He told me she said I’m the reason his blood pressure is high. I think she needs to mind her own business and not worry what her 40 year old son is doing.
The next issue is his son. He is 12 years old but acts like he’s 9. I understand some 12 year olds still play with toys after realizing IT IS NORMAL, but he is mean to my 5 year old daughter. My daughter and I sometimes come over and he gets really protective of his toys to the point I make sure my daughter has her own when we visit. My boyfriend will usually have to holler at him for him to act nice but I feel that at 12 years old it’s not necessary. One time he got so protective of his toys I just told him to give her some crayons and paper and he started being mean saying things like “Don’t run my crayons down” and snatched the paper from her because she coughed on it. There was even a time we left them alone for 5 minutes to bring up groceries and my daughter accused him of punching her (WHICH HE DENIED). That happened a month ago and that was the beginning of me really starting to dislike him. My baby is 5 and acts 5 and he will get irritated and try and go back and forth with her for doing things like sticking her tongue out at him or doing natural 5 year old things. My boyfriend realized he is jealous but the behavior isn’t changing its just a cycle. If we are cuddled together he will cuddle up on his dad’s side and “cockblock” and my boyfriend never says anything. Plus his son is just very immature for his age and just randomly says dumb **** I feel like he is too old to say. It sad because my boyfriend has done so much for me and genuinely cares for me. He has done more for me than my family and I want to work it out. He treats my daughter like his own and better than her own father. We plan on getting on out place but I don’t think I can deal with his son and I feel that his mom is going to be jealous too since she depends on him. Any Advice??
The next issue is his son. He is 12 years old but acts like he’s 9. I understand some 12 year olds still play with toys after realizing IT IS NORMAL, but he is mean to my 5 year old daughter. My daughter and I sometimes come over and he gets really protective of his toys to the point I make sure my daughter has her own when we visit. My boyfriend will usually have to holler at him for him to act nice but I feel that at 12 years old it’s not necessary. One time he got so protective of his toys I just told him to give her some crayons and paper and he started being mean saying things like “Don’t run my crayons down” and snatched the paper from her because she coughed on it. There was even a time we left them alone for 5 minutes to bring up groceries and my daughter accused him of punching her (WHICH HE DENIED). That happened a month ago and that was the beginning of me really starting to dislike him. My baby is 5 and acts 5 and he will get irritated and try and go back and forth with her for doing things like sticking her tongue out at him or doing natural 5 year old things. My boyfriend realized he is jealous but the behavior isn’t changing its just a cycle. If we are cuddled together he will cuddle up on his dad’s side and “cockblock” and my boyfriend never says anything. Plus his son is just very immature for his age and just randomly says dumb **** I feel like he is too old to say. It sad because my boyfriend has done so much for me and genuinely cares for me. He has done more for me than my family and I want to work it out. He treats my daughter like his own and better than her own father. We plan on getting on out place but I don’t think I can deal with his son and I feel that his mom is going to be jealous too since she depends on him. Any Advice??
You actually sound very childish and not equipped to handle any other individuals that may be in your boyfriend's life. And please understand, I'm am not saying this to be rude; this is what I perceive from some of the rather colorful language you use (cockblock,etc). It is probably for all parties involved that you leave now before you make everyone miserable.
One thing I have learned is that you will never be able to turn your boyfriend against his son OR mother, which it is clear that is what you want to do.
One thing I have learned is that you will never be able to turn your boyfriend against his son OR mother, which it is clear that is what you want to do.
If you haven't left him already, you need to sit down (just the 2 of you) and have a calm conversation about your feelings, and how you see the situation impacting your relationship. I can't relate on the child level, personally. However, I suggest planning dates that are just you and your boyfriend so that his son doesn't have the opportunity to feel jealous of a situation. That being said, if he plans time for just the 2 of you, he also needs to plan time for just him and his son. His child does deserve quality time with him, and having that may help him act out less when you and your child are around. His father also needs to explain to him the appropriate way to act towards a 5 year old. 12 year old boys are selfish in general, so him not wanting to share isn't uncommon.
Now, what I can relate to is the situation with his mother. My husband's father is a MAJOR thorn in our marriage. My father in law utterly despises anyone who does not sing his praises around the clock. Granted, I am NEVER mean to him, and will help him if he asks, I have no respect for him. He lies about EVERYTHING. No exaggeration. When he is confronted in his lies, he cries like a baby and blames his lying on other people. He depends on my husband for even the things he is physically capable of doing on his own. To top it off, he is diabetic and refuses to change any of his eating habits. He's already had things amputated. I've tried cooking healthy meals for him, meals my husband finds delicious, but my father in law will always find fault with them. Either it's: too cold, too hot, tastes burnt, not enough salt and pepper.... literally anything to criticize what I give him. Unless it comes out of a pizza box, it's crap to him. Keeping in mind that my husband and I do everything for him (literally the only thing we don't do is wipe his butt), there are still rumors going around town about us (me in particular) about how we are so cruel to him, And how we leave him to starve in dirty clothes. I work in the medical field, and his rumors have actually stopped me from getting a job I desperately needed, because they thought I wouldn't treat the patients well.
I finally told my husband I was tired of it and would be leaving him until he found a better solution for caring for his father. His father puts a ton of stress on our marriage, and we fight because of it. He confronted his father after I told him, and told him that his behavior was unacceptable. But it never should have gotten to that point. I felt like a horrible human being hearing him go off on his father. He said he wasn't willing to lose me over his dad, and things did get better for a while, but it's honestly just a repeating cycle these days.
In all honesty, I wouldn't have continued my relationship with my husband had I known the kind of troubles his father would cause for us. I love my husband more than anyone I've ever known, and I just cannot see life without him, so me saying that means a lot.
The above comments may be right about you needing to leave, but not because of you.
Now, what I can relate to is the situation with his mother. My husband's father is a MAJOR thorn in our marriage. My father in law utterly despises anyone who does not sing his praises around the clock. Granted, I am NEVER mean to him, and will help him if he asks, I have no respect for him. He lies about EVERYTHING. No exaggeration. When he is confronted in his lies, he cries like a baby and blames his lying on other people. He depends on my husband for even the things he is physically capable of doing on his own. To top it off, he is diabetic and refuses to change any of his eating habits. He's already had things amputated. I've tried cooking healthy meals for him, meals my husband finds delicious, but my father in law will always find fault with them. Either it's: too cold, too hot, tastes burnt, not enough salt and pepper.... literally anything to criticize what I give him. Unless it comes out of a pizza box, it's crap to him. Keeping in mind that my husband and I do everything for him (literally the only thing we don't do is wipe his butt), there are still rumors going around town about us (me in particular) about how we are so cruel to him, And how we leave him to starve in dirty clothes. I work in the medical field, and his rumors have actually stopped me from getting a job I desperately needed, because they thought I wouldn't treat the patients well.
I finally told my husband I was tired of it and would be leaving him until he found a better solution for caring for his father. His father puts a ton of stress on our marriage, and we fight because of it. He confronted his father after I told him, and told him that his behavior was unacceptable. But it never should have gotten to that point. I felt like a horrible human being hearing him go off on his father. He said he wasn't willing to lose me over his dad, and things did get better for a while, but it's honestly just a repeating cycle these days.
In all honesty, I wouldn't have continued my relationship with my husband had I known the kind of troubles his father would cause for us. I love my husband more than anyone I've ever known, and I just cannot see life without him, so me saying that means a lot.
The above comments may be right about you needing to leave, but not because of you.
Your a young girl. Don't put up with kids **** lol sorry I known how u feel. Your in your prime years t settle. U I know your situation because I've been n your shoes, if I were u just break it off your young u settle for this. I dated a guy with his two kids we never had time together. His kids cursed and would act like animals we never had for us. I don't think u should b with him cuz u I need to accept his baggage to and if can't then just leave the relationship...im 34 and been thru this ur to going to be dealing with this.
I agree with the others that it sounds like time for you to leave, since you can't drum up one iota of sympathy for the immediate relatives your boyfriend loves and is responsible for. As RockRose says, he sounds like a nice man who treats people very well. You obviously like him for that. In that, you want the others to dry up and blow away so you can have his niceness all to yourself and for your daughter's benefit. But when it comes to him acting with the same love and care to his own mother (no matter how much she grosses you out) and son, you clearly find it irritating that he would do that and criticize the way he does it and criticize them also. It just doesn't sound like your attitude is going to go away. This is a fight you should not pick and shouldn't try to win, but since you can't forget it either, you should try to find someone without this emotional load.
Especially regarding the boy, it might possibly help for you to remember that every child has the right to come first with his parent, just the way your daughter can claim this from you. I'm sorry this is not true in your own family, if you don't get along with them, shame on your parents. But I think you will always resent this kid's neediness and his life will be miserable with a stepmom who doesn't care what he is going through. He has the right to be #1 with his dad in every way -- emotional, biological, and legal -- and simply out of fairness, he should be able to act like a kid if he wants. Having parents who are unreliable (or one who is) is terribly tough on a kid, as you must know if you have a bad relationship with your family. When a child is faced with someone taking away the one scarce resource that props him up and makes him feel loved and safe (which is, especially at age 12, his dad's time and attention), of course he is not going to react like Saint Francis.
I'd stop throwing the kids together and stop going over to the family house, and stop snuggling with the dad in front of the kid, frankly if I continued to see him at all, it would be just the two of you at dinner at a restaurant every now and then. This man has given a kidney to his mother and you don't see him as having a value above rubies, you simply resent her. I'd say it's time to walk away.
Especially regarding the boy, it might possibly help for you to remember that every child has the right to come first with his parent, just the way your daughter can claim this from you. I'm sorry this is not true in your own family, if you don't get along with them, shame on your parents. But I think you will always resent this kid's neediness and his life will be miserable with a stepmom who doesn't care what he is going through. He has the right to be #1 with his dad in every way -- emotional, biological, and legal -- and simply out of fairness, he should be able to act like a kid if he wants. Having parents who are unreliable (or one who is) is terribly tough on a kid, as you must know if you have a bad relationship with your family. When a child is faced with someone taking away the one scarce resource that props him up and makes him feel loved and safe (which is, especially at age 12, his dad's time and attention), of course he is not going to react like Saint Francis.
I'd stop throwing the kids together and stop going over to the family house, and stop snuggling with the dad in front of the kid, frankly if I continued to see him at all, it would be just the two of you at dinner at a restaurant every now and then. This man has given a kidney to his mother and you don't see him as having a value above rubies, you simply resent her. I'd say it's time to walk away.
The way your boyfriend treats you and your daughter is the same way he treats his mother and his son. He's a really nice guy, who treats those he cares about with love and respect.
And it's unlikely that you trying to turn him against his mother and son will work in your favor.
I would expect, in a sibling setting, that a 12 year old would react to a 5 year old sticking her tongue out at him. It's not like she's 8 months old - she's goading him and he's reacting.
Yes, he's jealous. His mother has abandoned him and now his remaining parent is being taken away by a new girlfriend and her daughter who taunts him and you don't seem to see anything wrong with that.
I think best to leave him and let him get on with his life - there must be a woman out there who will love his son and appreciate how kind he is.
And it's unlikely that you trying to turn him against his mother and son will work in your favor.
I would expect, in a sibling setting, that a 12 year old would react to a 5 year old sticking her tongue out at him. It's not like she's 8 months old - she's goading him and he's reacting.
Yes, he's jealous. His mother has abandoned him and now his remaining parent is being taken away by a new girlfriend and her daughter who taunts him and you don't seem to see anything wrong with that.
I think best to leave him and let him get on with his life - there must be a woman out there who will love his son and appreciate how kind he is.
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