Today, my son and daughter-in-law are both going to jail for the same crime. I’m recently retired but I’m now stuck raising their bratty 15 year-old and their new baby, who’s less than a year old. I’m nearly 70 years-old, I can’t do this shit anymore. I certainly can’t afford it on a pension. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my 17 year-old is pregnant and I was fit to be furious, until my wife steamrollered over me to get to her, hugging her, and crying and how we’ll all raise it together as a big family. We can’t afford another baby. The daddy better be paying us something, or I’m gone kill him. FML
Today, due to some serious health and financial issues, I literally have no choice but to have my mom watch my kids. She's turned my son into the most spoiled insufferable brat, I can’t stand it. Then I feel like I’m punishing him at home for what his grandmother enforces in hers. I don't know what to do. FML
Today, because of my wife’s inability to keep her nasty opinions to herself, the last of our children told us via text that they won’t be visiting anymore, or letting us see our grandchildren. So now it’s just me and her, financially trapped in this marriage until one of us dies of old age. FML
Today, I got a phone call from my husband in jail. He was detained for statutory rape. The girl was his 15 year-old coworker at McDonald’s. He’s 42. I can’t tell which is worse, the fact that we have a daughter the same age, or that he actually wanted me to bail him out. FML
Today, I've hated being a parent ever since I was baby-trapped at 17, but I stuck through it and never let my son suspect how I really felt, and we have a great relationship now he’s an adult. Well he just moved out yesterday, and today my wife told me she’s pregnant. Here we fucking go again. FML
Today, it's only been two months since my daughter has owned her home and now she wants to move back to my house because she lost her job and can’t afford the mortgage, plus she got pregnant off a one-night stand and needs my help with the baby. Bang goes my plans for a quiet retirement. FML
Today, even though my bitch of a baby mama makes ten times what I make, the courts are still forcing me to pay child support for the two kids I never wanted. I’m way too busy with my life to have custody of them. FML
Today, I became a grandmother. At 44 years-old. My son is 15. FML
Today, two weeks after giving my daughter-in-law a severe scolding for forcing my son to do chores and babysit the kids on his days off, I went to visit them and found out that they'd changed the locks, so my key no longer works. FML
Today, after I got pregnant 22 years ago and my husband became way too overprotective, to the point where he became a right pain in the ass, I’m now accidentally pregnant again. It turns out my now 22-year-old son is almost as bad as his dad was. Now I’ve got two of the sods to deal with. FML
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Anderling 33
If it’s a foster placement then you may be entitled to foster payments, depending on what the legislation is like in the UK. See if you can get legal advice to work out what benefits you’re entitled to if you’re raising the kids. If it genuinely, absolutely cannot work out financially, please know that as much as it will hurt, nobody is going to benefit from starving/exhausting yourself to run after two kids, and they may be better off with someone else.
HokieJ 10
Momma didn't raise no...Oh wait!
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Anderling 33
If it’s a foster placement then you may be entitled to foster payments, depending on what the legislation is like in the UK. See if you can get legal advice to work out what benefits you’re entitled to if you’re raising the kids. If it genuinely, absolutely cannot work out financially, please know that as much as it will hurt, nobody is going to benefit from starving/exhausting yourself to run after two kids, and they may be better off with someone else.
HokieJ 10
Momma didn't raise no...Oh wait!
Taurus_ChicKa 37
Time to call the orphanage.
gymgirl93 11
Sending love OP, sounds a crappy situation..
lalalaila777 24
its your home, your rules, a down to earth conversation might help with the teens attitude, they're likely traumatized losing both their parents at once, but that's no excuse to be mean and rude to the grandparent that's trying to help. good luck OP!