Today, my ex-husband came to pick up our two kids for his weekend with them. Seeing his new girlfriend was in the car, and desperate for conversation, I asked her name. My kids unhesitatingly blurted out, "Mom". FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I was picking up my daughter from my ex-husband's house and his new girlfriend was there. I said to my daughter that it was time to leave and she clung to his girlfriend and said, "Mommy, I don't want to leave." She wasn't talking to me. FML
Today, I took my kids to the park. I saw my daughter playing with a kid who looked familiar. Turns out he was my ex’s son, whom I haven’t seen in years. I thought it was cute they played so well together, until my ex’s new girlfriend came over, screaming that I was trying to use my kid to get to her man. FML
Today, I confronted my boyfriend’s bitch of an ex about why she won’t let him see their kids. She laughed hysterically then showed me screenshots of all the times she offered to drop them off and the excuses he made. An hour later, she dropped three kids at our door and stopped answering her phone. FML
Today, my four-year-old daughter called me by her mom's new boyfriend's name. Three different times. FML
Today, a woman I’d never met came to my door asking if my kids were ready to go. Obviously I refused to send my kids with a stranger. Apparently she’s my ex's new girlfriend and "has his permission" to come get my kids. Now he’s threatening to take me to court for violating the visitation order. FML
Today, I got a call from the guy I'd been seeing for a few weeks. It was his wife calling to find out what was going on with us. He told me he was separated. He left his kids home alone to hook up with me. FML
Today, my ex-wife's kids, who I dumped alongside her and completely cut ties with when I found out they weren't mine, found me on social media. FML
Today, I sent my ex's mom several pics of the kids from our recent outing. Being the kids' grandmother, she loved them. Later, I got a barrage of angry, insulting and threatening texts from my ex's new girlfriend, saying that since he and I are no longer together, I should have no contact with his family. FML
Today, I met my ex, whom I have not seen in years, in the airport. She was with a 3 year-old girl who ran to me with open arms, happily saying, "Papa!" Overjoyed, I picked her up, hugging her back, and kissed her. My ex then condescendingly said, "She's NOT yours!" When I asked why, she said, "She calls ALL MEN 'Papa'!" FML
Today, I had to go along with my mom to meet some of her old friends from high school. When they asked her about how her life was going, she said she was married, always traveling, no kids, and introduced me as the neighbor's kid she babysits. FML
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buttcramp 21
Damn, OP. This really sucks! That's not cool that your ex and his girlfriend are having the kids call her that especially if their relationship is still so new.
LCPLStewie 23
Youch! I'm sorry... At least they're taking the divorce well. Because the main focus NOW should be on the children's well being... but stillll! FYL
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Comments (107)
belljars 22
Children tend to break a parent's heart all the time. This will not be your only disapointment.
QueenSaru 28
Without weighing in on the OP (because I have already given my opinion upthread), I'm rather surprised at the number of people who find it wrong or strange or disloyal to call a step-parent 'mom' or 'dad'. Sure, forcing your kids to call them that is wrong, because you can't force your kids to like/accept a new parent, but my SIL's kids call my brother Dad without any prompting from either of them whatsoever. It doesn't seem disloyal to me to call your primary caregiver by Mom or Dad even if they're not your biological parent. You can still love (or not love) your birth parent as much or more without hating a new parent.
kingdomgirl94 29
I think the issue is that its a new girlfriend, not someone they'd likely know very well or who is for sure going to be in the picture for a long time.
QueenSaru 28
Agreed in the case of the OP (though we don't know how new the 'new' GF is, or whether anything less than the OP's arbitrary amount of time makes them not new), but I was more commenting on the commenters who seem strangely adamant that they would never ever call a step-parent 'Mom' or 'Dad'.
brandoneyez1 25
Don't think much into it. I call my step mom "mom" and she has been "mom" now for 30 years as my parents divorced when I was 1. I call and treat her as mom. Unfortunately you divorced for whatever reasons, but whomever becomes apart of your ex's like will undoubtedly be called mom as well. (Especially with younger kids)
vlalam 24
That's really hurtful, but kids aren't mature enough to know what they f saying and how it feels. Don't think too much abt it and just move on
vikky538 29
sorry OP that must have been hurt so bad...
patrickalamo 48
You should put your feelings aside and be happy your kids are being so loved and taken care of they want to call her mom as well.
ileenefudge 29
That's not the issue though. It would be slightly different if she were actually a step mom and even so most step parents are called by their name. But she is not. She is only their fathers GIRLFRIEND so she has NO right to claim the title as mom, especially when the children's real mom is still in the picture.
DanielleinDC 34
Maybe it's because I was a teenager when my mom remarried, but I've never called by stepfather by anything but his name (and his kids from his prior marriage call my mom by hers). It's one thing for young children to call a stepparent "mom" or "dad", but a presumably new girlfriend? No. OP needs to have a talk with her husband about why the kids are calling his girlfriend "mom".
queen_bee_123 7
My daughter's friends call me their 2nd mom, but I have never allowed my step children to call me mom. They call me by my name. They see me as a 2nd mom (even though their father and I have divorced) but I have always corrected them if I heard them calling me mom. My boyfriend's children call me by my name and I've been with him for 4 years. I would never expect them to call me anything other than my name. I also want to state that I have a very good relationship with both my boyfriend's ex and my ex husband's ex. I try to be respectful of the relationships they have with their children.
Attacksloth 33
Unfortunately kids are sponges and they will absorb what they are told or what they see or hear. I know it's no consolation to you now, but when they grow up and adopt their own ways of thinking or viewing the world, I'm sure they'll see and appreciate who you are and what you do for them.
Vanshikap 24
does this fml seem familiar to anyone? like its been posted before...hey fml team,do you track these for repetition?