Today, I was sitting in IHOP with my girlfriend of six months when she brought in her son of three years she had neglected to tell me about, and asked 'Does this change things?' FML
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Today, things were going great with my girlfriend of six months. She knew I had kids and it seemed to be getting serious, so I decided to introduce her to them. After dinner, I walked her to her car and she said, "That’s real nice but what are you going to do with them once you and I have kids?" FML
Today, as I had a chat with my boyfriend and a couple of his friends, one of them had brought up my boyfriend's son and his other child who was due any day now. The conversation would have went well, had I known that he had a son and a pregnant girlfriend. FML
Today, we've been dating for over three months, but I went over my girlfriend's house for the first time. As we walked through the door, I was greeted by a little girl whose first words to me were, "Are you my daddy?" FML
Today, I found out that my boyfriend of six years has a five year-old daughter. FML
Today, I had dinner for the first time with my boyfriend's parents. It was awkward enough without his mom asking, "So, what do you do for fun, besides my son?" FML
Today, a woman came up to me and sheepishly asked if my son is single. He's not my son, he's my boyfriend. FML
Today, my girlfriend blew up at me for a comment I had made several weeks ago about not wanting kids. Then, she told me that she's pregnant. After consoling her and telling her that whatever we do, we'll do it together, she further explained that she's not sure if it's mine. FML
Today, as I was taking my three year-old daughter home from daycare, she asked where her daddy was. I tried to tell her that I was her father, but she answered, "No, not you! My other daddy!" I've got some talking to do tonight. FML
Today, my four-year-old daughter called me by her mom's new boyfriend's name. Three different times. FML
Today, I was watching TV with my husband and my 5-year-old son. Everything was going fine until my son asked his father, “Why can’t mom know that you have another sweetheart?” FML
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shmikey 0
how did she keep that secret for 6 months?
Dopeyrox 0
dang I hope u said yes!
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Dopeyrox 0
dang I hope u said yes!
soccerkrzy 0
iHop? You mean IHOP? Dumbass.
poopberry 0
iPhone auto corrects things that look like apple products. relax.
thatoneguyinca 0
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Agreed #1 DTB!! Never date mothers, she already has 1 mistake in her life and some chump is going to be paying for it for the next 18 years years years years of his life life life
Secret_Fire_King 0
FYL? She the one stuck with kid.. FHL.. You're free to go, OP.. The relationship was built on a lie.. A
decaturboizone6 0
what a loser!!! who corrects someone on the proper way to spell IHOP??? i didnt know fml was a correct gramar and spelling competition
PaulWeller 0
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YDI for thinking IHOP is owned by Apple.
poopberry 0
@156. my iPhone assumed it was an apple product, not me or the OP. go ********** or something. it will calm you down
afarr 0
he cant. He can only PLAY WITH MY NIPPLES! shawie?
tisiphone_fml 0
Agreed. Uh, yeah lady, that changes things. I understand its hard to date once you've become a single parent, but you gotta be honest.
Jade94_fml 0
Actually, it changes IHOP to OHIO.
SheriffBart 0
Just when I thought I'd figured out the limits of the iPod/iPhone's pretentious douchebaggery.
singlemom1409 0
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wow so a child is a mistake you know i have a 9 month old and she is the best thing ever....your a sick minded pathetic human bein or w/e u are u have no heart
Thanitos 0
He's pathetic for not wanting to support someone else's kid after being lied to for several months? Anyway, it most likely wasn't her kid. That is an easy way of breaking up with someone without feeling guilty about it.
ellness 0
like he hasn't lied about anything to her. I have secrets about my past that I don't even tell my gf. but that shouldn't change anything. she's the same person she was before he knew about the kid.
Secret_Fire_King 0
Yeah #221.. But there is another human being in the equation.. Do you see how that works?
CristianoLopes 0
hookoff he should hit it n split it
jazziue 0
well does it
sims2lovr01 12
wow it's not that seriouse ass hole :p
shucks101 11
@197, #149, meant that a child is a bad thing to people who didn't want it or didn't mean to have it. Your opinion is not the way of the world. Stop overreacting...
PugDelatorre 11
grammar* :)
shmikey 0
how did she keep that secret for 6 months?
TheDaveCA 1
He might not have asked...
plutosaplanet 0
um when i date someone i dont usually ask if they have kids. its more like the mom should have said oh i have a son....
Jewelofagal 2
Now there's a girl who can keep a secret for a good long time!
alexandraa_fml 0
It's def possible. One of my friends boyfriends in highschool kept his kid a secret for an entire year that they were together. The mom had moved an hour and a half away and didn't want anything to do with him and never contacted him. He would have to contact her. But we didn't find this out until AFTER my friend broke up with him. He was extremely ashamed he had a kid so young and had never told anyone.
stephaniecullen 0
she didnt. the guy made that up hoping to get some sympathy. FAIL. EPIC FAIL.
dell126 0
And you would know how again? Idiot. Epic idiot.
hackymeal 0
how dou no it's fake? u wasn't rhere so stfu
janise 2
It's pretty ignorant to assume a woman is crazy just because she doesn't have custody of her kid. Are men crazy if they don't have custody? NO.
marvin_fml 0
If you had any experience with the court system you'd know that for a man to get custody he not only has to be a saint, but he must also prove the mother to be completely unfit as a parent. For a woman to lose custody she has to be either a drug addict or clinically insane, and often the court still decides in favour of the mother. (eg If she says she's getting treatment.)
marvin_fml 0
Here, I found a quote for you from an article about a recent court case:- "The Family Court judge found Bill's ex-wife to be violent, untruthful, lacking moral values and responsible for the psychological and emotional abuse of her children - but still gave her custody of the two girls, now aged 9 and 11, because they had become estranged from their father."
tatertott5 0
hhahaha.
anela_fml 0
uhhhh yeaaaaa I'd say so lol
jdavies44 0
...you must not have barely gotten to know her over that 6 months.
3_Kitten_3 0
uuuummmm ya....ya a little bit. fyl!
WONDERWB 2
Speaking as a single parent, it's to protect the child. However, her never mentioning said child is very wrong on her part. Mentioning the child is appropriate but meeting the child is another story.
hockeyhouse 5
Yes, meeting the child is a whole different story. Not mentioning him for six months is unacceptable and would be a deal-breaker for me.
GeorgeBoosh 0
Why would it be a deal breaker? She kept the kid secret because most guys wouldn't even TALK to a woman with a child, let alone start up a relationship. The fact that she kept the child invisible for 6 months means that it shouldn't impact on their play time as a couple. So, did he like the girl? Was she fun to be with? Look past you male egos.
flippingbunny 0
Sure, it showed him that her having a child has yet to interfer with their playtime as a couple, unless it has interfered and she blamed it on something else because she didnt tell him she has a child!!! Would you be upset with a significant other if you believed, and were never corrected, that they were a lawyer only to find out six months later that they are a receptionist? I would, because they deceived me and a deception such as that would change things. That deception isnt even as bad as the one here. What if the OP doesnt really like kids, or loves them but doesnt want one? Yes, its damn hard to find a relationship as a single mother, but that is not the OPs problem, its the girlfriends. Deception is not a good way to begin a relationship. Im sure its hard for people with HIV to find a relationship too, but that doesnt make it okay for them to hide it from their boyfriend for six months.
Skoff_fml 27
#195 I would not date a man who had kids either. So what? You don't get to decide whether other people should have kids in their lives or not.
jairolover 25
exactly, if a guy doesn't want to date a woman with kids that should he his choice! & obviously that woman isn't trustworthy for hiding something so important. Just because you wait to tell a guy that you have a kid, does NOT mean that they will continue dating you. Relationships should be based off of honesty and trust, she lost that the moment she neglected to tell him about her son. Don't be an idiot ladies.
Fr0gg13 0
did it?
bbubba099 1
apple does not own pancake shops. it's not iHop.
Boddmon 0
I'm glad someone caught that.
ChiefNuggz 0
For real. It was bugging me.
stillxsearching 3
dang, someone beat me to this comment. glad it didn't go unnoticed though :)
V_S234 0
What is ihop?
CJ090 0
im glad cause it would be all white and chrome and say its better then any pancakes in the world only they would be so shitty
iwadasn 33
If the OP posted from an iPhone, it would have automatically changed IHOP to iHop.
afarr 0
fo shizzle shawie
Sinisin2010 0
Yeah they weren't saying Apple owns IHOP, Applebee's does!
addie19 6
international house of pancakes, a restaurant
ddeek 3
OP used a capital I so what's the problem??
chadwick110480 0
if she can keep something as big as that a secret then I wonder how long it will take her to confess about cheating on you. "Hey honey remember when we were first dating ten years ago well . . . " Just a thought.