Today, my parents have deliberately ruined my last 2 relationships, because they want me to get back together with my ex simply because he is my son's dad. Apparently, my son needs his father more than I need a man who won't beat me every time he gets drunk. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my parents are so in love with my ex, they still think it’s my fault she felt unloved enough to cheat with another man. They constantly try to convince me to take her back and become stepdad to the child she conceived with the guy she cheated on me with. FML
Today, I told both my boyfriend and my son that they needed to start spending more time together. They both asked why and what they did that I feel the need to punish them. They’re so similar, even I forget they’re not father and son, and yet for some reason they hate each other. FML
Today, I found out that my father, who very recently lost his wife, decided that drunkenly hitting on my long-time boyfriend's mom was a good idea. FML
Today, my son got in an argument with my boyfriend, packed up his stuff, and moved in with his dad. Not five minutes later I saw my boyfriend doing his stupid happy dance. When angrily confronted, he admitted he orchestrated every argument for months until he got the result he wanted, my son gone. FML
Today, I finally got a restraining order against my violent ex. My mom now keeps finding ways to tell me how shitty I am for breaking the "poor boy's" heart and how I didn't deserve him anyway. FML
Today, my parents lectured me about how my girlfriend will ruin my life, because she's a single mom, a recovering alcoholic, and has chronic health issues. Apparently, I should be with their friend's rude, trashy daughter, who can't keep a job, and goes on a drunken, drug-fueled bender every other week. I'm 31. FML
Today, I found out that after reuniting with an old boyfriend, getting close with his two year old son, and moving closer to him to properly be a part of their lives, he got back together with his ex-wife. FML
Today, I found out that my mother has been purposely wrecking every relationship I've had since junior high because ''no one is good enough for her little girl''. FML
Today, I decided to visit my dad. I haven't seen him in a while so I wanted to give him another chance to be an actual dad to me. Apparently, getting drunk and getting it on with his girlfriend while I was there was more important than spending time with his daughter, who he hasn't seen in almost a year. FML
Today, my dad told me quite bluntly that, while he loved me, he never planned to have me. My mom baby-trapped him by sabotaging their birth control methods, and my existence ruined his life irrevocably and caused the functional alcoholism he has suffered with for 40 years. FML
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smallandroid 26
You're doing the right thing for both you and your son, OP! Stay strong, hopefully your parents will eventually give up, or you will find a relationship that they finally can't ruin!
UnidentifiedFun 37
Keep the relationships on the DL if you can so that you can give your son a better example of what it is to be a man. It takes barely anything to be a 'father' but it takes a lot to be a Dad.
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Comments (114)
heyLaddieHey 18
....I think it's time to cut your ppparents out. I'm sorry they suck.
vintend0 8
this is going to go against every other comment on here and probably get down-voted a load. But they've probably done you a favour, if they're not going to stick by you against meddling parents, are they going to stick around when things are really tough? It wouldn't matter what my parents, my fiancee's parents or anyone says about us, were stronger than it The fact you've also said 'need' a man says you're probably getting into relationships for the wrong reasons. You don't 'need' a man, look after your kid, learn to be happy by yourself and the right person will come along (also try explaining to them your parents are nutcases before they get a chance to interfere)
xn3x 10
Well said! I was wondering, how does one ruin someone else's relationship, in the first place? If the parents are putting some kind of pressure on you and your SO, keep the distance and don't let them influence your happiness.
PhoenixChick 26
I think you may be underestimating how easy it is to scare someone away from a relationship, especially early on. When you're in the early dating stage, you aren't at the "I will weather every storm with you" kind of commitment. Manipulative people can find endless ways to make things go their way. Dropping hints, telling lies, flat-out insults, it's actually pretty easy.
jocamo 24
OP didn't say she needs a man. She said she needs a man who doesn't abuse her. There's nothing wrong with wanting to find love, but she needs that person to treat her well.
xn3x 10
If she knows that they act like that, why introducing the BFs to them until that "I will weather every storm with you" maturity of relationship has been reached?
DoomedGemini 38
They might be finding a way to them rather than op introducing then. They are obvious dead set on this, you guys are really underestimating how far people will go.
vikky538 29
If your parents don't understand your problems and still stood by that drunkards side then its time to keep them aside
myshinynose 11
If I ever had a child and their spouse was abusing them I'd hunt the ****** down and make them wish they'd never been born >:| You did a courageous thing getting away from your ex. A lot of people can't. I don't want children, but it's really depressing to me that some people have children and do shit like this... I know that abusers are often very charismatic to those around them at first, but you know better than your parents what your ex is really like. Never forget that.
corky1992 33
Maybe stop letting your parents know you're in a relationship so they won't ruin it? That's what I would do.
Tyrez 32
Perhaps it's not that they want you to get back together with your ex, maybe you are just have a poor choice in men.
iwadasn 33
That was my first thought, too. If she stayed with one abusive partner long enough to have a child with him, it's possible she's falling into that pattern again.
ligerzero459 24
Time to go no contact. If they're seriously that stupid they don't deserve to be in you or your son's life.
JZY1989 23
yea I guess they don't know what's best.
jimeple 12
Sounds to me like you need to get rid of your parents!!
writerchic85 26
I would stop introducing your new boyfriends to them then. Or shut them out completely until they can learn to let you have a life.