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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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Top comments
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)
sousaphonist 14
Tell your parents, "My soon needs a DAD, not a father" (the difference being treatment of both you and your son)
ammacias13 9
my husband and I are separated. he doesn't ask to see her unless he needs to talk to me. even when we were together, he didn't take care of her. he is only her "father" on paper.
Solano2580 24
If they fully know the situation and still want you with an abuser then seek counseling or, if it comes down to it, forbid them from interacting with your son until they stop interfering.
Zuniga01 14
Listening to "Porter Robinson - Fellow Feeling" and reading this fml made me sad. Scumfucks like that need to get murdered. No one should ever beat a woman, especially the mother of your own son/daughter.
Sandman2015 12
Time to cut them out of your life OP. These sound like the kind of delusional people that will tell your ex where you moved to, where you work and gladly give them a key to your house. This tends to be how people end up dead.
mustangbravo 27
Stop introducing them to each other.
SoBeSatan 22
Not everyone can be a dad. Kudos to you for getting out of the abusive relationship. It's a tough thing to do and you rock for it. Keep up the great work for your son, OP. You got this.
M3GA_H3AD 6
After reading this I'm pretty sure people click "You Deserved It" just to be an ass.
iwadasn 33
Or they click YDI because she chose to have a kid with an abusive drunk and now she's complaining that her kid's dad is an abusive drunk. For some reason there are plenty of women who think that having a baby will magically fix a relationship that's turning bad, when in reality it just gives the abusive partner one more person to go after.
DoomedGemini 38
He might've not always been that way, he could've hidden until she was trapped, he could've forced a child.. You have NO idea of what happened: you are such a disgusting human to blame her for being in an abusive relationship. You apparently have no understanding of them.
simongren 5
Your son doesn't need his abusive father as a role model and he doesn't need your abusive parents as a role model. Put them on time out until they grow up.
NamelessGhoul 11
Maybe you should leave your parents too, they're clearly not good influences on you or your kid