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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KatzVKatz 22
Parents, the people that we look up to, and that are supposed to be smart and rational, are sometimes anything but. Don't let them (or anyone else) pressure you into an abusive relationship, even if for the sake of your child - a violent drunk is not fit to be a father anyways.
jules1994 1
I am going through the exact same thing! But I've been with the guy who saved mine and my sons life for over a year, he was there for my sons birth and has protected us since the day we met, but my mother seems to think I should be with the crack head that tried to kill me when I was almost 6 months pregnant ?? parents are great
concorde_fml 6
I understand it'll be difficult but that appears to be another relationship you should stop.
iwadasn 33
You stayed with your abusive partner long enough to have a child with him and hoped you'd live happily ever after?
urbanbigfoot 20
I have a solution. Find some rugged looking crackheads, pay them like 100 bucks and tell them to get rid of your ex. Crackheads will do anything for some cash. This of course is a joke but if you use it, I had no legal part for accountability.
MistyKittyx 25
**** your parents.
topper78 2
I'd say you need a new set of parents
kymikal 9
OP, there is a difference between dad's and sperm donors. obviously your parents don't realize this...so make them realize it!
starlite85 6
Yes. And since she called her child's father a father and not sperm donor, she obviously knows the difference as well.
mrsmikelowrey 15
I haven't spoken to my parents in 8-months. My mother was physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive. When I saw her doing it to my younger sister, I intervened. Her and my stepdad told me that I should leave it alone because that's in the past and I should get over it. Moral of the story: Your parents won't stop doing what they are doing to you. You have to make the change. Sometimes you just have to stop answering their phone calls.
DoomSkuller 28
I'd move away from them, if possible