Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices June 21, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Just don't fucking celebrate Father's Day if you're so against it. Unlike Moos who sit around waiting for their men to do nice shit for them or buy them things on Mother's Day, men will often go out and wrangle their own fun for Father's Day - grilling, car upgrades, new gaming chair, whatever.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices June 21, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Ask her what she wants
The best way to know what your childless friend will want for Mother’s Day is to ask her. Let her be selfish for one day, just like you would with any mother on Mother’s Day. If she wants to take a long bubble bath by herself, let her. If she wants to be recognized like any other mother would (complete with chocolates and flowers), make it happen. If she wants to stay home watching movies, that works too. Her experience and her desires are just as valid as any other woman’s.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices June 21, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices June 22, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
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We were at a playgroup with our four month old. Most of the kids there were two or younger. This has been something I’ve wanted to do for a long time because I really want to make more mom friends. Long story short another women’s toddler threw a wooden block at our four month daughters face while I was on the floor with her playing.
Our daughter immediately started crying, and I picked her up and began to comfort her away from the group. Don’t get me wrong I saw red, but I know it’s developmentally normal and that it’s not my place to discipline other peoples children. My husband on the other hand starts to yell at the little boy. Asking him what’s wrong with him? And tells him to watch what happens if he does it again. The mom of this child looked mortified, she gave us a dirty look, and picked her son up and left.
Everyone avoided us for the rest of the time. We’ve been home a couple hours and I just received an email from the director saying we are not welcomed back because my husbands behavior made people feel unsafe. Not that I would want to go back after how humiliating that was.. But I don’t even know what to do? My husband has never lashed out like that before and especially never to a child. He keeps apologizing and I can tell he feels bad. But fuck. What now?
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices June 27, 2022 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 2,228 |
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The best way to know what your childless friend will want for Mother’s Day is to ask her. Let her be selfish for one day, just like you would with any mother on Mother’s Day. If she wants to take a long bubble bath by herself, let her. If she wants to be recognized like any other mother would (complete with chocolates and flowers), make it happen. If she wants to stay home watching movies, that works too. Her experience and her desires are just as valid as any other woman’s.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices June 27, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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So the very first time she takes her child to a playgroup it gets smacked in the face with a wooden block, nobody does anything about it, and she actually wants to go back?
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices June 27, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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The best way to know what your childless friend will want for Mother’s Day is to ask her. Let her be selfish for one day, just like you would with any mother on Mother’s Day. If she wants to take a long bubble bath by herself, let her. If she wants to be recognized like any other mother would (complete with chocolates and flowers), make it happen. If she wants to stay home watching movies, that works too. Her experience and her desires are just as valid as any other woman’s.
Wow, like Thanks but I don't need your validation? Do you really need to tell people that someone without kids has experiences and desires that are also valid?? I certainly don't need a "special day" if I want to treat myself, I do whatever I want in my time off, minus minimal adulting.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices July 05, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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As a huge sex addict, playboy and womanizer (left him because of him admitting to cheating sexually on me with at least 5 women in our time together) and his refusal to wear condoms,
I give it about a year before he gets someone else pregnant. Maybe more than one woman pregnant.
He struggles financially as his only form of income is Doordash and I have a hard enough time getting child support from him as it is. He’s always broke.
His dad begrudgingly pays his rent and car bills and said this last month was the last straw.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices July 05, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices July 18, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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This is from Quora...
As a lawyer, what's the most mind-blowing thing you've heard your client say?
Thinking about it, though, the most shocking thing a client has ever said came from a child. I spent years representing children. I had a seven-year-old client who had been systemically starved and beaten by her mother. When I interviewed this little girl I asked her one of my standard child interview questions, that is “What are you going to do when you grow up?” This is the point where children will generally tell their dream of being a famous singer, of playing professional ball or of being President of the United States. This girl smiled and said brightly “when I grow up I am going to kill mommy”. I asked her to repeat herself and she did. The most shocking part of it was that she knew exactly what she was saying, exactly what it meant, and that was what she dreamed of doing.
and there you have it. and you know, if this girl managed to do that I doubt I'd shed a tear if I knew the background.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices July 20, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
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Who started this idea that as the parent who your kids treat terribly is actually a good thing because it means you're their safe place to fall apart?
It is not comforting to me. I don't feel special or chosen. I don't want to be screamed at daily by my 3 and 5 y.o.s because they aren't emotionally mature enough to recognize what they're actually mad at. I don't want to be trying to take a shit and suddenly crying children need me to soothe them. I don't want to be the parent who can't take them in public because they're always falling apart.
It feels misogynistic to have this new trendy label, twisting a big emotional burden into something mothers should be grateful for. I am not grateful. I have my own issues that get triggered by this. I am tired and everyday I feel like a failure that I am not happy about my kids feeling fine enough to lose it with me.
I think this is a combo of summer break, kids sleep issues, their ages, and my own inner turmoil. I hate it.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices July 20, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Who started this idea that as the parent who your kids treat terribly is actually a good thing because it means you're their safe place to fall apart?
It is not comforting to me. I don't feel special or chosen. I don't want to be screamed at daily by my 3 and 5 y.o.s because they aren't emotionally mature enough to recognize what they're actually mad at.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices July 21, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
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You're not special. You're literally just a person without children. Good for you? You're not better than someone who chose to have them. You're the most annoying type of person with your "eW cRoTcH gObLiN" "babies are so GROSS". YOU were also a disgusting baby at one point you idiot. You're worse than a whiny baby. You're a whiny grown ass adult. Hating a baby for literally just existing (which they have no control over) is fucking weird.
Ugh. Do any moms agree?
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices July 24, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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You're not special. You're literally just a person without children. Good for you? You're not better than someone who chose to have them. You're the most annoying type of person with your "eW cRoTcH gObLiN" "babies are so GROSS". YOU were also a disgusting baby at one point you idiot. You're worse than a whiny baby. You're a whiny grown ass adult. Hating a baby for literally just existing (which they have no control over) is fucking weird.
Ugh. Do any moms agree?
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices August 01, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
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Last week, I attended a friend’s wedding four hours away from where I live. My husband refused to come with me, but he also refused to look after the kids. So my three kids are staying with my mother in law and my husband gets a weekend to himself.
Because of course he does.
My sister, who I rarely speak to, stays 20 minutes away from the wedding and so she let me stay with her for the weekend.
So for the weekend, I stayed with my sister, her fiancé and their three Yorkshire terriers. They don’t have kids. They don’t want kids. My sister is actually trying to get sterilised and her fiancé has already had a vasectomy. They both have high paying jobs and have bought a penthouse apartment for them and their dogs.
The wedding was on Saturday. On Sunday, I woke up to her fiancé making breakfast, which he apparently does every sunday. I watched as my sister hugged from behind and kissed his cheek and he dipped one of the strawberries he was cutting in Nutella just to be able to turn around and hand feed it to her.
I’m happy for my sister. And I’m grateful she let me stay with her.
But it just.... I made the wrong choice. I married the wrong man. I chose the wrong career. And I should never have had kids. There’s no way around it.
I know I can’t change anything. And I will always look after my kids. But it just hurts so much to see the life I should have chosen right in front of me.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices August 02, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Last week, I attended a friend’s wedding four hours away from where I live.
My sister, who I rarely speak to, stays 20 minutes away from the wedding and so she let me stay with her for the weekend.
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But it just.... I made the wrong choice. I married the wrong man. I chose the wrong career. And I should never have had kids. There’s no way around it.
I know I can’t change anything. And I will always look after my kids. But it just hurts so much to see the life I should have chosen right in front of me.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices August 09, 2022 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,258 |
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I regret having children. I had an unhappy childhood and was determined to create a happy family and be the mom I wish I had.
Mistake #1. The worst parents had unhappy childhoods themselves, and yet they are always DETERMINED to have children. Without therapy, introspection, and taking time to get one's shit together, they are doomed to fail.
I was attentive. I adored them, protected them, advocated for them. I rarely had any break from caregiving because my family of origin sucks.
Their dad was abusive and at one point, the cops referred us to a DV shelter so I could keep me and my 2 kids safe.
Um, you can "adore" your kids all you want, but the best way to "protect" and "advocate" for them is NOT TO MARRY AN ABUSIVE ASSHOLOE.
I held the family together (big mistake) and thought I was holding him accountable (at least I made him keep a job that drug tested him).
Was no longer afraid of physical threat, but guy was still controlling and I divorced him after 13 years because I had concerns he was treating our kids like he treated me.
The kids aligned with him to mob me out of my own home, and out of their lives. He gives them everything they want and upholds no rules. There's no reasonable legal solution for me because they're old enough that there's no guarantee I'll have visitation.
Their dad will not comply with legal orders anyway (or I wouldn't be in this situation). My kids have no loyalty to me, there's nothing left but pain. I have sucked it up and tried to keep connecting for 4 years now.
If I could have foreseen that I would struggle alone and nurture them while denying my own needs (like the struggle of taking them to the bus when I suffered a miscarriage with no medical attention from their dad), to be shut out of their lives and rejected like this, I would not have had them. What a martyr Moo who is trying to be dramatic. If you are having a miscarriage, go to the doctor, not your husband. Make him take the kids to the bus stop. Oh, I forgot, you married a loser.
For all my best efforts at trying to instill good values, they're evil like their dad. I tried the best with the resources and conditions I had, and totally failed