Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices August 09, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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Ex told me yesterday that he doesn't get any free time because he works 40 hour weeks and sees our 3.5yo every weekend (which is what he asked for). He is always extremely frustrated with her at the end of the weekend. I have kid Sunday night thru Saturday morning.. so he only has her Sat at 10am to Sun at 8pm. We do not have a legal custody agreement.
He gets every. single. day. to himself. He gets to get up and go to work without having to take care of a kid. He gets to come home and have hours to himself, doesn't have to deal with bedtime, and gets to sleep through the night. But he thinks I have it easier because I get weekends "off". In reality, I spend my weekends playing catch-up on errands, appointments, chores, etc. and soon will also have to fit in school assignments and studying.
A few months ago, he complained about paying $800 in child support because some of his buddies told him he pays too much. This guy makes 65k. I agreed to $700 to placate him until we go to mediation. Now he wants to see kid LESS. I am so, so sick of men being praised for bare-minimum parenting.
I'm having a meeting with him this week. I have to be very careful with my wording. He has a history of spinning everything I say and was extremely verbally/emotionally/mentally and occasionally physically abusive. What should I say to snap him back to reality? Or should I just let him have as little parenting time as he wants?
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Again, there must be something wrong with me, I am a man and if I had screaming kids I would not want to have any weekends with them at all.
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Moo is pissed because Duh wants to see their brat less often than every weekend. From what she says, he is manipulative and verbally, emotionally, mentally and physically abusive. WHY does she want to send her kid to his house every week if she knows these things about him?
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices August 15, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Husband resents the fact he married me because I have a kid from a previous marriage
what the FUCK?!
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices August 15, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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I just found out I pregnant tonight. This isn’t a good thing. We don’t live in a “pro-choice” state.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices August 16, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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I would like to say I was embarrassed but truly in the moment I didn't give a fuck. She just wanted to sit on the floor at the entrance and so I picked her up and put her in the cart to which she barrel rolled out of just as fast as she was put in and then she sprinted through the clothing racks.
I finally got her and her sister and carried them both to the car. I put the toddler down for 2 seconds to open the door and she sprinted away from me in the parking lot. Almost got hit by a car but I was able to grab her by the first thing my hand reached....which was her hair. Big shitty mom move on my part but I mean death by white sedan seems like the worse of the two options. Then I put her in the car just to get her in cause I can't buckle her while holding her sister. This girl is frantically trying to open her door.
But the child safety locks are on so what does she do? Jumps up front and escapes through the front door and runs through the parking lot. Guys. Am I just a shitty mom. Is she just a crazy ass toddler? Both? Neither. I'm at a loss.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices August 16, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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I found out I was pregnant, the week I was graduating college, finally walking the stage, had my dream job secured, would have been financially secure in a big way. I finally reached my dreams, that I worked so hard for, invested countless hours to, and money.
I was told I could never have kids. Like most people in my family. No one has had a child, since me. So over 20 years. I was sexually active without birth control for over a decade. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I had no reason to believe I could reproduce. I did want a child eventually, but I wanted to be very financially stable. When I got pregnant, I couldn’t believe it. In my head this was my only chance and I wanted and needed to have my baby. I have a very supportive partner, who desperately wanted a child.
I had to turn down my dream job because it was going to be a 365 on call, travel heavy position. Which I was happy with due to the compensation and I had interned the position and knew I loved it.
Now my daughter is almost a year old, and every part of this has been a nightmare. My pregnancy was hell. I had just before getting pregnant lost over 50lbs and was down to my dream weight. I did it in a healthy way, and I’ve struggled with bullimia since I was 10. So to say I felt joy in this would be an understatement. I was finally happy in my own body, and I had never felt that.
I gained 80lbs in my pregnancy and it was devastating; due to having pcos losing the weight is a slow and hard process. Also since it took so long to get where I wanted before I feel hopeless
And that is the smallest of my issues.
I’ve never liked children. I thought when I had my own child that would change. It didn’t. I hate myself. I try so hard to bond and get better, it’s been such a failure so far and I have no idea what to do.
I work a shitty retail job. We are in $43,000 of debt. I will never be able to give her life she deserves and she shouldn’t have to deal with that. It’s not fair to her.
She’s a wonderful baby. Well behaved, cute, very attached to me. But my emotions refuse to bond.
Let me be very clear. She is taken care of. I give her baths, feed her the healthiest food, play with her, take her on fun outings, have made her the cutest coziest room, I read to her, I sing to her, I check her diaper constantly, I always am watching her to make sure she’s safe.
But it’s all a chore. I get no joy out of any part of it. I do it because it’s essential and because I desperately want to be a good mom. But I dread every day of my life. I’ve been to therapist, I’m on antidepressants which have helped me get through my days. Nothing is helping me bond. I have ruined my life and now I have a beautiful child who has been stuck with a mom that dreads being a mom. Im a failure. As a mom, I’ve lost my career, thus not being able to provide like I was in my childhood, I’ve lost every friend. Im guilty, I’m miserable and it’s my fault. I’d do anything to change but I’m out of options I think. I know I’m a piece of garbage. So anyone that wants to remind me, you don’t need to. Im fully aware.
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Cambion
Sounds like it's time for one of those toddler leashes if the brat can't be trusted to not run off, at least if Moo doesn't want her to become a road waffle. Though to be frank, after the performance the brat put on, I'd have been extremely tempted to just let her run free-range into the parking lot and see what Darwin had in store for her. But this is also why I'm not a parent.
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leash fail
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When my kiddo was a toddler, I tried a leash. Kiddo chewed through the leash!
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Sounds like it's time for one of those toddler leashes if the brat can't be trusted to not run off, at least if Moo doesn't want her to become a road waffle. Though to be frank, after the performance the brat put on, I'd have been extremely tempted to just let her run free-range into the parking lot and see what Darwin had in store for her. But this is also why I'm not a parent.
There is a comment to this from a parunt who tried the leashQuote
leash fail
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When my kiddo was a toddler, I tried a leash. Kiddo chewed through the leash!
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices August 19, 2022 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,257 |
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Soak the leash in the absolute hottest fucking hot sauce you can find and let it dry. Apply in layers to ensure proper marination. If the little shit stain is going to gnaw through his restraints, make it painful! I guarantee one mouthful of some Carolina Reaper sauce will stop that crap in a hot minute.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices August 23, 2022 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,257 |
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“I am an older, single mother who knowingly had her children using an anonymous donor.
I went through so much to get pregnant— daily injections, pills, appointments, more timed injections. Perhaps that’s where the irony lies.
My children, now 13 and 11-year-old twins, are simultaneously the people I love most in the world but also the ones I regret the most. I have lost my identity, as is often shared on these posts. I feel deflated, defeated, unappreciated, and worthless.
Two of my three children are extremely difficult. They have no regard for how hard I work or respect for our home. I have finally identified the feeling I have been having when my kids don’t listen to my requests to clean up after themselves or help around the house or to stop fighting amongst themselves. I feel voiceless and powerless, and so devalued.
There was never a sense that children were my greatest achievement or greatest satisfaction. I love them so much, but motherhood has done little more than make me feel the deepest regret I have ever experienced. I’ve morphed into someone constantly angry, cold, disheartened, and disconnected.
One of my twins is spectacular; I adore him, and he’s old enough to piece together that I regret becoming a mother… probably because I’ve shouted it countless times when I’m frustrated and angry with them. I love all three of my children, but I don’t like two of them.
I often think how wonderful life would be if I had just had my one twin. His personality is so gentle and mild, and I feel genuine sadness for him that he gets lost in all the chaos and regret. I often think how wonderful his life would be if I had had only him— all the attention I could have given him. All the time we could have spent traveling and enjoying life.
My children didn’t ask to be brought into the world. I did this. I’m acutely aware that I am potentially damaging them, and shame on me. That’s the last thing I want— for them to carry the traumatic, emotional baggage of my wrong choice. That’s not fair to them.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices August 24, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Found another gem from the I-regret-having-children FB page. This one is a Geezer Breeder to boot.
She willingly did this to herself and now all she can do is bitch. Why do these dumbass bints who want to be single mothers think it's all going to be sunshine and roses with no partner?
Breeders are never satisfied, part 34,758:
Oh, and I bet ALL her children are normal kids, but she's scapegoating two of them and making one of them, who happens to be a boy, the golden child. And she doesn't want them to be traumatized when she's shrieking at them all the time that she regrets they were born?
What a reprehensible human. :