Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 21, 2023 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 2,446 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 22, 2023 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
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Hello! I'm(F16) a younger sister to laury (26f) Me and laury have never been close since we had different dads, I was an affair baby. She's always resented me for "ruining her family" but whatever
Laury has SIX KIDS. YES. SIX. Twin boys beck and Joe who are 7, (planned) a girl lilliana who's 6 (unplanned) another girl, angel who's 5.(planned) Another boy, Keith who's 2 (planned) and another baby boy Karl who's 9 months(Not planned)
Despite the fact that Laury is incapable of taking care of these kids, 4 of them were actually planned. Because she KNOWS my pushover mom will give her money and watch the kids. My mom even quit her job to do so, even turning her work room into a nursery for Karl. We're pretty well off, but we can't do this forever.
I try not to judge, and just ignore laury like she does me. Even though when my mom is busy doing something like changing a diaper I have to step in and help. Especially with the twins since they're very rough with each other.
Tonight at dinner laury's boyfriend joined (a father to just Karl) as well as laury's father. This wasn't abnormal so I didn't think anything of it, until my sister said she had some exciting knews.. I wished she'd say something else.. But I knew what she was going to say. "I'm pregnant!!!" She would say. Everyone went dead silent until I said "bruh.." I didn't mean to say it out loud, but COME ON. Laury gave me a Death Stare, and said if I wanted to say something I should just say it. So I did
"Laury this is your... (I take a moment to COUNT) sixth child. You know we can't keep supporting you. Without mom you'd be on the streets, and you know that. Look at mom, she's so tired! She's always taking care of your kids and so am i. I'd bet I've changed more diapers than you have you selfish bitch." She began to cry. And ran out into her boyfriends car, he followers her and drove.
My mother then began to cry... She left to go out Karl back to bed since he woke up.
It was just me and Laurie's father. He began to yell and told me a I was a brat and laury was a great mother, then he stormed off.
As I'm sitting here in the morning watching the boys, I'm thinking, was I too obnoxious? My mom says that a lot, I don't mean to be because of my autism but come on! Please give me some feedback, Reddit, AITA??
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 23, 2023 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 3,951 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 24, 2023 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
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My entire fucking life revolves around trying to get my “chronically sleep deprived” (his pediatrician and early intervention actually think the sleep deprivation is causing most of his behavioral issues) toddler to sleep. EVERY SINGLE DAY his preferences are different.
Like yesterday, it took 2 and a half hours to get him to nap. He wanted to be rocked first and drink 2 ounces of milk. Then he screamed hysterically until he was put into his crib. Then he lasted about 10 minutes before he started screaming for more milk. Another few ounces and he didn’t want to be held anymore. Then he loses his mind screaming no matter what I do, I figure out eventually that he has a tiiiiiny bit of snot up in his nose. Okay, back to the rocking chair. Nope, we’re screaming again. More milk? No. 2 minutes later, turns out he does want milk, but god forbid I try to rock him. But then I put him in his crib and he starts aggressively banging his head on his crib until I pick him back up. Now he doesn’t like the blanket he has in there, and refuses to calm down until he has a different one. Finally he passed out after getting another bottle (another issue: his pediatrician expects me to get him to sleep more while also not using bottles. Fat fucking chance). Today, we are 2 and a half hours in and he’s finally started to settle down as I’m writing this sentence.
He’s one and a half!! Seriously, when will this end. Nothing works. He’s had medical testing for things that could be causing insomnia, they do not think he has autism, he’s just “unique”. When he’s put down and left alone, he simply does not sleep. And starts hurting himself if left alone too long. If he doesn’t nap, he spends the rest of the day aggressively head banging on every surface he can find and screaming. I’m exhausted. I seriously look at him in these moments (twice a day!! For hours!) and can’t really rummage up any love or affection within me because I’m so pissed off and frustrated.
It makes me feel like a genuine monster to be getting so angry at my own child. I feel completely alone because I have no one to talk to who can understand. Literally everyone I get into a conversation about this with (usually not by choice - in uncomfortable “I can’t really predict what time we’ll be free tomorrow” types of conversations) is very obvious about the fact that they think I’m just not handling him correctly. Despite the fact that I have seriously tried everything. Nobody ever asks me what I’ve tried, they just assume I’m doing it wrong and suggest something like white noise while I scream internally. Like we are beyond simple suggestions at this point. I feel like an angry, ragey, burnt out failure of a mom.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 24, 2023 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Can someone explain to me why these Moos feel the need to stay with their brats for hours upon hours every night just trying to make them sleep? Like I honestly don't get why they do this to themselves. Put brat in room, make sure they are comfortable/dry/fed/etc. and if they scream, let them scream. Make it so the door can be locked from the outside so the brat can't escape and wander freely around the house. If they can't/won't sleep, that's their problem and all this hours-long rocking and feeding garbage is going to do is encourage the behavior to continue because they aren't being given the chance to deal with how they feel.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 25, 2023 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
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If the stupid parents don't want to enforce boundaries their kids will walk all over them. I knew kids like this when I was a kid and they'd play their parents like violins. This kid has learned that bedtime means mommy dotes on him for hours and fulfills his every wish and command. Perhaps she should dote on him for hours during the day and send him to bed and not give him attention at all until the next day.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 29, 2023 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 3,951 |
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices October 30, 2023 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,258 |
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We can't afford for my spouse to move out, plus I don't think they could psychologically handle it. They are getting better, but I hate that my child hasn't been able to cope with this with their counselor. I'm at a loss as to what to do.
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The problem is that my child is struggling with what they have seen. They also know that if they report this to their counselor, there is a good chance CPS will be called.
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They are getting better, but I hate that my child hasn't been able to cope with this with their counselor.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 05, 2023 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 05, 2023 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Disappointed to see that r/regretfulparents has now gone private. I'm guessing too many CFers were posting there bragging about how they're glad they aren't parents, which they had a rule against doing.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 05, 2023 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,258 |
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My wife and I have been married for five years. She never wanted to have kids, and I respected her decision. I've always wanted to be a father, but I gave up that dream for her. Even with the use of condoms and her being on birth control, she ended up getting pregnant. Abortion is illegal in our country, so she has no choice but to have the baby. She's going through a rollercoaster of emotions, from anger and frustration to sadness and fear. I'm trying to support her the best I can. But deep down, I'm secretly happy about this pregnancy. I feel it's a chance to fulfill my desire to have a child, but I feel a bit guilty for this emotion. AITA?
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 08, 2023 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,258 |
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So my boyfriend and I are high school sweethearts, and have been together since freshman year of high school, we met when I was 15 and he was 16, we hit it off massively and pretty early on in the school year, and have stayed solid ever since. He has a strange relationship with his parents, he had a pretty strong and deep connection with his mother, that I have witnessed multiple times and I tease him sometimes about being a mamas boy, but he didn’t interact with his father much.
After we both graduated high school he decided to move in with me in my 2 bedroom apartment, we shared a room and used the other room as a game room where he would play his video games. So about 11 months ago my girl friend had a baby that I would help babysit when she had to work. So while babysitting that little bundle of joy I fell in love hard with that baby, and gained a massive baby fever, and I would constantly ask my boyfriend for him to give me a baby, until 6 months ago when he finally gave in and we started trying for a baby. Then after a few weeks of trying I was finally positive, and overjoyed to say the least. I remember crying for hours from excitement while on FaceTime with my girl friend. So one day my girl friend instructed us to go ultrasound done to see the baby’s gender.
I wanted a girl, but my boyfriend seemed pretty confident that we were going to have a boy. After the results came the doctor said we were having not one but two girls. I was obviously excited, but my boyfriend seemed upset, not like on the verge of tears, or raging upset but he seemed disappointed. I tried to ask him what was wrong, but he gave me the usual “Oh nothing babe I’m fine.” That was the same response he always gave me when he was upset or disappointed at something. Fast forward to present day, and I was discussing with my boyfriend on how are we going to tell our parents about the pregnancy. We talked about how he finds my dad “scary as hell”, and how he would be to scared to tell him. I told him that my dad maybe intimidating, but he’s a sorta kind person, and how he likes my boyfriend. Then the conversation shifted to him talking about how “my dad would be disappointed in him for not having a son”. Then I just reassured him that my dad wouldn’t think that about him and that he has the wrong idea of him.
Then I asked him if he was ok, or if he had something to tell me. Then he said No and that I was reading into it too much, and that it doesn’t mean he’s any less of a man because we didn’t have a boy. Which confused me, because I said nothing about him being any less of a man due to the fact we’re not having a boy, but he insisted on saying my father would be angry with him about not having a boy. He started worrying me so I asked him if had a social anxiety problem or something to make him think this way. He nervously said “No I’m just scared of what people think me.” Then I told him that what he just said literally describes society anxiety, but while I said that I noticed he started tearing up.
So I asked him what’s wrong and is everything okay, (btw this is also this is the first time I’ve ever seen him cry in the 10 years we’ve been together) after I asked him if he was ok, he started talking about how he wasn’t good enough for me, and how he wasn’t man enough for crying, and for not having a boy and how everyone was going to hate him for not being a true man. I tried to calm him down so we could talk this through, but he started crying harder and harder, as he started rambling about how his father wouldn’t accept him for being weak and not a true man, then he began to explain to me that his father would abuse him, and put this ideology in his head that true men only have boys true men don’t cry, and how my boyfriend would strive and try his hardest to get his father approval, but his father was never proud of anything he did. (To be honest is was kinda hard to understand most of what my boyfriend was saying as he cried but I think that’s the gist of it) While my boy was venting to me about his trauma he cried so hard his nose started bleeding and he passed out in my arms. What my boyfriend told kept me up so it pretty late when I’m writing this and I don’t know what to do.
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But why are we ignoring the "I begged him to give me a baby and be finally caved" and the "I immediately told my girl friend"?
This man was not ready to be a dad and you pressured the shit out of him because you got baby fever.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 09, 2023 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 11, 2023 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,258 |
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A couple of hours ago my husband (29) and I (28) where watching TV and I was nursing our daughter (3 months old).
He said that he wonders what it will be like when she is older. How he will feel when they sleep together in the same bed and cuddle together. He said he was worried that it might be weird. He asked me what it was like with my father and whether I cuddled with him or slept in bed with him. So I told him what it was like when I was a child. He's mentioned once or twice in the past that he's afraid he'll find her attractive because she looks just like me.
I had this conversation in mind when we spoke earlier and I must have made a funny face after we talked because he asked me what I was thinking. I told him honestly that I was worried that he might actually find her attractive in the future. And to clarify I told him that for me there is a difference between finding someone beautiful and being attracted to someone just so we are on the same page. Because he did use the word “attractive” in the past. This whole thing turned into a huge fight. He said that I fucked up big time, that I traumatized him by saying that and he will always think about this conversation when he will kiss or hold her and that I should have kept those worries to myself. He said that he is disappointed that I thought that he might want to do something to her which I never said! He also said that even if he’s going to think that she’s attractive that these are normal feelings and that everyone has them. He even told me that when he was a kid that he felt some type of way about his mother and that one day our daughter is going to feel the same way about him. He said that my father probably felt the same way about me or had some kind of thoughts about me. He said he would never ever do something with our daughter and he was really mad at me. I apologized and then he went to bed. I just don’t think that that’s right…. I can’t shake this feeling of disgust and anxiousness. I’m in bed with my daughter right now and all I want to do is hold her and never let go. I wish we never had this conversation.
And now I think about every joke and every comment he ever made about her or her body. He told me twice that if she has his mothers genes she’s going to have massive boobs. And that she’s probably going to have a big butt. Now I’m asking all the parents in here: is it normal to talk about this stuff to each other? Is it normal to think your kids are attractive? AITA for making him feel like he’s wrong in the head?
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 11, 2023 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,126 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 11, 2023 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,258 |
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Am I wrong for getting upset that my husband doesn’t change our baby girls diaper but he doesn’t have a problem with changing boy?!
My husband never changed our baby girls diaper not once and she’s 2 years old now. But my husband does change our baby boys diaper
I told him to change her diaper and he won’t. He says it makes him feel uncomfortable wiping and changing her diaper because she’s has female genitalia. He also doesn't bathe her, I am responsible for bath time for the kiddos. I’ve spoke to this with my friends and family and some of them think it’s normal for a man to feel this way. I guess I’m not the first wife to experience this but I just think it’s odd. A lot of men in my family were also like this, my father never changed a diaper but he never changed mine or my brothers diaper, it wasn’t strictly a gender thing. I just thought this wasn’t really a thing anymore. I thought maybe it’s because men are more sexual and they think about sex all the time and tend to over sexualize everything but I think it’s really weird that he’s doing the most about our baby girl??
One time he really went overboard with this weird phobia. He was alone with our baby girl and she pooped and she really needed a diaper change. He was in a public setting but even if he wanted to change her diaper he couldn’t because they don’t have changing tables in the men’s restroom (this is true I’ve been to this area before and they only have changing tables in the women’s rooms). So my husband drove to my mother’s house and she changed our daughter’s diaper and then he went home. I just thought this was so ridiculous. Luckily he isn’t really alone with our kids for a long period of time since my husband works most of the time and I’m a stay at home mom but this is just so ridiculous when I have to take a shower and he’s like “aren’t you going to change her first?”
My curiosity got the best of me and I started googling why a lot of men don’t like to change diapers and this was a common problem I saw a lot of people were having. It’s just crazy to me. I don’t feel weird changing my boys diaper but people are telling me it’s because women aren’t naturally perverted as much as men are.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 16, 2023 | Registered: 16 years ago Posts: 1,998 |
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If they refuse to change diapers because their child has a vagina, you know that also means they aren't bathing their daugthers for the same reason. Possibly also not dressing them either.
Now that I think about it, I'm kind of torn on whether or not this mindset is indicative of a pedo Duh. Because if he really truly was a Chester, he wouldn't express these feelings of discomfort coming into contact with his child's genitals. In fact, he might be a little too eager to change/bathe/dress the child because then he'd get access to the child's body to indulge his perversions. Unless he has a history of sex crimes against children he hasn't disclosed to Moo and doesn't want to go to jail if he can't control himself around his own child.
So it could legitimately be that he feels weird changing a female child because he's worried it will make him look like a pervert. In fairness, men can't even do shit like take their kids to the playground sometimes without some busybody Moo thinking they're pedos scoping out fresh meat.
Or, you know, he's just trying to find a way to do less as a parent. So doing the adult equivalent of, "ewww girls have cooties!" might get him out of diaper duty. Because if that sub has proven anything to me, it's that a lot of men are useless assholes who will do anything to get out of parenting, up to and including pretending to not know how to do basic things (and not bothering to try either) so Moo does them instead.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices November 18, 2023 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,258 |
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I(27,F) have been with my husband (29,M) for five years, married for three of those years. Our marriage was perfect and we were so happy. It felt like our entire life was perfect. Church on Sunday, loving husband, beautiful home, all of it. A few months into our marriage I became pregnant and my husband and I were overjoyed and so was the rest of our family. My husband was especially happy after finding out our baby was a boy as he'd always told me he wanted at least one son.
I even started to try to attempt to repair my relationship with my mother so our son could have a relationship with his grandparents. I had originally cut off most contact with my mother due to how she treated my brother when he married his husband, though my brother said he was alright with my decision to try to get her back in my life since he still has love for her and my baby was her first grandchild.
However our son ended up stillborn, and it broke me. I fell into a depression and even at one point considered taking my life, but my husband was there for me during all of it and we got through the grief. Our marriage felt stronger than ever and life started slowly feeling beautiful again, even if it no longer felt perfect.
About five months ago I found out I'm pregnant again, and then found out soon after that we're having triplets. My husband and I were over the moon and he was the most doting and loving husband. Since we had always said we wanted 2-3 children we agreed we wouldn't try for anymore children after this.
Because of our and our family's excitement for the triplets we decided to throw a baby shower and gender reveal party. We trusted my brother with the genders of the triplets and he bought some confetti cannons with the colored streamers inside.
The baby shower went wonderfully with my parents, in-laws, my brother and his husband and their daughter, and tons of friends and extended family. It was like a dream come true and I was so excited for the gender reveal. I don't care what the gender of our babies was I just wanted healthy little babies, but my husband was clearly excited for potentially three sons. When the time came me, my husband, and my brother all shot a confetti cannon and all three shot out pink confetti. I was so excited and so was my brother but my husband screamed at the top of his lungs and hit the table in front of us, hitting it so hard that it actually broke. He screamed at me that I was supposed to give him at least one son because I killed his first one.
That's when I burst into tears. I had been so broken up about our son's stillbirth and a part of me had felt it was my fault, and now he my husband was, the love of my life, telling me that it was. My brother immediately stepped in and tried to get my husband to calm down but my husband shoved my brother, so my brother instead pulled me inside where I cried in the living room while my husband's mother tried to calm him down. I could hear him screaming outside about how three daughters is too many, how he doesn't want four kids but he also wants a son.
Ever since that moment my husband has hardly talked to me. He's been sleeping in the guest room and when we do interact he's clearly upset and mad and tries to argue with me. I tried to talk to him about it and asked about how he'll be with our three daughters, but he spat at me and told me he will provide them shelter and food but he isn't interested in daughters and doesn't plan to have a close relationship with them. That sealed the deal that I want to divorce him and I cried myself to sleep last night.
Earlier today I confided in my mother and MIL about all this but they told me I can't divorce my husband just because he wants a son. I don't want my daughters to grow up in an unloving household where their parents constantly argue and their father doesn't love them. The moment my husband said I killed our son I felt as though I lost all love I had for him in an instant, and I don't want my daughters to be in that kind of household. However both my mom and MIL say it's just natural for men to want sons and that at least he isn't saying he'll mistreat them. They treated this as absolute fact and acted as though I'm just a silly little girl who doesn't know anything, I felt incredibly small and stupid.
I don't know what to do. My mother and MIL make me feel like maybe I'm overreacting to my husband's behavior, but my brother says this is not normal as he and his husband are both men who absolutely love their daughter. I'm also not sure of what I'll do with myself if I divorce my husband. I don't work and I'm not sure how I'll be able to find a job that can support me and three babies all on my own, or how I'll make time for all of them when I have to work. I feel so lost and helpless.
I'm torn on what to do because I worry divorce will be too brash of a decision and that maybe my mother and MIL are right. AITA? What should I do?