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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 20, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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I've posted here in the past (a few years ago) but lost the account I used, so here I am starting over. This is hella long, forgive me.
I love my oldest child. I would lay down my life for him. I have taken actual beatings for him. I also fucking hate him.
He's making everyone around him miserable. He tortures his younger brother for fun (picks fights, teases him, takes/breaks anything that means something to him). He's destructive just because he can be. Like there's no way I'm getting my security deposit back- if he doesn't wind up getting us evicted at the rate he's going. Every time he makes friends, he ends up ostracizing himself because they don't want to be associated with them, or they want to whoop his ass.
He refuses to attend school, even after he's already been retained a year (the struggles with his education got a million times worse with covid). He refuses to participate in therapy or allow a psych to prescribe him any form of adhd meds (he was on them, pediatrician stopped filling script w/o updated pysch eval, and psych refused to sign off on a stimulant because kid admitted to occasionally using marijuana, and he refuses to stop even short term). He does steal from me/family though usually minor things like lighters, sodas, chargers, and for some reason he's always swiping flashlights.
He has zero respect for anyone at all, no matter how kind or generous they are to him. He has almost zero impulse control. He uses his diagnoses (ADHD, ODD, minor auditory processing disorder, and now possible CPTSD- awaiting a second opinion on this one) as an excuse for ALL of his negative actions. He KNOWS right from wrong. He's s very intelligent child. If he doesn't see his brother all day, he'll ask where he is or go looking for him "to make sure he's okay" but as soon as he's around him for more than a few minutes, he's back to treating my youngest like shit. He's a massive slob; constantly leaves trash wherever it falls, will literally sleep on garbage if he doesn't feel like getting up, refuses to shower for weeks at a time, even when the one or two friends he has tell him he absolutely reeks.
He's gotten too big for me to physically force him to do anything (pushing 6' and 230 lbs). His father is incarcerated for absolutely horrendous crimes and isn't expected to be eligible for parole until 2033. The school and DCF are useless. I've begged for help but "nobody can make him do anything". I've even asked for truancy to step in and they never follow through. I can't have him sent to any sort of state facility for delinquency because he never quite pushes the boundaries enough to get himself arrested, so he never ends up in front of a judge (required for certain types of commitment in the state of FL).
I had him Baker Acted last year when he threatened to kill himself after not getting his way when he didn't clean up like I asked him to while I was at work. They sedated him long enough to get him to go to sleep and stop causing a ruckus for everyone else, but didn't even end up keeping him 24 hours because he wouldn't cooperate with them. Nobody else wants him around their homes or their own kids... that is except my ex who is in active meth addiction and already showing long term effects of said usage. I can't get any family to even take him for a week let alone the summer just so my youngest and I can breathe for a minute.
I've tried bargaining. I've taken everything away. I've tried preemptive rewards. I've threatened. I've walked away. I've talked for hours and hours. Nothing gets through to this kid. I can't afford to send him to any sort of therapeutic facility and the only ones that offer any sort of funding in part or full are heavily bigoted Christian based schools/camps (we're agnostic at best).
I have turned into a person I'm beginning to hate because I just can't stand to be around him anymore. I'm horribly reactive and I'm just becoming mean. I cry every freakin day. I hate coming home, but the longer I'm gone, the worse he is. I've had to cut my hours back at work so as not to leave him on his own too long and I'm barely keeping us fed at this point.
My partner, the saint that he is (we don't live together), has asked to take him for a few days or even a few weeks but honestly, I think this kid will break him and he has a lot on his plate as it is. They've met a few times briefly, but my bf is in agony watching me struggle with this kid and I know he just wants to try to get through to him. I trust him 1000%. It's my kid I don't trust. He could push the Dalai Lama to unalive an entire generation.
I don't know what the hell to do anymore.
TLR; My kid might be the next Ted Bundy and I'm almost ready to wash my hands of him.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 20, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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freya
I really hope someone on the fence reads your very graphic and accurate portrayals of the day in a life of a parent and opts out completely of child rearing Cambion. One can hope, at least.Quote
Cambion
Nobody - absolutely nobody - daydreams about the joys of changing the 15th diaper of the day because the child has explosive diarrhea and shits down its legs, or sleeping two hours per week, or having a brat that is allergic to every fucking formula in existence and won't suck a tit, or having to melt down in the parking lot because there isn't a single pack of diapers in town and your only option is to pay ten times as much for a pack on Craigslist, or the huge wedge being driven into their relationship with their partner because the brat prevents them from spending time together as a couple, or spending three hours trying to get the fucker to eat a tablespoon of food, only for them to puke it back up (on you, usually), or being covered in every bodily fluid imaginable and you just get so used to it that you don't even care that you have someone else's shit in your hair and someone else's urine down your shirt. This isn't even a comprehensive list - this is like the first two weeks of the loaf's life! And it does not improve - it changes, but not for the better. Parenthood is like freeing yourself from quicksand and immediately stepping into wet cement, and then into tar once you get out of the cement - you overcome one issue and sink into another. Or even worse, you stay stuck in quicksand and someone starts handing you cinder blocks because your life just doesn't suck enough. Then you just stay stuck there, under too much weight to escape, but not enough weight to kill you.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 21, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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Not my piece of pizza, not my phone, not my tablet, not my journaling stuff, not my body, not using the bathroom, not getting into the car, not my clothes, not my tablet not a bath, not my shoes, not my purse, not my tv, not doing the dishes, not sleeping. Nothing. I am never alone, I can never pursue any of my interests, I can never get a moments fucking peace. Every minute of every fucking hour my daughter is spent awake is fucking mental gymnastics of how I can get through it as painless as possible. I carried her for 9 months and now she's 2 years and some change and I can't get her to wean, my body hasn't been mine for 3 years. I can't leave the house without her, I can't even take a bath while she screams on the other side of the door.
I feel like fucking flaying the skin off my body.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 21, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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The missing mum came back another 40 mins later and was furious we hadn’t watched her children for her. There was a security guard behind her and her children were with him. She raged that as we were a toy shop (we weren’t really) her children should have been fine to play on our stand while she made contacts for her new business. I had to explain that we were a business too, not a nursery, and that none of the items on our stand were intended for (or safety tested for) under 14s, also that she hadn’t asked us to watch her kids. She got VERY loud and personal about our failings to her children when she’d abandoned them in a huge corporate event and even asked for “something” for her kids trouble. It turns out security, after reuniting her with the kids, had only allowed her back in the hall to collect a bag she said she’d left on our stand. We said no, they said get out and she left red faced and screaming.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 21, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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freya
I really hope someone on the fence reads your very graphic and accurate portrayals of the day in a life of a parent and opts out completely of child rearing Cambion. One can hope, at least.Quote
Cambion
Nobody - absolutely nobody - daydreams about the joys of changing the 15th diaper of the day because the child has explosive diarrhea and shits down its legs, or sleeping two hours per week, or having a brat that is allergic to every fucking formula in existence and won't suck a tit, or having to melt down in the parking lot because there isn't a single pack of diapers in town and your only option is to pay ten times as much for a pack on Craigslist, or the huge wedge being driven into their relationship with their partner because the brat prevents them from spending time together as a couple, or spending three hours trying to get the fucker to eat a tablespoon of food, only for them to puke it back up (on you, usually), or being covered in every bodily fluid imaginable and you just get so used to it that you don't even care that you have someone else's shit in your hair and someone else's urine down your shirt. This isn't even a comprehensive list - this is like the first two weeks of the loaf's life! And it does not improve - it changes, but not for the better. Parenthood is like freeing yourself from quicksand and immediately stepping into wet cement, and then into tar once you get out of the cement - you overcome one issue and sink into another. Or even worse, you stay stuck in quicksand and someone starts handing you cinder blocks because your life just doesn't suck enough. Then you just stay stuck there, under too much weight to escape, but not enough weight to kill you.
I really really do too, and also goes to show that you don't have to have "been there and done that" in regard to having kids to understand how they work and how much work they are. You don't have to be a gorilla either to know how they behave - you just have to watch them. It's called observation, and while there are some specific things you can only fully understand through first-hand experience, simply observing things is an exceptional (and often times free) teacher.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 21, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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What a fucking trainwreck. Kid is violent and has autism, won't take meds, allegedly could not be Baker Acted for the full 72 hours because he refused to cooperate with mental health providers, won't take prescribed medications, steals everything, has no impulse control but has enough marbles to be able to blame all his bad decisions on his autism, torments his younger brother for funsies. She's also mad that she "can't" put him in a nut house because all the ones nearby are heavily religious and her famblee is not (at this point, who the fuck cares as long as she can find a storage facility for her mental awtard), and that nobody in her family will step up and take him for a week to give her a break (haha that's cute, respite workers cost $40 an hour Moo, nobody's doing that shit for free).
I do feel sorry for the woman because nobody expects to have a brat this fucked, but it's always a chance you take when you reproduce. This is one of those times when I think it would be best for everyone involved to euthanize the brat because he's not going to get better - he's just going to get worse, especially since he refuses to accept treatment for his myriad of personality disorders. He sounds like he has enough sense to find his way home that if she just throws him out on his ass to fend for himself, he'll come back and kill the whole family.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 21, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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freya, the only thing that comes to mind with these damn asshole kids who run off at the first opportunity and hide... is they think they're so smart and all that happens is they outsmart themselves...
for whatever reason, I think the number of perverts has risen sharply in the last two decades. despite the figures, I do think the risk is higher then 20 years ago and beyond. it may well be normal behaviour..now... 10,000 years ago with a lot more predators around than now, the child that did that would end up dinner for one of them. I think almost the same is now but the predators are humans. at least the technical term is. these pervs that attack children should be impaled, their dick cut off (or some part), and have it shoved in their mouth and left for everyone to see. i would also include abusive parents that kill in this as well
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 21, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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The 'JustNO' reddits are a good source too.. Here's another idiot who should have run years ago. Instead she tries and tries and tries to get knocked up. Of course, now she's terrified (as well as she should be because of her spineless dick of a partner...
Need a place to vent. My MIL is literally going to ruin our lives.
I'm not really looking for advice, moreso came here to vent. Also my MIL is not my husband's biological mother. She is his great grandmother but she raised him so for all intents and purposes that's his mom and who I view as my MIL.
She is 98 years old and she lives with us. My husband financially supports her and in general does everything for her like take her to doctors appointments, etc. This woman is still pretty independent and is mobile. She doesn't have dementia or any serious medical conditions. She's just really old.
She has 2 daughters who live in the area but they don't do anything for her. All of her caretaking falls solely on my husband. One of the daughters is very aggressive and is an extremely hateful person. She has always hated me and she hates my husband too.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 21, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Of course we also had inventions that would probably be considered child abuse today, like playpens. (Because "good mommies" are supposed to let their kids be up their asses 24/7.) I do not see what's wrong with sticking your kid in one (it keeps them safe) while you do something you have to do, as long as you don't put them there for hours and neglect them. Isn't that better than parking them in front of a tablet or something electronic while their brains are developing? Also I do not see what's wrong with telling your kid to amuse himself/herself for a while? That's what we did as kids and it gave us active imaginations. When I was older I loved to read.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 21, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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If I was a first time car buyer I wouldn't just buy a car. I'd look at the cost of the car, the cost of insurance, maintenance, gas, where I'm going to store the car, etc. prior to buying it. I think many people do more research on buying a car than having a brat. And a brat is for 18-25+ years.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 22, 2022 | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 2,727 |
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From Fundiland
I’m new to the group and would love some honest input. My husband and I have been together for over seven years. I’ll admit, we got married a little quickly and now we’re in a rough season. He was incarcerated for a while. Once he came home, he realized that he’s no longer ready for marriage and in no shape to live this marriage out in the way God designed it to be. He needed to “find himself” (his words). He told me he is still struggling sexually and would like to experience threesomes and yearns to flirt with other women. He said he wants to experience life a little more before settling down and living God’s way. I respected his honesty and told him we could legally separate. He was okay with that but makes comments about me not truly loving him because I choose not to “stand by his side and love him through his struggles “ (his words). I can’t bring myself to sit back while my spouse experiences other women trying to “find himself”. Living under the same roof while he messes around with other women. I would feel so disrespected. I have prayed about this continuously and still can’t understand what God what’s me to do here. I just want to release him.
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freya, couple of things... point out to these idjets that they saw the trainwreck coming and did not get out of the way... they whine that you are victim blaming.
I also made the comment at one point that l learned from observation of people and their kids NOT to have any. Some lamebrain, had to have been a breeder, came back with the usual shit..'you don't know what it is to deal with a crrryiiinnngg baaabeeee that won't shut up for hours.'. I went right back at the dummy. I only experienced this once when I babysat. baby would not stop crying the entire time. turns out the fucker had eaten a cigarette and finally threw up close to the time the parents returned. That was 'no, this will NEVER be for me on a daily basis'...told her that. I also said I observed the tantrumers, ill behaved, and 'nope I will never subject myself to this'. "so don't tell me one can't learn from observing". stupid breeders
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 24, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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I don’t want to throw that term out lightly. But let me explain myself.
I LOVE. My child. Unconditionally. I look at him when he’s happy and just fawn. He’s so adorable. So goofy. So funny. He’s my BABY. He’s my little Angel.
But he is the source of all my unhappiness. And part of my happiness at the same time. He is making my life miserable. He doesn’t sleep. I’m sleep deprived. My life revolves around him. I get no time for myself. He’s impossible to set down for a nap. In a way, I resent him. I have post partum depression. I want to run away from my life.
Like yeah it was my choice to have a child, I brought HIM into the world, he didn’t have a say in it. But from what it sounds like, many many babies are far easier than he is. He finally doesn’t scream all day since we are on the right formula and his reflux has been fixed, but I’m traumatized from that portion of his life. I’m traumatized from countless hours bouncing on an exercise ball to soothe him.
It’s just a very strange dichotomy of being so in love with someone yet they’re the source of all of your mental torture. I hope that makes sense and isnt offensive. Maybe not abuse, just trauma. It really just… hurts in my soul. Because I want to enjoy him, but he’s making my life miserable. Then he smiles and I just coo all over him and kiss his little face.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 25, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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It literally takes from 7 to 11pm-12am to get her in bed and I'm about to scream. I'm so angry and frustrated and sick of fighting her to sleep. I tried everything I can think of besides balancing on my head and spinning. I am exhausted because my other child wakes up at 530, so I'm literally never off or able to unwind. I need help.
I've done routine where we go to eat dinner take a bath read a bedtime story and go to sleep which she doesn't sleep I've done melatonin I've done crying it out I've done getting everything that she asked me to get her I've tried new sheets I've tried night light I've tried TV in the room I've tried music in the room I have tried laying down with her until she falls asleep I've tried everything
I had to walk away tonight because I haven't slept more than 5 hours at a time and im so ANGRY she just won't close her damn eyes and SLEEP!!!!!!! Does anyone have any ideas.
A few weeks ago I said fuck it and didn't fight her and she was awake til 4 am If I wait til 8 or 9 she's up til 1 or 2. Talked to the doctor and they said to go outside and get more active
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