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| So Monday night BM called to make plans to take the kids this weekend. We said sure. SD has a game you will need to take her to on Sat. morning, but the rest of the weekend is free. Of course BM sounded upset that she may have to drive the 10min from her house to sd's school for the game! She made the comment that she may only be able to take the other 2 kids.
So yesterday she calls and says that she did not realize that Saturday was Valentine's Day and she has plans so she will not be taking the kids for the weekend. I told her that we also had plans because she committed to taking the kids. She then said well "I can not take them". I replied with "thats ok we do EVERYTHING for the kids anyways so you go ahead and enjoy Valentine's Day without them...they are used to being disappointed by you and you are used to not seeing them anyways!" Then I hung up. I am tired of being nice to her. I am tired of biting my tongue. Last night we told the kids the truth, that their mom called and said since it was Valentine's Day and she forgot she had plans she was not taking them. The girls looked shocked. Asked why BM did that? We said we are not sure but they can ask her when they speak to her next time. |
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- Posted by gardenandcats (My Page) on Thu, Feb 12, 09 at 8:57
| Good for you! I think you handled it right.. |
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- Posted by organic_maria (My Page) on Thu, Feb 12, 09 at 9:19
| I knew she would scr*w you over from last week post! Good for you for telling her off and calling her on her tactics of not seeing the kids. I suggest that you do not cancel your night for valentine's day. i think you should go out for a romantic dinner with your husband and then the next day take the entire family out to celebrate valentines as a family. My Sd also tried last weekend to pull a fast one with a remark for this weekend. She said that shoudl would like him ot come up and pick her up that day! |
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| We are going to have to cancel our plans. We had nothing really set in stone. Just had talked about dinner and a movie. But we don't leave my 14yo sd in charge of all the kids for more than running to the grocery store or anything. And our family members will have plans I am sure. So we will probably just have a night with the kids that night and do our night out another night. The good thing is everyone will be home for breakfast. I knew my son would be home that morning because he has not been going to his dads till Sat. nights and I had figured my skids would be home. I had bought some cute Valentine's Day plastic wine glasses at the dollar store to put juice in for the kids. And we got each of them a card. And I have some heart shaped pans I was going to use to make pancakes. So I am sure we will have a good day. Just mad that BM gets to say she won't take them because she has plans. Would be nice if we could just drop them off on her doorstep and say you HAVE to take them today. LOL |
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| When I was with my first husband his 5 year old daughter was dropped off with us 1 week before she started school. The drop off was proceeded by a phone call about 20 minutes before her mother brought her over with a suit case. The suit case had clothes in it not fit to send a child to school in. We had her every other weekend up to that point and had purchased clothing for her at times but you all know how that goes. You never see it once it leaves your house. I took her shopping right away and off to kindergarten she went a week later. I was 20 years old. Her mom would call on the Friday night before her visitation...maybe 9 at night and say that she had plans and would not be picking daughter up the next morning for her weekend. We would have plans, as you try to and have to cancel. I can't count the number of times she did this or just stood her daughter up while the little girl stood on the couch, suit case packed, waiting to see her mom's car pull up. It makes you sick. I feel for you guys. You may expect it from BM but no one ever gets used to it. It is cruel. |
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- Posted by stargazzer (My Page) on Thu, Feb 12, 09 at 10:41
| Have you thought about telling her she needs to tell her kids herself. You should screen the calls and let the kids answer it when she calls. Sounds as if she is making you the bad guy because she can't face them. If she had to tell them herself she might think twice before breaking her promises. |
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- Posted by silversword (My Page) on Thu, Feb 12, 09 at 10:58
| Believer..."I can't count the number of times she did this or just stood her daughter up while the little girl stood on the couch, suit case packed, waiting to see her mom's car pull up." This mental picture brought tears to my eyes. I agree with Star... "Sounds as if she is making you the bad guy because she can't face them. If she had to tell them herself she might think twice before breaking her promises." |
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- Posted by justnotmartha (My Page) on Thu, Feb 12, 09 at 12:43
| I think you did the right thing. No more sugar coating BM - let the kids - especially the two who think she is a queen - see how much you have been propping her up on her throne. It's time to understand who and what they are dealing with. It's sad, but SD has been so much 'easier,' for lack of a better word, since we stopped making excuses for her mom and let her see who she really is. Sorry about your plans, but it sounds like you will have a fun day anyway. |
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- Posted by momof5angels (My Page) on Thu, Feb 12, 09 at 14:43
| Good for you, mom2!! BM's behavior is ridiculous but will never improve if she isn't called on it!!! Hopefully she has a sucky weekend knowing that she chose to not get her children for her own selfish reasons. |
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| What I do not understand is that she has 3 other kids that do live with her. I doubt she is able to get rid of them for the day so what difference would it make to have her other 3 children there? Oh well. I will never understand what she is thinking about anything! I do like the idea of having the kids answer the phone when she calls to cancel even if she is calling my cell! |
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- Posted by lovehadley (My Page) on Thu, Feb 12, 09 at 17:28
| ""Sounds as if she is making you the bad guy because she can't face them. If she had to tell them herself she might think twice before breaking her promises." I think this is a really good idea! |
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| I told my EX that I would not sugar coat his relationship with the kids after we divorced. I told him that it was his responsibility and he would get out of it what he put into it........BREAKING NEWS FLASH!!!!.....my DS16 hasn't spoken to him in over 3 years and DD20 sees him about twice a year. He is reaping what he has sown. Of course he blames them....shocking....right. I would tell him...."Love is a VERB! An action word. These kids know what love looks like, what it feels like and how to give it. They know when they aren't getting it."....He never listened. It is painful to watch....I would try and have a plan "B". For your sake as well as theirs and I agree with the others....Let the BM tell her children herself that she is not coming. Eventually they will stop making plans with her. My SD30 went 7 months without talking to her mom when she was about 9. Her mom moved and didn't give us her new address or phone number. SD30 would cry to me about her mom. How much she missed her. It was awful. I finally started dialing her moms # and handing SD the phone. Even after hearing her DD crying for her BM didn't change things. My SD30 said once when she was 5..."My mom threw me out just like the garbage." Talk about heartbreaking! I think I stayed in that marriage for her. |
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| you're so sweet-and i think you said exactly what needed to be said to the nutty ex. i feel for you! maybe instead you shouldn't buy into 'valentine's day' being on the 14th. maybe you and your sweet hubby could do dinner on a night where you both could stay up a little later-that could be romantic, too. plus the restaurants are going to be much less crowded and the movie theaters too...so you guys could make out like teenagers with fewer people watching. ;o) wink, wink!! just one more thing-the kids at this age (or kids in general) will NEVER understand why their more responsible parent (their dad) and the step-mom choose to protect them from their own mom being a biotch. they're not going to understand...you'll see them cry, you get to be the bad guy then mom shows up to be the hero...you get the MOST THANKLESS JOB EVER!! but the kids will be adults for a lot longer than they'll be kids. and as adults they'll understand (hopefully) why you did what you did. and they'll love and respect you more. i know that eating it SUCKS, big time, but they'll figure it out later and love you more for behaving like the adult. make sure that what you do decide to tell them is truth they can handle and understand. make sure they're old enough. you'll be better off in the long run, and so will they. happy valentines day...saturday, wednesday, sometime in july, whenever yours happens to be!! xxx |
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| Mom2- I've said it to you before....I know your pain. Belivers story about the child with the packed suitcase at the window waiting for the car that never arrives perfectly paints the picture. The girls went through it so many times. Mom hardly ever shows up at all anymore. We never tell the girls when she's in town so if she's a no show they never know the difference. We got sick of watching the dissapointment on their faces when the sun was going down and the realization hit them that mom never showed up. They wouldn't give up hope untill we told them it was time for bed. |
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