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Am I being silly,or do I have a point here?

Peaches1973's picture

Another shitty weekend at home due to all the crap I have to deal with resulting from BF (and I use the term loosely at this point) constantly indulging his kids.
Heres the most recent WTF?! situation:
My BD turned 18 in April,graduated HS in May and moved out in June.She is going to school to be a vet tech and working 2 jobs.
Since BF and I have been together (almost 3 yrs) he has promised her he will provide her with a car,not a new car,but one that he will get for cheap and fix up.Hes very good at mechanics so we beleived him.
As of a year and a half ago he had 'traded' for a few vehicles in succession,each of which he told her he would just have to do this this and this to and then she would have a car/truck.They are all still sitting in our front yard or his parents back lot.
A few months ago he purchased a small car (I think its a Datsun Z?) that he said would be for my daughter.Its a stick,my daughter cant drive a stick and he knows this.He said she needs to have her fiance teach her,fiance doesnt want to teach her.BF has always said he would make sure our daughters would know how to drive a stick.
His daughter just turned 16,she just got her license last week.Yesterday he traded a 5th wheel to his friend for a little Bronco for HIS daughter.Yes it runs,and its an automatic.
So here in our yard sits a car my daughter cant use while his precious angel gets a great ready-to-go vehicle.
Oh and my daughter lives about an hour from us where they get several feet of snow in winter which is fast approching.Where we live we will MAYBE get a few inches amd it melts away fast.So my kid will be driving a car that will not be safe in snow and his daughter gets the one thats better for snow.Huh.
Just FYI,neither myself nor my daughter ever asked him to provide a vehicle,he made those promises.He has also been saying for years now that they are not 'your kids' or 'my kids',they are 'our kids' and everything is equal.
We have hardly ever even brought it up cause when we do he just gets pissy as he doesnt like to be pressured,altho he has no problem making promises and then just sort of not doing anything to make them happen.Except when it comes to his kid of course.
Im not going to even tell my daughter about this because she will be hurt.But she will find out cause his daughter will get on FB and brag about it like she does everything else.I know this is going to make my kid feel like she is obviously not and never has been a priority.
Why doesnt my daughter get priority as she has been promised longer,lives where it snows and has a job as well as college?Why cant he just teach his precious angel to drive a stick and give her the little car?
It really sucks ass when WE as women are pushed aside for spoiled skids and their demands,whats way worse is when OUR kids are made to feel like shit because he just has to indulge his perfect,entited,spoiled brats.

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Peaches1973's picture

She isnt too far from school,but will be driving around alot between that and 2 jobs.
She doesnt need to come home so thats not really an issue.
Her fiance is my BF's nephew,which means that he has the same genes,which means he doesnt follow through with anything.
I cant drive a stick nor do I want to,he should be following through on his promise but hes not so I pretty much told my daughter a few weeks ago that she was just gonna have to accept that he wasnt going to do what he had promised and she was gonna be on her own for a vehicle.
If I could get one for her I would in a heartbeat.

StickAFork's picture

Can't you teach her to drive a stick?

Also, I'd buy my kid her own car. I wouldn't rely on some man - especially one who isn't her father - to buy one.

He shouldn't have said he'd do something if he wasn't prepared to do it. He was wrong for that. But it makes sense that he'd take care of his bio before his gf's kid, doesn't it?

Peaches1973's picture

I dont know how to drive a stick.
I cant afford to buy her a car,she knows this and so does BF,thats why he promised one to her.
He cant afford to buy one either but he does have things to trade and the ability to fix any vehicles up.
And no Im sorry,but it doesnt make sense to me,not when he promised.Its a very shitty thing to do IMO.I wouldnt make any promise I dont intend to keep.Especialy to a kid.
Especialy when he has no problem making sure his kid gets the better deal.I dont expect my kid to have the better deal,I expect it to be equal as he claims it is.

StickAFork's picture

I totally agree. He shouldn't have made a promise he wasn't going to keep. (Although I gathered there IS a car for her, but a stick, right? If so, jump in and learn. The worst that will happen is you need to replace the clutch afterward. Smile )

This is your boyfriend, right? No marriage? He is going to put his DD first, and rightly so. (He still shouldn't have lied.) This sounds like it's time for you and your DD to figure something out. She's working 2 jobs, and I presume you work, too. Perhaps you two can work together to save a little each check and then buy something really cheap? Or... if there really is a stick available to her, can BF sell that one and replace it with an automatic?
Don't know where you lived, but if it was close, I'd teach you the stick. They aren't that hard to learn, but I think they intimidate people.

Peaches1973's picture

She and I have both tried.We sooo suck at coordination lol.Im sure some day she will get it,but until then the point is she has no car to get to school and work,while his daughter has a car that she doesnt even need.

Peaches1973's picture

She and her fiance share a car,he has a job and at that time she just had school and one job.Now she has 2 jobs but they will make it work.They just have to.
Or her fiance will get the little stick and drive that and she will drive his car,which needs tires and is no better in snow.
So basicaly BF bought his nephew a car lol.

Unfreakingreal's picture

Because I am a very controlling human being I would never give my DH or BF or whatever the case may be the satisfaction of disappointing my child. I'd find a way to buy my own kid a car with my own money. But that's just ME.