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Tired of his adult kids taking advantage

Violet845's picture

This is a long one, but I need to vent..I've been with my bf for about a year now, he's divorced with 3 adult children. 2 daughters, 21& 24 and a 27 year old son, I don't have any kids. My bf is very giving, and is always willing to help someone but it also gets him taken advantage of. His 27 year old son still lives at home & he allowed his cousin, also in his 20s, to move in because he lost his license & car in a DUI crash. His cousin's stay was supposed to be temporary, but it's not looking like it. For a while my bf son & cousin were pretty much running his house...smoking, drinking, having friends over & it practically turned into house parties. They were bringing random girls to the house and my bf didn't always know about it. The final straw was when I spent the night & my bf and everyone else left for work. I thought I was home alone but while I was eating breakfast, some random girl came walking downstairs from his son's room said hi to me then left. I told my bf that really bothered me, along with all of the smoking & noise being made in the house by his son & cousin. He said he was sick of it too, I told him it's time to put his foot down, he spoke with them & it stopped for a few weeks. His son started seeing a girl regularly so the traffic stopped with the randoms. One Sunday my bf and I were relaxing in the house, his son came home with his gf..next thing all these cars start pulling up and they're having a little get together in the backyard. One of his son's friends walked in from the backyard, didn't speak & went straight into the kitchen helping himself to my plates & bowls I had in there. I went up to him and asked him what he was looking for and if he wants something use plastic not my glass dishware. I told my bf about it he seemed like he didn't want to be bothered with it..so I snapped at him and he eventually got up and spoke to his son & friends. That was the last time his son & cousin had any company at the house. Now all these two do is sit upstairs in their rooms when they aren't at work. They don't help my bf do a thing around the house, they still smoke cause I smell it often, but they just deny it when my bf confronts them about it. My bf gave them until the beginning of August to move out, it's almost September & the two of them are still here. His cousin is cordial with me & speaks, but his son says little or nothing to me at all. I had a long conversation with my bf 24 year old daughter about everything & she told me her brother isn't happy at all that his parents are divorced. Since he feels that way then he should move out..he's pushing 30 and wants to live this bachelor lifestyle under his father's roof. He doesn't bother to sit down and have dinner with any of us when my bf cooks, same with holidays. He either says he doesn't celebrate or takes a plate of food and goes up to his room. His behavior is disrespectful, & if he wants to live so separate from everyone then he should do so in his own place. 

I get along fine with my bf 24 year old daughter, we speak often but she makes some really bad decisions in her dating life. She likes "bad boys" & there is always some drama going on with her. His 21 year old talks to me somewhat..she manipulates my bf all the time with tears & a sob story and he's always falling for it. Meanwhile she's on social media (she added me to her page) posting all types of sexually explicit pics & jokes but then cries to her daddy that life is so hard. A couple months ago, she posted that she can't wait to move out of her apartment, days later, she texted my bf claiming there was a shootout at her building and she needed to move right away. Later that night, here she was with her bags & dog moving in. Good thing it was only for about a month, she just left for college to live on campus an hr and a half away. We're watching her dog for her until she can get it registered as a service dog. Two days ago she posted something saying she wasn't expecting to be homesick so soon, then just as I figured she called my bf last night crying saying she's homesick and wants to see her dog. She hasn't even been gone for a week and is already starting with her mess. Nearly every single weekend she cooks up some story which always ends up in her needing to stay at the house. 

What annoys me is the fact that these are adults in their 20s and they're so attached to my bf and being in the house. On their days off they sit in the house all day, I never see anyone come by to pick them up and take them anywhere, or just go hangout like 20 something year old kids should. I work for an airline & my schedule is pretty flexible so sometimes I'm home alot, I even put them on my benefits and only his 24 year old daughter uses them. What is it going to take for them to get a life of their own & stop being up under their father so much? Their mother is not in a good place right now, she got caught cheating on their father multiple times which is why they're divorced. Since she's been gone she's been struggling with housing & money cause his kids  tell him that she's asking them for help nearly all the time. Because of this, everything falls on my bf, I commend him for taking care of his kids but at the same time they need to start being more independent & let him live a little. I let my bf talk me into leaving my place to live with him & I feel like I made a big mistake. He wants to downsize and move into a smaller place for a year then have a house built & remarry. I told him I'm not trying to make any plans like that right now because of the chaos & disrespect going on in this house currently. When this house is empty and the two grown men he has living in the house leave, then we can make future plans.

Winterglow's picture

Ask him why he doesn't love his kids enough to push them into adulthood, so they can be independent,  self-sufficient adults. Ask him what kind of a kick he gets from allowing them to depend on him. They're old enough to have decent jobs, their own homes, partners an even children of their own. What's in it for him to encourage them to live like teenagers?

Violet845's picture

Exactly..he's too much of a people pleaser & doesn't do confrontation well either. He got into it again with his son about moving out a week ago, and now his son really isn't speaking to him. Last night we argued because his youngest daughter called him while we were out at the county fair telling him about her homesick nonsense. She was getting ready to head up our way but he must have told her to hold off until today cause she just showed up. It's the fact that she just assumes he isn't doing anything on a Friday night and decides to invite herself over. I keep telling him there needs to be better communication & boundaries set.

2Tired4Drama's picture

You've been in your relationship approximately a year. That isn't very long considering your BF has all these additional people in his life and his living situation is impacted by them.

I would not have moved in to his house. 

If your BF is a people pleaser who does not like confrontation, I don't think it is reasonable to expect that he will be changing his domestic situation any time soon. It sounds like he makes a small attempt to gain control, then backslides once one of his kids pushes him. This is not going to change any time soon.

All you can do at this point is decide you are going to live the way you have been or move out and get your own place. If it were me, I'd move out. You don't have to end your relationship, you can still date your BF but it will be in YOUR place with YOUR rules. Meaning, no freeloaders allowed. 

Oh and one more thing ... I'd immediately take all these losers off my flying benefits.  All you need is for one of them to take you up on the offer, and cause some sort of stink while flying and it could upend your job/career.  

Violet845's picture

I have started looking online for 1 bedroom apartments for myself, because I made it clear to him my home is not a hangout or a hotel like he runs his place. That was my mistake thinking he would really put these two grown men out of his house before moving me in, but I will fix it and get my own place again. I told him last night I refuse to move anywhere else with him because just like you said, it's not going to change. These big babies will find a way to follow him and move their way back in.

Rags's picture

Succubus or Incubus Skidults who are sucking parasitically on mommy or daddy seem to have an aversion to their parent and their new mate being intimate.

So...... drive them out with regular wild passion any time of the day or night. They are barnacles in the primary home of the new relationship even if it was their childhood home.

So, make it about you and your mate and the failure to launch failed family progeny can realize that they are irrelevant in the life and relationship of their parent and the parents mate.

Diablo

Dirol

Cath5213's picture

Wow, it sounds like it is time for your BF & yourself to move out of that house lol and let those kids pay for the rent/mortgage of wherever they are staying. It sounds like it is more of their house than your house!

Did you know what the situation was like before you moved in? I wouldn't be tolerating his kids having people over whenever, without your BF/you knowing. Of course his kids would be resentful of you, because before you came along your BF never cared for that. Or even if he did, he didn't care enough to confront them because he's anticonfrontational. Now that you're in the picture and there's rules and certain expectations, they know it all comes from you, and not him. So of course they'll retaliate and won't like you.

I would tell him if his kiddos aren't moving out and there's no certain end dates, that I'd be moving out. I wouldn't be tolerating having to live in a house where I'm not in control of who comes/goes, etc. Talk to him again, but ultimately that should be your end goal. Maybe you guys can just move out and transfer the lease over to their names & let them pay for themselves. And they could just get evicted if they don't pay. At that point of course don't ever tell them where you guys live and have all the doors and windows locked LOL. 

Violet845's picture

You are so right, they were running the house..I wasn't aware of the company his son would randomly have at the house before I moved in. My bf put an end to that after the last time I went off about his son's friend helping himself to my things in the kitchen. There hasn't been a random get together since that day which was a few months ago.

Violet845's picture

It all came to a head Saturday night when his 21 yr old daughter decided to come up here anyway claiming she was "homesick" after being gone for college (1hr 30 min away) less than a week. I came in from taking a walk and her dog was in our bed, while she was upstairs in my bf game room. I said if she misses this dog so much she needs to take her upstairs with her. I told him I'm sick of being in a house full of 20 something year olds especially on weekends. They all have jobs and their own cars, but they decide on spending all of their free time here?!? WHY?!? Why aren't they going out and having fun like most people their age do? I told him his youngest is manipulating him & plays on his soft spot. She has zero respect for herself from her nasty sexual fb posts to never being fully dressed when she comes over. Walks around the house all the time in some little bra top and tiny shorts, sorry if I sound like an old granny, but my father always taught me that was inappropriate.

 

 It's mainly the 21 & 27 year old and the cousin. His 24 year old has been on her own doing her own thing..I let it be known it's time for them to follow her lead and get out or I'll just find myself a single man that lives ALONE, and get my own place as well.I'm sick of not being able to lounge around the house & relax the way I want to cause one of them is always in the way! I'm tired of the awkward energy from his son & daughter barely speaking to me cause I know they're upset my bf left their cheating mother,  & they do not like him being with me..but that is not my problem!! Their mother has been out of the picture, living her life & dating other men so their father can't live his life as well?!? His daughter heard it all, took her dog, her things, and left back to college & deleted me off of her Facebook & I couldn't care less lol...she needed to hear it, I can see right through her bs..she is always lying to get her way and it's old. She's on social media taking pics with her legs spread wide open saying "you got one shot at this don't miss." Then expects to be coddled like a baby by her father..girl bye.

Once we calmed down my bf and I had a talk and went to church on Sunday. I'm glad we went because it felt like the pastor's sermon was meant for him..she preached about making changes in your life, not letting the past trip you up, if you're the people pleasing type it's time to stop. He enjoyed it and even got teary eyed cause he knows it's time to make changes. We got home and he deep cleaned his game room that his daughter was staying in with her dog. She had the room smelling awful, & the water in the vacuum was black after he cleaned it. He put up a no smoking sign on the upstairs bathroom door, his cousin & son got upset about it lol. He told them Sept 1st is coming real soon when they need to be out of here. He has also been scaling back on cooking large Sunday dinners because none of them appreciate it at all. Nearly every week they would call him & ask if he was going to cook, he would say yes spend nearly $200 in groceries, cook all of the food and they would just sit there and play on their phones. When they were good and ready they would take maybe two bites of food then go up to their rooms. No one would clean, put anything up, or even thank him for cooking that meal. They did nothing for him on Father's Day either. I've been opening his eyes to alot of their bs and he's coming around little by little.

I know it's hard for him to let go but I told him this is it. They are using him for their benefit and all of it has to stop. If his son & cousin are not out by next weekend I gotta go! I've already looked at crash pads for airline employees which is a cheaper living arrangement I can stay at to save my money & find my own place again. We'll see what happens..

 

2Tired4Drama's picture

You need to IMMEDIATELY get all these freeloaders off of your flying privileges!  Now that you are shaking things up, I wouldn't put it past any of them to use the benefits and get you screwed over with your job somehow.  You don't need immature, vindictive skids anywhere near your job. 

If you haven't already done it, I would do it TODAY.

 

Harry's picture

It's all show to get you off his back.  These kids must move out.  Once SS and his Cousins move out and you have a few weeks of peace. SD can come for the weekend by herself no dog. 

CLove's picture

The parasites need a new host. Take yourself off the host list for parasites. Do a cleanse. Move out. Take care of you.

Violet845's picture

My bf put up a no smoking sign upstairs where his son & cousin are staying. His son wrote "you're trolling" on the sign. My bf saw it when he came home today and a huge argument broke out between him & his son. His son threw a whole tantrum like a child because my bf kept telling him he needs to get out of the house. Their cousins & my bf's mom & sister came by to help his son pack his things & it got worse from there...my bf confronted his son again and it got physical, police came by and all, cause my bf does not want him back here. It sucks that it had to get physical, but the confrontation needed to happen..I can tell my bf has been holding this in for a long time.

Side note: Yes I took all 3 of them off of my travel benefits lol

Rags's picture

One person's definition of a person being "giving" is another's definition of "spineless pushover".

Nea

Violet845's picture

His son left Friday, cousin's stepdad just came to help him move out. Time to clean up, disinfect & renovate those rooms!! 

Rags's picture

On the relative scale of failure to launch kidults, your burning platform to singe their tail feathers and get them to jump into adulthood has worked great, and quickly.

Well played.

Drinks

Dirol

Harry's picture

Time to put an alarm system in your home. With cameras,  DUMP SS bed and bedroom  furniture, it's now a crafting room.  Not even a guest room. No guest until you say so. 

Cath5213's picture

Haha, I love this suggestion Harry. 

One of my SD's room is now room for my foster cat/kittens. Maybe it is time to dump her bed and make those cat runs around the room. LOL