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my sd disrespects my dw her bm

admirallq's picture

my dw wanted to reconnect with an old friend that had become estranged. so we arranged for the friend to come over and spend the day and an overnight. I ask the sd a senior and 2 months shy of her 18th birthday to please stay at a friends house that sat evening (not a stretch she is at a friends almost every sat)but to stop by around lunch and say hi, and not be around until sun noon (again not a stretch) so the dw and friend could reconnect. I was hoping that there would be a party after the dw and friend got through their issues, and there was. the sd came home after 5pm not noon and brought a friend. the dw and friend were out back on the deck and I was in the kitchen getting them drinks and cooking dinner. the sd first words were I suppose that they are drinking and I said yes and she rolled her eyes and went to the deck, and I followed. the dw and friend were silly fun. the sd and her friend were making facial gestures concerning the dw and the dw's friend. at one point in the conversation the dw tried to participate and the sd told the dw to "leave it alone mom your drunk". I need to make it clear that this was the first time in a years that the dw let it go and was silly. I also need to point out that the sd has made comments in front of me to her friends concerning her bm and I, concerning the silliness, which she has only seen once. upon leaving I (sd)texted my sd my anger over the drunk comment and (if you and your friend plan on having a discussion on what just happened with the rest of your friends, I will make your life miserable), by the way I shared all with my dw the next morning. now my sd months later told my dw that she cried and was afraid of me and does not want me to be allowed to discipline her. my dw now thinks I may have been a little harsh. I wanted to jack the sd up the wall. really????

emotionaly beat up's picture

And that is why your sd disrespects her mother. Mummy lets her. You can't win if your wife chooses to worry about her daughters feelings instead of worrying about her daughter disrespecting and trying to make a fool out of her.

jumanji's picture

WAS Mom drunk/tipsy? (Which is what "silly" indicates.)

And really, no teen wants their parents to join in the fun/joking w/her and her friends. It's embarrassing - y'all haven't figured that out by 17?

Personally? If I needed privacy to "reconnect" with an old friend? *I* would find somewhere else to go, not kick my kid out of his/her home (or rather, have my partner do so). So she stayed away longer than you dictated okay. Big deal - she wanted Mom to have more time to "reconnect".

admirallq's picture

mom was between tipsy and drunk able to hold a conversation but slower than normal. the current conversation at the time was between sd and dw's friend, and that was the conversation that the dw tried to enter. the fun as you call it and joking around was on the side with sd and sd's friend making fun of dw and dw's friend. sd interjected herself into the situation on our back deck.

sd had made plans with friends for sat afternoon, evening and sun morning and was to stop in around noon not 5. the only concern sd had for her mother was to make fun in front of friends. the sd was home earlier in the day and choose to leave instead of waiting for the dw's friend to arrive, and return with her friend later and after the time I ask for her to have plans away from the house.

And to be fair when the sd or any of the other kids have friends over the dw and I disappear into another part of the house to give them space, with 4k sq feet we can get lost and still monitor, we do not sit with them and be disrespectful

overworkedmom's picture

You and your wife have the right in your own home to have some drinks with friends or by yourselves. For SD to be disrespectful like that, she needs to have a harsh dose of reality. All you did was try to give your wife a night off to have fun with an old friend. I will send my kids to spend the night out if I want to do the same and there is no shame in that. You did right and DW just isn't seeing that you were protecting and being very giving to her. SD was acting like a brat.