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ocs's picture

I was together with some friends over the weekend, and experienced some seriously insane sh!t.

A friend of mine is a divorced mother of two (girl 6 and boy 7)and has a deadbeat'ish ex. I say deadbeat'ish, because he barely works but has his kids 50/50 and does try to be involved. They have had a really rough road and have now been divorced for 4yrs. ExH has a girlfriend, serious, and she is wonderful with the kids, even biomom (my friend) thinks so.

Over the years, there has been CRAZINESS! I mean, they are both high conflict so you can imagine the crazy. (there is a huge fight at least 2x a month)

She is totally one of those mamabear, "I'll do whatever for my kids!" and to hell with who doesn't agree, kind of people.

She has found religion lately and has been attending service at her ex's church, because she says the kids love it that she's there...right... We live in a HUGE city. She could pick another church. Leave the children in peace with biodad, as he tries to do with her.

She attended on Easter Sunday and the ex's parents invited her for Easter since ex had the children that week. SHE WENT. This is after some real ugliness lately because exh can't respect boundaries and is the type to write ugly texts etc... (she unblocked him after having him blocked for months!) SO Easter was her and the Ex's family including ex, kids and his gf. When I and a few others expressed shock, she went nuts. Like head spinning nonsense. It was classic GU and I was totally fascinated by seeing it from the other side.

She was defending what she did by screaming, "I can put aside all of this for MY CHILDREN. They were happy we were all one big family, and if I can give them that, then I will! I will die for my kids and they know it!!!!!!" I couldn't even speak, I was so shocked, she TRULY believed the crazy coming out of her mouth. (we didn't ask her to defend it by the way- i just asked 'why?')

zerostepdrama's picture

Ewwww.... hot mess express! LOL I never understand the whole "I will do anything for my kids.." Well duh of course you will as a parent. BUT that doesnt mean that you do ANYTHING for them that would make them happy or make you feel like a good mom.

I would do anything for me BS. He would love to see me and his dad back together (he is 8 so he still wants his "family" together). But yeah.. I wouldnt do that. Ha Ha

AllySkoo's picture

Wow. And WHAT were the grandparents THINKING!?!? As the smom (or the BD) I would be beyond pissed if my in-laws invited my DH's ex to some family celebration! I mean good god, you SIDE WITH YOUR SON and that means you DO NOT invite the ex. Why is this a hard concept for some people????

ocs's picture

yes!

and so much of it is selfish! I mean, she hates her own company. Guaranteed she couldn't handle being alone on the Sunday. So the alternate is to hang with your EX and his family with his new partner?

The kids, I'm sure are confused and how does it encourage acceptance of the new 'family' unit if you keep butting in?

I used it as a conversation starter with my DH and thankfully, it showed me we are on the same page... about this at least... lol

QueenBeau's picture

"They were happy we were all one big family, and if I can give them that, then I will! "

then why did you get divorced?

TJH100911's picture

Apparently "I would do anything for my kids" does not include actually staying married. Rather, it's better to just pretend to be married. Why not just actually stay married if you would do anything for your kids?

bearcub25's picture

"I'll do anything for my kids!" you mean except feed them, pay for them, etc. What she means to say is she'll do anything TO her kids & no ones going to stop her.

That is a really good one.

ocs's picture

The inlaws have no boundaries, for sure!

But I'm still reeling from my girlfriend's reaction to my surprise that she went to her ex's house for Easter because it was 'good for the kids.'

BTW- she is dating someone too these days- nice guy! I would have RUN if i were him.... I may warn him... lol

ocs's picture

LOL! a bit of an update!

It's one of the kids birthdays and she just posted on a social website about it, commenting that the kid is/was the completion of her and her ex's 'journey'. Anyone reading it would think they were still together. What a slap to the guy she is dating...