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Why can't her BM just be a good mother!?!

Ambam1204's picture

My SD lives with me and her father full time. She never sees her BM not because of us, we do not keep we from her mother and actually go out of our way to give BM gas money, food, spending money, and whatever she needs to keep her own child and still she maybe keeps her once every few weeks and that's if SD is lucky. The BM has another child from the man she cheated on my Bf when they were together that doesn't live with her either and is expecting another child from her current boyfriend who is in jail for stealing a phone out of a woman's car at the gas station. She can't hold a job and is pretty much like a child herself, she is always calling my bf asking him to help her with stuff that a normal adult does by their self. Like when she needed new work pants for her new job so we went and picked her up, bought her work pants and put gas in her car so she could go to orientation, the next day she calls my bf and tells him she couldn't get into her orientation because she forgot some paper she needed for it!!!! Like wtf!? We can't hold your hand for everything!!!

So while on our drive to The store my SD5 tells me how her BM and her grandma had a fight last week because "mommy went into mamaws room and mamaw had her medicine in there and some of it got lost. So mommy got all her things and left" I know she's not technically my kid but I have her majority of the time. I take care of her more and am there to tuck her into bed every night so shouldn't I have the right to be pissed about what is said around and what my five year old witnesses at her BM's house!?! She doesn't need to hear adult conversations like that!

misSTEP's picture

First off, you guys need to quit enabling the BM. Call CPS if it gets to the point of abuse to SD. Otherwise, BM has no reason to change her actions. Why would she? She gets rescued by the people she surrounds herself with.

rodgersmommyof 4's picture

I'm trying to understand why you and bf would be trying help BM. I know when I was dating my DH I always tried to be cordial or even nice. When I found out how BM was I stopped being the nice person and started sticking up for what was right! Your BF number one priority should be his DD not helping BM. It is not your job or his job to help her. She needs to help herself or BF needs to call CPS! DD does not sound like she is in a good environment when with BM. It totally agree with WTF...REALLY & misSTEP STOP enabling her!