A single mom has 3 daughters she has been raising pretty much all by herself for over a decade now after her husband sadly passed away 11 years ago in a tragic work accident.
Her daughters are 21-year-old Lucy, 17-year-old Diane, and 15-year-old Rosa.
“We were all devastated, and it was a terrible shock,” she explained. “We were able to get by with my parents helping out with the kids so that I could work. We’re doing much better now financially.”
“However, I’ve been having a lot of problems with Lucy. Not long after she turned 18 and finished school, she’s suddenly gone off the rails, is mingling with some very sketchy people, and I don’t know what to do with her.”
Lucy has turned into a big smoker and a big partier too. Lucy is literally always at a party, and she drinks alcohol to the point that she is drunk on a daily basis.
This mom also bets that Lucy is also into serious drugs, and Lucy has begun to treat their home like some kind of bead and breakfast.
Lucy is not only rude to her; she’s rude to Diane and Rosa as well. She says that she certainly did not work hard to raise Lucy to be like this, and she’s really sick and tired of Lucy’s behavior.
Although she has attempted to get Lucy help in the form of therapy or rehab, Lucy won’t go and gets extremely upset with her if she mentions it.
“Lucy stays with us rent-free,” she said. “She works a job in retail and buys her own groceries but blows the rest of her income.”
Margo Basarab – illustrative purpose only, not the actual person
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“The last straw for me was something that happened 3 weeks ago. Diane and Rosa have pieces of very expensive jewelry that they inherited from their dad’s mother after she passed away last year. The jewelry had been in the family for generations.”
“Whilst they were at school, their pieces of jewelry went missing from their rooms.”
As soon as Diane and Rose noticed that their jewelry had disappeared, they were beside themselves. She questioned Lucy about if she knew where the jewelry had gone, and Lucy swore that she had no clue what happened to it.
She kept pushing Lucy about the jewelry and even brought up the fact that Lucy is spending money like crazy, and Lucy cracked. Lucy owned up to stealing the jewelry out of Diane and Lucy’s rooms and pawning the pieces.
“Even though it was kind of obvious that it was Lucy, I was still shocked that she would do something like that,” she continued.
“I told Lucy that this is it and that I’m kicking her out. I told her that she needs to be out in 3 days. I didn’t think it was fair on Diane and Rosa to keep someone like Lucy around when she keeps causing chaos and destruction in our home, and I was also worried about Diane and Rosa being influenced by her. Lucy left the next day and went to go stay with my parents, who are saying I’m a horrible mother for kicking Lucy out and that I’m clearly playing favorites.”
This mom is left wondering if kicking Lucy out was the right thing to do. What do you think?
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