A 28-year-old woman spent 4 years with her 30-year-old ex, and they even had 2 daughters together.
Back when she started dating his ex, he came into their relationship with a 2-year-old son.
Her ex always had full custody of his son because his son’s biological mom lost all of her rights. Anyway, she essentially became a mom to her ex’s son for the years that they were together.
She was the one who potty trained this boy, and she was the one who cared for him every day and every night.
Eventually, she broke up with her ex because she found out that he was a serial cheated, and she was tired of dealing.
When she and her ex split up, she ended up with custody of their daughters, though her ex was given visitation.
As for her ex’s son, he, of course, went to live with her ex. Her ex works in another state 6 days each week, so he only sees their daughters when he is home.
Her ex then went on to get married 5 years ago to someone else, and he told her that he no longer wanted her to have a relationship with his son, as he wanted his son to really develop a relationship with his wife.
“I assumed he told his son about his real mom years ago,” she explained. “Today, my ex’s wife, my kids’ stepmom, called me to tell me her car broke down and asked me to pick her up along with my ex’s son and the child they have together. I pulled up with my youngest child that I had in my current marriage he’s 2.”
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As her ex’s wife was taking the car seat out of her car, her ex’s son climbed into her car, and they began talking about how school was going for him.
He revealed to her that he was struggling and even got removed from his school because his behavior was so bad.
Her ex’s son then made a comment about her baby that was in the car being his little brother. She wasn’t sure what he meant, and then her ex’s son clarified.
“He said he knew I was his real mom, and he didn’t understand why I left him to live with his dad and took his sisters,” she said. “He wanted to come live with his sisters and me again.”
“This poor child is absolutely confused and feels like I abandoned him. I’m pretty sure this is one of the causes of his poor behavior. I am going to bring this up with his father to have a talk with him because I don’t want him to think I just left him and didn’t want him anymore.”
“I don’t want him to have long-term issues over this. I really thought his father had told him about his mother and didn’t just let this go on for so long. I feel terrible. I wish he could come live with me. I would have taken him all those years ago, but I was denied to have any contact with him. How do I go about this discussion, and how do we heal a very confused and broken 11-year-old boy?”
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