![]() ![]() I feel like she feels I am inferior to her because she is the mother of his kids. He even moved their old dining table into our house, and she helped him move it. I am at the end of my rope, and I don’t know if I want to be with someone with an ex-wife and kids, especially if he has been reckless when it comes to doing favors for her and neglecting me. The ex-wife then took her to another dermatologist even after I said that the daughter and mom could take the follow-up appointment. Her mom was angry, as she is the mother-and I understand, but what was I to do? Their daughter came to me crying, saying that she gets bullied at school and that her mother is too busy to make an appointment. Their youngest daughter’s skin had bad acne and the mother didn’t do anything, so I took the girl with me to an appointment I already had. Over the years, I have been scolded for trying to be there for their kids. I think the years of events built up, and seeing the pictures pushed me over the edge. I feel betrayed and have since moved out, because we were fighting and I can’t get over it. I was angry, because I felt that helping his ex-wife hang pictures had nothing to do with the kids moving into the house. He’d thought she would take out the photos and use the frames. My boyfriend told me he’d hung up the pictures from a box his ex-wife gave him as he was helping her prepare her house for the kids to move in. My heart sank when I noticed that, on the wall down the hallway, there were pictures of my boyfriend and his ex-wife taken on their wedding day, as well as family and baby pictures. ![]() This year, on his son’s birthday, we went to drop him off at his mother’s house, and I was invited in to look at the presents he got from his mom and grandmother. I have been dating a divorced man with two kids for four years. Have a question? Email her at want to miss a single column? Sign up to get “Dear Therapist” in your inbox. ![]() Editor’s Note: On the last Monday of each month, Lori Gottlieb answers a reader’s question about a problem, big or small. ![]()
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