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This is a great example of why remaining in an abusive marriage with children is so damaging to them. They learn to treat the abused the same way the abuser does, and the perpetuate the abuse in their own relationships. It’s never better for a family to remain intact unless the family is a healthy one.
S
Yes. You put it so succinctly
E
From the very first post my thought was that her children were too old to be acting this way. The thought that a divorced woman should take care of her ex-husband is one I expect from teenagers in high school, not grown adults. And based on all the sentiments I also feel like there might have been a religious aspect with her first marriage and the way her children were raised and are currently raiding against her it’s definitely giving fundie. Is that just me thinking that?
G
Kinad reminds me of the one where OOP ‘let herself go’ while married to a shitty guy. He cheated, they divorced, and later on OOP had a glow-up. Then her adult children got pissy at her because ‘if she had the glow up earlier then dad wouldn’t have cheated on her’
F
Got a link for that one?
R
https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/1fetoqz/aitah_for_glowing_up_after_my_divorce_and_not/
B
Oh boy, this comment hits home a little too hard: “You know that’s a possibility but I’ve seen this play out many times because women are far more likely to protect the child’s image of their father while men are likelier to finger point and air dirty laundry. She spent all this time covering for him and making him look like a gem while he denigrated her relentlessly. This is yet another reason why staying in unhappy relationships for the kids is never a good idea. Only the assholes win.” This is almost like my mom and my dad. They thankfully broke up before I knew what was going on. But my dad loved talking shit about my maternal side of the family. My mom never had anything bad to say about him. He fucked up my teen years. And I’m still feeling the effects at 35. My poor mom feels so bad since I hid so much from her .
O
This is exactly why I was so happy to read that Kate made sure her kids knew it was their shitty dad ruining their summer for them. I’m sure he was trying to turn them against her the entire time.
O
Yes! Can’t let assholes win is probably a mantra for me. I also enjoy “beating people at their own games,” but only if I don’t have to go too petty for it, because I’m grown now, ha 😅
K
I’m trying to decide if it’s better or worse the way my parents did it. They divorced when I was a toddler; mom moved me 5 states away and I spent summers with dad. They were fighting about something when I was a teenager, but I have no idea over WHAT. They just decided they should each tell me all the dirt they had on the other. So I know way too much about my mom’s STDs, my dad’s drug problems, and a whole bunch of other things.
H
Oof yeah. My mom can now clown on my dad (and he’s dead), but she really tried to push the whole “you only have one father” and tried not to shit talk him, as hard as it was, while he was like “I’m an unemployed alcoholic wretch who didn’t contribute a dime to you since you were 12, even when you were about to be homeless, and it’s all your mom’s fault”. Didn’t work though. Did teach me to not rely on ANY man, so this trad wife stuff is horrifying. I can’t imagine sacrificing that much of my future to the whims of someone who could take off, cheat on me, or financially isolate me at any time.
U
Argh, I wish she came back with a third update after talking to her kids again
A
Wow… that story is brutal 🙁 Thanks for the link & Happy Cake Day!
U
When in reality life with the husband was bringing her down and she didn’t have the time or energy to do the things like go to the gym and lose the weight, and she got the haircut and started dressing better because the promotion she took at work meant she needed to, if I’m thinking of the same one as you?
D
Ugh, I remember that one and how much I hated the adult children couldn’t seem to get their heads out of their asses enough to realize that when the options are “mom had a glow up after dad cheated because she suddenly had so much more time not dealing with cleaning up and managing a man baby” and “mom had a glow up she totally had time for before dad cheated but only after for spite” the second option is far less likely. Like sure, spite can be a motivating factor still for a fair amount of people, but having the time for it and weight of responsibilities for someone else gone sure is gonna give the spite more ground to use than spite alone
T
I feel like their whole lives. She has fixed their problems and made things easier for them…. Who were expecting her to do the same thing again
E
I mean, that’s what she said; that she taught them mothers should sacrifice everything for their children.
M
It is giving fundie. From personal experience when a bulk of your kids want nothing to do with you, you’re not the victim. But it’s giving “mom escaped the cult and we’re not pleased”. What a shame.
A
Yeah, I finished reading all of that, and my very first thought was, “Are these folks Mormons?”
V
I actually don’t think so because they’re still talking to OOP at all. OOP says her ex’s culture has these kinds of expectations and the MIL/OOP power struggle dynamic doesn’t feel Mormon necessarily.
J
Typically, no if all your kids cut you off, you did *something.* Even in this case, the OP recognizes that a big part of the issue is how *she* raised them to believe she would always sacrifice herself for them and that’s what a mother *should* do. But her kids are out of their damn minds to think she should give up her job to care for a man who divorced her 10 years ago.
M
Yeah, I said if all your kids hate you, you’re not the victim. There’s nuance here and I didn’t give OOP a pass for it. Just that there’s that religious layer for their ire. And I do feel bad for them in a way. She programmed them to be like this, her husband did too. When you raise your kid a certain way, and then you flip the script, what are they supposed to do? You’re the one who changed. Then she gets a “do-over” with her wife’s child and it’s almost as if there’s a sense of abandonment in that mom has truly, fully left them. Yeah they suck but they didn’t pop out of thin air and I like that OOP recognizes this. They’ll hopefully figure it out and be happy, with or without each other.
A
I wonder if their attitude regarding care for her ex would be different if her second marriage was to a man, rather than a woman?
A
I get the feeling that they would have been angry, but they would have ‘respected’ a man saying ‘no.’ Rather than a woman. But the last few lines also reveal a level of homophobia and misogyny that forms the structure of their irrational expectations
H
I had a friend whose mother came out and got a divorce when my friend was in her mid-20s. My friend would *not* forgive her for the divorce. She would say, “I was there; she was happy with my father. They had a good marriage.” I could never figure out why she had the reaction she did.
J
No child can ever really know what their parents’ marriage is like. There are a whole lot of details no decent parent is ever going to get into with their kids, no matter how grown they are.
T
That’s a good point. I think they would have completely different expectations
D
That is absolutely how it comes across to me.
I
Tbh when i hear of children demanding their mom take in their divorced dad, my image is children around 40-50yrs old and 60yrs ish parents. That’s such a common scenario (fairly conversative culture here)i didn’t even blink, which is sad.
T
I don’t think it’s just you, no. I also keep thinking it may be influenced by the fact they don’t want to do it themselves, they have their own lives and spouses who want them home. They’re just incredibly selfish because they can’t see that their mother also has her own life and a spouse who wants them home. They just don’t want to inconvenience themselves that much, and they feel guilty about that fact. So they’ll blame someone they’ve always blamed for everything, instead of being upfront and admitting that they also don’t want to go feed and clean up their dad every day. I don’t really think that’s a failing on anyone’s part though, some people cannot do caring for someone else. It’s a really hard job to carry, and I don’t think anyone should have been tasked with it. It sounds like no one wanted to. The second wife should have allowed in home help, if the kids wanted to pay for it. But I guess she had reasons as to why she didn’t want that. I don’t know. I just feel like not one person actually wanted to care for him in recovery, and it was much easier to blame the recovered people pleaser than it was to blame anyone else in the situation. Add in the homophobia, the religion aspect, the bigotry and misogyny… you got a stew going.
F
I think they don’t view her current marriage as entirely “real”.
L
Oh, it’s definitely some flavor of US Christian insanity.
S
Fundie is right! Dan made 4 kids with OOP who turned out to be queer & never really in love with him. Dan made another 2 kids with his 2nd wife after an acrimonious divorce from OOP. Dan can’t wipe his own ass but Dan can spend thousands of dollars on OnlyFans. That’s obviously part of the reason why his wife has to work & can’t stay home to dance attendance on him. Meanwhile OOP’s 30 yo daughter Michelle cries to OOP “don’t you care that I’m going to lose my daddy”. What kind of BS is that??
P
My lord this poor woman, I feel for her.
L
She can’t do anything right I the eyes of her children. She should erase herself to please them. Her story also proves that you should not stay in a bad marriage for the children: they learned bad values and you suffered for nothing.
S
No seriously, if there was ever a lesson to be learned from a reddit post, this one would be “this is why you don’t stay in a loveless marriage for the kids”.
N
As an adult whose mom stayed with my dad till I was ten because “kids need a 2 parent family” we were all much happier after the divorce – and he was a MUCH better dad after too.
B
My dad became a much better father after my parents divorce, unfortunately it didnt happen until I was 26.
J
This is one of the problems of being a trad wife and raising kids in that environment. They see her as nothing more than a caregiver who owes it to everyone to give up her entire life and sense of self. I hope all her kids get to experience exactly what they deserve.
T
> They see her as nothing more than a caregiver who owes it to everyone to give up her entire life and sense of self. Not just her, but all women.
F
She even commented that it really was only the daughters cleaning up after Ex. Of course the boys won’t do any caring
L
Her daughters will when their husbands trade them for a younger model like their Dad did to their Mom. This behavior in such a man is predictable.
J
It is highly likely that her daughters picked men just like their father, especially seeing as how her son is just like him too. Those daughters siding with the father in this manner have absorbed his toxicity as “normal”. It’s only a matter of time before they are the middle-aged mother trying to figure out life all over again when they are abandoned. I wonder if then they will reach out to their mother in humility, or if they will find a way to blame her again?
L
Yes it’s quite comical because I did the opposite with the same kind of Dad. I did not become that woman in my father’s eyes. I was a bad daughter (a harlot & embarrassment) for investing in my career and me. I make more money my father ever made. After he left my mom did too. She glowed up went back to school became a nurse and we all focused on making men an option. It can go either way. Shame young women today don’t learn how to protect themselves in marriage. My mom is in her 80s and said looking back the best thing in her life was Dad leaving. After becoming independent she was so much happier. My Dad also doesn’t like that I’m smarter than him. I totally used to play his narc side and I loved every minute of it.
J
I’m a victim of domestic violence. I spend a lot of time on Reddit encouraging young women to prioritize their education/careers, not be blase about their reproductive health, including being an abortion advocate, being picky about who they marry, and just all-around decentering men. I’m trying to reach out to young women before they wind up like I did – 33 with 4 babies, abandoned by an abusive cheater, and wondering how the hell I’m going to make it.
P
I mean, any abusive environment is bad. It doesn’t have to be the “trad wife” one. Plenty of SAHMs are in respectful functional relationships and raise their children to know what that looks like, and plenty of “power couples” make abusive spouses/parents.
Y
That’s certainly true. Power dynamics can be imbalanced even in families where both partners have a job, meaning financial imbalance and violence are not inherent to one type of family. That said, the stay at home spouse version comes with the financial imbalance inherently built-in. That’s a security flaw that’s easily exploitable by any abuser, even the less savvy ones.
N
YUP. She would have stayed in that marriage for the kids with her monster ILs breathing down her neck , but weirdly got lucky that he left her for another woman. I wonder if that son was also pressuring his wife to help care for his father. Clearly he wasn’t doing anything. Anyone else pissed that OOP would have lost the deposit on summer camp? I know it was the least of the issues, but I hate it.
A
Yep, can’t do anything right because the kids see her existence as bi or lesbian as an insult to themselves. Looks like the apple didn’t fall far from her ex’s tree there. Ooof.
N
Jesus Christ. The idea that one should sacrifice to care for one’s asshole ex in the most intimate ways possible just utterly floors me.
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