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PAS... HELP

Frustrated_in_Missouri's picture

Ok, it's getting worse and worse with the kids (SS 7, SD 6). They cannot make it though the night at our house without waking up and crying because they 'miss mommy.' I already had to unhook all the phones in the house when they come over so they won't get up at 2am and call her. She sees that as a victory in her book and an opportunity to come down on BF for being such a horrible parent.

We had them over the summer for an entire week with no issues! We had to go to his SS singing concert at the school on saturday morning. SD wanted to sit with her mom. I sat there and watched this woman sit there the entire time with her arms around SD telling her how much she missed her. The kids think that she sits around the house crying the whole time they are gone because she misses them too much.

BF has attempted to talk to her several times about this but she doesn't even want to listen. These poor kids are never going to be able to go to a sleep over or to camp because they will cry so much because they miss her.

BF lost his health insurance when she divorced her so he can't afford to take them to family counseling. I guess she is taking them to counseling but he hasn't been invited to join the sessions.

She is trying to hurt him and it's definitely working... but it's royally screwing up these kids along the way.

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stepmom2one's picture

Thats sad. It is just sick what some women will do to their kids in order to feel "needed".

buttercup123's picture

Rather than letting kids be kids, she forces them to care-give to her emotions. My BM does that too. BM got counseling for the kids and didn't invite FH, so I made some calls and found out where BM took them and called. Eventually we got the name of the counsilor and she invited FH to the sessions. BM was pissed. Maybe you can find out where they are going and FH can call. Counselors usually want to meet both parents. BM probably told him/her that DH didn't care enough to go.

Storm76's picture

Is BM on Facebook of something similar? I'm wondering if you can find any photos of her out with friends on the weekends you've got the skids. Perhaps if they saw proof that mommy did have fun without them & wasn't sitting around crying cos she missed them it would help?

We live in completely different places (I'm in England) but here we've got a local charity that does family mediation for free - I don't know whether it's worth seeing if there's something similar in Missouri?