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Toxic Bio Mom

Soccerchik89's picture

So since covid has been going on, DH and BM have to do transitions at the household. Now I (SM) have been picking up my SD (age 6) from school, daycare etc. for the last 4 years. DH has been working from home now, since covid is in effect.

There has been a right of first refusal put in place for 5 hours, and we respect that. However since it's BM goal to make my life miserable, she has now randomly decided that I cannot open the door to my house to recieve SD. This is what it looked like:

SD and BM rang the doorbell, BM immediately grabs onto SDs shoulders and pulls her to her. I open the door and greet SD, invited her to enter as normal, SD then turns to her BM says "I want to go in now please can you let go" BM grips tighter and whispers to SD "no, wait for your dad" 

I am literally staring at them do this for 2 min. Until I proceed to tell BM, "what your doing is very inappropriate, she is literally pushing and telling you to enter. Why don't you just let the child come in and resume as normal and I can deal with what you need, what do you need?" 

BM just completely ignores me, like zero eye contact and is almost hiding behind SD at this point. She continues to do what she's doing and SD is almost in tears now, I say, "please stop, your directly involving her in your divorce and it's not healthy" to which BM replies  "dont tell me what to do." Then DH had to leave his meeting to tell BM to leave now. Later, SD told me BM was whispering that "I'm disgusting" in her ears. 

SD was very uncomfortable. Our rotation is 2-2-3, and when she went back to BMs house, BM told her to never act that was again and to ask for dad. SD said she didn't want to, but BM said she will get very angry is she doesn't. SD was crying yesterday saying she does not want to disrespect me, and she doesn't know what to do because she loves me and BM is telling her to not call me mom and to hate me. (All words from SD). 

Then BM send some random depiction via her lawyer to DH how I was incredibly aggressive and rude, and we are just staring cause it is all on our security cam.

 

Comments

tog redux's picture

Ugh, she sounds wonderful - but honestly, you kind of made it worse. Why not just leave them standing there and let DH deal with it?

Harry's picture

Let DH handle his ex and DD.  You will never win, actually it will be all your fault in the end.  You will never change BM, she will never see the truth.  Disengagement is the only answer for you 

Soccerchik89's picture

But it feels so unreasonable, I mean at the end of the day what do I do- not answer the door to my house because she is demanding this? If we set a precedence, then what...I can see it only getting worse. Or are you suggesting me to just stand there and wait for DH to come down?

strugglingSM's picture

I agree with the comments above, let your DH handle it. Let BM and SD sit on the doorstep until he arrives. You don't need to be in the middle of the BM drama and it won't help your relationship with your SD if she is always seeing you in conflict with her mother, even if her mother is the one being ridiculous. 

Soccerchik89's picture

So basically just greet them and leave the situation? And they can sit there if they want to?

Ispofacto's picture

Have DH send BM a No Trespassing letter, by Certified Mail.  It's your property.  BM can stay in her car.  She's not allowed on your porch anymore.