Her Son Accused Her Of Being An Awful Grandma To His Kids After She Bought A Present For Her Daughter’s Cats
An older woman only really had her son John and her daughter Amber because she felt pressured by her family, and she felt pressured by society to do so.
Although having children wasn’t really her first choice, she bent over backward to be the best mom she knew how.
“John and Amber were very good kids and I did everything I could for them,” she explained. “Kissed boo-boos, told fairytales, held them through scary tantrums, helped with homework, made sure they were fed, educated, and protected.”
“But once they moved out I was just so relieved that it was over. I could finally find out who I was without society frowning at me and expecting me to be someone.”
John and Amber’s dad has since passed, so it’s her and her children. She does spend the majority of her time with Amber, as John has a family and she only sees him once a month.
John has gone on to have three young children, and she admits that she hasn’t been that thrilled about taking on the role of grandma.
“I’d hoped to be done with the burden of young children,” she explained. “But I do my best. Amber does not have kids, but she has a dog and a cat she loves.”
She refers to Amber’s pets lovingly, and she always goes out of her way to pick up small presents for them when every holiday comes around.
Apparently, John has a problem with how she treats Amber’s pets, even though she does also buy gifts for his children for the holidays and for their birthdays.
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“John recently came to me upset because I bought a new cat tree for Amber, who is fostering kittens,” she continued.
“He said that I have never done anything like that for his kids and that they could use a new jungle gym in the back yard or new toys too.”
“He became very cross with me and told me I was a terrible grandma and a horrible mom, and how it was typical of me to treat cats and dogs better than his kids.”
After John accused her of being an awful grandma, he left with his youngest child in tow and threatened to never come back to her house unless she decides to admit that she’s been hurting him with how she acted.
Following John’s blowup, she reached out to his wife, who revealed that John is really mad at her for not trying to do activities with their children that other grandmas do.
John’s wife said that John wishes that she would come over and take them for little trips or sit down and make artwork with them.
John believes that her lack of participation in the children’s lives in those ways means that she’s heartless, which certainly comes as a shock to her.
She’s tried to be as supportive of John and his family as possible. When John and his wife asked her to come to stay at their house when their first baby was about to be born, she was there.
She even paid for John’s children to go to preschool, and she steps up to babysit them when John and his wife need some time to just themselves.
She has tried to do what she thought was the most helpful all along throughout the lives of John’s children.
“To me, getting a cat tree is more for me to show Amber that I respect who she is and will never push her to be a mother if she doesn’t want to be. But to John, I guess it is a sign that I value kitties and puppies more than babies,” she concluded.
Do you think it’s fair of John to expect her to buy his kids a $1,000 jungle gym after she purchased a cat tree for Amber’s kittens?
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