Her Ex-Husband Is Demanding That She Stop Buying Expensive Skincare Products For Her Teen Daughter
This thirty-four-year-old woman has a fourteen-year-old daughter named Mia with her ex-husband, Jeff.
She and Jeff separated shortly after Mia was born, and Jeff was not really present for much of his daughter’s life.
But, he has recently been getting his stuff together, so Mia has been visiting her father’s house every other weekend.
When her daughter was eleven, though, Mia began to suffer from some acne. The acne was not super severe, but Mia still got bullied because none of the other students had really gotten acne yet.
“And it broke my heart. I saw my funny, outgoing daughter become introverted and depressed,” she recalled.
She also remembered how hard it was to deal with acne herself when she was Mia’s age. She had spent a ton of money on dermatologists and, ever since then, has maintained great skin.
So, she decided to try out her own skincare routine on her daughter to see if that did the trick. And, miraculously, it worked.
“We started doing my routine together– it is a six-step routine made up of very high-end products– and she loved it. By the end of the summer, her skin was clear, and she was so confident and happy!” she said.
She was also ecstatic that the skincare routine sparked Mia’s passion for dermatology– and now, Mia wants to grow up to be a dermatologist.
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Plus, she and Mia would always end their evenings by doing their skincare routine together. So, she felt like it was an “added bonus” of precious bonding time that she really cherishes with her daughter.
But, her ex-husband Jeff totally disagreed that sparking Mia’s interest in skincare was the right thing to do. And it all began after Mia visited her father’s house this past weekend.
Apparently, Mia ran out of cleanser while there and asked her father if he could buy some more.
Jeff ended up saying yes and took Mia to the store to get it. But, once he saw the price, he realized he could not afford it and completely freaked out.
“Jeff yelled at me and said that I set him up to look like a failure. Then, he said it’s ridiculous that Mia uses products that expensive– her cleanser is sixty dollars– and that I am turning Mia into a superficial brat who only cares about her looks,” she explained.
She did not mean to embarrass her ex-husband, though, and immediately offered to send him money for the cleanser. Jeff did not care, though.
Instead, he demanded that she stop buying the products for Mia and encouraging a love of skincare because he claims it is harmful to someone her age.
She would not agree to stop buying the products, though, and simply apologized before hanging up on him.
And afterward, when she vented to her mother about the incident, her mother surprisingly took Jeff’s side.
Her mother claimed that acne and bullying are just a part of life that kids “need to deal with” and that being “so obsessed” with looks was not healthy for Mia.
Still, though, she had never thought that giving Mia a skincare routine could be harmful. She just remembered how low her own self-esteem had plummeted due to childhood acne and wanted to help her daughter keep up good grooming habits.
Nonetheless, now that both her mother and ex-husband are saying the skincare routine is harmful, she is not sure if she is doing the right thing for Mia.
Do you think it is harmful to tweens and teens to learn about the benefits of skincare? If a parent is able to afford high-end products, does that automatically make their child spoiled? How would you navigate this situation?
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