She Said No To Picking Up Her Ex-Husband’s Daughter, Who Was Sick At School, And Now He Is Furious
This woman had two sons, who are ten and eleven years old, before she and her ex-husband got divorced about five years ago.
She rightfully decided they needed to split up after she learned her ex had cheated on her. And, either right before her ex confessed or right after, he even got his mistress pregnant.
“Our divorce was not an easy one. He wanted to stay ‘friends,’ but I could not look at him after what he did,” she recalled.
“We had been together for over thirteen years, and he was also a friend before he was my boyfriend/husband. So to have him betray me like that was awful.”
Then, after they got divorced, her ex even ended up marrying the woman he had an affair with. They went on to have their daughter within only a few months of the divorce and their marriage.
Unfortunately, though, he and his new wife did lose a baby last year, which led to the difficult discovery that his new wife had cancer.
And what came after that was just a whole lot of fighting between her and her ex. He wanted her to help him and his new wife out with their two children– who are now five and three years old– while they navigated the cancer treatments.
He claimed that the kids needed family beyond just him and his new wife– especially because his own family disowned him after the affair, and his new wife had no family at all.
“I told him it would be over my dead body if I help him,” she understandably explained.
Irina Schmidt – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purpose only, not the actual person
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So, she was completely blindsided after learning that her ex told his daughter’s school to contact her when his daughter got sick last week.
Apparently, her ex was at work at the time and unable to leave his shift because he had already missed a lot of work due to his new wife’s chemotherapy.
Plus, his new wife was at home resting following her chemo.
But, she did not know any of this at the time. So, once she got the call and was asked to pick up the daughter, she simply said no.
“Then, several hours later, I got reamed out on the phone by him for leaving his sick child at school when I knew they had nobody. This was also when he told me he could not leave [work] and how his wife was resting,” she said.
She ended up telling her ex that his son’s babysitter should have been the first point of contact– not her.
Her ex had another excuse for that one, though, too, and claimed that his son had been at daycare– not left with a babysitter.
Then, he had the nerve to say she should be ashamed of herself for not helping a sick child who is going through a lot right now. He even said he hoped that their two sons were ashamed of her as their mom.
She is not worried about what her sons think of her, though. Instead, she has just been left pondering her decision.
Part of her does feel bad for her ex’s daughter, who is just a child stuck in the middle.
Plus, her sons did sense that something was “off” in the air after she spoke to their father– which also does not sit right with her.
So now, she is not sure if saying “no” to picking up her ex’s daughter successfully maintained a boundary or if it went too far.
What would you have done in her shoes? Do you think she had a right to say no?
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