She Threatened To Report Her Mother For Kidnapping After Her Mother Missed Drop-Off And Secretly Took Her Son To The Beach
This twenty-three-year-old woman and her husband had a son named Declan last year. And after her mother took Declan for a visit about two months ago, she nearly had a heart attack.
It all began after Declan went to go stay at his grandparent’s house on a Saturday morning at about 11:00 a.m. Her son was supposed to stay there all day; then, on Sunday, he was going to spend time with her mother.
She was completely fine with the entire plan, too, and only gave her mother one condition. She wanted Declan to be home by 12:00 p.m. on Sunday since her husband is a blue-collar worker and only gets Sundays off. So, her husband wanted to see his son, too.
Anyway, her mother reportedly agreed to the plan and said that she was just going to take Declan shopping and maybe to lunch.
So, she let her mother have her time with Declan and just texted on Sunday at about 9:00 a.m. to check what time her son would be getting dropped off. Weirdly, though, her mom never answered.
Then, she tried reaching out to her stepdad and also got no response. And it was definitely unsettling, but she tried to give her mom a bit more time to get back to her.
By 11:00 a.m., though, her mother had never texted her back or returned any of her calls. So, she understandably started to panic.
Thankfully, at 12:00 p.m., she finally heard from her mother and learned that Declan was safe. But, it was also at that moment that she learned her mother had totally disregarded her boundaries.
Apparently, her mother had taken Declan to the beach, and they were hanging out there that afternoon.
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She was totally taken aback and told her mother that she wanted to know where her son was being taken beforehand– especially because he was only sixteen months old at the time.
“Not to mention, I had already discussed a drop-off time with them,” she added.
“But, my mother is not one to really reason with. It is her way or the highway.”
In fact, whenever she tried to set boundaries in the past, she would get called names and told to go to hell. And since this instance involved her son, she was not going to take any chances.
So, she told her mother that a few of her friends were near the beach and were going to pick up Declan for her. Her mother ended up just refusing, though, and claimed that they needed to “talk” when Declan got dropped off.
She claims that her mother’s idea of “talking” just meant screaming at her in her own driveway, though. And she was not going to let that happen, so she refused.
Anyway, this left her and her mother in a stalemate and forced her to pull out the big guns. More specifically, she told her mother that if Declan was not dropped off, she was going to call the cops and report her mother for kidnapping.
If you could not have guessed it, though, the threat was far from well-received. In fact, her mother just called everyone in her entire family and claimed she was just jealous that Declan was at the beach.
Her mother also claimed that since she is Declan’s grandmother, she is entitled to spoil her grandchild.
And honestly, she admitted that she is totally fine with her mother spoiling Declan– as long as it is within the boundaries she sets for her son.
Anyway, this fight two months ago has left her and her mother in a pretty sticky feud to this day. In fact, her mother actually even blocked her number and claimed that she “broke her heart” and was using Declan as a pawn to hurt her mother.
“All I tried to do was set a boundary with my mother about my son, and now our relationship is damaged,” she vented.
So now, she has been left wondering if threatening to call the cops on her mother was an overreaction or if she had a right to uphold her boundaries.
Do you think she had any other options in this situation? Was threatening to report her mother for kidnapping a good way to get through to her mother or not? What would you have done in this situation?
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