Her Son Refused To Dance With Her At His High School Graduation Dance, And Now He’s Saying He’s Never Going To Get Married Because He Never Wants To Deal With Dance Drama Again
A mom has a son named Ben, who just graduated from high school pretty recently. As part of graduation, Ben’s school held a formal dance, which she was super excited about, as she was looking forward to getting to do a mom-and-son dance.
She mentioned this to Ben multiple times in the days leading up to his formal dance, but Ben kept telling her that he was not interested in dancing at all.
She figured he was just being really reserved and couldn’t be serious about the matter. Finally, the day of Ben’s formal arrived, and as they walked into the place, it looked absolutely gorgeous.
“But when it came time for the formal dances, he was nowhere to be seen,” she explained. “I approached my older daughter, Alice, and my husband, who I could see were talking and laughing. I asked if they’d seen Ben, and they laughed and said he was going to go hide, so he didn’t have to dance.”
“I was absolutely heartbroken. My son was literally hiding from me! I stood in the corner during the mother-son dance, watching all his friends dance with their moms. I couldn’t take it, so I told my husband and daughter that I was walking home.”
“When they got home, Ben walked right past me and went to his room to get ready for the after-party. My daughter hugged me and went to get ready because she was driving Ben to the party.”
After Ben and her daughter left to go to the after-party, she and her husband wound up getting into a disagreement about what had gone down at Ben’s formal.
Her husband truly believed that how she acted was atrocious and very childish to boot. She replied back that she thought it was the least Ben could do dancing with her at the formal.
Her husband then pointed out that Ben’s formal should have been all about Ben and what he has accomplished so far, but she made it about her.
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“But in my opinion, today should have also been about celebrating the people who helped him get to where he is now,” she said.
“Things got quite heated, and before going inside, my husband said that he wasn’t going to force his son to do something he didn’t want to do on his day.”
She was shocked that her husband said that to her, and she almost ended up crying. She did think that her husband would fully support where she was coming from. Then, her daughter came home, and at that point, she was crying. Her daughter hugged her and did her best to try to make her feel better.
She then asked her daughter if she agreed with her since her husband did not, and she really expected her daughter would.
Her daughter had danced with her at her own formal, and her daughter had danced with her husband that day too.
“She understood how important this day was for me,” she continued. “I asked if she was on my side. She said something along the lines of, “I know you’re upset, but I don’t know what you expected from him. It took a few days before we really spoke to each other again, and after a few weeks, everything went back to normal. Coming back to the present, my daughter recently got engaged. We were talking about it on a family facetime, and the topic of when Ben will get married came up.”
“He said he was never going to get married because he doesn’t want to deal with another round of dance drama. When I asked him to clarify, he said that he was obviously referring to his graduation. I was appalled at this attack. He won’t get married because of me? I won’t lie; I am upset that he still does not want to dance with me, even at his own wedding. Now my husband is mad at me, my son refuses to answer my calls or texts.”
She’s left wondering if it was wrong of her to make such a scene over Ben not wanting to dance with her at his formal.
What do you think?
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