She Was Expected To Cook And Serve Food To Her Mom’s New Fiancé While He Hid Out In Her Mom’s Bedroom Due To Social Anxiety, But She Eventually Had Enough And Told Her Mom She’s Not A Servant
This girl, who is just 16-years-old, has always been super close with her mom– who is 40.
More recently, though, she feels like their relationship has been strained and believes it all ties back to her mom’s new fiancé, Ted.
Ted is 39, and she claims that she has always been very supportive of her mom’s relationship with him from the start.
“Even though I had my concerns when they got engaged within three months,” she revealed.
Apparently, her mom even hid Ted from her for the first two months of their relationship. So, she has only known the guy for one month now, yet he will soon be her stepfather. Can you imagine?
Anyway, given the engagement, Ted has been sleeping over at her house very often. Before he entered their lives, though, it was always just her and her mom living together for years.
So, she was not used to having a man in the house, and the adjustment period was a bit weird for her.
On top of that, she and Ted reportedly have a “pretty awkward relationship.”
“We don’t talk much, but when we do, it is very, very awkward,” she said.
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Her mom claims that Ted is just highly socially anxious and “scared” of her. So, whenever her mom left the house, he would actually just stay inside her mom’s room and never come out. In fact, the only place he went was to the bathroom!
Perhaps the most bizarre part, though, was whenever her mom was not home, she was expected to cook and serve Ted food.
Now, at first, she claimed that she didn’t mind this and tried to understand that Ted was socially awkward.
After she repeatedly served Ted breakfast and lunch while he hid out in her mom’s bedroom, though, she started to get seriously frustrated.
So, after one week of this “arrangement,” she decided to ask her mom to encourage Ted to get out of the bedroom. That way, he could familiarize himself with both her and the house.
If you could not have guessed, though, Ted only came out of the bedroom once. Then, he just couped himself back up in her mom’s room again.
This meant that her mom instructed her to keep serving Ted food. Quite frankly, though, she was just fed up with his behavior.
So, she ultimately got into an argument with her mom about Ted. And during the fight, she might have made a comment a bit too loudly.
“I said I’m not his…servant and that he should man up and walk around the…house without being afraid of his soon-to-be 16-year-old stepdaughter,” she recalled.
Then, after she said that, she realized that Ted might have heard her– because he wound up leaving the house pretty early. Plus, he has not returned to visit in a week.
She and her mom also have not been speaking much since the fight. And while she thinks the entire situation is childish, she is also starting to feel bad about what happened.
So now, she has been left wondering whether telling her mom that she is not Ted’s servant was the wrong thing to do or not.
Why do you think Ted refuses to socialize with her or even just be in the same room? Even if he does have severe social anxiety, should she be required to cook and serve him food? Do you think she had a right to stand up for herself? What would you have done in this situation?
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