She Got Into An Argument With Her Husband After She Said That She And Her Kids Will No Longer Attend Her Stepson’s Sports Games Because Of His Attitude
Entering a blended family can be a very complicated situation, especially if there are young kids involved.
One woman recently got into an argument with her husband over how her stepson has been treating her and his siblings. Many problems have to do with how he’s been coping with the loss of his mother.
She’s been married to her husband for six years. Her husband has a 15-year-old son named Lucas. Sadly, Lucas’ mom passed away when he was only five.
She has two daughters from a previous relationship named Brynn and Miley, who are 11 and 9-years-old.
After she married her husband, they had a son named Alec together. Therefore, Lucas, Brynn, and Miley are step-siblings, while Alec is their half-sibling.
Over the years, she’s struggled with forming a close relationship with Lucas.
“Lucas is very closed off from me and the kids,” she explained. “I have always done my best to bond with him, but he is so withdrawn around me.”
After she married her husband, they all went to therapy as a family, hoping it would make them closer. Unfortunately, it didn’t work.
However, she still tries her best to connect with Lucas and does supportive things like bringing his siblings to every sports event he has to cheer him on.
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Lucas is very serious about a certain keepsake and sometimes carries it around the house. It’s a small box filled with a few trinkets that used to belong to his mother.
The box stays in his room, and no one is allowed to touch it. She’s been very firm with the other kids and told them never to touch it unless they get permission from Lucas.
But recently, Lucas has been using the box as a way to show how he really feels about her and his siblings.
On multiple occasions, he’s said in front of them that the box means more to him than they ever will and that he’d pick the box if he had to choose between them or the box.
She discovered that Lucas had told his brother and sisters directly that he’d trade their lives for the trinket box, which deeply concerned her.
Her husband tried to talk to Lucas but realized he couldn’t get through to him, as Lucas didn’t see the severity of what he was saying.
She and her husband want to get Lucas to see a therapist, but he doesn’t want to.
“Lucas argued that he didn’t need therapy, and just because he doesn’t care about us or our lives doesn’t mean there is something wrong with him,” she recalled.
Given Lucas’ concerning behavior, she made a decision regarding his siblings.
“I told my husband that given Lucas’ attitude toward the kids, they will no longer show up to cheer him on at any sports games or the like,” she said.
“My husband argued [that] we are still a family. I told him my kids do not need to cheer on the boy who has told them to their faces multiple times that their lives are meaningless to him.”
Her husband thinks she’s overreacting and that no longer taking the rest of the kids to support their brother would be wrong.
Do you think she overreacted, or did she make a good choice?
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