She Invited Her Friend And Her Friend’s Kids To Come Live With Her, But Since They Aren’t Respecting Her Food Allergies, She’s Thinking It Might Be Time To Ask Them To Leave
If you’ve lived with a nut allergy, you know how serious it can be. Severe food allergies are no laughing matter, and it’s common sense that if you live with someone who has one, you shouldn’t be bringing anything they’re allergic to into your home.
One woman just got out of a traumatic marriage where her husband didn’t respect her food allergies. Now, she lives with a friend and her children, who are doing the same exact thing.
She is allergic to coconuts, peanuts, and two kinds of tree nuts. Her nut allergies are so severe that she could end up in the hospital from coming into contact with them, and she feels terribly sick.
For two years, she was married and had kids with a man who didn’t respect her allergies, and she frequently ended up in the hospital. It was very traumatic, and she finally divorced him.
She has a friend who is a mother of two and a recent divorcee. Her friend needed a place to stay, so she thought it would be a good idea if they lived together.
Although she didn’t have much room, she invited her friend and her children to live with her in her house. They’ve all been living together for the last eight months.
“She is more than aware of the allergy and what happened in the marriage,” she said.
Despite that, there have been a few instances where her friend and her kids brought nuts or food with nuts into her house, and she’s gotten sick.
She thought they were trying to do better and be more diligent about not buying things with nuts in them anymore, but she was wrong.
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“The last few weeks, I’ve started getting sick again, with extreme fatigue, feeling awful, not sleeping properly, and heart palpitations,” she explained.
“It’s starting to affect my mental health a lot. I think this weekend, I just had enough; I kept falling asleep during the day for the last couple of weeks.”
She’s begun arriving late to work because she needs to sleep in. She’s had multiple breakdowns over how awful she feels, and it’s like she’s reliving the trauma with her husband all over again. As a mother, she can’t continue to live like this if she wants to care for her children properly.
Her friend has only given her half-hearted apologies and claims she doesn’t bring home anything with nuts. Her friend said if there are nuts around, they must be from the food her ex-husband sends her kids home with. However, she’s witnessed her friend cooking and preparing meals with those dangerous ingredients before, and she’s often been left to clean the contaminated dishes.
She’s so fed up that she is ready to kick her friend out of her house, but at the same time, she doesn’t want to leave a mom of two with few options for where to live. They live in a nice area with high rent, and she doesn’t want her friend to struggle to make ends meet.
“I do love her and her kids, but I know if I continue on like this, there won’t be a friendship left,” she added.
Should she make her friend and her kids move out of her house?
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